> My feeling is that most such diagrams are used for purely aesthetic purposes. They break up dense text and add some color and variety to a document.

Not true. Many folks are visual learners. And if you're experienced enough, you can pick up the gist of the text from a quick glance at a good diagram, figure out the "shady" areas, and then dive into the text for details.

middle name -- are you kidding me, of course. other than that, i wouldn't sweat it too much -- maybe just drop the recruiter a line saying "hey just fyi..." right before you sign the offer.

Shout out to my dawg Satyajit Ray

I...don't know what I expected...

There's a reason xgboost is still king in large companies.

That's the thing that blows my mind. Even if NN are some percentage better, the training+deployment headaches are not worth it unless you have a billion users where a 0.1% lift equates to millions of dollars.

Powered by Twilio...nice!

Yep! Twilio is providing the SIP Trunking. We are running our own SIP servers though.

Neat, why do you run your own SIP servers as Twillio can do that for you? Better control of the codec?

Lots of custom logic

* Limit user to 15m a month * Greetings unique to user state

It also needs access to Model/DB etc… which is all not exposable to internet

Summarize along the way, instead of attempting to use the context like a database. Or look into RAG. Or use Gemini-1.5's 1 million token window.

Those are great tips. The RAG thing looks doable. Is there a pre-fab solution, or do I need to use one of the APIs for the big-box providers?

My concern is: although it looks relatively easy to implement, I'm not sure I want to build a whole interface for it. I wish Cursor exposed, eg, this:

https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/blob/main/s...

It's a bear to implement well. I'd start with Gemini and see how far that context window can take you. Then I'd work on summarizing fragments of earlier conversations down to key points to include in the broader conversation. Then I probably still wouldn't try to implement RAG unless time was not an issue.

Gotcha; thanks for the tip.

Gemini seems to be much, much worse at the interpersonal dynamics that are important to us. It can't seem to keep track of who has what life experiences and how they might be relevant to our problem-solving, where Claude does this rather well.

I'm working with Claude now to create a summary capsule.

One premium chat-like UI subscription at a time (currently Claude), changing every couple of months with the soup-de-jour. But active API keys loaded into my env for all the major services.

> Do quantum computing folks really think that we are borrowing capacity from other universes for these calculations?

Tangentially related, but there's a great Asimov book about this called The Gods Themselves (fiction).

I’m partial to Anathem by Stephenson on this topic as well

Thanks for the recommendation!

> It's very confusing, the docs are confusing, and the even the tools are confused.

Not to worry -- you can use Rufus...uh "Q"....uhh...Nova...to summarize the docs into a decision tree on which confusing choice to use!

Except you can't, because it will just misundertand you or say something hopelessly generic.

Even asking it something on the same page that it's advertised 'now supports asking about' completely failed for me - think it was ENIs or something; just said something completely generic, not at all about the instances I'd asked about which it advertised being able to do (and I happened to have a concurrent need for).