they did not use RAG for these tests... how are we supposed to take the report seriously when it does not demonstrate even a cursory understanding of nature of LLMs?
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I honestly just can't vibe with the "don't customize because you'll log into other servers" thing.
To me it feels like getting told to not put nice shelves in my home because other buildings don't have them.
It's bananas!
If the claim these folks make is "time spent struggling through a default config on an unfamiliar machine" > "time saved by crafting an workshop to fit your mind", then we are not the same.
(Probably, the dividing line here is time spent coding vs time spent managing infra.)
for the laconic and latin-leaning, NB (nota bene) means "note well"
for the laconic and latin-familiar, NB stands for nota bene, or "note well".
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+1 to Nick Lane
I’ve only read The Vital Question, but I felt it was a great introduction to biochem for someone not in the field.
Absolutely loved TVQ. The insight about mitochondrial DNA inheritance being exclusively from the mother, thus motivating female fingerprinting of male nucleic DNA for gamete viability (via courtship rituals, pheromones, plumage, etc)...
It sounds like you no longer see value in the work. What were your original motivations and goals? How have they changed? From a distance, it's easy to guess that you're not confident the project will be useful to anyone. If that's true, it would make sense that you're demotivated--nobody likes doing work that isn't useful to themselves or others.
If the goal was simply to learn and stay sharp, then perhaps an incomplete project is a success——you did some coding, and learned something about what motivates you. If the goal was more specific, then perhaps you've (subconsciously) re-evaluated the requirements for success, and it no longer feels achievable or worth the effort.
I could be wrong, of course, but this sounds less like a problem of technical ability than one of deepening your understanding of your own motivation. If that sounds right, maybe check out https://x.com/scottdomes — I like his writing about how to identify what you want and why.
This is interesting - it is kind of picking a fight with SaaS/cloud providers though, as that is the one kind of software you won't be able to import into your environment: not because it can't do the job, but because you don't have the code. So this would create an incentive to go back to PaaS.
It's definitely true though that a big problem with backend is that you can't easily treat it as a whole system for test purposes.
> it is kind of picking a fight with SaaS/cloud providers
or starting a bidding war
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