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It's more rare, and definitely less lucrative, but there are opportunities in software engineering for non-profits, open-source, and smaller non-tech companies. If you've made your blood money and don't need top n% pay, it's something worth checking out.

Slight tangent: a long time ago when I was into this hobby, Oshpark was usually the go-to instead of JLCPCB. What happened to them? Macrofab too if anyone's used them.

The catch is that for image resolutions >=700x700pixels (most production usecases)

Citation needed? 2XL looks like you go up to 800x800 pixel inputs. This isn't the dealbreaker you say it is - all pipelines benefit from thoughtful crop and rescaling before going to inference.

I've heard of people using anythingllm for this purpose.

Basic rag is almost stupid in how easy it is, though. You grep for keywords, take the surrounding paragraph, then stuff it all into your llm prompt.

The next upgrade is to automate keyword extraction by putting your documents into a vector store and search by vector similarity.

<article excerpt>

What AI actually does Mutinex has built what it describes as a “multi-agent system,” where each agent acts as a domain specialist. For example, one agent understands marketing econometrics, another understands competitive pricing theory, another diagnoses model failures.

By combining Tracer, which cleans and makes sense of Hershey’s data infrastructure, with Mutinex’s AI system, Hershey is now able run models in as little as three weeks.

In practice, that means faster iteration on how marketing spend is evaluated and adjusted, rather than waiting for lagging historical reads.

“Most companies don’t have an AI problem. They have a data readiness problem,” said Sarah Martinez, chief commercial officer, Tracer.

</article excerpt>

Instead of the headline, it sounds like they've hired an external company to clean up their ETL pipelines. That seems useful.

I'm going to doubt spooling up <massive LLM> with <appropriate system prompt> is going to be the thing that reduces their analysis time.

WSL Manager 5 months ago

Sublime Text? Sure, doesn't have the long tail of extensions, but surely most people don't need those. The biggest issue with ST being the fact that it costs money...

Even if you don't like the current administration, the rank and file are still out there doing valuable work. The government is more than ICE; it also administers welfare, funds research, collects taxes, and distributes social security payments to the old and infirm.

This post makes me sad for two reasons:

1) kids k-5 are using laptops 2) websites are so bloated today that browsing on a Chromebook is causing agitation

Otherwise I don't have anything topical for this post, but good luck OP

Zulip.com Values 5 months ago

Why not have a megatopic for things that don't need their own topic?

Topics are necessary when you start having a huge Zulip server, 100+ people. There's so much noise --- dividing things by channel is too coarse.

I participate in several open source Zulip servers and it reminds me of a better IRC. It's a lot more ergonomic that Gitter or Discord.

Yeah, I know three - one transitioned to teaching, another to being a paramedic, and the last to social work.

On the other side I also know a teacher who switched to cyber security for the money after he started a family.

You have to know yourself and what motivates you to know if you'll find things more meaningful elsewhere.

There's no way to get through the harder courses in the program on 1 hour a day. And you're not getting value from the degree if you aren't pushing yourself to take those hard courses, unless you just need the diploma.

C++: "look at what others must do to mimic a fraction of my power"

This is cute, but also I'm baffled as to why you would want to use macros to emulate c++. Nothing is stopping you from writing c-like c++ if that's what you like style wise.