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A person once said to me - the only direction you move when coasting is down. Maybe that's "cancer" but I do agree with it.

Simply speaking - They chunk the document (make it smaller so that it can be sent to gpt) and then vectorize it (change it to numbers / vector array). From there that is stored in a vector store - now, when you query you first query your vector store for the context (part of the 50MB file) and then send the context along with the question to GPT.

You are right GPT-4 doesn't support fine-tuning but, I think (in general) people might be misunderstanding what fine-tuning does.

Some believe it is their moral obligation to do so. I, personally, believe that "blaming myself for the worlds problem" is a step to becoming a more mature (accountable) person in our society.

I also believe that corporation will do literally anything to make a profit - including slavery - and the only thing that stops them from doing so is because they stop being profitable. Knowing this allows the consumer to pressure the company to align with their values or loss their business.

Crypto IMHO -> We are changing the wheels on the bus while it is moving. To do so, we have to use the old wheels until we have all the wheels in place to take off the old wheels.

You can't replace an entire infrastructure, this large, overnight.

I'm pretty excited about this site's potential. I am avid promoter of creating autonomous teams through principles and goals alignment (OKR).

I think there were suggestions about Time being an aspect of a principle. I wonder if this would be better represented by the SDLC stages, something like this might address the "time" part that allows it to be associated with type of work being done. Just a thought. I also wonder, at the same time, if this is too burdensome for a team or individual to do. Establishing your principles, IMHO, should be the most important thing you do, if you use them to guide your behavior.

I also have hope that when people establish what their individual principles (that define them) they then can ensure when they are job hunting or self reflecting on their current job that they what they are doing is aligned with who they are to ensure they will be satisfied in that role/job/company.

I just bookmarked the site. Excited to see this grow.

My challenge with this is that, I believe, you think instagram is a free service. It isn't, you pay for the service by selling your data to advertisers and using your data for advertisement. If they don't have your data, you aren't paying for the service.

I hate this and also, I don't use their service - same for facebook.

Quite honestly, that's quite scary. The ability to just change an oracle sounds like a backdoor (and not De-centralized). I'm not exactly familiar with Poly - but, I thought that was the sell of Link, was the idea that you are dealing with Oracle pools rather than a specific, single, Oracle?

This feels right. I also believe that what people need are LEADERS and not MANAGERS. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the two on the web.

The challenge I see a lot of managers have is that they look to much at an engineer as a widget and not literal human that is just as capable as the manager (most the time). There are often times no lines between roles and responsibilities and every shop does that slightly different, and not based on some framework they masterly put together, but just something based on how the pieces fell in place with some help from previous experiences.

I just wanted to say also - _most_ engineering managers are not good managers. They were good engineers that are in the unfortunate process of the Peter Principle.

“Tank Man” 5 years ago

I believe the search will work but the image search will return zero results.

I really want one of these because I the pen and paper process (wholeheartedly agree with the authors statements)

Is it worth it? Is it better than just having a whiteboard next to me? I feel like most the time I use the whiteboard it is temporary things that kick me off before moving to Visio or JIRA. The price tag seems so high for its single use. But, still itching to buy it.

The Spinner 7 years ago

I took "disguised as editorial content" to be false information - which is mentioned in the two sentence at the top of the site.

The Spinner 7 years ago

Without trying to be pedantic, I think bombarding people with false (or "spun") information that is in contrast to their views, principles, or beliefs through a long period of time would make them question their perception(s). I get that probably wouldn't change people's memory or sanity however.

How to successfully roll out a product/site.

Released "Version 2" which was an entire newly built system that we worked on for an entire year (we also thought we were "agile" btw). This completely crashed and around 10K users were unable to use the product for almost 2 weeks. We did plenty of things right but we also failed.

Biggest Lessons learned: 1. Release features and changes in manageable incremental chunks 2. Load test, load test, load test - just do it! Yeah, sure, your app worked with your one user when there is 1kb of data in your datastore - what about 5000 users accessing it with 10GB in your data store? 3. Get and use an APM - when it feels like everything is on fire you'll need to know where the fire is coming from 4. One way changes that can't be rolled back are the devil. Take the time needed to make sure you can roll back - manageable incremental changes help with that.

Lean Startup may or may not be dead but my Boss is going to continue to misuse the term MVP regardless. It pains me to think that this term isn't going away. I believe it will be used by managers for a long time to make developers forgo good development practices in lieu of getting that minimal ~viable~ product out.

Looks like I read that first sentence wrong...

"Vehicles must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within a crosswalk that are in the same half of the roadway as the vehicle or when a pedestrian is approaching closely enough from the opposite side of the roadway to constitute a danger"

Growing up in AZ I was always told that pedestrians ALWAYS have the right away - something I always thought was strange.

I do stand correct however.

I don't know what country you live in but, in Arizona it is different:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...

The pedestrian had the right-away in this particular situation.

EDIT :: Looks like I read that first sentence wrong (my apologies)... "Vehicles must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within a crosswalk that are in the same half of the roadway as the vehicle or when a pedestrian is approaching closely enough from the opposite side of the roadway to constitute a danger"

Growing up in AZ I was always told that pedestrians ALWAYS have the right away - something I always thought was strange.

I do stand correct however.