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by fcatalan 1y ago
I do the timeguessr daily every day almost as a ritual, it's fun, satisfying and educative. It's also very interesting to watch people try after you've done it: how they catch on stuff you missed, their strategies to find and
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I have observed my 16 year old incorporate LLMs into her workflow and most of it has been an improvement. For a start, let's be realistic, before LLMs, unless some subject specially caught her fancy, most of her output was trite reword
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I concur that SICP 4.4 is very approachable. I once took a class that had a simple Prolog assignment, I recall we were given some building plans and had to program a path solver through the building. I thought it was a bit too easy and I wa
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I need to have a closer look at this. Mostly because I was surprised recently while experimenting with making a dieting advice agent. I built a prompt to guide the recommendations "only healthy foods, low purines, low inflammation bla
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by fcatalan 1y ago
9/11 was a big turning point in my experience. American conservatives that I considered online friends were simple impossible to reason with within days and completely alien beings after a few weeks.
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by fcatalan 1y ago
But Rogue One ends literally setting the opening chase at the beginning of A New Hope, so no space for a straight sequel there. Maybe some Kleya "John Wick in Space" sidequest?
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by fcatalan 1y ago
Roman elites spoke a lot of Greek among themselves, a bit similar to how Tsarist nobility used French
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by fcatalan 1y ago
The stove must be touched, there's no other way
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by fcatalan 1y ago
Oh I didn't mind it, the response is in fact right: it's not very realistic to extrapolate early diet results, and people come up with all kinds of potentially harmful crazy diets, so better to add the warning. I just wanted to em
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by fcatalan 1y ago
Oh the usual "linear weight loss predictions might not hold", "if you are on a restrictive diet make sure you are supervised by a doctor" and so on.
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I'm trying to lose some weight, and while bored I pasted a few data points into Gemini to do some dumb extrapolation, just a list of dates and weights. No field names, no units. I specifically avoided mentioning anything that would tri
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by fcatalan 1y ago
You can also see that the hanging yellow part of the headscarf, he just winged it, effective as it might be. I paint as a sort of weekly ritual, just 2 hours every Wednesday evening, and did an inept copy of this as my first serious try. Mo
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I have a similar philosophy for the systems I manage. We have always been severely understaffed, so I treat any user support request that repeats twice as a bug. If the decision to push a button is yours, I'll give you the button. If y
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by fcatalan 1y ago
This reminds me of my first "paid" job. I was contracted with a friend to fix the decaying IT infrastructure of a mid-sized local business. We were 18, early 90s. The contract was through a friend of my friend and was a shady affa
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Yes I understand the encodings will be close and that helps, I guess that's why they produce good translations, but I'm intrigued by the LLM having so much control of the switching without even explicit prompting, just a one-shot
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Those texts aren't nonsense. The prompt has a meaning, the LLMs are able to understand it, and are able to reply with coherent and understandable responses crafted in the same way the prompt was written. For me it's a very clear e
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Another thing that LLMs are (surprisingly?) good at is randomly mixed language conversations, here's something I tried a few days ago: Prompt: Kan du comprender questo text? Anata wa quelque inkling habe about lo que se parla dans la p
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by fcatalan 2y ago
"after doing his time" So then have BigBalls at least do his time before handing him the keys to the kingdom.
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by fcatalan 2y ago
The friction was high enough for me to not do it: Coming up with a week-long list of stuff that checks all the boxes: healthy, balanced, non repetitive, feasible in my cooking time, ingredients available in my store and I'll actually
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by fcatalan 2y ago
I wanted to get my diet in order, so I asked Perplexity for a nutritionally balanced weekly menu and a shopping list compatible with it and the store I go to, and it did pretty well in both tasks. On top of eating healthier and more varied,
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by fcatalan 2y ago
You can just prompt for it: "KI-Philologenstaunverunsicherung" Breaking it down: KI – (Künstliche Intelligenz, Artificial Intelligence) Philologen – (Philologists, scholars of language and linguistics) Staun – (from staunen, to ma
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by fcatalan 2y ago
I think some Game Theory 101 might be relevant here. Yes it's good to cooperate initially but after that, tit for tat is the thing to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Hungary, Turkey, India, Venezuela come to mind. Poland, Brazil are also recent near misses. South Korea also had a recent oops. So a well trodden path.
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Duolingo is a great kickstarter from zero knowledge, in my experience it also leads to very fast reading proficiency. I'm convinced I can make sense of a newspaper within weeks and read novels within months in any language just using D
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by fcatalan 2y ago
This has been my experience with a recent try to guide the LLM to a complete implementation of a small internal tool. I had in an hour what would have taken me 4 or 5 to write. But after that, it was an endless loop of the LLM adding loggin
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by fcatalan 2y ago
My wife has been receiving medical appointments, test results, event tickets, package tracking numbers and so on destined to a few old ladies for years. I once tracked the sons and nephews of one and told them, and they apparently thought I
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by fcatalan 2y ago
I was studying Physics, not out of particular interest, just because it was challenging, so I was doing badly. I then discovered a small room that had two unsupervised computers hooked up to some mysterious world-spaning network, and made f
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by fcatalan 2y ago
This is so myopic. I feel it's similar to the scrapping of Philosophy from the common high school curriculum here in Spain. It was thrown away as the uninteresting rants of beardy old men, to make space for things like some trite dabbl
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by fcatalan 2y ago
I've seen my 15 year old use ChatGPT for her homework and I'm ok with most of what she does. For example she tends to ask it for outlines instead of the whole thing, mostly to beat "white page paralysis" and also becaus
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by fcatalan 2y ago
I've always seen a dilemma with increased bureaucracy driven by corruption prevention: Systems too focused on defeating corruption as a main objective tend to miss their original intent, and become overly restrictive, to the point of h

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