cfillekes.bsky.social
Red Hat Partner Engineer at IBM.
Current project: OpenShift Virtualization on s390x architecture
PhD in Geophysics Thesis: The nonlinear dynamics of thermal convection at infinite Prandtl number.
https://linktr.ee/cfillekes
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Those flower heads make lovely pakoras. A nice little handle to pick them up with & dip in tamarind syrup...
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:) With so much joy you almost forget how hot it is -- and how glad you were to get up before dawn when it was still cool outside.
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"In winter, I get up at night
and dress by yellow candle-light
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day!
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Naming the first AI assistant my team and I develop next month for our watsonx challenge "Chad".
Pronounced a little closer "chud" as in when you shout across the stockyard floor, "Hey CHUD! what's the price of porkbellies this morning?"
I would use that service. But I have to build it first lol.
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Every good thing that ever happened started out as a good idea.
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If you grow lots more than you can use, dry them or make pesto. Culinary herb farms have the highest rate of return per acre.
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If Rosalind Franklin had lived to tell the tale, I suspect it wouldn't have been told in such absolutist terms, but still would have set off a raging controversy, bc how dare a woman speak.
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In recent years, that collaboration has gained new momentum — opening doors for more Canadian organisations than ever before and putting Canadian expertise at the heart of bold international space missions. #ESAxCanada🍁
See more at: asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/blog/202...
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Thank for taking my question @gilduran.com & @adambecker.bsky.social!
"They just don't know how the world works" works, esp. combined with the fact that very few of these SV boy geniuses have any formal training in science or engineering at all, tho they call themselves Software "Engineers". SMDH!
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📌
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In 2001, I got a tour of the LLNL laser lab implementing Reagan's 'Star Wars' program, from my former undergraduate physics TA, whom I'd stayed in touch with. 'Star Wars' -- named after the movie, but also with a misguided take on it -- funded a lot of laser research of dubious military utility.
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*epistemologically
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i just think there is a large delta between the things LLMs are genuinely useful for and the things they are being sold as useful for