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by cardosof 4y ago
If I lived in the EU I'd want to know who are proposing this kind of stuff and help with anything that gets them far from public and government -related jobs forever, but hey, that's me. Lots of people like to give up a bit of fre
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by cardosof 4y ago
Most food packaging is made with aluminium. Aluminium is down 30% YoY but up 50% in the past 3 years. It's been a wild ride for manufacturers and they increased prices to handle this. Same with energy, the average cost is 50% up from ~
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by cardosof 4y ago
> LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both. It
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by cardosof 4y ago
IMO established companies (Meta, Google, etc) had their researchers publish papers as a competitive benefit or way to attract talent from academia (a researcher wouldn't want to stop publishing). Companies didn't see an issue with
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by cardosof 4y ago
My father told me once to raise at least 3 children, to improve my chances of having someone looking after me at a certain age. It worked for him, he had 3 children and my sister takes care of his needs now that he's 70.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Here's the GPT4 summary of the url: Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft has introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot, a next-generation AI-powered productivity tool integrated into Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, Po
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by cardosof 4y ago
Thank you! The SotA of science is still science and not magic.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Can a good soul explain to this humble layman the arguments behind each side of the "it's just predicting the next character" versus "it's more than that and shows some reasoning for new things" debate?
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by cardosof 4y ago
I, too, prefer that companies spoke in direct, plain terms, without PR shenanigans. Does anyone know why do they do this, though? Is it to de-risk potential lawsuits or do they believe people prefer that way ("sounds professional"
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by cardosof 4y ago
Congrats for building stuff that lasts. Would you be able to share what it does, even if in generic and high level terms?
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by cardosof 4y ago
Everyone and their mother advertising AI-powered features. I wonder if it's because there's a ton of value to unlock today with AI or is it because that is the only way to get funding / attention these days?
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by cardosof 4y ago
I come to HN for posts like this, thank you.
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by cardosof 4y ago
This is amazing, thank you for sharing.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Probably patients consent to using software to process their data and chatgpt is considered just another software in the stack. Edit: parent poster said no info is sent.
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by cardosof 4y ago
The bubble grows until it pops. Between 2020 and 2022 liquidity was high and global problems (COVID, Russia-Ukraine, US inflation) meant upper management needed more support. So they hired lots of folks and (anecdotal evidence) even raised
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by cardosof 4y ago
Yes, that's how it works. There's no outside impartial judge looking at arguments from both sides to declare who's wrong, there's no law saying being a hipocritical and cynical are crimes. It's just people, relation
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Amazon asks employees to be in office at least three days a week(reuters.com)
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by cardosof 4y ago
After some time you just get used to it and its limitations, so you know what it's reasonable to ask for. In general I use it as a tool for creative writing, code formatting and easy snippets, writing emails and summarizing texts.I laz
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by cardosof 4y ago
I haven't fully replaced search, but I have replaced a good part of my usage (disclaimer: I'm a chatgpt plus subscriber). Search isn't dead but it sure is bleeding, and hard.
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by cardosof 4y ago
IMO it's risky to hire management consultants to tell you what you should do. The value they provide is usually market research (providing data points you wouldn't gather yourself) and expert opinions (PhDs and SMEs, ex executives
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by cardosof 4y ago
There's none, quite the opposite. Apologies if my previous post is a lame snarky comment, the real criticism is that texts about thousands getting their jobs cut due to "environment changes" often show very little effort to d
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by cardosof 4y ago
I wonder why people just can't be completely honest and say something along the lines of: "look, rising interest rates makes leaving money in the bank way more attractive than spending it by having x% more employees doing things t
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by cardosof 4y ago
Pretty much all governments in all countries think way worse stuff. something something ultimate power ultimate corruption.
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by cardosof 4y ago
I understand the sentiment, but I'm trying actively to get away from all the hype and focus on the capabilities it has today . It's being useful for a bunch of people, there are some threads on it such as: https://new
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by cardosof 4y ago
Brazil's Varginha incident is a must for anyone interested in aliens and UFOs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident
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by cardosof 4y ago
Yup, this is it, this is the real life version of the beginning of the Manna story. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by cardosof 4y ago
Getting ideas for important emails, making it explain code snippets, formatting code, just to start with. I'm slowing down my Google search usage so fast, this other day I was "chatting" with chatgpt about a niche topic (crea
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by cardosof 4y ago
I set up a small home gym consisting of a power rack, different bars for different exercises and plenty of space for calisthenics, with Olympic rings where I mostly do pullups and dips. I've used to do powerlifting but after a lower b
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by cardosof 4y ago
I worked with ads and promotions for brands in the alcohol space. You'd be surprised with how much weekly volume per person (a key metric) buyers consume, and how effective for sales it is to target them.
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by cardosof 4y ago
It's not enough to beat them if you have all those complex strategies, you have to do it with good risk control and in a cost effective way, and that's why low cost broad market ETFs have their place.

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