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Since starting my deep dives, I have come across the phrase “Prompt Engineering” repeatedly. The premise was (I thought), that if you give an AI a perfectly crafted prompt, then it would do exactly what you wanted. That seemed counter to my actual goals. I wanted the AI to make me faster. More efficient. If […]

Well, I successfully completed the first live stream! I gotta say, it was not the experience I was hoping for. What I thought it would be like Other Challenges Next Options I know that I still want accountability while I am building things. So what are the options? Definitely going to start thinking about how […]

Google Deepmind recently figured out a way for an LLM to break ground in mathematics. FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models The actual journal article is worth a read. They worked on two mathematics problems: the “cap set problem” and the “online bin packing problem.” I’m fuzzy on the description […]

When we started at LDD, one of the things I implemented early on was starting a LabVIEW User Group. We knew that we needed more people who really knew LabVIEW. So we promoted it (not well) and got a bit of interest. Some of the people who came to those meetings joined us as the […]

The new year is here, and thank goodness. 2023 was quite the roller coaster with big health issues that were overcome, a new job and a move to a new city. This feels like a rebuilder year after the last failed startup and the move. Things had been feeling like they were on a continuous […]

I’ve been asked enough times about book recommendations that I figure it’s time to compile the list of books that I have learned the most from on my start-up journey. Books with an asterisk are the books I think people should read regardless of which position you hold in the company. Start-ups *Build: An Unorthodox […]