SamBam

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by SamBam 3y ago
Too many people would take a scatter-shot approach to solving, even with a score that keeps track of guesses, and then those same people would get bored and disillusioned with the game because it would be boring. The limited number of attem
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by SamBam 3y ago
I spent about 30 minutes with GPT4 and tried lots of variations of pre-processing. I had it first list large numbers of possible categories, then try to consider one category with four words, then double-check that category and look at the
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by SamBam 3y ago
Connections is deliberately written so that any one word might belong to multiple groups. For example, the word "Bass" might be surrounded by "Guitar," "Drums," and "Microphone," but actually belongs
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by SamBam 3y ago
Duplicate thread (not sure which should be the main one): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974802
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by SamBam 3y ago
How about passing the time by playing a little solitaire?
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by SamBam 3y ago
> Though I think it's worth keeping in mind Elon's recent frustrations with Grok. My assumption with Grok, and please correct me if I'm wrong, was that they tried to control it's alignment through the contextual model
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by SamBam 3y ago
The local birds killed by oil drilling aren't even what we should be comparing to. Even if that number were zero, bird populations world still be better off in a world powered by wind turbines than oil and gas. Global warning is coming
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by SamBam 3y ago
I dunno, I went with their mattress recommendation (at least the one of three years ago, don't know what it is now) and lived it, it's the first mattress I've really liked since becoming an adult.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I think the implication is 4 full filtrations per hour, not 4 air changes. Air purifiers still sometimes call this "air changes" or sometimes "equivalent air changes" (e-AC/hr).
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by SamBam 3y ago
They asked if they have an affiliate program, or were willing to set one up. That's the standard business arrangement for almost any review site. It's how they pay their reviewers. When nextdesk said no, they still kept it as thei
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm confused. Do you have evidence that an engineered beam will fail faster due to water damage than a beam made from 2x4s? Weatherproof LVLs are actually much more water resistant than a regular solid piece of pine. Even indoor engine
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by SamBam 3y ago
Not sure that games need to be in continuous development. Sometimes they can just be done.
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by SamBam 3y ago
At my grocery store all the squeezy ketchup bottles are transparent. Even Heinz has both a bright red bottle and transparent versions. Shops like Whole Foods don't sell the bright red version though, only the transparent version. Clear
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by SamBam 3y ago
Do you know for sure this was written with GPT4? I might have missed a statement in the article to that effect. I think if one isn't sure, it's politer to ask than assume. That said, a number of statements do sound very GPT4-ish.
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by SamBam 3y ago
The other thing people get wrong is treating significant figures and decimal places as the same thing. 123.45 Kg and 7.32 Kg have the same decimal places, but the former has more significant figures, and implies greater precision.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yup. a) it allows people not to get hung up on the details, but just as importantly b) it shows creative people to look at the prototype and imagine other possibilities. A finished-looking mock-up tends to shrink the world of possibilities.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Exactly. And it's not a single fake video of Biden promising to jail Trump supporters, which could be shown to be fake. It's dozens of little videos shared on Facebook where politicians are made to look stupider, where their speec
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by SamBam 3y ago
You may be right, but you may also be exemplifying am unconscious bias that pro-corporate/pro-existing-power-structures = neutral, and anti- those things is "idealist" and so not neutral.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I would have thought the most relevant Borges story to LLMs would be Funes, the memorious. Funes can remember everything perfectly, every detail that he has ever seen or heard in his life. However, he cannot really think or understand wha
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by SamBam 3y ago
There are plenty of online services that will do this for you (I don't recall which I've used to recommend), and they generally work but require quite a lot of post-processing, mostly removing potentially hundreds of extraneous po
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by SamBam 3y ago
As a cyclist, I always want cars to have a blue flashing indicator opposite the yellow turning signal, such that if you're turning right the right side flashes yellow (amber) and the left side flashes blue. If I'm biking on one si
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by SamBam 3y ago
Interesting. I tried it [edit: on the default model when you open it] with a physics question which ChatGPT 4 got incorrect the first time, but was able to work out with some coaxing. This got it (more) incorrect and then stuck to its guns,
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by SamBam 3y ago
> Make sure you have enabled retrieving these 3D tiles in Google's console. D'oh, thank you.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I created an API key, because I've been interested in creating a 3D map of Acadia National Park (Mt Desert Island) for a while. On the website, I put in the coords (44.3386,-68.2733) and hit Fetch Tiles and get Fetching tiles at
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by SamBam 3y ago
The joke is simply referring to "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer," one of Santa's reindeer that has a bright red nose to help light the way. Those decorations would also be referring to Rudolph. https://en.wikipedia.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Right, but GP's point, the jokey title doesn't actually convey much about the study. I know many articles like to have funny titles. I wonder if this might start to change as people start to use AI more to go through 100,000 journ
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by SamBam 3y ago
>> every dollar spent on fusion is a dollar not spent on building more solar panels and wind turbines. > You care to back your armchairing with data? I'm confused by your confusion. I'm literally saying we could optionall
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by SamBam 3y ago
Two orders of magnitude more efficient?
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by SamBam 3y ago
I question your assumption that most people who bring this up are people invested in MCF or various private companies. I think for most people, the question isn't between this fusion and that fusion, it's about fusion and anything
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm sitting on my dead, carved 2.9 billionth cousin right now. https://xkcd.com/2608/ (Really, every gathering is a family reunion.)

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