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by extr 4y ago
Great example. The way I've described it to people is it's perfect for when you get the feeling you're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. You ask ChatGPT, and it's great at pointing out that they actually make r
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by extr 4y ago
FWIW, Bing, with it's access to the internet, has no trouble with this. Precise Mode: Canada Post commenced court proceedings in 2012 against Geolytica Inc. for copyright infringement in relation to Geolytica Inc.'s Canadian Post
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by extr 4y ago
To be clear, I agree that there are in fact a few nuggets of insight here. But my point is that you "fall for it" when you take this as anything other than a "huh, here is one sorta out-there but interesting way of thinking a
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by extr 4y ago
Yeah, I find this article takes a decent insight on the behavior of LLMs and then runs it into the ground with completely non-applicable mathematical terminology and formalism, with nothing to back it up. It's honestly embarrassing for
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by extr 4y ago
The competition was three years ago though.
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by extr 4y ago
Why on earth would you tell the model the task in english? The tasks have extremely simple JSON representations that would make for a way, way more natural input. The colorful grids are just to make it easier (for humans) to visualize the s
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by extr 4y ago
They're actively discussing/working on it: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806
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by extr 4y ago
The selling point is that it's a solid editor with zero config I can use in the terminal for those "in between" tasks where it's not really worth pulling it up in an IDE but worth having some syntax highlighting and LSP
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by extr 4y ago
I've been using helix the last week or so. I can confirm everything "just works". My config file is not a turing-complete nightmare, it's literally 10 lines and took about 15 minutes to set up, most of that being persona
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by extr 4y ago
Yeah, I had similar experiences with multiple reorgs and shuffles. I was only there for a year and had 4 separate managers. After the newest one I said enough is enough, I was just tired of perpetually reevaluating priorities and roadmappin
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by extr 4y ago
I was spared in the Nov 2022 layoff but decided to find another gig anyway and started elsewhere in January. The difference for my mental health has been night and day. Constant talk about "increased intensity" (what does that mea
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by extr 4y ago
I would agree, purely on aesthetic grounds "1Password Park" sounds terrible. An example of how this can be done better would be something like the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA [1]. The building itself is known as
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by extr 4y ago
My "browser stack" is based around Microsoft Edge. - Vertical tabs are native and function perfectly. - It sleeps inactive tabs to save RAM. - It has the Workspaces [1] feature, basically creating cloud-saved tab groups. This only
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by extr 4y ago
This is great advice. Check out the insurance industry. - Notorious for it's slow-moving timelines and bog-standard technology needs. Tech is usually "behind the curve", but that's okay! You don't need to be an expe
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by extr 4y ago
How dramatic! If only the world worked in such a just and fair way. From what I've seen of the recent layoffs, it was totally uncorrelated to how virtuous your career has been. People got laid off from Google that had been there like 1
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by extr 4y ago
You don't understand why company management would have a say in how work gets done?
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by extr 4y ago
Really interesting. It's hard to understand how jailbreaks like this can be fully stopped without giving the model some kind of theory of mind, sense of self/goals/directives and the understanding that the user is an "ot
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by extr 4y ago
Great article, I like the thought here. I've fallen for this myself, trying to "teach by asking questions", but in reality just come off as patronizing or disrespectful to your counterparty. That kind of thing is a lot more s
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by extr 4y ago
Haha, perhaps one of these is where I originally saw it!
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by extr 4y ago
This reminded me of one my favorite essays on the subject, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee" by Honoré de Balzac in the 1830s https://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/01/17/honore-de-balzac-the-...
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by extr 4y ago
Thanks for the great app man! You may not have even realized this, but this was randomly crashing only a few versions ago, and you just recently pushed an update that did something to the Replace w/ Javascript functionality that fixed
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by extr 4y ago
This is how I'm thinking about it. If I save an hour a week, will I really clock out at 4PM on Friday and say "in the counterfactual world without ChatGPT, I would still be working, so I'm free to clock out now". No, pro
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by extr 4y ago
Yep, good catch. I'll edit the post to include so nobody gets confused.
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by extr 4y ago
Maybe! They already expense Copilot, so I don't think it would be too out of bounds. I haven't asked yet, considering this just came out today. I'm guessing they will allow it, the marginal ROI calculation actually makes sens
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by extr 4y ago
No. I'm a salaried employee. Marginal time/effort savings do not directly translate into more money for me. But the $20 charge hits my bank account today. Perhaps if I use it consistently enough and in smart enough ways I will be
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by extr 4y ago
Wow, that's super cool. Thanks for the link.
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by extr 4y ago
WYDM exactly by iOS shortcut? I use a Mac but only an android phone. Do you mean for mobile usage? > i have found it to be terrible when it comes to something simple, like constructing a regex. Oh yeah, agreed. It's not good for sup
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by extr 4y ago
I've been using ChatGPT pretty consistently during the workday and have found it useful for open ended programming questions, "cleaning up" rough bullet points into a coherent paragraph of text, etc. $20/month useful is
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by extr 4y ago
Interesting to read this just as I join a new company and am using slack "professionally" for the first time (on an all-remote team). My thoughts so far have been basically the polar opposite of this post. I was previously in a FA
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by extr 4y ago
Wonder what the costs are for this per question? I imagine supplying so many tokens for context makes the querying a lot more expensive. Though still no doubt cheaper than hiring another analyst.

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