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by andybak 3y ago
(maybe then a small credit for the initial work by Aras in your blog post?)
842.
by andybak 3y ago
I agree. Combined with a few good habits like favouring select_related() - it's never been a problem.
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by andybak 3y ago
We probably have different definitions of "notably better"
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by andybak 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow. That's like saying nobody has ever been moved by a painting or movie because they know it's not real?
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by andybak 3y ago
I do wonder how future advances in VR will impact this. On occasions VR has given me a true sense of awe, even in it's current, technologically-limited form. If you can conjour up any vista and see it around you at true scale, running
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by andybak 3y ago
> PPE Personal protective equipment?
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by andybak 3y ago
Not sure how much you've used custom GPTs. They are currently flawed and buggy but I think they hold promise. They combine 3 things: 1. A custom initial prompt (yeah - you can paste this in every time and keep a personal database of sp
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by andybak 3y ago
I don't recall using a dictionary in a safety-critical context recently but I'm keen to hear some examples.
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by andybak 3y ago
I have never seen the word "externist" before.
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by andybak 3y ago
Great. Let's get them to settle tort reform.
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by andybak 3y ago
I rather liked it and actually didn't get to see as many examples as I wanted to. Is there a good repository anywhere or is it just "wade through twitter"?
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by andybak 3y ago
well - chuck $10 at it and spend the rest of your month trying other things. (Back in Disco Diffusion days I was happy to spend money on Colab Pro. It was fun)
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by andybak 3y ago
> demonstrates how far we are in our "late stage capitalism" and economic slaves, not free, not by half. I'm not sure what earlier periods of history you're comparing it to that were utopian in comparison but I am fai
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by andybak 3y ago
It's a tool. Some people will do something interesting with it. Most people won't.
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by andybak 3y ago
Feels rather like he is arguing on a technicality. I've seen tons of awful extremist content recently with ads next to it.
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by andybak 3y ago
Yeah but no but... Generally - the areas where GPT starts to become unreliable are usually fairly "off-piste". My gut feeling is that in most standard educational contexts it would probably be fine. Curious to hear specific exam
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by andybak 3y ago
> IMO, these Conv-AI tools should indicate to the user when they are hallucinating. If they could do that, then it would be fairly easy to "not hallucinate". To put it another way the "don't hallucinate" problem
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by andybak 3y ago
The original seems to be on LinkedIn. Does anyone else find it weird when geek content is posted to LinkedIn? It's the last place I'd think to look. Am I missing out or is this an outlier?
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by andybak 3y ago
New Wave has a specific meaning and it's one that by definition excludes another specific period ("Golden Age") I'm not quite sure whether Jack Vance is regarded as part of either? EDIT - ah - further down the page there
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by andybak 3y ago
Doesn't Hard SF both predate and postdate New Wave? It's a thread that weaves through the whole of science-fiction. (heck - didn't Jules Verne once diss H.G. Wells for not being "hard sci-fi enough"?)
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by andybak 3y ago
How do you feel about Ansel?
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by andybak 3y ago
This makes no sense. The law didn't specify cookies specifically, it is agnostic about the technical implemention, surely? Is this a clueless manager thing?
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by andybak 3y ago
Cookie based session logins like everyone used to use?
864.
by andybak 3y ago
Spam. Check their post history
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by andybak 3y ago
I think the article is making the case you probably want to hear :)
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by andybak 3y ago
You're looking at my personal website. And I'm really not engaging any more.
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by andybak 3y ago
Fix everything that makes Mastodon a terrible user experience, get me and all the people I want to reach an invite to Bluesky or persuade people to start using Threads, and I'll happily switch.
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by andybak 3y ago
I can't take this seriously. Sorry.
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by andybak 3y ago
"users of my application". You seem to be claiming that everyone still on Twitter is ideologically compromised. There's a ton of people just ignoring the politics and I still need a channel to reach them.
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by andybak 3y ago
I'm still posting on Twitter because the people I'm trying to reach are still there and the alternatives never materialised.

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