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Here's why task groups may be a good idea https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
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The real and the only relevant question is: do EAs rape/sexual assault more than the the average population (and if the answer is no (it is), then we need more EAs).
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It looks like a hit piece. Someone is against rationality regarding the question of AI safety (any real practical consequences is to censor AI under _pretense_ of AI safety, Perhaps, the articles are the preventive strikes to discredit the
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Yeah, let's create Wednesday chatbot from the Addams family.
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Indeed. In Python: >>> import codecs >>> codecs.encode("cfrhqb-fpvragvsvp enpvny VD fgngvfgvpf", "rot13") 'pseudo-scientific racial IQ statistics'
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We don't observe almost all real number either. We observe some rational numbers. All these infinite number of unobservable real numbers is just waste /s
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Consider why chatgpt is banned on Stackoverflow despite the median quality already being poor there (because its answers/questions are even worse than that; the more answers from chatgpt, the worse the site)
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Google search was incredibly valuable immediately even if most links could have been rubbish. I can't say the same with the current LLMs It is an incredible achievement that LLMs produce human-like output (e.g., wouldn't know i
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Here's simple example: (x-x+c)=c gpt struggles with such examples if `x` is a large number e.g., x=123_000_000_456 and `c` some specific number, but it is easy for humans.
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Couldn't agree more on "it is a mistake to conclude...the truth is unknowable" Just ask yourself: who benefits? (aka follow the money). For example, short term: where the increase in military spendings go? On basic facts: yo
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Consider OpenAI vs Google in the chat AI stand off (who is David who is Goliath here). Then consider does it makes sense to talk about it without considering Microsoft vs Google?
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btw, "ignore facts, you can't understand it" may be just a world view pushed by propaganda. Some things are so huge, they become obvious if you just try to think & consider some numbers.
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> which is better than 50% Unrelated: p-value for getting 12 from 20 correct just by chance is ~0.4 that is there is not enough data for the conclusion "better" in this case. Null hypothesis: 50%/50%, the result random, no
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Pointing out that Earth is round no matter how often it is repeated does not become any less true. BMI and bodybuilder example may be less obvious unless you know that muscles are more dense than fat but it is true nonetheless.
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Github Copilot manages to generate the boilerplate for matplotlib. The result can be evaluated easily just by looking at the plot. The code is mediocre at best but it allows to produce the desired plots quickly.
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Google search is still immensely helpful for a lot of tasks. ChatGPT even today performs some tasks well e.g., extracting the intent from a natural language query, or generating text that on the surface looks human. It is often inaccurate o
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the area is 4x but the diameter is just 2x here.
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Could it be that ChatGPT is just good at plagiarizing existing answers? (because when I ask it technical questions that I understand well than the answers are mediocre at best: convincing at the surface level, and often nonsense if you dig
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There is a huge gap between something like boost that is designed to be reused and internal libraries that are subject to the usual corporate constraints (the least amount of work is done if even that).
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The second part reads like Dolores Umbridge's speech: "progress for progress's sake must be discouraged," "pruning wherever we find practices that ought to be prohibited." It means the powers that be are inter
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and that is why we need static typing because people do not want to be labeled as nitpickers, and therefore anything allowed by computer will be merged eventually.
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It does. GPT Chat: 10-4 is a phrase commonly used in radio communication that means "message received and understood." It is typically used to acknowledge a message or request. Google does too https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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"Since this is leak only contain contents of git repositories there is no personal data." https://arseniyshestakov.com/2023/01/26/yandex-services-sour...
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"When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size 3,000 Years Ago?" https://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-human-brain-collectiv... Coincidence? ;) "the brain shrinkage parallels the expansion of collective int
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I’ve tried it with the exact prompt from your comment: «what is the song with the lyrics, “hello darkness my old friend.” » and Siri answered correctly with “The Sound of Silence.”
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The article mentions that “API will cost around $0.014 per request.”
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ChatGPT plays the role of a generic word here (like Xerox, Kleenex, Google).
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There is so-long.el which is part of Emacs since 27.1 http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/so-long.git/tree/so-long...
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It is not about "misinformation": they discuss author's motives that indicates it "us vs. them" mentality and the objective reality/facts be damned.
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The actual title: "25 per cent of COVID patients become ‘long haulers’ after 12 months" the difference "25% of [all] COVID patients" vs. "25% of long COVID patients."
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