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To Know What Your Customers Think, Just Ask Their A.I. Twins(nytimes.com)
3 points by pteetor 2mo ago|1 comments
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by pteetor 2mo ago
Simile, a fast-growing start-up, says it can provide companies with accurate insights by surveying millions of A.I.-generated consumers.
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by pteetor 5mo ago
In case you are unfamiliar with Karpathy's Loop[1], it is a genetic algorithm[2] where the genetic "mutations" are clever-but-random ideas generated by an LLM agent, aimed at improving a system. (1) Let the LLM randomly p
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by pteetor 5mo ago
In the USA, the available supply of gasoline is normally 21 or 22 days. The press occasionally trumpets this number, and people react with horror. But, hey, it's just normal. IDK about Europe, but 6 weeks of jet fuel does not surprize
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by pteetor 9mo ago
For complicated prompts, I always add this: "Before you start, please ask me any questions you have about this so I can give you more context. Be extremely comprehensive." (I got the idea from a Medium article[1].) The LLM will, i
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by pteetor 11mo ago
When COBOL was born, some people said, "It's English! We won't need programmers anymore!" When SQL was born, some people said, "It's English! We won't need programmers anymore!" Now we have AI prompti
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by pteetor 1y ago
All the Python-based functionality of this project can now be handled by the mcptools package[1]. That is, mcptools can field MCP requests and dispatch to R code; no need for an intermediate layer of Python. I wonder if the author knows abo
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by pteetor 1y ago
Somehow, I assumed that a Cursor-like capability for RStudio would be implemented as an add-in extension, not via fork. Does this mean that every new release of RStudio will require a rebuild by Lotas and a re-download by its users?
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Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I(nytimes.com)
3 points by pteetor 1y ago|1 comments
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by pteetor 1y ago
R is used extensively in quant finance. The quant traders, portfolio managers, and risk managers with whom I work all use R.
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by pteetor 1y ago
Probabilities sum to 1.0. Odds don't sum.
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Google needs to pick an Assistant gesture and stick with it(androidpolice.com)
1 points by pteetor 2y ago|0 comments
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Roger C. Schank, Theorist of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 76(nytimes.com)
11 points by pteetor 4y ago|1 comments
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by pteetor 4y ago
I've worked for corporations that need to generate reports and distribute them internally. I created an RSS feed on the report generation machine, then asked users to subscribe to the feed within Microsoft Outlook. That worked well bec