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by cowmix 3y ago
What I love is the explanation and the CONFIDENCE LLMs seem to have in giving the wrong answer.
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by cowmix 3y ago
... but it still doesn't predict actual success in my experience. I was "gifted program" adjacent growing up (all my friends were in these programs in the late 70s -> 80s) -- all earned high grades and test scores -- but m
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by cowmix 3y ago
This.
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by cowmix 3y ago
> If you're having AI write your email, it probably wasn't that important. "I hope this email finds you well." floods my inbox. Yuck. I agree with most of that post. However, for me when I give AI tons of context (a
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by cowmix 3y ago
My wife and I watched this over the weekend. It was nice to see that the cops in Canada can be as hapless/impediment as here in the US.
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by cowmix 3y ago
I run Resolve (Studio) on Linux/Mac/Windows and, you are right, getting it to work on used to be a pain in anything but a set version of Centos. However, this project: https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve .. a
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by cowmix 3y ago
FWIW, I've used them quite a few times here in Phoenix --- overall a very positive experience. The Waymo car used to be too cautious and would take weird routes but now they drive appropriately aggressive and the route selection is muc
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by cowmix 3y ago
This is the SAME situation here in PHX. Google made Cox / Centurylink get off their collective arses.
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by cowmix 3y ago
FWIW.. my mother's childhood friend is a nun who (successfully) ran a hospital in the Buffalo NY area for years up until the late 90s/early 2000s. She was replaced by a series of "civilian" CEOs after that. AFAIK, the qu
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by cowmix 3y ago
I use the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook (picked it up for $279 from Best Buy) and it is pretty amazing. OLED screen, ARM performance that's pretty good, a tablet that comes with a keyboard. It's a great Chromebook for on the go
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by cowmix 3y ago
Why is this not upvoted more? Very good question.
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by cowmix 3y ago
Long time Google/Pixel fan... because I love pain and broken promises.
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by cowmix 3y ago
I had a buddy that wrote a Java 1.1 JVM from scratch in C back in late '97. He created it completely from the defined specification from Sun and actually found bugs in the spec. IIRC, the found bugs in the thread(s) specification. I be
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by cowmix 3y ago
I dunno. I think ChatGPT has sort of made me a better communicator of requirements when talking to real people. It forces me to communicate in small, clear digestible chunks -- and that has helped me in my comms in general.
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by cowmix 3y ago
Birth order is the only thing I truly believe it. It explains so, so much about people. Sure there's the 15-20% outliers, but overall -- it is spot on.
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by cowmix 3y ago
Usenet is why I stared my ISP in '93. I loved it -- but as many people have commented here, the spam got pretty nutty for while. In fact, THIS happened on my watch. https://www.wired.com/1999/04/the-spam-that-
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by cowmix 3y ago
Are you kidding me? Those are modest investments for how far behind they are and it is nothing compared to every other OEM's EV (re)investment. That one joint venture battery plant for instance will at some point do 40GWH output a year
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by cowmix 3y ago
Honda isn't even doing incremental steps, they are sitting it out still hoping EVs fail. That was a "safe" bet 10 years ago but completely insane now. Car companies just can't pivot on a dime, you have to ramp up your
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by cowmix 3y ago
My wife works for a big university and when the first "return to the office" pitch was happening, the head of HR for the whole org was on a Zoom and basically said, "If you are not back at work, you should be already. I love
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by cowmix 3y ago
"yes" That's today's episode of EZ answers to EZ questions.
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by cowmix 3y ago
I've noticed that the I'm getting WAY more push notification from Reddit (mobile web) than I ever did before.
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by cowmix 3y ago
Yes, in the spirt of talking about ChatGPT I did run my response through it. It is probably the worst thing it has ever produced for me. I ring this up to ChatGPT's "declining quality". :)
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by cowmix 3y ago
As least I didn't add "I hope this response finds you well."
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by cowmix 3y ago
Heh, your spidey senses are correct. I actually wrote the response and then ran it though ChatGPT for clean up. I do agree, it actually reads weird over my original draft.
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by cowmix 3y ago
OP here. That's exactly what happened. This is the code it found: California Public Utilities Code § 10009.6
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by cowmix 3y ago
At the time, the Alpha chip WAS the hotness. The first x64 chip was released in 1999 (by AMD, not Intel) and there was some reasonable expectation the Alpha would be THE chip for high capacity computing and even personal computing. Also, ma
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by cowmix 3y ago
We're all Bill Joy and Ted Kaczynski now.
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by cowmix 3y ago
Anything I put into ChatGPT I scrub the crap out of. I'm sure in the near future MSFT/OpenAI will figure out my redactions but until then...
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by cowmix 3y ago
I use ChatGPT for a wide variety of tasks throughout my day, but my favorite use case is generating one-off utilities quickly. A recent example of this was when I needed to move and reorganize approximately 1 million files from one hard dri
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by cowmix 3y ago
My experience is that it is also pretty good a debugging its own mistakes too.

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