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by amayne 5y ago
Any chance of an audiobook coming soon?
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by amayne 5y ago
This SRI document is based on research funded by a ARPA grant: "This work was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract F19628-92-C-0071." Which implies that it was in development long before the da
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by amayne 5y ago
Here is SRI’s project from 1994 that showed similar capabilities (and the same name) and was one of the reasons the court decided against the claimants in their lawsuit against Google: https://www.sri.com/wp-content/upl
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by amayne 5y ago
This is SRI’s (formerly Stanford Research Institute) project with the same name also from 1994 that showed similar capabilities and was one of the reasons the court decided against the claimants in their lawsuit against Google. https:&#x2F
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by amayne 5y ago
This is great. Your notebook notes are very helpful.
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by amayne 5y ago
This is very cool! I’ve been playing with timefhuman and recurrant plus GPT-3 for really tricky user input.
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by amayne 5y ago
> I wonder if this is what people in the 17th century felt, a bit of melancholy at the dream that hundreds of years from now someone may be able to walk on the then newly-discovered moon, and knowing they would not be around to see it ha
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by amayne 5y ago
"Wuhan is ~1000km away from SARS spillover zones. Its human population was even used as a negative (no SARS) control group." Via @Ayjchan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1394327680456220672
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by amayne 6y ago
I suggest applying again. Approvals are happening at a faster rate.
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by amayne 6y ago
I’m a novelist (Wall Street Journal best seller, Edgar and Thriller Award finalist, etc.) I also work with OpenAI in helping developers find creative applications for the GPT-3 (I helped write a number of the prompts for using GPT-3 you see
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by amayne 6y ago
My favorite takeaway was how Square focused on businesses the credit card companies thought were too small bother with. McKelvey realized there were a lot more of them than the credit card companies realized and they added up to a sizable c
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by amayne 6y ago
Walt Umenhofer, the military veteran mentioned, was a friend of my father’s. Walt also owned a drivable tank. No joke.
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by amayne 6y ago
This reminds me of how I go through a lot of trouble to pick a seat in a movie theater, but after it’s over and if I really enjoyed it, I couldn’t tell you if I sat in the front or off to the side. Good storytelling just pulls you in. Our b
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by amayne 6y ago
Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, etc., almost exclusively wrote in the past tense. Did you mean a past tense framing device instead?
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by amayne 6y ago
It's very common in YA, but was extremely rare a decade ago.
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by amayne 6y ago
I picked up the style after seeing Suzanne Collins use it so wonderfully in the Hunger Games. Now I write this way almost exclusively for all my books.
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Using OpenAI’s API to correspond with virtual historical figures(aiwriter.app)
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by amayne 6y ago
Climate. We know from ice cores that the climate prior to the current interglacial period wasn’t very conducive to crops. It was dryer and had less CO2. 180ppm be 260ppm pre-industrial area. Lower CO2 levels meant that plants lost more mois
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by amayne 6y ago
For fun I put this into OpenAI's new API: Alice: Bob, Can you translate "Eat my shorts" into latin for me? This is what it replied without any training: Bob: As it happens, yes, I can. Alice: Great. Bob: Ego sum vestrum bracc
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by amayne 6y ago
They’ve sold way more units than that. At least 400,000 units as of October 2019 according to this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/gamedaily.biz/article/1337/repo...
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by amayne 6y ago
Newton existed well before Ive joined Apple. Larry Tesler (who just passed away) was the driving force behind it. Jony Ive was brought in later to help design the smaller form factor.
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by amayne 6y ago
Alt title: Distance learning is a skill we need to help educators and students develop.
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by amayne 7y ago
This. There is insufficient details for the level of outrage people are displaying.
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by amayne 7y ago
Those are valid factors, but with businesses like banking and health, I wouldn’t want to be an outlier with the programming language.
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by amayne 7y ago
Honest question: Why do you think they should switch to Go? If Java is what they’re comfortable with and it’s still used widely in the industry, is the trade-off worth it?
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by amayne 7y ago
I think the more likely scenario is that they’re filled with typos to avoid spam detection filters for keywords and phrases. The gullibility theory doesn’t explain the advantage of using similarly appearing letters (the number one for the l
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by amayne 7y ago
Not to mention that at this same point 10 years into Tesla’s existence the Model S was in full production of 1,000 cars a week and Motor Trend Car of the Year.
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by amayne 7y ago
Yikes! I used Google Recorder which creates a real-time transcription and an audio file. After each chapter I'd back them up to Google Drive. For my normal writing, I use Scrivener which is autosaved to Dropbox.
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by amayne 7y ago
Fair point. It's an unedited mess and not my best work. As an example, here's what the start of it looks like right now: Nobody knows what to tell you what a funeral. Especially when it's your own parents who died in a murde
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by amayne 7y ago
I'm the author of the post. I'll be checking in here throughout the day if anyone has any questions and walks to talk about writing processes, etc.

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