captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Panic at the Job Market
Thinking you can figure out someone in 5 minutes makes you a no hire from me ;)
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captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Story points are pointless, measure queues
Yeah, and thats fine, there is literally no need to have them consistent between teams.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: New JavaScript Set Methods
Agree, a main benefit of using these would be performance gains.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
I think LangChain basically tried to do a land grab, insert itself between developers and LLM's.
But it didn't add significant value and seemed to dress it up by adding abstractions that didn't really make sense.
It was that abstraction gobbledygook smell that made me cautious.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
When we see what we think is a cat, what we have categorised as a cat, I don't think we are looking at it from each angle and going, cat, cat, cat.
I think there is an aspect of something like the 'free-energy principle' that is required to trigger off a re-assessment. So while visually we may receive 20fps of cat images, it's mostly discarded unless there is some novelty that challenges expectation.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
I don't think its analogous, I don't think we see a cat and our brain have it frame by frame adjust our synaptic weights (or whatever brains do). The whole premise of natural brains being able to learn by static images or disjointed modalities is a very clunky reductionist engineered approach we have taken.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
I'd say that was more like a single instance, one interaction with a thing.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
Mostly someone has a Phd and convinced people to give them money to 'change the world', then need someone who has actually built things beyond a script in a python notebook.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you're interviewing at a company?
Pompousness and self importance, we all get interviewed at some point don't power trip, it should be a humble two way conversation.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Do you think AI Agents are overhyped?
I think there is potential, but at the moment it's
1. RAG your data 2. Magic 3. Agent business logic 4. $$$
where step 2 is very unclear.
Also agent architecture what is it? A basic FSM which in essence is a bunch of business logic/rules with LLM API calls, how do you make this reliable for transactions.
I've yet to see a decent example of a business process replaced which isn't a question answer scenario i.e. call centre type role.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How to deal with the AI-pocalypse as a regular guy?
Except (and really not wanting to offend Indians), what we did is import a large number (by percentage of tech jobs) of skilled Indians which drove down the market rate for those jobs, either way it had the 'benefit' of driving down costs.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Google releases smart watch for kids
Good luck with that!
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI Is 'Exploring' How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn
Make the generation realtime VR and Meta Quest might have its killer app!
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2019)
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
Little by little is my advice, be at hand but not a crutch, show them what they are missing out on but don't push them to engage, they have to decide they want a better life and to do something about it.
captaincaveman | 1 year ago | on: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026
Yes, Anarchist were very much a specific thing in that context, not as its used today.
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster
PwC and KPMG were appointed to help rectify problems with the system earlier this year, while the council had previously employed EY on the implementation.
I'm sure those three bandits lined their pockets nicely!
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster
Probably not, more often than not you get a KPMG/Accenture or some one equally useless.
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?
Where in Europe are you, are you applying to job in your country?
Are you applying to jobs where you are a native speaker?
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Trident missile test fails for a second time in a row
yes it's time for more funding, nothing gets funding better than a burning platform ...
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