“For the first time in a vacuum environment, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil, paving the way for the utilization of resources available on the Moon to sustain human presence and exploration. This process is known as in-situ resource utilization.”
One question to ask product teams or execs that are awed with LLM integrations:
"What are you trying to achieve that you couldn't solve 6 months ago?"
It's a great starting point to refocus the conversation on the outcomes and not the solution. LLMs might be part of that outcome but they shouldn't be the starting point.
Here is my regular reminder to anyone who needs to know:
Yes, Alan Turing was a great man, not least for his conceptual work which resulted in Colossus, the foundation of modern #computing...
... but it was Tommy Flowers, a GPO engineer (and fellow cockney to boot) who BUILT the bloody thing, designing the machine and turning the concept into a practical reality of valves, relays, switchgear, wiring and so on.
You don't have to choose, one couldn't have succeeded without the other.
Colussus,, which made such a contribution to codebreaking and computing, was part funded from his own pocket.
After the war he was refused a loan to build similar machines because under the Offical Secrets Act, he was not able to refute the bank's assertion that the machine couldn't work.
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