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this_steve_j commented on Uscsb Video: Explosion at Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation   youtube.com/watch?v=35FkC... · Posted by u/this_steve_j
this_steve_j · 12 days ago
A CSB safety video on the agency's investigation into the massive April 8, 2021, explosion and fire that fatally injured one worker at the Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation facility in Columbus, Ohio.
this_steve_j commented on Microsoft teases agents that become 'independent users within the workforce'   theregister.com/2025/11/1... · Posted by u/this_steve_j
this_steve_j · a month ago
“These agents can attend meetings, edit documents, communicate via email and chat, and perform tasks autonomously.

Redmond will sell these “agentic users” in the “M365 Agent Store” and make them discoverable in its Teams collaboration-ware tools.

A365 Agent licensing details are not yet publicly available.

this_steve_j commented on Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions   accc.gov.au/media-release... · Posted by u/edwinjm
jsheard · 2 months ago
https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commer...

Even after putting their thumb on the scale, the numbers are still dismal. Not even a 2% conversion rate.

this_steve_j · 2 months ago
The marketing has 100% shifted to the creation of workloads using “Agents”.

Presumably the hyperscalers can begin conflating the number of “agents” created with “boring jobs eliminated” and thus herald the industrial revolution.

But first: Your subscription price is increasing and now includes 5 Agents.

this_steve_j commented on State of AI Report 2025   stateof.ai/... · Posted by u/SMAAART
jeetsundareep · 2 months ago
On the contrary; it is prominent to leverage the synergy of ontological orthogonalities to maximize a diverse approach.
this_steve_j · 2 months ago
I like the cut of this jibe.
this_steve_j commented on Ask HN: How do I use LLMs to generate test cases for groundedness benchmarks?   devblogs.microsoft.com/is... · Posted by u/this_steve_j
this_steve_j · 2 months ago
What are some ways to avoid common methological pitfalls when generating test cases for "groundedness" benchmarks with automation?

Confirmation bias is one obvious pitfall that comes to mind, but also I wonder how it is possible to achieve reproducibility when the input is stochastic.

this_steve_j commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
yvdriess · 4 months ago
A good opportunity to point people to the paper with my favorite title of all time:

"How to wreck a nice beach you sing calm incense"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.1040898

u/this_steve_j

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