VirgilShelton

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by VirgilShelton 6mo ago
Yes and now I use AI to build any website which locks me into their workflow and run it locally how I choose!
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by VirgilShelton 6mo ago
I used to be a software test engineer at Microsoft in the late 90's and early 2000's. What I learned is that 60% of their business was International because of their language support. Also most of their customers are business cust
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by VirgilShelton 8mo ago
Ha! You're very welcome! Ah the good ol' days of CD install media, CD Keys and install times that took hours! RIP to your install CD!
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by VirgilShelton 8mo ago
Yeah Windows 2000 had countless software test engineers, I was one of them and on my team there were 5000 of us. I stared in tech support in 97 and moved into QA and always filed bugs on behalf of the customer, sadly everyone must code and
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
The best thing about being nerds like we are is we can just ignore this product since it's not for us.
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
Great, now I learn about this when I used to have printers back in the 80's , 90's and 00's!
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
Yup! I'm also super cheap and use open source everything but I do have a Mac Book Pro and will never buy a PC again. So when it's worth it, the wallet is coming out and OpenAI has not only my little $20 bucks a month but will have
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
The best part is memory. If you use it daily like I do for everything from programming tasks to SEO and digital marketing, to budget stuff for investing and bill reminders. It will really start to understand what you want and get your voice
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
I'm old and have been on the Internet since the Prodigy days in 90. Open Ai has the best start of any company I can remember. Even better than Google back in 98 when they were developing their algo and giving free non-monetized search
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
My contrarian take on the astronomical costs need to scale LLM infrastructure is that since it does cost so much, innovation at the grid and power plant / renewables will also see massive gains and ultimately save our planet.
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
Self hosting and using your payment processor of choice is always the best move. Own your own data or be prepared for the jig to be up at some point. This is what every platform that scales does.
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
As for a Demo on that front here it is via OpenAI's Codex, see https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/ Here's the demo https://platform.openai.com/docs/codex/overview and
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by VirgilShelton 1y ago
It's just a buzz word but sadly it will (And already has) effected real engineers :(
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by VirgilShelton 2y ago
Hey Warren great job on the site, but what you'll need to do is SEO. You're a great writer so all you need to add to your writing skills is SEO. I did a basic SEO audit of semhub.dev and you have no SEO. While this is niche you&#x
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by VirgilShelton 2y ago
Wow! A million thanks goes to you! I never thought of using ChatGPT to find an old book I had 30 years ago! I just found it! Epic! I use ChatGPT but never tried this before! Thank you, thank you thank you!
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by VirgilShelton 2y ago
You can read a thorough article on how LLMs work here https://medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/how-large-langu... . As Open Ai notes here are the limitations of ChatGPT Limitations ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible
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by VirgilShelton 2y ago
You clearly need to don't understand how Ai currently works. It predicts the next most likely word. With code it does the same thing and its prediction skills aren't tuned by humans perfectly yet.
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by VirgilShelton 4y ago
This is awesome! Bookmarked!
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by VirgilShelton 6y ago
Uhh what have you been searching for?
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by VirgilShelton 6y ago
Ha! I'll be waiting!
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by VirgilShelton 6y ago
Ah memories!
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by VirgilShelton 7y ago
You can buy the DVDs on EBay https://www.ebay.com/i/352893270127?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1...
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by VirgilShelton 7y ago
I've been there and I still experience this in life with family, friends and acquaintances. The trick is to deploy massive empathy for him and know that he's displaying sure signs of insecurity. I'm sure he knows that you kn
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by VirgilShelton 8y ago
If you want to make $100,000 from anywhere you need one skill, sales. Learn how to sell. Read and watch everything you can on selling. I recommend you start with "How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers a
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by VirgilShelton 8y ago
Yes. What you're missing is three fold... 1: Where do people hire freelancers. 2: Sales skills. 3: An alternative to worrying about 1 and 2. 1. Create a profile and Upwork. While everything you'll read about Upwork will be negativ
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by VirgilShelton 8y ago
Yes. You can install the Linux subsystem see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 Or you can install a Linux virtual machine with Hyper-V on Windows 10 see https://m.windowsce
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by VirgilShelton 9y ago
I never stopped using RSS !
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by VirgilShelton 9y ago
Good thing Facebook owns WhatsApp and Instagram. They’ll be fine. Losing a few million won’t hurt since they have > 1 Billion users
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by VirgilShelton 9y ago
I second that emotion!

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