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My goal with this simple model is to start a conversation about how engineers are evolving their use of LLMs.

sigactson $1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn

Someday he will realize this situation was staged, but he will forever appreciate the sense of exploration and adventure that you instilled in him.

sigactson Google Pixel Buds

I love the Pixel line of phones. I have had the 1, 3, and 4.

sigactson Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

Isn't DuckDuckGo just a white label of Bing?

sigactson Facial recognition: It’s time for action

This is the same guy who recently vowed to provide any/all of MSFT's AI technologies to the Department of Defense https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/p...

sigactson Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good

Google's

sigactson New Mexico observatory closure stemmed from FBI child porn probe

The FBI shut down the entire site, which is made up of several buildings. There was a small post office in one of those buildings.

sigactson Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?

The Google Keep Chrome extension is a handy way to save articles that I want to read later.

sigactson Vista Equity Partners revamps software companies by following detailed protocols

G Suite isn't a help desk and ticketing system.

sigactson Vista Equity Partners revamps software companies by following detailed protocols

Except the article says they haven't sold very many times.

sigactson Vista Equity Partners revamps software companies by following detailed protocols

Amidst cost cutting, how are new capabilities, like machine learning, explored? Does the Vista "formula" allow for speculative research and development?

sigactson Vista Equity Partners revamps software companies by following detailed protocols

That doesn't work for the Wall Street Journal any more, and hasn't for a year: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/wsj-ends-...

sigactson Vista Equity Partners revamps software companies by following detailed protocols

What kind of questions were asked as part of the cognitive test?

sigactson McDonald's delivery to be available in 3,500 restaurants by the end of June

Yeah... a lack of delivery WAS the reason I had been avoiding McDonalds.

sigactson Jamboard is now available

Wave was announced in 2009, and though it was not successful, it's feature breakthroughs led to realtime collaboration in Google Docs.

Innovation is not a linear convention.

In your warped exegesis of the world, Apple didn't launch the Newton and Microsoft never pushed the Zune.

sigactson Guiding a Venture-Backed Startup to a Felony

The craziness is that these guys really thought they were building a company.

sigactson Guiding a Venture-Backed Startup to a Felony

Yep. We talked to the judge after the case and he said that the punishment could range from probation to 12 years in state prison. The defendant has no criminal history, so I would imagine the sentence will be relatively light.

sigactson Guiding a Venture-Backed Startup to a Felony

I agree with your assessment. What is intetesting is that this group structured the deal like a venture-backed company. The LLC documents looked like many other versions I have seen. The Scoundrel folks thought that this formation scheme gave them immunity from accountability.

sigactson Show HN: Geoparser.io API – sentences go in, GeoJSON comes out

Awesome capability! It is fun to think about the potential for apps to discern geography from unstructured text.