Thomas Quiroga

CTO at Learner, Dad, Entrepreneur. Ex Co-Founder CTO/PM @ Rooser.

[Thomas Quiroga @Thomas_Quiroga]

@CubicRobot Moins de temps sur le software, plus de temps pour garantir que nos serveurs ne prennent pas feu...

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@BBCNews @grok
Can you tell people why looking at COP alone is misleading because it ignores real-world factors (like local weather) and explain why looking at Seasonal Performance Factor (SPF) matters more?

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@Scienceyoufools @BBCNews It's not about thermodynamics, it's about comfort.

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@DaleVince I've a hybrid system, I switched to gas boiler one day in December just to compare with the heat pump... 4 hours heating on gas is same cost as whole house electric consumption for a day (including 8 hours heating with heat pump). How? I can store electricity, I can't store gas.

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@LoftusSteve Cannot take that thread seriously when you haven't cited your sources for all these numbers. I'm reading it as it's hypothetical.

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@webflow You made it so difficult to remove the damn CMS feature on the existing templates that it makes me want to build my website from scratch so that I don't need to go on your high price package...

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@Edinburgh_CC doing road work simultaneously on parallel roads (Seafield road and Sleigh Drive) is a recipe for traffic jams. That's just common sense.

[Thomas Quiroga @Thomas_Quiroga]

Excited to join Cohort 7 of Carbon13, a venture builder tackling the climate emergency. Carbon13 supports entrepreneurs to cut 10M tonnes of CO2e annually. 🌍💡

#Carbon13 #ClimateTech #Startup #ClimateChange #VentureCapital

[BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight @BBCSouthNews]

Plans for £22m solar farm given go-ahead https://t.co/qNmxBJrFJF #bbcsouthnews

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

There are over 400 wildfires burning in B.C. after weeks of tinder-dry, warm conditions and 25 evacuation orders and 31 evacuation alerts in place.

Three days this week were the hottest days ever recorded on planet earth.

We're in a climate emergency. #ActOnClimate

[Xingyao Wang @xingyaow_]

Introducing OpenDevin CodeAct 1.0 - a new State-of-the-art open coding agent! It achieves a 21% unassisted resolve rate on SWE-Bench Lite, a 17% relative improvement above the previous SOTA by SWE-Agent.
Check out our blog or the thread 🧵for more details: https://t.co/qqAlqIqtj4

[DeepSeek @deepseek_ai]

🚀 Launching DeepSeek-V2: The Cutting-Edge Open-Source MoE Model!

🌟 Highlights:
> Places top 3 in AlignBench, surpassing GPT-4 and close to GPT-4-Turbo.
> Ranks top-tier in MT-Bench, rivaling LLaMA3-70B and outperforming Mixtral 8x22B.
> Specializes in math, code and reasoning.
> 128K context window supported.

✨ Features:
> Innovative architecture with 21B active parameters out of 236B.
> Unbeatable API pricing, while remaining truly open-source and commercial-free.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

I’m excited to kick off the first of our short courses focused on agents, starting with Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex, taught by @jerryjliu0, CEO of @llama_index.

This covers an important shift in RAG (retrieval augmented generation), in which rather than having the developer write explicit routines to retrieve information to feed into the LLM context, we instead build a RAG agent that that has access to tools for retrieving information. This lets the agent decide what information to fetch, and enables it to answer more complex questions using multi-step reasoning.

In detail, you'll learn about:
- Routing: Where your agent will use decision-making to route requests to multiple tools.
- Tool Use: Where you'll create an interface for agents to select what tool (function call) to use as well as generate the right arguments.
- Multi-step reasoning with tool use: Where you'll use an LLM to carry out multiple steps of reasoning, while retaining memory throughout the process.

You’ll also learn how to step through what your agent is doing to debug and improve it iteratively.

It’s an exciting time to build agents. Sign up and get started here! https://t.co/sHhzRRJG0l

[Thomas Quiroga @Thomas_Quiroga]

@VanFooBar @VanMoof I actually cancelled and now it's officially bankrupt.. Gone to Cowboy eBike instead

[Thomas Quiroga @Thomas_Quiroga]

Experience with @VanMoof so far: It's really the Tesla of e-bikes, amazing products by the look of things, terribly long delivery, moving estimated shipping dates, run promotions that do not work for you who wait to receive their most expensive products... 🥲

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@VanFooBar @VanMoof Ouch... Just seen the TrustPilot reviews for @VanMoof just hovering the 'Cancel order' button now wondering if I've made the right choice 😬

[VanFooBar @VanFooBar]

I am not the problem. I still do have problems with my S3 bike that I fully paid for. They can hate, block or ignore me but nobody has to feel sorry for VanMoof.

They received close to 182 million dollars, to do better!

Two years later. Still no signs of improvements.

[Thomas Quiroga @Thomas_Quiroga]

@virginmedia Yes I am

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@virginmedia we have a genuine life or death situation and the answer from Customer service is "We will come on Monday morning", all health monitoring devices offline, no notice for disconnection of our fibre cable outside, no technician showing for the appointment today...

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@virginmedia Our cable is sitting in the driveway, you technician disconnected us from a temporary split they had put in place with our neighbours and let us disconnect...