vivekv

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worked over 30 years in various technologies. My personal site at https://www.vivekv.info
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Comment · 2 months ago
We often talk about LLMs as if they are doing something remarkably close to human intelligence. My take is that it is the conversation with the human that creates intelligence and meaning
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
I would agree with this. There are definite challenges in grounded specifications today and the tendency for an LLM to go in tangents that is still a struggle that we all deal with every day.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This! I am not going to buy the next AI magic tool because of a cold mail. I don't even know I need it and I won't read a cold mail end to end if it starts like that. If I need something I go looking and if I don't even know I need it, cold mail wouldn't help
Comment · 2 years ago
Would anyone familiar with cuba know how much of household solar adoption and infrastructure exists in Cuba?

  While this won't solve a country level problem I am sure, I am thinking was there a natural adoption to such alternative sources and go off-grid and address their immediate power needs as the article says rolling blackouts have been happening for a while.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am definitely curious about a tool like this. I work with a lot of video streams and this collective knowledge of quirks might be useful as a QA tool
Comment · 3 years ago
I am neither a compiler writer or an OS guru. Just an old c programmer. In this article it looks like the entire CPU instruction set was designed to emulate pdp11 to ensure c compatibility. So my naive question. What is stopping a Microprocessor manufacturer to have two instruction sets one that is compatible and one that allows us to fully utilise the modern CPU but with a different programming paradigm? Is that too expensive or hard to do? I genuinely don't know.
Comment · 3 years ago
Writing detailed reports from data Chatbots Education tools that remove the human element
Comment · 3 years ago
Whe. I first learned SQL on an oracle cli client I was told to type begin; then any other command. For a brief while until i learned about transactions, I assumed that it was part of the cli startup :)
Comment · 3 years ago
So one job that has been 'taken over by ai' before it even started ?
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you
Comment · 3 years ago
Says legal for use only in Europe
Comment · 3 years ago
I can completely relate to this article. I am 53 and caring for my 78 year old mum with dementia. While financial issues are not a challenge as we don't live in America. The emotional burden is massive and the guilt of not having done enough or to be scared of leaving her alone when we have to step out even for a few hours is palpable. I have full time help at home but guilt is irrational. We hadn't taken a vacation in years until we requested my wife's parents to stay in our home when we went out for 3 days after 4+ years. Amazing support from my wife is what is still giving me the strength to handle this situation.

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