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djeastm
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Maybe the investors are in on the grift. Figure they can get it on the hype now and sell before they get caught.
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Eh, it's a Wordpress site.
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I don't know you or the people you've met, but if you can do this without studying the questions before and the solutions are performant, then I would put you in the "very smart" category
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2y ago
>In healthy work environments There are healthy work environments in the military. Basic training, however, is not one of them. There are certain things about joining a military, like the prospect of having to be sent to kill other peopl
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2y ago
>Even her name sounded cool. I don't know why, but I found this hilarious. Was her name "Max Power"?
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>I can't count the number of times a prototype that was meant to be thrown away was actually put into production because "it's cheaper and faster than rewriting." Did the business make money, though? I think that'
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2y ago
In learning English as a second language, I suspect the textbooks tell them to start all correspondence with "Dear" so as to not appear impolite
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2y ago
I like the whole approach this takes, but man I really do wonder about "learning" through something that is so eager to hallucinate. The vast majority is correct, but I know with my luck I'd unknowingly remember something tha
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2y ago
>3.5 turbo performance Is this the level of performance people are relying upon? While I've always been impressed with the technology itself, it's only starting with GPT 4 that I think it approaches adequate performance.
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>I work in a codebase so DRY that it takes digging through dozens of files to figure out what one constant string will be composed as. I don't know the codebase, but to my mind that level of abstraction means it's a system-crit
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2y ago
I'd like to report a bug in that software
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2y ago
>"software is the only system where maintenance tends to degrade it." Someone hasn't met my shoddy electrician/handyman
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2y ago
I remember seeing your blog posts. Glad to see you ended up in the black with this business!
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2y ago
You are not kidding. I can't remember the last time a website has made my scroll stutter so much.
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2y ago
I certainly can appreciate the artistry in building it and also I'm happy that the artists found joy in making it, but I can't help but wonder why MS bothered.
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2y ago
Bookmarked for stress-relief
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2y ago
>Isn't this for lack of tutors, which AI solves? I would argue there's a very human element to tutoring that AI does not provide. Having been a tutor and also having been tutored myself, the personal relationship is very import
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2y ago
Right? In twenty years, people are going to be comparing their imaginary conversations with Lincoln as if they're historical fact.
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Yep. When I first saw how great AI was at answering my questions, I imagined myself talking to it every day to learn everything I'd ever wanted to know. Turns out, what I actually want to know is just that small subset of things I n
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Maybe it's not about marketing the game, but marketing the application that allows you to make your own games. To be able to make a bunch of games easily that just you and your friends can enjoy without having to code seems like a good
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Only if they're keyboard-focused. There are power-users who still prefer mouse.
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2y ago
But who do they deploy when the robot dogs get out of hand?
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2y ago
Increased price of a company is indeed the expectation of future profits, but until those profits hit the balance sheet they are unrealized
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2y ago
Learning for learning's sake, or without a distinct goal to use the information you're learning in the future, isn't necessarily a bad thing. That is, unless you think that learning so widely is going to translate into someth
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You find GPT4o as accurate as GPT4? I feel like it sacrificed accuracy for speed, but that's just my first impression
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2y ago
Yep, the more we take AI "advice" the more we're becoming the agents of AI rather than the AI being an agent of us
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> Gingko A subscription pricing model for software where everything should stay on my machine is a no-go for me
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They're just saying it seems obvious that a person would be like their parents. Nothing more grandiose than that.
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>We see some evidence in studies that wealthly grandparents are strong indicators of wealthly adult grandchildren. Seems just slightly obvious, though I'm sure the studies are more nuanced than this
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2y ago
I think there's a distinction to be made between having an interest in other cultures and being accepting of other cultures. Not sure if oikophilia is defined that precisely or not. Seeing other cultures as something to be studied
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