Tootfinder

Compliance of Implementations with Specification
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/spec-compliance-matrix.md

Applied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others (@appliedcompute)
https://x.com/appliedcompute/status/1983574375933866502

Applied Compute (@appliedcompute) on X
Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's

Martin Fleischmann @… gave a fantastic talk today at ITU about his personal path :geopandas: and insights about #opensource in front of a 100 people audience, impressing also many students!

"regardless of the underlying technology, the pursuit of artificial general intelligence is not necessarily the most efficient route to useful applications. Artificial specific intelligence (AI approaches focused on a specific domain, such as the Nobel prize-winning, protein-folding algorithm, AlphaFold2) gives more reliable and transparent results by combining the subtle pattern detection at which GenAI excels with explicitly encoded, domain-specific knowledge."

My first attempt at desoldering a BGA chip and it worked really well. Chip cleaned up nicely as well.
Disclaimer: I don't plan on using this chip or board again. So, I don't need it to work at the end.
#retrocomputing
#desoldering

"As explained in chapter 11 of Meyer’s book, assertions are meant to check the correctness of a piece of software; that is, its ability to perform the tasks defined in their specification.
Because, you do have a specification, right? Right?"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/asser…

Assertions
Colin Powell passed away during the preparation of this article. In one of the most memorable and abhorrent chapters of his career he gave a speech in the United Nations trying to justify the unjustifiable.

Note that this is specific to generic chatbots.
There’s plenty of useful applications for the underlying technologies—but it’s all pretty boring specialized stuff with not a lot of mass-market appeal which doesn’t lend itself to the scam the chatbot companies are running.

Martin Fleischmann @… will present in 1.5 hours at ITU, AUD 1: "Open source inside out"

My neighbors have the scariest Halloween decorations out this year.

Fuchs' First Law of LLMs:
The fitness of LLMs to do a specific task is inversely proportional to how often LLMs are used to do that task