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by davesque 4y ago
Am I the only one who thought that GPT-4 got this one wrong? It's not simply that it's ridiculous to plug what appears to be an outdated VGA cable into a phone, it's that the cable connector does nothing at all. I'd ar
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by davesque 4y ago
These results are extremely impressive and encouraging, but also remember: > Despite its capabilities, GPT-4 has similar limitations as earlier GPT models. Most importantly, it still is not fully reliable (it “hallucinates” facts and mak
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by davesque 4y ago
Maybe I'm a cold hearted bastard but I haven't found myself struggling with this. I just simply don't tip if it's not delivery or dine-in. Otherwise, I've tried to adjust my tipping sensibility for inflation when th
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by davesque 4y ago
On a philosophical level, I agree. But I also recognize that life doesn't always line up nicely with philosophy. In any case, it seems to me that most of the work that led to ChatGPT was done in the open. How ChatGPT works is not re
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by davesque 4y ago
Isn't that the point though? Tesla in not called OpenSelfDriving because it takes serious cash at this time in history to fund development of that tech. The fact that OpenAI happens to have a name that suggests otherwise doesn't c
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by davesque 4y ago
Yes, he's technically correct. But it's pretty obvious he's really just jealous. Inferring that from his past behavior is not rocket science, as they say.
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by davesque 4y ago
Not currently. But I imagine that, if Pandas does adopt Arrow in its next version, it should be able to do something like that through proper use of the Arrow API. Arrow is built with this kind of processing in mind and is continually addin
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by davesque 4y ago
... and it comes with two guitar picks!
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by davesque 4y ago
I think one of the points the author was making is that almost no one is going to make that distinction. And that's what makes the technology seem so transformative; it's that so many people are compelled to respond emotionally to
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by davesque 4y ago
I feel funny calling all of this out because it probably gives the impression that I didn't like the article. But I actually loved it. Rao always has a really fun way of weaving his thoughts together. But yeah the thrust of this one se
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by davesque 4y ago
I love Ribbon Farm and there are some interesting meditations here overall, but I find one of the examples he uses to build his argument (that actors require text to act) to be pretty flimsy. It's easy to point out that they often don&
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by davesque 4y ago
Not sure if you misread it but I said it was in organic.
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by davesque 4y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but the speed at which this story has overtaken social media has made me skeptical. That coupled with the fact that the story practically doesn't exist in mainstream media. And in this case I just do
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by davesque 4y ago
How is "" truthy? I just double checked and `bool("")` is `False` as I expected (in Python 3.9 at least).
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by davesque 4y ago
The fact that this story has been allowed to live on HN's front page for so long has really knocked my confidence in the forum and its moderators. I thought HN had taken an enlightened stance on avoiding juicy topics like this since t
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by davesque 4y ago
If that's the case, then it's especially weird to me why the usual conventions on highly charge political stories wouldn't apply.
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by davesque 4y ago
I'm sure there are countless examples of "breaking" stories that were appropriately shot down by the flagging system. What I don't understand is why that flagging system should be short circuited in this case. HN users
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by davesque 4y ago
I'm honestly really shocked by your stance on this. Regardless of whether or not this information is credible, this seems like text book flame war kindling. In the past, I've thought HN's policy of "you can discuss thing
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by davesque 4y ago
Yep. If Microsoft somehow overtakes Google from the back with Bing and ChatGPT, it'll be the tech coup of the century. And it's so fascinating how Google's position as an AI think tank put them at a tremendous disadvantage.
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by davesque 4y ago
I see that fallingknife wasn't able to respond directly so I'll give a quote and response to something they said here: >> no one wants to live in a world where their life and capabilities are pre-determined > But we do li
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by davesque 4y ago
I think you're missing part of the movie's message. And that was that no one wants to live in a world where their life and capabilities are pre-determined. The audience is supposed to feel that viscerally as we see Vincent's
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by davesque 4y ago
Probably hard to judge from asking other HN users. People who respond are likely to be others who also happen to feel the same way. I haven't noticed any change myself.
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by davesque 4y ago
That could often be the case. Although the Google veterans mentioned in the article seem to be examples of top performers that weren't just resting on their laurels. But I suppose there could have been other reasons they were let go th
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by davesque 4y ago
Then why wouldn't they simply lay off the new hires instead of company veterans?
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by davesque 4y ago
I feel like a good explanation for all this is that tech giants saw this as an opportunity to collaborate to reduce wage inflation. I feel like that explanation squares better with the fact that, during many of these layoffs, employee perfo
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by davesque 4y ago
Which is a bit ironic considering that Slashdot arguably had a lot more features. But I appreciate HN's simplicity. I feel like we've come full circle.
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by davesque 4y ago
I can't believe someone dropped a link to this story. I remember reading this and feeling like it broadened my sense of what evolutionary processes can produce.
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by davesque 4y ago
This article is kinda dumb. Looks like they managed to track down a handful of people who were bothered by the price cuts. Wouldn't it be more surprising if they couldn't find anyone that was bothered by them? If they had cited so
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by davesque 4y ago
Not sure where you're seeing that. Did you misread a formula?
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by davesque 4y ago
Having grown up in Boulder, Colorado, one of the epicenters of self-regarding, American Buddhism, the author's skepticism is relatable. I imagine that almost every kid from Boulder goes through a Buddhist phase. Some come out the other

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