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by fipar 3y ago
I think in this case it's because the book is about typewriters and it has nothing to do with LLMs. I agree it's annoying but I think this particular site has some aesthetic reason to do this.
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by fipar 3y ago
I’m about the same age as the author and also tried the freestyle as my first ergonomic keyboard. I’m now a big fan of my keybordio model 100. If you’re young and you plan to do this for a living, a good ergo keyboard with firmware you can
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by fipar 3y ago
You seem to be convinced I'm scared of something and in some sort of denial. However, I did say "I don't think there's anything especially magical or sacred about conscience and the human brain (or the brain of other ani
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I'm not sure I follow how you get from me not being impressed by the LLMs I've interacted with (you may be incapable of empathizing with that perspective, but that doesn't make me less unimpressed at them) to some hypothetica
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by fipar 3y ago
The Fall of Civilizations podcast is also very interesting and, despite the title, actually covers each civilization from origin to fall. I do believe Cholula, and this particular pyramid, are mentioned in the episode about the Mexica empir
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Thanks, I'll wait for it to be available (I'm a casual user and I'm not the one setting this up or paying for it, if someone is paying for it, so I'm not in control of which version I use). I'm in full agreement abo
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As stated in another response, I'm using 3, so I'm probably missing some good stuff. I have tried adding things like "please think step by step" (quite literally that question actually), and also "please make sure y
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by fipar 3y ago
No, I've only used GPT-3 so far. Should I be excited about GPT-4? :) Examples of things I'd file as silly mistakes: - mentioning non-existing settings when asking it about a particular software. - responding to roughly "give
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by fipar 3y ago
My only experience so far is with chatgpt, and I am not an expert in AI, or even just in LLMs. With those disclaimers, my interactions inform my opinion that the LLM behind chatgpt has no internal world model. It shows no understanding of b
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by fipar 3y ago
I’m all for dreaming of and working in on technology that actually improves people’s lives, and I also think we do a lot of that already (besides the obvious examples of all the medical technology that, along with the test of modern medical
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by fipar 3y ago
Most people I stumble upon wearing logos due it for signaling. The logos send signals like "I can afford this", or "I'm into sports". As a side effect, they're walking billboards for the brands, but that&#x27
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Spotify Threatens to Pull Out of Uruguay If Changes to Copyright Law Proceed(bloomberglinea.com)
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by fipar 3y ago
They're not entitled, and neither is Spotify entitled to sell on the app store on terms they want. It's just a business transaction. It either works for both sides, or it doesn't. It's understandable that Spotify doesn&#
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Show HN: Tradero: A tool for achieving self-funding via trading(tradero.dev)
3 points by fipar 3y ago|1 comments
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Hello, Posting this for my friend math-a3k who currently is unable to access his hn account, but should be able later today to respond in the comments directly. His text follows: Very happy to announce the first point release of tradero - a
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XTree(en.wikipedia.org)
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Renegade(en.wikipedia.org)
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by fipar 3y ago
Emacs is so much more than a text editor! But I need to stay on topic... I believe your assessment of LISP (and therefore of MacArthy)'s impact on AI to be unfair. Just a few days ago https://github.com/norvig/paip
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by fipar 3y ago
I'm not saying this is the reason, but unnecessary (or sometimes dangerous if used in real life) optimizations have been created to speed up QA runs (of course, that only works if what you optimize away is not part of what you're
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by fipar 3y ago
Question out of ignorance: what does it mean to jump start an EV? I know what it is for an ICE (and I have a jump-starter-battery always in the trunk, with usb ports it doubles as a phone charger if you’re somewhere without power), but for
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by fipar 3y ago
I got curious and this is what I found: https://blog.gitnux.com/fire-truck-accident-statistics If this is to be trusted: "Only around 2% of all reported motor vehicle accidents involve a fire truck." It seems not
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by fipar 3y ago
> I don't know, I would be curious to meet out of school dev from 20 years ago. Those I meet at my current job are... young. The lack of experience shows. I was a stil-at-school dev/sysadmin/multi-purpose nerd 23 years ago
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by fipar 3y ago
> But I just don't see e.g. for-profit bootcamps with their simplified curriculum as any kind of social justice project. And you're right not seeing them that way! While I'm sure there are now good-faith bootcamps that hav
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by fipar 3y ago
>> It's an inference to the best explanation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ No empirical evidence conclusively proves its true explanation, but the best available explanation is the most
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by fipar 3y ago
That’s not how it works though, a scientist needs supporting evidence for their explanation before the null hypothesis can be ruled out. You seem to have your mind set on an explanation while other people aren’t seeing the evidence you’re s
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by fipar 3y ago
> You don't mention any of these possible causes though. I did not, but I was responding to your "The reality is that yes, cassettes really were responsible" which to me reads like a statement of fact and not one of possib
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by fipar 3y ago
That graph does not show cassettes were responsible for that, it just shows revenue numbers. There are other possible causes. As someone who lived through part of that (I’m from ‘78 but for a country that was lagging in media developments;
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by fipar 3y ago
I like your optimism but lets get real here: the future of server-side web programming is emacs-lisp talking to Postgres95.
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> Its a language model and it fooled DH. It hasnt gotten smarter than us yet. Its just faster at repeating what other humans verbally said. I agree with this completely. That said, I think this part is a bit unfair: > Lets take someo
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by fipar 3y ago
At least, unlike religion or football teams, I’m yet to learn about people killing each other over Mario being better than Sonic (are those made by different companies? I don’t know … just replace with another character if they are not). I

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