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1,819karma·417submissions·March 30, 2011
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Also just confirmed you can enter a 'Select text' mode and manually copy text from the transcript (for easy summarization elsewhere). This is huge.
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Can anyone speculate as to what kind of advancements in precision machining might enable this sort of new jet engine design? I feel, as a layperson when it comes to aerospace, that so much of the inno…
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This is to me the actual opportunity of deploying LLMs in customer service at scale. If done right, you won't need to wait through those endless phone trees.
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Exactly! Couldn't have said this better myself. Contract work was one of my first thoughts after I read that first line. There is nothing wrong with short or medium-term work that requires more f…
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Refer to another reply comment on this chain by supriyo-biswas: > You’d assume they’d have other projects to move their employees to, or alternatively, use contract work to temporarily employ peopl…
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> “With so much technical achievement over the last 12 months and so much tech debt behind us, we now are obliged to take a close look at roles, skills, teams, and locations to ensure that our reso…
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> Getting to a point where realistically you're not able to know something deeply but then still use it is pretty frightening. This now applies to most things in modern industrial society. We …
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AI remained key theme in tech earnings calls, with custom AI models a top priority
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I feel exactly the same. I was young at the time and this slogan really inspired me. It was the first question you were asked once you got on the "information superhighway" ;)
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