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  1. Comment on How are AI and LLMs used in your company (if at all)? in ~tech

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    My job is highly specific so they probably aren't helpful for most people, but here are some I've seen people using most often around me: Develop DAX logic for Power BI & workflows for Alteryx....

    My job is highly specific so they probably aren't helpful for most people, but here are some I've seen people using most often around me:

    • Develop DAX logic for Power BI & workflows for Alteryx.
    • Analyze and break down source code, especially database queries to ensure data is being pulled completely and accurately.
    • Compare deliverables against laws, regulations, internal standards, etc. and suggest improvements or gaps in the documentation.
    • Draft executive summaries of client history, market trends, major changes, strategy, etc. based on publicly available information & compare against internal information.
    • Identify outliers and errors in client documentation for further investigation.
    • Identify risks with certain industries, platforms, etc. that the team can use as a jumping off point in discussions with the client.
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  2. Comment on How are AI and LLMs used in your company (if at all)? in ~tech

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    I'm not sure how it was trained; I wasn't part of that effort, so I'd only be guessing. As for use cases, this post describes what most people at the company are using it for in the Audit, Tax,...

    I'm not sure how it was trained; I wasn't part of that effort, so I'd only be guessing.

    As for use cases, this post describes what most people at the company are using it for in the Audit, Tax, and Advisory sections: KPMG and Microsoft enter landmark agreement to put AI at the forefront of professional services.

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  3. Comment on How are AI and LLMs used in your company (if at all)? in ~tech

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    My company is using both Copilot in Teams for M365 purposes and a custom trained model on the web for internal knowledge base purposes. The custom one allows for switching between Chat GPT 3.5 and...

    My company is using both Copilot in Teams for M365 purposes and a custom trained model on the web for internal knowledge base purposes. The custom one allows for switching between Chat GPT 3.5 and 4, using the Azure versions of those models.

    The key factor for utilization and success stories seems to be dropping in buttons, modals, etc. to the users’ normal workflows so that they can access the custom LLM directly within their workflow instead of having to constantly switch contexts to another tab or application.

    Other than that, I’ve helped build a prompt library specific to my team’s role so that others in our position have reference points and can see what a good prompt looks like.

    Between ease-of-use and plentiful examples showing successful use cases, utilization seems to be growing rapidly.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Thinking of getting into emacs, any advice? in ~comp

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    I’m going to be a contrarian against the other commenters here and say you should give it a try to see if you like it or not. It’s the only way to know for sure. I use Emacs primarily just for...

    I’m going to be a contrarian against the other commenters here and say you should give it a try to see if you like it or not. It’s the only way to know for sure.

    I use Emacs primarily just for org-mode and all of the niceties it has. I don’t mind that I’m only using 5% of Emacs because org-mode does so much more for me than I could accomplish with other markup formats (e.g., task management, inline code evaluation, folding, table editing, built-in publishing to formats like HTML and PDF).

    My main suggestion is to try Emacs with the tutorial shown on its main page, but also quickly consider a framework like Doom Emacs or Spacemacs because they will smooth out a lot of the rough edges that Emacs has. I gave up on Emacs a couple times and then found Doom, which has kept me going since then.

    Otherwise, I’d suggest setting up a project in Emacs with one of your writing projects (you could use the projectile commands) and then see how it feels to go through the whole writing, editing, publishing process in Emacs. You can explore packages for each step, such as treemacs for keeping a side bar open with a list of files, grammar tools, formatting tools, etc.

    You can really make a writing workflow effective in Emacs, Vim, or anything else - it just depends what you prefer. For me, the small things in org-mode keep me in Emacs for most of my writing.

    A quick note in platforms - I’m not aware of any macOS GUI apps for Emacs but you can install Emacs and launch the native GUI it has instead of the command line. See Tools | org-mode for a list of most of the available tools.

    8 votes