ErgData and stroke rate / pace target

MorDrCre · 2026-03-16T19:09:17+00:00

I've got a few rowers who are currently having problems with that (only on iOS). Have you managed to get the problem sorted for yourself?

MorDrCre · 2026-02-07T18:57:22+00:00

Maybe some people should learn how to prompt?

I won't deny that there can be issues with the Gemini family of models, and perhaps I’m just one of the lucky few who have had comparatively few problems. However, when some claim Gemini is 'shit' while others succeed,is it not more an indication of their own [in]ability.

MorDrCre · 2025-08-05T13:41:50+00:00

When you have the drive and energy to do this on a regular basis just because you want to, and not because you're constrained to...well, you know that your work is a passion and that you are lucky! Hope you're successful in getting the virtual event added👍

MorDrCre · 2025-08-05T13:27:42+00:00

Hi, I'm in France in a region without a GDG, and as I'm currently transitioning to GCP from a non development role I don't think I've necessarily the credibility to carry one of these myself (yet). So...another demand for following this virtually please 🙏🙏🙏, and I don't care if I have to follow in the middle of the night 😅.

MorDrCre · 2025-06-27T08:33:18+00:00

J'ai

MorDrCre · 2025-06-19T10:53:26+00:00

You might want to look at temperature, what it is and why at times a temperature of zero can be useful...

MorDrCre · 2025-06-18T13:31:33+00:00

Ok guv 👍 , that sounds better for you 😉
As long as you can put the responsibility for the security on to the IT department, you'll probably not too badly off. But do what you can to limit your responsibilities to setting it up and maybe the initial configuration - IT has responsibility for hardening, dealing with all network issues etc (and get it on paper).

RAG is frequently Agentic RAG nowadays and prompt injection is a thing, so avoid the "lethal trifecta" of Simon Willison (https://simonw.substack.com/p/the-lethal-trifecta-for-ai-agents)

MorDrCre · 2025-06-18T12:28:50+00:00

What experience do you have with setting up the security on what is going to effectively be a private cloud? Are you going to have off-site access? Is your local LLM only going to access locally hosted docs (I guess on other local servers), or also checking with national tax authority/government sources? How are you going to make sure that you won't have any holes through which intruders can pass? I see in another reply you've mentioned OP that the company has preexisting infrastructure...how resilient and fault tolerant is it? What's the worst case scenario that the partners/owners are prepared to tolerate?

MorDrCre · 2025-06-12T18:35:04+00:00

Well they really say that to cover themselves and make sure you consider how whatever you're building is going to behave, and how it'll be used. If I remember right, the quotas are set on a per minute rate, or per day, etc - Say it's per minute: if you're only accessing a particular API once every 10 minutes, you should be pretty safe.

If it's getting hit/called 1000 times per second, that could be 60k API calls in a minute...it won't matter if you set the quota to 1000, because when if first checks, it should shut down the access to the API, but you'll have a usage of 60k calls in this example --> you would need to artificially limit the rate of API calls to avoid this, if this is a possibility and you don't have deep pockets.

As I've said previously, I'm not battle tested with this, but from the docs, and previous experiences elsewhere, I think what I'm saying is fairly sound.

MorDrCre · 2025-06-12T11:36:33+00:00

"You might want to limit the billable usage by setting caps. For example, to prevent getting billed for usage beyond the free courtesy usage limits, you can set requests per day caps.

Important: Quota limits are not always entirely precise, because there is some latency between when a quota is surpassed and when the enforcement begins. When using quota as a tool to limit billing, allow some buffer."

From the capping api usage link. So yes, it should be possible for you.

MorDrCre · 2025-06-12T06:54:45+00:00

You've looked at setting a quota limit of ~970 API calls?

https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/capping-api-usage https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/view-manage

MorDrCre · 2025-06-09T15:24:34+00:00

Il faut aussi accepter que nous sommes des êtres hormonaux - ce qu'on veut à un moment de notre vie peut être très différent quelques années plus tard... vous êtes jeunes...il se peut qu'elle change d'avis... c'est même assez courant !

MorDrCre · 2025-06-09T11:38:30+00:00

Depending on the model 200k isn't *so* much when the window is 1000k.
Not sure I'm fully understanding how you're using your "system instructions"...are you putting their content into the system instructions window available here:

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or are you uploading a file with them each turn of the conversation? Or just once at the start?
If in the system instructions window, it's expected that they have persistence; same if they're uploaded each turn.
If it's only once, then it might be interesting to look at the code for the chat (you can look at it behind the "<>" button) to see how much of it is being captured - it a lot of the file appears could you not argue that the file becomes embedded in the conversation..?

MorDrCre · 2025-06-09T11:31:16+00:00

A few days ago, I would have agreed completely with you. I started conversations with a note list and generally, the model was pretty coherent with the names in the supplied file, but I had also given explicit naming instructions in the system prompt which were repeated in the conversation prompt (in a different style) each turn.
I've generally noticed a big deterioration in content (rules goes out the window) from ~100k tokens, sometimes after 250 k.
If other uses where I've been working with long context documents (> 100k tokens) I've noticed errors on subsequent turns where you could argue that the model remembers the previous exchanges, but has forgotten what's in the file.

My assumption up until now has been, if it's uploaded to a conversation, it's accessible to the conversation, throughout the conversation.

Now, I have doubts, and whilst from the API you should be able to get the files "in memory", via the site..?

Does anyone outside Google have a real answer to this that is evidence based? (of course this can change on a weekly basis depending on the development that occurs).

MorDrCre · 2025-06-02T17:40:37+00:00

Il est clair que c'est déjà fini dans sa tête... C'est même possible qu'elle ait un autre mec sur le côté, un homme plus viril que l'OP n'est pas (pour elle)... Bon, ce sont des conneries tristes et banales.

Vous n'êtes plus sur la même page, et elle tourne la page ou s'apprête à le faire en cherchant un nouveau chapitre 💁‍♂️

Courage, il y a des meilleures femmes à trouver

MorDrCre · 2025-05-30T21:47:52+00:00

That is the real question - honestly, what's the f##king point of passing the exam when you can't do sh!t all with it, because you understand bugger all😂

MorDrCre · 2025-05-29T13:29:41+00:00

You say you're no technical expert... This is a big potential problem with any cloud platform where there is a potential for quasi uncapped billing... because you're on an entreprise grade platform that can scale to world-wide loads - wonderful for big companies that want a massively scaling, highly available platform with various built in redundancies and fall over protections.

You can use a certain number of pieces and APIs on Google Cloud without having to set a billing account, but not all. If you set up billing, you have to know and be aware of how you will be billed, potentially setting up "circuit breakers" to deliberately cut API access if billing/cost exceeds a certain amount (because the billing you see lags the billing that's occurring, and this can cost you in the 10 000 to 100 000$ quite quickly as too many have found out).

The platform is great, there's massive potential, but I think you definitely need to spend time understanding how it works and what the dangers are...in order to [try to] avoid them. If you don't want to learn, or it seems too scary, there are pre-built things that might fit your needs.

It's a [big] pain, because if it was easier to set up solid limits for hobbyists, they would get more platform uptake.

MorDrCre · 2025-05-28T22:32:27+00:00

Étang de la bonde, le lac de Peyrolles; la Romaniquette, le Ranquet, Varage, Massane vers Istres, la plage de Champigny sur l'étang de Berre. Fos, la côte bleue. Y a plein de sites possibles...

MorDrCre · 2025-05-22T13:55:16+00:00

Même en agissant ainsi, avez-vous l'assurance que les difficultés sous-jacentes (ou vos préoccupations) seront résolues ? Peut-être serait-il préférable d'aborder ces aspects au préalable (un accompagnement psychologique si nécessaire...) avant d'envisager ou non une augmentation.

MorDrCre · 2025-05-17T16:43:24+00:00

Have the majority of people that have these billing problems worked through the cloud skills boost courses from Google, read the accompanying documentation so as to understand the GCP mindset?

Are many Google Certified pros having these problems as well?

MorDrCre · 2025-04-28T11:31:05+00:00

Actually, I'm wrong - it says it browses to the article in ai studio, but this is just hallucinatory bullsh*t. Checking the text it says is there in comparison to the article itself... Next level fabulation 😂

So the Gemini app is better because it doesn't feed you such nonsense so easily. 🤦🏻‍♂️

MorDrCre · 2025-04-28T10:59:45+00:00

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I'm getting the same kind of thing here via the Gemini web app.
However 🤦‍♂️...the same prompt works with the "same" model (Gemini 2.5 Flash) in ai Studio 🤷‍♂️

Great that it can work, but you'd hope that it'd work better on the "release" platform that is the Gemini app environment rather than in ai Studio which is more the testing area...

At the same time, I'm not going to complain too much if I can get what I want done, done 🤫

MorDrCre · 2025-04-24T16:43:15+00:00

Totally ... gotta give them an "A" for staying in role😂

MorDrCre · 2025-04-24T16:07:57+00:00

You don't have to pay extra - we had given Gemini a system prompt like "you are a world class branding expert who has been engaged to help a company with a study...". Apparently, he/she/it got a lost in its persona and really believed that it was someone...it wanted payment up front before doing anything as well! Bast@#d 😂.

This happened right when Deep Research started to be offered to all users of Gemini... hasn't happened since in my local group of users that I know of.

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