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by actuallyalys 1y ago
One thing that appears to have been lost between GPT-4 and GPT-5 is that it no longer reminds the user that it's an AI and not a human, let alone a human expert. Maybe those genuinely annoyed people, but it seems like they were potenti
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
It’s definitely not a full solution, but it seems like it would solve cases where having the full history of the large files available, just not on everyone’s machine, is the desired behavior.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Honestly these results may say as much about the classifier as they do about the data they’re classifying.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
In this case, it appears to be just that the author didn't properly qualify the sentence (see their reply to my comment). But certainly it does seem like a potential risk of LLMs that they will synthesize people's notes and early
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Okay, gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up!
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
> At this point, most tech writing shops are serving llms.txt files and LLM-optimized Markdown I find this hard to believe. I‘m not sure I’ve ever seen llms.txt in the wild and in general I don’t think most tech writing shops are that mu
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I basically agree with the author that the iPhone's camera is inferior to dedicated cameras, at least in the hands of a photographer who's learned to use them. To me it's striking that there's even a question. My first c
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
It's too late to edit my comment, but to clarify, I meant skepticism of these comments by the attorney general, not of the restaurant that hosted the show.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Many conservatives who target drag shows believe drag and cross dressing are inherently sexual or inappropriate for children so I think skepticism is warranted. The TCPalm spoke to some attendees [0] who said the bar does ensure minors are
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
That explains why they're expensive, but not why they're more expensive than they were before.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Given the age group (mean age of 71), I wonder if it's partly an effect of people with mild cognitive impairment, which the study explicitly mentions are included, being more sedentary (i.e., the effect is backwards or bidirectional).
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I feel like it takes a human a month to write a novel or start up a company only of you’re talking about a very constrained version of the task. Like people write novels in a month — that’s the whole premise of National Novel Writing Month
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I’m personally doubtful that venture capital is a socially beneficial or fair process [0], but I’m inclined to agree with the author of the post that the “experiment” isn’t a good basis for that conversation. [0]: Yes, I realize the irony o
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I sympathize with this mistake because people are often very tribalistic, at least in certain online spaces, so it can feel useless to hear people out, especially when you don’t feel they will reciprocate. That doesn’t justify it, of cour
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Crime is also down compared to where it was if you ask people directly [0]. [0]: https://ncvs.bjs.ojp.gov/multi-year-trends/crimeType
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying!
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
To be clear, I'm only saying the unit is correct, not whether the number of watt-hours is accurate or (assuming it is correct) that it's a good amount to spend on each query.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Yep, watt-hours are correct. Think of it this way: Power supplies and laptop chargers are rated in watts and that represents how much energy they can pull from the wall at a point in time. If you wanted to know how much energy a task takes
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Agreed. I realize it’s a metaphor but saying we’re so close to the singularity that it’s guaranteed to happen (the event horizon being a point of no return) seems like wild hubris.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
It means the shortage is being relieved. From the article: > The construction boom, nonetheless, has improved rent affordability, according to Realtor.com data.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I still use borg for local backups but use restic for all my offsite backups. Off-hand I don’t think redtic lacks any feature borg has (although there’s probably at least one) after they added compression a few years ago.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I sort of understand the mindset that elaborate notetaking systems are a waste of time because 95 percent or more never gets used but the value of something like Apple Notes for tiny details that are both necessary and relatively tough to r
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Right, my point is that we don't have the data to make a similar exponential argument. We can't rule out the possibility that we're currently in the early stages of exponential growth based on direct measurement. If it is exp
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Yeah, for this analogy to work, we’d have to see AI causing a small but consistently doubling amount of lost jobs.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I’m not sure all of them are LLM generated, but many are. Bizarre indeed.
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
I’m a little confused; it “looks like Python” but basically every snippet has elements that don’t look like Python. Ignoring the semicolons, which you do call out as a difference, I see let for introducing variables, new for creating obje
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
It makes sense to me. After seeing a bunch of AI slop, people started putting no AI buttons and disclaimers. Then some people using AI for little things wanted to clarify it wasn’t AI generated wholesale without falsely claiming AI wasn’t i
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Hard to say from the outside, but it’s possible the service relies on some outdated or insecure library, runtime, service, etc. they want to stop running. Although frankly it seems just as possible it’s a trivial expense and they’re cutting
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Static HTML and caching aren't special cases by any means, but a message board where literally nothing changes between users certainly seems like a special case, even twenty years ago. You don't need that in order to make a site r
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by actuallyalys 1y ago
Personally, I wouldn’t normally think of a friendship as a “success accelerator” because that reduces a friendship to its material benefits. I think you can have strong and meaningful relationships without this aspect at all. Still, I do wa

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