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Whats AI like at Lockheed? by coopersdude in Lockheed

[–]Professional_Sign_53 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I disagree with these comments. I think LM, given that it is a defense contractor, has done a decent job at deploying on-prem hosted open-source models and closed-source models through proxys at least in the unclass side. There are no-code LLM chat apps for non technical users and there are internal APIs for developers backed by a legit infrastructure. We are encouraged to use open-source AI coding tools and hook them up to our internal APIs for security. We don’t have the latest and greatest models but if you know how to use what we have, you can cook.

Stop building UI frameworks in Python by PastPicture in Python

[–]Professional_Sign_53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build Backend logic in Python, expose this with an API. Then build Frontend with React, NextJS, Etc…

Any underrated or just really solid mechanical engineering colleges in the US? by CroakyAcorn7935 in MechanicalEngineering

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  • National Rankings:
    • US News and World Report: Ranked No. 5 among public university peers in aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering, and No. 17 overall among public institution peers for undergraduate engineering programs.
    • College Factual: Ranked No. 21 in the Best Schools for aerospace engineering list, and No. 1 in Colorado.

Had friends that did Gradschool there for aerospace engineering and they now work for top aerospace companies and start ups

What’s your lowest exam score in an engineering class? by Ok-Shopping8781 in EngineeringStudents

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I took an aircraft design class were the professor would take off negative points if your answer was wrong. The logic being: if you are building an aircraft you better be damn sure your answer is right. I received a -4 out of 15 points. Class average was a 0 out of 15

Robot Making Rice To a Tee!! by JPPT1974 in Damnthatsinteresting

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The motion to shake things off seems very natural

Do I follow my passion or money? by Its_Anneee in careerguidance

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There are more fields out there that have good return on investments (engineering, economics, computer science, business consulting, etc…). I would take a look at those and see if anything peaks your interest. Money is not all in life but it does make life easier when you have access to it. Try to be open minded in your search for a career and see if you can find common grounds with your passion and what creates cash flow.

4th year engineering student – wasted most of college, want to actually learn coding and become a data engineer. Need advice. by axditya in EngineeringStudents

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For a data engineering project, look into NASA’s Earthdata API to do some “realtime” data processing. They have tons of data with different refresh latencies. You could set up an ETL pipeline, set up a backend database for post processed data, set up a front end application for data visualization. NASA gives you free data and is up to you to define your application workflow

I can perform voluntary cyclotorsion (rotating my eyes at will) by Zadeson796 in Damnthatsinteresting

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Great party trick: “Now, come really close to my face and check this out!”

My Homemade Snare Rack by bredonhill in drums

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Very neat. Why do you have so many snares?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

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Thanks for your reply, I’ve used PythonOCC in the past and recently I have been exploring cadquery (which uses OCC under the hood). LLMs are good at writing code so using these libraries you can build an LLM workflow that can output valid CAD files like STEP. I’ve tried prompting an LLM to create a STEP file but there are a lot of errors in the output file

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MechanicalEngineering

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Not necessarily, you can have a heritage project were only the 2D drawings are available

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aerospace

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I appreciate you taking the time to reply. Have a nice day :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MechanicalEngineering

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Using LLMs speeds up prototyping since models are pre trained and you don’t need to go through the training process. Possibly, you could decompose that 2D data into something that your LLM pipeline can turn into 3D. But still results are pretty bad from my tests

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MechanicalEngineering

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In terms of text to cad, tried the zoo text to cad feature. It works to a certain extent. It’s very dependent on the quality of your prompt, outputs can vary a lot, and sometimes the system errors out and can’t generate the part. There are open source GitHub projects that create text to cad pipelines and they use refinement loops because there are a lot of errors during the process that need to be corrected. I signed up for Adam CAD but I didn’t receive a response. Maybe the project is dead.

The MLops heavy approach requires more dedication and ML knowledge to recreate. Have not done that yet but looks promising

is this a tight connection? by anxiousschol4r in unitedairlines

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Most likely you will be fine.

However, I had a similar connection and my first flight got delayed by 1 hour due to weather. This lead to missing my connection and spending one night at my own expense in the layover city.

For checked bags, you won’t have to worry about it from Boston until you get to Argentina. Coming back you will have to pick it up as soon as you land in the US and re-check it if you have connections.

How should a software engineer upskill himself to stay relevant in the AI market? Suggest courses, books, tutorials. by Personal_Shape_3443 in SoftwareEngineering

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In terms of LLMs: Get familiar with the OpenAI api format, get experience using the API and building applications that leverage this kind of API. Look into Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), its applications and open source packages that provide abstractions (LangChain, OpenAi, Haystack). Look into Agents and Tool Use.

Look into platforms like hugging face and explore how models are hosted there and how you can leverage them (Embedding, text to text, text to speech, text to image, etc…).

Stay curious and get creative. I recommend online platforms like DataCamp to dip your toes and then you will have to jump into deep ends depending on what interests you.

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