3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
Readit Newsgrork commented on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co... · Posted by u/nvahalik
There's some irony; far from handling the details, LLMs are forcing programmers to adopt hyper-detailed, disciplined practices. They've finally cajoled software developers into writing documentation! Worth noting we've always had the capacity to implement these practices to improve HUMAN collaboration, but rarely bothered.
We’ve ultimately decided to treat the models with more respect, nurturing, and collaborative support than we ever did our follow human keyboard smashers. Writing all the documentation, detailed guidance, allowing them multiple attempts, to help the LLMs be successful. But Brenda, the early in career new grad? “please read this poorly written, 5 year-old, incomplete wiki, and don’t ask me questions”
I’ve been thinking about this for months, and still don’t know what to make of it.
grork commented on An LLM does not need to understand MCP hackteam.io/blog/your-llm... · Posted by u/gethackteam
In a multi model situation, shouldn't LLM A talk to LLM B as a tool call via MCP? or would it talk to LLM B directly?
How can an LLM “talk” to another LLM, except by emitting tokens in its output stream?
You can name the mechanism whatever you want, but the models don’t have hands. Tool calling conventions (as a concept, or as a spec) is what gives the model hands!
grork commented on Microsoft employees recall their early years seattletimes.com/business... · Posted by u/rmason
There are so few books on early Microsoft, and they're all so fascinating. One I like is Microsoft: First Generation. One I think is humorous, but not that informative, is Barbarians Led by Bill Gates.
Hard Drive, ostensibly about Bill Gates, was a great read when I was a kid. I recommend ‘Microserfs’ from Douglas Coupland as a fictional (but grounded) homage to the work in the 90s.
grork commented on Microsoft employees recall their early years seattletimes.com/business... · Posted by u/rmason
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This development environment looks interesting：why two shelves?
Also the place look like a cheap airline cabin. I thought all MSFT employees have their own offices back then. Maybe it's because that's the lab?
This is a build or test lab, not the offices of developers. I visited multiple times in the period mentioned for the picture, and saw multiple of these. The one I saw most often was the NT build lab. When I started there in the mid-2000s, these labs were still used, although the build labs were a little less densely packed thanks to remote tools.
A post I wrote thinking about the 'addiction' that ads & subscription revenue can cause, and how it leads to a loss of identity in companies whose core products were not 'recurring revenue' originally. (e.g., contrast Google / Meta to Microsoft / Apple / Oracle).
It doesn't have to be this way.
What’s the overlap between people who had their password reset, and people who used/signed up for Beeper iMessage verification?
grork commented on Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ben_w
Note: this is only for charged particles such as happen in solar flares, and only in space. Your personal shield against bullets and the like is still impossible, sadly.
Gonna save this post for some arbitrary point in the future to pull out as a point against ‘impossible’. Might have to gift it to my descendants to make sure it’s available for long enough… /s
came looking for feline-related content. left disappointed.
Especially since the versatility of A Cat is unbounded.