nmaley

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by nmaley 6mo ago
" Do we have any standard benchmarks for humanoids to do domestic tasks?" The answer is yes. Steve Wozniak proposed the Coffee Test. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowergwQR5Y It's actually very clever.
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by nmaley 9mo ago
I use Claude. It's really good, but you should try to use it as Boris suggests. The other thing I do is give it very careful and precisely worded specs for what you want it to do. I have the habit, born from long experience, of never a
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by nmaley 10mo ago
LLMs are parameter based representations of linguistic representations of the world. Relative to robot predictive control problems, they are low dimensional and static. They are batch trained using supervised learning and are not designed t
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by nmaley 1y ago
I've spent a lot of my career doing various types of solution design. One of the insights I gained from thinking a lot about representation, intentionality and the philosophy of language is that the way you represent a problem has a bi
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by nmaley 1y ago
Majored in Philosophy. Started programming in 1973 on mainframes. Became a full time developer, systems analyst. 72 years old now, with 50 years experience in IT. Co-founded a couple of start ups, made a little bit of money. Went back to c
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by nmaley 1y ago
I'm in the process of actually building LLM based apps at the moment, and Martin Fowler's comments are on the money. The fact is seemingly insignificant changes to prompts can yield dramatically different outcomes, and the odd new
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by nmaley 1y ago
I knew a tech founder once who spent an hour lecturing us (his employees) on business ethics. He'd even written a little red book (like Mao) to codify his thoughts on how we should all behave. Fast forward a few years and the guy flees
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by nmaley 2y ago
Look, I love LLMs and even implement them for customers, but I am very sceptical about them 'replacing' ERP and CRP systems. What some AI folks don't seem to understand is that traditional ERP and CRP apps are completely driv
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by nmaley 2y ago
I'm surprised not to see anything about David Cope, who is the real master of AI produced music. Cope works mostly within the classical tradition, using AI to produce work in the style of great composers like Bach, Mozart etc. To my ea
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by nmaley 2y ago
Gettier cases tell us something interesting about truth and knowledge. This is that a factual claim should depict the event that was the effective cause of the claim being made. Depiction is a picturing relationship: a correspondence betwee
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by nmaley 2y ago
I think you are asking the wrong question. Before you decide what to bring in house, you need to have an IT strategy That sets out what components of your desired solution should be built, and what should be bought. You need to have a view
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by nmaley 2y ago
I know Orwell's work pretty well, and I read that sentence, and thought to myself: "Cant remember where he said anything like that, but what the hell, I haven't read everything Orwell ever wrote". So I just rolled with
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by nmaley 3y ago
Excellent. I agree totally. But trying to get adherence to standards in requirements documentation is like trying to nail jelly to the ceiling.
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by nmaley 3y ago
As others have said, rewrite the CV. It's not clear to me who you are and what kind of role would best suit you. Put a summary at the top making clear what you are best at and what kind of role you are looking for. Summarize your skill
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by nmaley 3y ago
LLMs make writing code easier, but they don't make it unnecessary. "No-code" is mostly small consumer apps and POCs, but "low-code" is a big industry based on platform building. Much of the work of building and main
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by nmaley 3y ago
Lots of different types of tools here. Some are no code, most are low code. There is no clear dividing line between them: they are all configurable platforms with the ability to incorporate code through APIs and add ons. Some are just speci
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by nmaley 3y ago
The NFL theorem means nothing if all the learning tasks have a common underlying structure. In the real world, they do. The laws of physics and chemistry create emergent causal relationships. Any SSL learning algorithm that learns to exploi
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by nmaley 4y ago
Don't know how accessible or affordable therapy is where you live, but you certainly need someone to talk to. I had a midlife crisis in my 40's. My career was going nowhere, I was trapped in a job I hated. I felt I was wasting my
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by nmaley 4y ago
Good point. The essence of processing is the transformation and combination of signs. Processing a sign is a kind of energy transformation. The process takes input signs, performs some kind of energy transformation, and produces a new sign,
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by nmaley 4y ago
I'm 69, about to turn 70. I'm in a senior technical consulting role which often requires me to go on the tools. I work for a big, successful software firm that can afford to pay well. Most of my peers are 20+ years younger than me
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by nmaley 4y ago
The Robodebt scandal in Australia didn't spill over to violence in the streets, but it came close. Robodebt was a debt collection system introduced by the Federal government to recover supposed overpayments of social security. It was f
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by nmaley 4y ago
I studied philosophy to postgraduate level before having to go out and get a real job. Now in late middle age, I am nearly recovered to the point where I have to agree with the author. I now understand that most philosophy, of ANY age or pe
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by nmaley 4y ago
I'm a 69 year old who made a conscious decision 12 years back to leave sales and management and return to my technical roots. Now I'm in a solution architect role where I'm expected to constantly stay abreast of the latest te
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by nmaley 5y ago
In no particular order: - The siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - The Radetsky March, by Joseph Roth - The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - Blood Meridian by Cormac M
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by nmaley 5y ago
Worth noticing that prosecution of foreign companies under Australian law requires the consent of the Federal Attorney General. This consent has been given, meaning that the Australian Govt agrees he has a prima facie case. Forrest has deep
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by nmaley 5y ago
I knew a guy once with a milder version of what appears to be a similar syndrome. We worked together, and he would go out for lunch and wolf down a whole large pizza. Afterwards, he would get very hot and sweaty. He was not particularly tal
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by nmaley 5y ago
Some remarks from Captain Obvious here. The primary use case for crypto is simple: (1) People buy crypto because it keeps going up in value (2) It keeps going up in value because people keep buying it. (3) For why people keep buying Crypto,
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by nmaley 5y ago
Pathetic site
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by nmaley 5y ago
Note that these numbers are from Italy, which is known to have extremely low intergenerational income mobility. See https://voxeu.org/article/intergenerational-mobility-across-... One key characteristic of high mobilit
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by nmaley 5y ago
Microsoft's Power Platform is a low code framework which works well, and generates a massive amount of revenue, as does Salesforce and some others. I recently designed and implemented a complex 500 user child protection application wit

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