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> 1. If we have "enough" "orthogonal" treatment options, we should be able to rotate on long enough time scales to avoid resistance to all treatments. Like cicadas with their prime numbered long sleep cycles. This is
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> Certainly not implying it's impossible, I agree. Never say "never." But a lot of the time, resistance is simply a matter of tinkering with target of the antibiotic (add a methyl group here and, voila! the antibiotic no l
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This is something I know a fair amount about--I've worked for two biotech startups focused on antimicrobials and my thesis was on bacterial genetics. Whenever I hear "antibiotic that doesn't evoke bacterial resistance" I
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> Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I use it like a turbo-assistant. Can you make this <long text> more succinct? Convert the following list into a LaTeX enumerated list. Please put a period at the end of each
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> Its actually useful. In our office we have people from three different teams using it near daily. Out of choice. As do many kids in our network for homework. For a recently released product effectively in beta thats insane. Yep. I aske
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> It is not smarter than most people you know. You and I live in a rarefied world. It's far better at writing than most people I know. and i suspect it's (sadly) better at logic/ math than many people, which, i fully admit
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It's pretty cool that the carboard box was inducted.
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also... may be currently difficult to find them in northern alska / canada. not much daylight.
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> You couldn't really play any games from the 80's without graph paper. In high school (~1985/86) a friend and his brothers mapped the Ultima IV world by commandeering the family ping pong table covering it with several sh
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I was a teenager in the 80s. It’s hard to say how similar these events are, at least to me. Information and and disinformation travels so much faster and so much more thoroughly these days that it’s hard to compare. For example, in the 80s,
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My wife and I visited this place about 20 years ago. I remember a woman from Wisconsin laughing and proclaiming, "We Lutherans would never do anything like this!"
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> I imagine ChatGPT like results from a phone system would be even worse. You might be correct. I can't be sure. My opinion is definitely influenced by spending an hour on the phone with CVS yesterday + another hour on the phone wit
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I'd like to see these things (eventually) used for automated phone systems like CVS and my bank. Mostly this is just to calm me down because ChatGPT gives me the illusion that I'm interacting with a human. The current voice syst
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This would be a great name for a rival llm. Tongue in cheek: welcome to Claven v3.1.
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> Fun exercise for the reader: how much of this is actually possible with LLMs and how much is not. I have no idea. But it would be nice?* if this LLM stuff could be incorporated into the telephone system for my bank, pharmacy, etc. It&#
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Thank you.
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Can someone explain what this might mean? I'm not plugged in enough to crypto to get the apparent implication(s). Is this "Binance gets its comeuppance from catalyzing FTX's downfall?" Is this "no big deal/a tr
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Thank you.
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What is a trolly attack? I tried googling in various ways and all I got was news articles about literal attacks that took place on trolleys. Or are you simply referring to the philosophical question about whether allow <x> persons to
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by busyant 4y ago
Universal Summarizer was making the rounds on HN recently ( https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum ) and when I clicked on the link here (I hired 5 people), I decided I didn't want to read so much text. So, in keeping with Si
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> I would honestely have doubts giving an unvetted third party, openai through ChatGPT, access to any prorietery or business relevant information I have done this, but I fill sensitive information with bullshit terms. I have just upload
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> I think a lot of people haven't picked up on the fact that in both cases chatGPT actually understands what you are telling it. This is something that I haven't seen mentioned yet. The stunning aspect of ChatGPT is that it see
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I asked chatgpt to write an essay as if it were written by a mediocre 10th grader. It did a reasonably good job. It threw in a little bit of slang and wasn’t particularly formal. Edit. I sometimes tell my students “if you’re going to cheat,
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I disagree. I don't see the difference between "the poor" and "people who are poor." As described in the cambridgeblog post, the problem is the underlying issue (e.g., being poor), not necessarily the phrases used t
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Never heard of that phrase, but it's great. Thank you.
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I know the French bit (and college educated bit!) is the part that caused the humor/uproar, but I don't understand the recommendation by AP. I'm assuming using "the" with some group is perceived at making that group
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beautifully written
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> Many institutions have a regulation on the books to allow for oral examination to be carried out for any course at the discretion of the course leader, for the purpose of evaluating a student for award of a grade. This, in my opinion,
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> ChatGPT has a very verbose, uncanney valley style to it that likely sounded like nothing the student had organically submitted before, it's not that hard to tell. I've had 2 students threaten me and my university with lawsuit
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How exactly do you prove that someone plagiarized via ChatGPT? In my experience, my students simply deny deny deny, even when I have them dead-to-rights. I mean, I can understand a professor have a strong suspicion of plagiarism, but provin

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