Recently I was scrolling through HF to try a very small model. Fired up Qwen 0.5 B and surprisingly for my purposes it did between that even Lllama 2 7B. That was very surprising to me.
Huh. I wonder what this man “staying away from politics” using the infamous lobbyist Nira Radia for? Oh I remember lobbying and manipulating the telecom licences.
It’s okay to like this guy but Tatas are considered saints because not many know their history.
Have you heard the Radia tapes? I have, in their entirety. They're out there to listen to, if you want. Fascinating piece of the zeitgeist.
My listening suggests he lived up to his legacy of above-board, gentlemanly conduct.
Compare Radia's phone calls to Ratan, with her conversations with the rest of the lot.
Ratan is a master class in, well class and restraint.
I think when you're that big and are so hard-wired into the real economy of a country as huge and populous as India, you can't not "play the game", so to speak.
The question is do you remain human despite every incentive to turn into a self-serving gluttonous tyrant?
The TATAs weren't and aren't saints. They are humans we should have more of, in those positions of wealth and power.
I believe it is a good idea, especially because there is a huge CYA industry out there and Gartner owns a huge chunk of it. But very difficult to implement correctly.
For example this one has a serious issue. It doesn't consider that things might have changed. So, a review might be complaining about a missing feature in a particular product but now fully implemented.
I asked it for a side by side comparison for two enterprise products. It told me that a particular feature was missing from the product. I googled and found the referenced review from Jun 2022. The feature in question was implemented in 2023.
My first experience with exploring Gartner is going to be next week so I am curious how they handle such issues.
Hey there, thank you for this! Having up to date reviews would definitely make this a better tool, but for the current stage of the project this is not currently done. As we try to validate the idea first.
>Though, what I've historically seen is that only 10-20% of the funding request actually go to the software vendor. Organizations typically add 3-5x additional to either "pad" their request (in the event it doesn't get 'fully funded') and/or this is an opportunity for the university to higher for a bunch of roles they wouldn't have been able to get funded in the first place - so lots of things get buried in these numbers.
As someone working on implementing an Oracle solution for a large bureaucratic MNC this is also true. The padding often is 3x-5x with 5 year run rate the funding asks can be crazy. For people who are just looking at numbers it can seem crazy. But for anyone who is implementing it or renewing contracts they know the real numbers.
The migration costs though might be higher than $10-20M. Contractor costs can be crazy too. Sometimes costing multiples of the software costs.
In my current practice I do notice that the vendors - both software and third party implementation partners - have a chummy relationship with a decision maker. This creates a lot of misaligned incentives when it comes to "company's" money.
I have a reverse problem at the place I work. When I ask people to write a very high level design doc for a fairly trivial task they go - "There many more way to get this done so writing these is useless. And as the task is trivial an engineer should be able to figure out one of these ways and do it."
Many of these people are external consultants who have been working with the company for 15+yrs. So, there is a fair standard in place already because the tasks are done by the same people. But then they go out of their way trying to create a boogeyman of "what happens if people don't follow the standards?".
The end result is that either design docs don't exist or woefully out of date. Hence the company has to keep hiring these same consultants year after year on hugely inflated costs.
I read somewhere that the optimal flow time is 1.5 hrs and Pomodoro's short duration breaks it.
So, I set a timer and block all distracting sites. That's all. If I feel like working. I do it. If not, I just sit and do nothing. So, it doubles as a dopamine free zone as well as productive zone.
