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by Veen 4y ago
That is approximately as true of Hacker News commenters as it is of Substack writers.
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by Veen 4y ago
The Crown isn't really the monarchy when used in this sense and it doesn't have much to do with titles and such. It's a synecdoche used to refer to the UK government (and the governments of some commonwealth countries). Crown
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by Veen 4y ago
That'd be great if it had an RSS feed.
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by Veen 4y ago
I used to deal with the "avoiding going on Twitter" problem by subscribing to interesting AI Twitter feeds in Feedbin, an RSS aggregator. Unfortunately that doesn't work any more because the "genius" in charge revok
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by Veen 4y ago
This article twice makes accusations of "racism, sexism, and abuse" without backing it up with facts. Is there any more information about it in the public sphere? Or is it just: "These things are bad and MariaDB is bad, so we
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by Veen 4y ago
One person's spam is another person's interesting content.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not that Pakistanis, Albanians, Somalians, Iraqis and so on are more inclined to crime, but that many of those who chose to immigrate to the UK are from parts of those societies who are inclined to crime. No one is worried about e
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by Veen 4y ago
I use it for first drafts of some less demanding writing work. My workflow is more or less research with Bing Chat for summarisation and key point extraction, then feeding the results to GPT-4 so it uses the research as context for a first
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by Veen 4y ago
The Playground certainly does have GPT-4. I've been using it there for a couple of weeks. Maybe you need to have applied to the beta and been given access? https://ibb.co/f2KJm4z As for Bing? Who knows what's goin
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by Veen 4y ago
Probably a bit nitpicky, but there is at least one place outside the US/EU where it is very easy to find books in English.
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by Veen 4y ago
I've never understood this. She bought hot coffee, put it between her legs, and spilled it. If I'd done that, I would feel foolish and blame no one but myself. What reasonable person is surprised that coffee is served hot enough
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by Veen 4y ago
Interesting. I'm British and I enjoy quite a lot of French TV: Engrenages (Spiral), Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau), Au service de la France (A Very Secret Service), etc.
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by Veen 4y ago
I find the OpenAI API Playground is more reliable. It’s less convenient than ChatGPT Plus, but I’ve not had many timeouts. Plus, you can always use Bing Chat. It’s more locked down, but depending on what you’re doing, it’s pretty good and b
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by Veen 4y ago
I suppose the idea is that you feed a scientific paper or research institute's PR to an LLM and it spits out an article. That's the bread and butter of many science journalists. An editor can make sure it isn't a load of nons
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by Veen 4y ago
Yeah, I thought that the Lowell example was poorly chosen. I'm not American and I'm not all that interested in astronomy, and I've heard of Lowell and the Lowell Observatory.
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by Veen 4y ago
You can probably get it to improve on that by asking it if the order of the topics makes sense. It can often self-correct if you ask it to reflect on what it's already said and give it a push in the right direction, although not always
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by Veen 4y ago
It's the people driving the tractors who take jobs, not the ones building them. If you operate a hand-plough for a living when tractors come on the scene, you'd better learn how to drive a tractor. The same is true of AI.
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by Veen 4y ago
There's a lot of work happening at the moment around self-reflection and getting LLMs to identify and correct their own hallucinations and mistakes. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not only the far right that value tradition and culture. And it's not only the right that tries to force the people around them to conform to their ideas of how the world should be.
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by Veen 4y ago
There's a bit of a contradiction in your comment. You say Italians aren't like that, but Italians voted the "stupid government" into power and the government is doing these things to appeal to those Italians.
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by Veen 4y ago
It would be pretty cool to work at Horse Guards, though.
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by Veen 4y ago
The APIs aren't free. For a large site, creating the embeddings and then serving lots of users would quickly get expensive. Although I do think this is overpriced.
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by Veen 4y ago
Your content-chatbot repo was very useful when I was figuring out how to achieve this sort of thing with langchain. I was able to knock together a chatbot for a client's documentation site in an afternoon. But I guess the real value fo
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by Veen 4y ago
Singapore is a parliamentary democracy with elected members of parliament and president. It is certainly not a "totalitarian country", although it could be considered authoritarian compared to western democracies.
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by Veen 4y ago
The UK abides by UK privacy laws, which are in many ways similar to the EU versions. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
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by Veen 4y ago
It doesn't know what it can and can't do. That's why you can never believe what it says about its own capabilities.
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by Veen 4y ago
Not so. The maximum fine for serious GDPR infringements is up to 20 million Euros or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher.
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, I see all these people saying they've tried ChatGPT and don't understand the point or why it's useful. They've probably just not learned how to prompt it correctly.
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by Veen 4y ago
There's an explanation here: https://twitter.com/AthensResearch/status/159113849137912217... Basically, looks like they wasted a lot of time building collaborative knowledge graph features, and then realized
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by Veen 4y ago
What alternative would you suggest for a free service that depends on OpenAI APIs? It's easy enough to generate an API key for this service and delete it afterwards.

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