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by dwringer 11mo ago
Because if I don't, it tends to misinterpret the next thing I say because it reads that as an answer to the question it just asked me.
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by dwringer 11mo ago
Gemini has been doing this to me for the past few weeks at the end of basically every single response now, and it often seems to result in the subsequent responses getting off track and lower quality as all these extra tangets start polluti
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by dwringer 11mo ago
I've definitely noticed Gemini's tendency to return the image basically unchanged, but not noticed it being worse or better for images of people. When I tested by having it change aspects of a photo of me, I found it was far more
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by dwringer 11mo ago
There are a lot of caveats but in general the "spend 2 days" thing is a lot less true now IMHO thanks to LLM's that can write mostly correct elisp from basic specifications. YMMV of course. I have found this can also open up
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by dwringer 1y ago
It is, though? I also had the same map come up about five times, showing a picture of the Parthenon and the Athenian acropolis, but it consistently insisted that these were of Orchomenos, which also had an acropolis but AFAIK is not the sam
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by dwringer 1y ago
These were extremely helpful to read for insights on how to go back and retry different prompts instead, IMHO. I find it to be a significant step back in usability to lose those although I can understand the argument that they weren't
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by dwringer 1y ago
My thought is, for carrying a laptop, I'd rather have a backpack or messenger bag made of paper than a fabric grocery bag. The primary reasons I wouldn't carry a laptop in a grocery bag don't include the fact it's made o
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by dwringer 1y ago
Bitcoin trading on PayPal has been available for the past five years.
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by dwringer 1y ago
When I learned the taskbar can't be placed on the side vertically is when I realized I'm never going to install Windows 11. That combined with 10 being advertised as "the last Windows I'll ever need to buy" and the
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by dwringer 1y ago
I'd argue human intent itself often [always?] is ambiguous
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by dwringer 1y ago
There most definitely is perceptual hue shift in HSL (and HSV); it's illustrated quite well at [0](The blog of the creator of OKLab), particularly in [1], an image showing S and L axes while leaving H fixed. [0] https://botto
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by dwringer 1y ago
sRGB is already not perceptually uniform. These hue changes already happen. Just because the H value in HSL/HSV doesn't change doesn't mean there's no perceptual hue shift when adjusting lightness/value.
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by dwringer 1y ago
OKLCh is the same space as OKLab, it's just polar coordinates versus rectangular coordinates.
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by dwringer 1y ago
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
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by dwringer 1y ago
Using a trackball I couldn't get this to work noticeably better than just plain paintbrush input in MS Paint. Conversely the one from TFA took me a little more time to get the hang of but I got a lot better control with it.
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by dwringer 1y ago
On this machine it took me about 8 seconds to get the start menu open, about 5 seconds to get it to recognize that I'd typed "calc", another 5 seconds for it to let me actually select it to launch, and then about 20 seconds f
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by dwringer 1y ago
Ah - I appreciate the clarification! Apologies for my misunderstanding. Guess that's something I need to check out.
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by dwringer 1y ago
This isn't quite the same as being able to edit an earlier post without discarding the subsequent ones, creating a context where the meaning of subsequent messages could be interpreted quite differently and leading to different respons
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by dwringer 1y ago
On those forums, it's not just that there'd be no follow up; in my experience there'd typically be someone with a username marked as a "Community MVP" who would paste long walls of generic troubleshooting text for 2
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by dwringer 1y ago
In my experience, it's still possible to learn from the AI's mistakes. I've seen others comment similarly: sometimes the AI will invent a feature, variable, exception type, etc., and while this is wrong for the specific imple
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by dwringer 1y ago
Was in the middle of writing something like this comment already. Heh, definitely something a bit ironic seeing multiple comments claiming an editor written in Lisp and descended from an AI lab as being ai-free. It's probably one of th
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by dwringer 1y ago
Also to be fair to Common Lisp, it has lots of support for sequences that aren't functional lists. Cons cells just happen to be convenient for representing things like the source code so they are prevalent. They're hardly a requ
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by dwringer 1y ago
> It would be helpful if I had a long rambling dialogue with a chat model and it distilled that. IME this can work pretty well with Gemini in the web UI. If it misinterprets you at any stage you can edit your last comment until it gets o
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by dwringer 1y ago
When I asked, "Good afternoon! I'm trying to settle a bet with a friend (no money on the line, just a friendly "bet"!) Which MS DOS productivity program had a playable version of the game Connect Four built in as an east
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by dwringer 1y ago
I notice this to affect its tendency to just make things up in other contexts, too. I asked it to take a look at "my" github, gave it a link, then asked it some questions; it started talking about completely different repos and pr
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by dwringer 1y ago
I would simplify this as "irrelevant context is worse than no context", but it doesn't mean a long prompt of relevant context is bad.
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by dwringer 1y ago
Isn't this basically the same argument that comes up all the time about software engineering in general?
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by dwringer 1y ago
Speculating, I would imagine that different prompts submitted along with the image might elicit wildly different behavior in how a multi modal VLM may respond to a given image, potentially affecting the relative tendency to upweight its ef
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by dwringer 1y ago
Yet, one might justly question the imperative of cultivating a distinct model for such an endeavour, when a judiciously framed prompt, enriched by apposite examples, might suffice to imbue a sophisticated engine with the desired stylistic g
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by dwringer 1y ago
Definitely a lot to be said for these ideas, even just that it helps to start a fresh chat and ask the same question in a better way a few times (using the quality of response to gauge what might be "better"). I have found if I do

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