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AWS services, explained in Victorian English with GPT-3
- IIAOPSW 4y agoTruly a relic of the timeline where not only was Mr. Babbage successful in building his analytical engine, but proceeded to commercialize it as a service.
- kwertyoowiyop 4y agoAEaaS
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- amelius 4y agoI'd like to see DALL-E making a painting of what GPT-3 would look like if it were a human.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoMy very first prompt to Craiyon was to generate a self portrait. In two of the outputs it showed me a picture of someone holding up another persons picture in front of their face.
- andy_ppp 4y agoIs it self aware? That is pretty interesting inference anyway, I guess we’ll never understand why it “thinks” this way.
- merlincorey 4y agoIt is not self aware -- it was trained on a data set of labeled images. Therefore, it tried to produce something similar to the set of images with "self" and "portrait" which unsurprisingly include quite a range of self portraits.
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- bottlepalm 4y agoSimilar to electricity in the 1700's, is AI in its 'parlor trick' phase? Really feels like we're close to the edge with AI where it might start to snowball hard.
- KaoruAoiShiho 4y agoSomeone with an English degree explain, why did Victorians back in the day think that degree of wordiness was good writing?
- jedberg 4y agoMost authors were paid by the word at the time.
- crooked-v 4y agoOne classic example would be Charles Dickens, whose novels started out as serialized chapters in newspapers. While it doesn't take away from him being an excellent writer, if you ever wonder why some of his stuff seems to have filler chapters... well, now you know.
- mc32 4y agoLikewise why were German philosophers and thinkers so apt to write dense and convoluted sentences? I'd like to know.
- the_omegist 4y agoI love this style. Is it just me? Dickens, Stevenson, ... I would rather ask the opposite : why the need to adopt a "modern" style (well except in fantasy books, I guess).
- raymondh 4y agoThis is priceless.
- nimbius 4y agothe elastic container service definition reads like an absolute funding pitch and i love every word of it.
- _joel 4y ago"EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) The tried and trusted method to conjure the dark arts known as "Kubernetes" is one of great study and contemplation, for it is not to be taken lightly, this dark path on which you embark. With dedication and perseverance, you may find success where others have failed. Trust in yourself, and the rewards shall be great." Can't argue with that!
- explaingarlic 4y agoLord knows a product is problematic and complicated when it's synopsis badly translated into Victorian English seems "about right".
- high_pathetic 4y ago> "an army of ethereal code-monkeys" this is poetic
- gerdesj 4y agoBollocks - really, really big bollocks. I'm 52 and wrote quite a few letters by hand on paper and posted them. You do not get to riff about something you have never experienced. This wankery is absolute twaddle. I doubt that whomever created this monstrosity has actually written a letter or a bluey. I've read through the nonsense "by an army of ethereal code-monkeys" and it is awful. Who on earth says: "It is a rare thing, my lord"? For starters Lord (capital L) and no one I know would even say that. This is not Victorian English. It is not even English English.
- inopinatus 4y ago> Who on earth says: "It is a rare thing, my lord"? Baldrick
- gerdesj 4y ago'tis a rare thing, my Lord. Baldrick always dropped vowels correctly and in keeping with the nostalgic and nonsensical notions we often have of those days. 'tis and 'twas and all that tosh was part and parcel of Bladder.
- inopinatus 4y agoEDMUND: Tell me young crone, is this Putney? CRONE: That it be, that it be. EDMUND: "Yes it is". Not "that it be". You don't have to talk in that stupid voice to me. I'm not a tourist.
- tlb 4y agoIts training set includes, among other things, text written by millennials using Ye Olde English for comic effect on Reddit. I think I detect that flavor of twaddle in the output. People have the ability to hear large amounts of lowbrow content but not emit much of it. Their output doesn't match their training set in that way. It'd be interesting to try to train an ML model to have only highbrow output despite substantial lowbrow input. That's a particularly expensive labeling project because you have to hire highbrow people (or at least upper-middlebrow people who can tell the difference) to label the brow-height of every bit of content.
- cwillu 4y ago“Route 53 Route 53, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, delivers your DNS traffic across the Internet with the speed of a Thracian chariot, and at a fraction of the cost.” Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Thracian chariot loaded with parchment barreling down the road.
- inopinatus 4y agoBeing ex-AWS I can now breathe a huge sigh of relief and reveal what was once a tightly-guarded secret, viz. that this is in fact the underlying design of Amazon Glacier. The service team has for years feared that some squirrely commodities analyst with a penchant for correlation would eventually cotton on to how closely retrieval fees are indexed by horse feed futures