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811.
by bambax 2y ago
Okay, and probably true, but the difference with newspaper is, it would be prohibitively expensive to produce different versions of the same newspaper for different subscription options, while it's trivial to do on the web. Why not off
812.
by bambax 2y ago
On Windows em dash is ALT+0151; the paragraph mark (§) is ALT+0167. Once you know them (and a couple of others, for instance accented capitals) they become second nature, and work on all keyboards, everywhere.
813.
by bambax 2y ago
Yes, but how can this strategy work, and who would choose ChatGPT at this point, when there are so many alternatives, some better (Anthropic), some just as good but way cheaper (Amazon Nova) and some excellent and open-source?
814.
by bambax 2y ago
Oh and when we have defeated death, when will people decide it's time to go? And how will they do it?
815.
by bambax 2y ago
Are you serious? Have you been around old rich people? Do you find them generous? People grow more selfish with age, because they care less and less. The only thing to gain by abolishing biological death is perpetual civil war.
816.
by bambax 2y ago
It's really debatable if religious people actually believe in eternal life. If they did, they would immediately see that their behavior drives them straight to eternal damnation. They don't seem to care about that, and the only ra
817.
by bambax 2y ago
Many people end their life when they find it's too painful to live. Many more wish they could -- the debate around end-of-life issues is raging in many countries.
818.
by bambax 2y ago
I'm certain immortality is possible, and it's also likely to be achieved, because we always do everything we can do, regardless of consequences. But I think this is the acme of selfishness. I don't want to be immortal, and I
819.
by bambax 2y ago
Nobody said Kagi is scraping. The OP said scraping was free, and therefore, paying 2.5c per search is absurd.
820.
by bambax 2y ago
It's completely fair to compare prices when you're on the buying side. It's also strongly recommended when you're on the selling side, as you should be prepared to explain what added value justifies that your product is
821.
by bambax 2y ago
I made a webapp for learning sight reading: https://www.babeloop.com/ It's built mostly from scratch except for the disply of notes that uses VexFlow and the playing of notes, that uses Tone.js VexFlow is pretty cool.
822.
by bambax 2y ago
1/ and 2/ are of course good objections; I wasn't aware of the cost of a scan (but this kind of experiment could be done by the organizers, saving on trip costs). But I don't think step 3 is strictly necessary. The main
823.
by bambax 2y ago
> The autosegmentation jumps frequently between adjacent sheets, so is not yet precise enough to reveal contiguous texts, but it coarsely follows the entire scroll. Maybe a stupid idea, but has anyone tried to make a new scroll with kn
824.
by bambax 2y ago
> compared to most other things What other things? In my home most appliances are 15+ years old -- ovens, washing machines, even most Sonos things are around 20 years old. My Yamaha PF-P 100, bought in 1994, still works perfectly well.
825.
by bambax 2y ago
It says I can't use it because I'm under 18. I wish.
826.
by bambax 2y ago
The idea is great and necessary. It doesn't seem super hard to replicate but why would anyone build their own solution if something already exists and works fine. The thing that got me thinking... how do you make sure an LLM won't
827.
by bambax 2y ago
In aviation this is what Crew Resource Management is about, and in particular, how to make sure the monitoring pilot, who may be the least experienced one, can effectively supervise and review the actions of the other. Many crashes were the
828.
by bambax 2y ago
The point of the plot is to show the drop on Dec. 25th; but the numbers are unrelated to the plot and do show actual variations from month to month.
829.
by bambax 2y ago
When used via OpenRouter (or the like?) the costs are ridiculously low and you have immediate access to 200+ models that you can compare seamlessly.
830.
by bambax 2y ago
In my experience*, for coding, Sonnet is miles above any model by OpenAI, as well as Gemini. They're all far from perfect, but Sonnet actually "gets" what you're asking, and tries to help when it fails, while the others
831.
by bambax 2y ago
US births by day data is available here: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/births For the period 2000-2014 the number of births by month, divided by the number of days in a month, is:
832.
by bambax 2y ago
This is absolutely amazing! Very well executed, congrats!! I was absolutely terrified at first that falling off would have me start again from the beginning, so I was very careful. Once I did fall and come back where I was I grew bolder whi
833.
by bambax 2y ago
Yes, it's also extremely unlikely. The actual distribution in developed countries is not uniform: there is a spike at the end of September (because many more people make babies at or around New Year's Eve) and a considerable drop
834.
by bambax 2y ago
Very good follow-up to the original article. Thank you!
835.
by bambax 2y ago
It's unclear how filling reports with "random bullshit" will protect anyone from liability... It seems you're saying that the current situation is so bad that anything different would be an improvement, and less-random b
836.
by bambax 2y ago
A (costly) way is to compare responses from different models, as they don't hallucinate in exactly the same way.
837.
by bambax 2y ago
With all due respect and while wishing you best of luck, it's always a bit worrisome when generative AI is used in the real world with real consequences... In my experience, what LLMs, even some of the most advanced ones (o1, Gemini 1.
838.
by bambax 2y ago
The real lesson is probably that if you're skilled enough, and/or train for long enough, you can influence the odds significantly without anyone ever noticing anything.
839.
by bambax 2y ago
Yes, came here to say exactly this. And it's possible this specific model is "cheating", for example by identifying a chess problem and forwarding it to a chess engine. A modern version of the Mechanical Turk. That's the
840.
by bambax 2y ago
> I homelab Didn't know there was a verb for it! I "homelab" too and so far am very happy. With a (free) CDN in front of it it can handle spikes in traffic (that are rare anyways), and everything is simple and mostly fre

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