Your case describes a situation in RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), which is the special case where that happens inside a component of a bigger system, so the needed extra knowledge is actually available elsewhere in the same system.

At the Thomson Reuters family of companies (technically then: Refinitiv Ltd. sold to LSEG), the first foundational model (in the sense of "trained entirely from scratch") was trained already in 2018 (i.e., pre-ChatGPT); it would even have been earlier, but the electricity wires and fuses in the rented 5 Canada Sq, Canary Wharf office had to be replaced first at the time to deal with the current needed to serve the GPUs.

If you are a highly specialized professional intellectual property paralegal, a forensic tax investigator or a post-market pharmacovigilance analyst, you will need for-profit knowledge sources, and your answers will often require synthesizing and interpreting multiple sources.

- Reader: narrative

- Collector: scarcity of the physical artifact

- AI Company: language samples (quantity, variety), facts

• Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

• David Goodsell, The Machinery of Life

• William W. Cohen, A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology

• Horace Freeland Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology

• Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

In his lifetime, Michie published impactful papers in genetics, biology, statistics and computer science -- and classical philology.

A liberal arts education and a science education are not mutually exclusive, but complementary.

The code of the O.P. is actually not so bad for a teenager; however, the variables in Spanish do not help: "[isq]" and "[der]" probably stood for "isqierda" and "derecha", so the index of the left and right subtree of an expression.

Speaking of Transputers, Dr. Tim King, founder of Perihelion, was another big name of the Transputer times; he sadly passed away last month (he also wrote Tripos, which turned into AmigaDOS).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440093

[2] https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/dcc/2000/0...

Apparently, they produce the phones in batches, not sure when the next one is due?

Now you can do a lot better with a simple LLM+RAG setup.

Knowledge Mgt. (which I also teach) is one of the most neglected areas, privately, professionally and in corporations. A lot of companies' intranet is utterly useless - and everyone knows.

I seriously hope that one day, whether during our lifetime or not, Israelis and Palestinians can dance with one another, without having fear.

The answer is there can be dramatic difference running a benchmark one time, because LLMs are not deterministic. A proper methodology would ask each question 20 times and calculate the mean correctness across experiments.

The reason is that the temperature parameter introduces random behavior.

I am intellectually curious whether "intelligence" and "consciousness" are simply layers that can be separated from the hardware they operate on or first emerged from, but I never had the urge or saw the point to practically replace human beings by machines.

Not everything that can be done should be done.

When I go to a supermarket, I always avoid self check-out. Why? First, I enjoy human interaction, even if machines may be more efficient (not yet the case). Second, I don't want the people working at the checkout to lose their jobs.

When we purchased a GPU cluster, I felt bad when I learned that the electricity bill was going to be north of 60 000 EUR every year (that number apparently assumes no jobs are running - so 100% idle time).

Note that there is a certain level of arbitrariness involved in this association game. For instance, if a household regularly is in need of both parsley and also condoms, the fact that they are purchased together may be a result of the pure coincidence that both were empty/used up at the same time (which is also a function of the package sizes of both items). We would be much less surprised at the mined associations if we took a longitudinal, per-household look.

Furthermore, a shopping basked is per-household, but not per-person: the parsley and the condom may be used by different members of the household, or be shared, or be part of a gift to someone outside.

The human brain also tends to make up "causal" connections between any two items, when the real reason is often much more mundane.

(What I particularly enjoy is that one can contribute to the database of quotations.)

Has anyone tried this? Are the translations good? Is the material sentence-aligned so that it is easy to switch between reading the original and the translation?

[1] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Short-Stories-Bilingual-English-R...

Sorry, but it looks exactly like Zed.

And I'm not going to try out Zed again until they finally introduce auto-save, which Sublime has had for a long time and Emacs had since last century (because losing a file hurts you more than GPU rendering pleases you).

Where are those "big ideas"?