SgtBastard

You may be discounting the tokens generated in the thinking trace but not included in the output to users.

The “problem” is exactly as you’ve framed it: individual 1-1 tutoring unambiguously improves education outcomes by a significant (2 StDev’s in Blooms study) vs any other understood method but delivering this universally is (was?) infeasible.

Bloom looked at other methods used in concert to achieve similar improvements to “solve” the problem that could be delivered at scale.

LLMs may provide a new path to the 2-Sigma improvements without the same delivery problems.

Thank you for this and for parent’s comment - I know what rabbit hole I’m going down today.

Mistral in the EU, for one.

Mistral (a French company) shouldn’t be discounted.

What makes you think 1-2, 6-8 can’t be done by agents?

Yes - itself.

Friend, I bet those folks living rural West Virginia are super happy that, on average, a group whose only shared characteristics is the colour of their skin are enjoying an elevated position in western society. Super happy. All racism is gross.

How do you feel about your current levels of dakka? </40k>

Are you ok there? SAML, OIDC and a depressingly long tail of Kerberos is how modern enterprise identity security works.

We have multiple threads of research demonstrating in-context learning, friend.

https://github.com/dqxiu/ICL_PaperList

This thread is about coding agents, of which a model is only one (important) part.

Fancy while() loops is how I describe them.

Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent composable parts, in a day.

Not doing so while senior management demands the use of AI augmentation seems odd.

Only if you’re relying upon the models to recall facts from its training set - intuitively, at sufficient complexity, models ability to reason is what is critical and can have its answers kept up to date with RAG.

Unless you mean out of date == no longer SOTA reasoning models?

Guilds of Knowledge hoarders and AI adepts are my bet as well.

Thank you, I learnt a new term today.

… the internet was not immediately useful in a million different ways for almost every person.

Even if you skip ARPAnet, you’re forgetting the Gopher days and even if you jump straight to WWW+email==the internet, you’re forgetting the mosaic days.

The applications that became useful to the masses emerged a decade+ after the public internet and even then, it took 2+ decades to reach anything approaching saturation.

Your dismissal is not likely to age well, for similar reasons.

Nitpick: Language is technology, it’s not something we’re genetically born with and is critical for education to happen.

Technically you are correct but the commenter you’re responding to means that with the amount of Western Governments spend on MS products and services, the are a d facto (if not de jure) state backed enterprise.

Only if you profoundly misunderstand what GC is.

Ping Identity run the largest enterprise identity platforms on the planet after merging with ForgeRock last year. Think HSBC, JP Morgan Chase-scale.

Humas learn dynamically

In-context learning (Few Shot Prompting) is absolutely demonstrable by LLMs since GPT 3.5 at least.

In most rent controlled systems there is a per sqm pre-allowed rent.

Those markets are frequently characterised by poorly maintained rental stock.

Don’t you have a moral obligation

No.

In most rent controlled systems there is a per sqm pre-allowed rent.

Those markets are frequently characterised by poorly maintained rental stock.

Don’t you have a moral obligation

No.

So if someone inherits a fully paid off house, they are only allowed to rent it for a fraction of the rent allowed for the mortgaged, identical property next door? If a landlord wins the lottery, are they forced to lower the rent if they pay down their mortgage?

Public housing runs because the people administrating it have no disincentives to making poor decisions because ultimately it’s the tax payer who pays.

All this guarantees is a two-tier system. Owners and basic rental properties available.

there goes 50-70% of the jobs in that sector.

Does this always follow though? Mass automation can just as easily make the existing staff far more effective, making the ROI easier to justify.

uneducated people are highly limited in their use.

taxes footing the bill.

It sounds like it is surviving only its own merits, merely shifted in time.

(Admittedly, from the perspective of an Australian whose strongest institutions are all public and the private universities are a bit of a joke)

If that architecture has no value in any circumstances at the beginning of a project and no value once the code base has matured, it’s an anti pattern.

What an incredibly impolite way to respond to someone who is trying to tease out the point you continually failed to make.

Be better.