People who like Jira (or rather want; I doubt one ever “needs” this thing), and make decisions on its implementation and payment, and force it on others, are not the people who are shopping for alternatives. So who these alternatives are really for?
i always quite liked the flexibility of jira and the ability to logically connect tickets etc. I can see how it's perceived as this clumsy corporate tool, but i often whish gh issues had more of the features jira has.
I’m co-developing lots of projects with AI. Right now I have a hand-rolled backlog system that lives in each project’s git repo with a standard prompt on how to create, triage, and review backlog items.
This looks great for me. Better than what I have, smaller/cheaper/more AI focused than Jira.
I make decisions on implementation and payment for our Enterprise use of Atlassian today (mid 6 figures per annum of spend) - and I'm definitely shopping for alternatives!
This always irritates me, because it used to be just like that. First time we bought Jira, it was like a (small ) one-off charge on someone’s card, and included full source code to let you build it yourself.
And if something breaks, and something will break - it's Software+Apple, their support will talk to you for 3 hours very professionally, giving you the scenic route of everything IT support has done in last 300 years and then they will schedule another call, apparently with an expert, on which you will be told to reboot your devices (yeah, all of them), and next stop will be asking you to reinstall your devices clean, of course they will remind you to backup data and how iCloud plans can help. After all that you will be asked to go to a support centre and drop your laptop there (that is, if your device is still under warranty).
Should the limitations really exist in perpetuity? It seems unreasonable that land is forced to be a park in 1000 years because it was donated. The people in one hundred generations should be able to use the land how they see fit.
It’s a double whammy in places like India where “digital push” means everything is based on your mobile number with worst of safety and regulation the planet has to offer. Push is 100%, safeguards zero (if not negative).
What makes it even worse is every policy and regulation push is just talk on paper and even it succeeds and comes in effect, it essentially stays at where it was — zero power to the people, zero accountability to others, and negative punishment to the offenders (they are not even considered offenders). There are no legal frameworks like a class action lawsuit either. As in, when you look beyond “paper regulators” (and won’t have to look hard) there is nothing at all, practically speaking.
The thing is you can’t fight it, and you really can’t opt out. Not here. It feels kafkaesque, you don’t even speak up because 90% or more of your compatriots will wonder what the hell you are on about, if you are lucky enough to be not labelled an anti-national.
I can connect with it as someone who has been trimming down his dreams, one dream at a time, one bit at a time, for so long that it hurts now and feels suffocating at times. The worst are the still lingering around, flickering once in a while.
What hopes/paths does a mere CS bachelor (not deep into stats/maths), and mid level dev (native mobile only; 10-15 years exp.), have about not only understanding it (maybe not fully) but getting possibly into this as a career? Not expecting churning out models and AI systems from the first weeks/months but entry/employment into this field?
(If I can be honest, and I am not being disparaging about anything lest it might seem so, I am looking at it from a career breakthrough/move perspective rather than an intellectual pursuit.)
> I think you need to ask what you actually want to do with the AI.
What about improving the efficiency of token consumption, etc., basically opportunities for improving cost/performance?
I keep thinking there has to be a better way to share context with models than dumping entire gigantic skill files of raw text or otherwise into them - I'm betting there's a bunch of low-hanging fruit there.
There may be some low hanging fruit, but they're not available to people without deep understanding of how the math works. Well paid people already spend a lot of time thinking about this.
i am not sure acctually of the math is acctually that complicated/important. the math around neural networks is calculus/chain rule etc and for model comparison/validation one needs statistics. the required math for e.g. understand transformers is quite accessible.
Im also a mere mortal, and after putting a few years into it IMO I’d say people make it much more complicated than it actually is. I failed most of my math courses for lack of interest, but found passion later with the aforementioned SLAM stuff. I have no doubt you or any other programmer could learn this stuff, especially since you can ask ChatGPT clarifying questions.
I have no idea about careers at this point, I’m still doing fancy IT work as my day job I and look away from the future with dread. I also haven’t been looking for new roles on the open job market, so who knows maybe there’s multimillion pay packages for anyone who can articulate how attention works in an interview.
I have a BS in CS (and have been in the field for 25 years). I couldn't understand the transformer architecture until I built a few myself. Here are the books I worked through. I now feel I have a very good understanding of modern LLMs.
I went this route because I had difficulty visualizing the content of the Attention Is All You Need paper. After going through both books, I can now understand every part of that paper.
I'm currently working on a robotics project that uses Nvidia's GR00T N1 model, and I was able to understand the research paper. [0]
I'd have loved to try this. There's a 4 letter (my short name; my favourite username) Instagram account registered by someone years ago and being squatted upon. Not private and totally unused. Oh, but then I don't use instagram. Still wouldn't have minded snatching it
Stremio is a good place to do this. I of course use it to watch freely and legaly available science and craft videos and nothing else.
By the way, Stremio is not at all torrent or p2p software. It's just a streaming software and you can plug in any streaming source/add-on for this, including torrents, of course just to watch legally available videos.
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