celnardur

Yes, but which of the state of the art models that offer the best results, are you allowed to do this with? As far as I've seen the models that you can host locally are not the ones being praised left and right in these articles. My company actually allows people to use a hosted version of Microsoft copilot, but most people don't because it's still not that much of a productivity boost (if any).

There has been a lot of opinion pieces popping up on HN recently that describe the benefits they see from LLMs and rebut the drawbacks most of them talk about. While they do bring up interesting points, NONE of them have even mentioned the privacy aspect.

This is the main reason I can’t use any LLM agents or post any portion of my code into a prompt window at work. We have NDAs and government regulations (like ITAR) we’d be breaking if any code left our servers.

This just proves the point. Until these tools are local, privacy will be an Achilles heal for LLMs.

I grew up in a megachurch but I wouldn’t call it a “megachurch”. It (Manchester UMC) is large at about 2500 members but still does the services in the same format as it has been doing since as early as I can remember. However, I have been to a couple of “megachurches” with that style of service and can comment on the appeal.

Services at a megachurch have almost a laid back rock concert type atmosphere. There is a lot of contemporary music played and everything else is made to be as “soulful” and engaging as possible. It’s a very unique atmosphere, but the appeal is much the same as something like a country music concert. The services are a whole production.

The other advantage big churches have (and I did see this with my church growing up) is that larger communities make a lot of things easier. It’s easier to form service missions, bible groups, youth activities, etc, because it’s much easier to reach a critical mass when you have such a large congregation to pull from.

https://manchesterumc.org/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United_Methodist_...

You don’t need to track people to pay for things with ads. You can advertise based on the surrounding content pretty effectively. It’s what TV channels have done for years.

Behavior ads or paywall is a false dichotomy.

I just used chatGPT to help me write some Powershell scripts. Here’s the kicker though. I have never wrote a Powershell script before and I have only read some on the basics of functions. However, I know enough about programming in general to still tell where the problem could be. It’s been nice so far. It’s never gotten it right the first time but coding is always an iterative process. We did get there much quicker than I would have alone. It essentially taught me Powershell.

One takeaway though is that (at it current level) I still don’t think it will replace programmers. It’s initial solutions sometimes go in the wrong direction, but because I could still understand the code it wrote, I was able to get it on the right course pretty quickly. It often went like: hey i don’t think you should be technique/structure X could you replace it with Y, and it would often get it much closer after that with some minor bugs to fix.

Overall it actually felt a lot like pair programming with someone who knows all the documentation but not always the best way to approach the problem.

One of my favorites is “Tell it like it is” which has the heavily implied second part: even when the customer won’t like it.

Yea pretty much. However, I would extend that to off campus students as well because as soon as someone has a really severe case (or dies) then we will probably all be sent home.

Also it's not just bars or parties. You also have to worry about other gatherings. If people don't where masks and social distance those can become a problem as well. However, so far people have been mostly responsible with other on campus gatherings.

I feel like I can offer a unique perspective on this because I go to Notre Dame and we are just finishing the first week of classes with everyone back on campus. It's gone alright so far. All the cases so far have been traced back to off campus bars or parties. However, I expect it to get worse soon as cases start spreading on campus. If you want to see how Notre Dame is doing with cases and testing we have a dashboard here: https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/dashboard/

I really hope we can make this work because, as an electrical engineer, most of my classes can't be moved online.

Although not exactly an online course, my compilers professor released his book for free online. It walks you through all the steps of building a compiler and is an invaluable resource for me. You can find it at www.compilerbook.org

This reminds me of some of the exercises I did during marching band and Drum Corps. We were taught, like the article says, to breathe by expanding the abs and then use the abs and diaphragm to push the air out through the instrument. In both, we used breathing gym techniques developed by Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan. Here's a video of them demonstrating some of the exercises we did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEz0ku-oXM4

These exercises definitely helped me prepare my lungs for the stress of what is essentially running and playing a brass instrument at the same time for ten minutes. Even though they are meant for Marching Band and Drum Corps, I would still recommend breathing gym for anyone who wants to be a stronger breather.

In my compilers class we used a book that my professor wrote that takes you through all the steps and algorithms for making a compiler for a c like language. You can find it online for free at: https://www3.nd.edu/~dthain/compilerbook/

I really like this book because it really takes you through all the steps. However, it's very readable and provides great examples of how to actually implement some of the components.

I also like it because it explains how to use tools like Yacc and Bison, while explaining how they work underneath and the motivation for using such tools.

I leaned on this book heavily in the class where the main assignment was writing our own compiler from scratch in C, and I'm currently using it now to make a compiler in rust for a custom language.

I'm in a college club that uses Pis to run football playing robots. The Pi basically translates instructions from a Bluetooth PS4 controller into commands for a motor driver. We currently 4 college clubs in the league and we play a couple of scrimmages and a championship every year. The robots take big hits in the games(these bots can go faster than we can run) and we've found the Arduino to be the most durable and reliable platform as well as being the most customizable. Here is our club Website: https://www3.nd.edu/~rfc/ Here is a little video about the club: https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/nbc-sports-intramural-...