Tycho

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by Tycho 10mo ago
The contract would obviously not be no strings attached.
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by Tycho 10mo ago
Yes. The capital is not needed immediately, but they have agreed to provide it if/when called upon in future.
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by Tycho 10mo ago
They integrated it into Google search immediately so I think a lot of people will bother less with ChatGPT when a google search is just as effective.
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by Tycho 10mo ago
Commitments here means money that people have agreed to lend them in future.
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by Tycho 11mo ago
I use Grok more than other LLMs. It’s built into X, so the use case of pressing the Grok button on a post to see an explanation for something I didn’t understand, or a fact check for something I doubted, or just more background on a subject
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by Tycho 11mo ago
It’s actually refreshing that the two bosses resigned over this. Means it’s not just an empty apology followed by business as usual with no consequences.
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by Tycho 11mo ago
What were you working on that had trillions of events per hour?
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by Tycho 11mo ago
I wonder what is the relative utility of giving donations to some charity that solicits them with ads or calls, vs just doing something obvious like writing a cheque to the local orphanage.
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Ask HN: Do we see LLMs having a big impact on OSS?
1 points by Tycho 11mo ago|1 comments
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by Tycho 1y ago
I was thinking about this concept of creative destruction recently. I move to my neighbourhood in 2019. Before I got round to visiting them, a bunch of pubs and eateries closed down for the pandemic, and never re-opened. One pub became new
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by Tycho 1y ago
Don’t think I’ve seen “discovering”, the present participle of the verb, used in a headline like this before.
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by Tycho 1y ago
I don’t understand what is wrong with this system: “Please employ me.” “OK, fill out this form with your name, D.O.B. and national insurance number, and if it matches against the government database then you can have the job.” What am I mis
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by Tycho 1y ago
What’s the energy profile of running inference in a typical ChatGPT prompt compared to: - doing a google search and loading a linked webpage - taking a photo with your smartphone and uploading it to social media for sharing - playin
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by Tycho 1y ago
What I see is mass affluence. People spending hundreds of £s to see Oasis or Taylor Swift concerts. It used to be there were only so many high paying jobs like doctors, dentists, lawyers, but now you have eg. umpteenth product managers at M
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by Tycho 1y ago
Skiing is incredibly fun but I wonder if it should be put in the same category as cycling (on roads): too dangerous to be sane.
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by Tycho 1y ago
I thought this film was pretty good. The writer seems to understand the subculture and the performances brought out a lot of hilarity in the script. It brings some important questions into focus - the sheer scale of the social impact of “pr
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by Tycho 1y ago
The reviewer maybe just didn’t understand a lot of it. Seems to have missed the similarities between Randall and Peter Thiel, for instance. If you’re not steeped in “the scene” the film probably isn’t as funny.
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by Tycho 1y ago
A serious literature degree might prescribe a reading list of ~10 books per week. Some of it stuff you don’t even like but is “important context” or whatever. At a certain point it becomes a chore for anyone. You need to find ways to help y
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by Tycho 1y ago
I’ve listened plenty of audiobooks while driving or walking, why would I not be able to do the same while playing GTA? The reason to do this is that just sitting in a chair ploughing through books gets very unappealing after a while. And th
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by Tycho 1y ago
Your position seems to be “if you use the tool like a total dumbass, you might get a bad outcome.” Like… maybe use it intelligently?
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by Tycho 1y ago
You probably wouldn’t be arguing that previous critics are wrong but surely to get top marks you’d be expected to know what relevant literary criticism has already been published and then build on that in some fashion. No doubt just readin
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by Tycho 1y ago
Well, you have to give the tool a chance. If it can’t even see the text you’re asking about, it’s going to rely on whatever quotes and references it can crib together from reviews and blogs and comments. Try it for a text that is in the tra
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by Tycho 1y ago
I’m not being satirical. And nowhere did I suggest that you don’t still read the actual text you’re studying. There are more ways to “engage” with literature than just going to seminars.
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by Tycho 1y ago
Did you upload the text of the novel? It’s under copyright so wouldn’t be in the training data or retrievable via search.
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by Tycho 1y ago
I would love to be a literature student today. Consume the classics in audiobook form while flâneuring or gaming. Red team every essay with ChatGPT. Become a top tier Genius.com contributor for poetry. Listen to all the online lectures from
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by Tycho 1y ago
It’s pretty efficient at assimilating obvious revelations. You have to be quick to trade on the news, and you’re not going to find many arbitrage opportunities. There’s no reason why it would be particularly efficient at pricing long term o
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by Tycho 1y ago
But then I suppose it’s also payment-in-kind if they are serving the (non-premium) iPhone requests for free.
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by Tycho 1y ago
Same as OpenAI paying Apple to integrate ChatGPT with Siri/iPhone. Apple has the users. As does Telegram. Of course, non-paying users are a loss-leader, but some portion of them will convert to premium users. They’re paying for distrib
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by Tycho 1y ago
Don’t take this the wrong way, but did you use an LLM to generate this reply? The reply is good, but the writing style just piqued my curiosity.
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by Tycho 1y ago
I read Jack Welch’s autobiography Straight from the Gut . He was quite proud of the stack ranking process he introduced (rate employees every year and fire the bottom 25%). I recently listened to an interview with TSMC founder Morris Chang

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