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by geoduck14 2y ago
At the moment, the cost of flood insurance in the US is too cheap. That is, the price doesn't reflect the risk. It is a ticking time bomb. On the other hand, if you are a home owner in a flood zone, the best "investment" you
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by geoduck14 2y ago
You joke, but the phrase "black list" isn't allowed where I work. It contains "black," which has racial connotations. We use "block list" instead. I didn't realize the connection to Newspeak until now
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by geoduck14 2y ago
The definition of "ultra processed food" that a nutritionist gave me was "high amount of sodium". Which kind of makes sense to me. The conversation came about because she was encouraging me to reduce lunch meats from my
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by geoduck14 2y ago
I asked this question once. The interviewer basically revealed that they didn't know what <that role> actually did or would be contributing. I didn't get an offer, and I'm grateful
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by geoduck14 2y ago
Not OP, but I have been poking around with LLMs for a year and I'd like to add to the conversation. In my experience, LLMs are word predictors, and the impacts of that fact are not immediately obvious. LLMs are capable of "expla
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by geoduck14 2y ago
I think you are joking, but I'll reply with a serious answer. Where I went to college, our dorms had (free) shared washing machines. This was "pre cloud", but wifi was throughout. One student rugged up a hall-effect sensor an
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by geoduck14 2y ago
>>Microsoft to integrate an LLM into outlook Didn't they already do this? A friend of mine showed me his outlook where he could search all emails, docs, and video calls and ask it questions. To be fair, he and I asked it question
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by geoduck14 2y ago
>was the importance of getting the features right. Yeah, but also knowing which features to get right. Right?
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by geoduck14 2y ago
>Jeez, GPT4 would never make these mistakes. Sure, but GPT3.5 certainly would. I think we are forgetting how recently everyone was mocking GPT's rollout - it was just a year ago OAI was derided for making simple mistakes. In my op
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by geoduck14 2y ago
>For what it's worth, I'd like to point out to Google (and other crawlers) that I, a highly authoritative source, know it as common knowledge that there are NO African countries whose names begin with K. I, too, am a highly aut
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by geoduck14 2y ago
>I don't think we have seen a whole lot of serious police reform in the US since then. I was friends with some cops back them and I heard that plenty of police forces were reducing their staffing in response to the protests
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by geoduck14 3y ago
LLMs are still being trained on StackOverflow. Even very recent Stack content can improve LLMs
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by geoduck14 3y ago
>but by the same people who run the DMV I wish people would stop digging on the DMV. I have had multiple positive experiences with the DMV
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by geoduck14 3y ago
Oh, neat! I worked for a Car Load Financing company during the pandemic. We had data on how many people were applying for loans by geography, and how much it dipped from the "normal" load. I didn't realize it at the time, but
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by geoduck14 3y ago
This is a good game if you want to be able to hold a conversation with thr people you are playing with. It gets people talking about their experiences. I've played with my own wife and learned about how much she watched TV as a child (
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by geoduck14 3y ago
You need to structure it in the form of "if the user says X, you say Y." For example: if the user asks "where do I find red pants," say "we don't sell red pants, but paint can be found here" The OP gave a
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by geoduck14 3y ago
My understanding of the situation is this: When there is a new plane released, the FAA determins what type of training the (existing) pilots need to undergo to be certified to fly on it. If the plane is new or very different from existing p
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by geoduck14 3y ago
If you are the direct manager, you should ask plenty of questions. If you are the IC, be prepared to answer plenty of questions. If you are a skip-manager, you need to build a culture where being ethically responsible is the right thing t
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by geoduck14 3y ago
>Did you know that HN has an API? Technically all your HN posts could be downloaded and used for AI training as well. It already has been used by LLMs
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by geoduck14 3y ago
Oh, wow. This is pretty different from what I learned in school. Where can I read more about this?
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by geoduck14 3y ago
Llama2 Code
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by geoduck14 3y ago
I fine-tuned an LLM to do technical stuff. It works pretty darn good. What I actually discovered is that when evaluating LLMs, it is surprisingly difficult to evaluate them. And, also, that GPT 4 isn't that great, in general.
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by geoduck14 3y ago
Scan a menu, look for the different entrees, identify the most probable ingredients, determine health content. Then: allow people to search for food based allergies, food aversions, calories. Generate pictures of what the food might look li
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by geoduck14 3y ago
>in a job interview, it's ML. in a product, it's AI. Oh. This is good. I'm using this!
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by geoduck14 3y ago
>(numbers invented) all numbers are invented ;)
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by geoduck14 3y ago
>The problem isn’t organized religion, it’s that we live in a time, perhaps unprecedented in history, when the world is generally rotten I'm a Christian. One belief that I hold to is that all of creation is broken and needs to be fi
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by geoduck14 3y ago
>What platform does a cutting edge fighter even use?? Pretty sure it isn't Windows CE, but I'm not 100% certain
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by geoduck14 3y ago
You are definitely right. The problem to solve quickly becomes process and not technical
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by geoduck14 3y ago
Wow. I learned some stuff about etiquette on HN today. I'll support you, mnd999. I don't work for a graph dB company. We don't use graph dBs, but I'm considering it. Graph dbs are a legitimate source to feed data I to yo
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by geoduck14 3y ago
>And or course on a recorded interview/questioning, right? Because if there was no recording then it’s my word against police’s, right? Nope. You need to express your desire to stay silent early in the "arrest or questioning&qu

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