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3y ago
No, no, no! Please, if I may elaborate: Q. How many programmers and engineers does it take to build an LLM and fire it up? Some here implicitly speak as if they are familiar with LLMs, and so I assumed that the answer could be 1, 2 or pos
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3y ago
quickthrower2 says > "It is a HN trope to say why does company X need so many employees." < I have not gathered the statistics that you undoubtedly have compiled. Please feel free to post them here in support of your grammar
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3y ago
quickthrower2 says: > "Not this again!" < I am unenlightened by your short missive. Perhaps there you could point to something clarifying your intent - something like, say: "This has been previously discussed ad nause
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3y ago
TheCleric says > "I’d have quit months ago." < But no one gave you the chance. Why not, pray tell, since you were by far the better choice?8-))
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3y ago
trojan13 says >"The way he looks at the audience, expecting a positive reaction, it seems to me that the memes have really got into his head and he thinks people still love him for being so edgy and 'funny'."< Yo
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3y ago
How many of OpenAI's employees are actually developing the software they market? 700+ seems awfully high.
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3y ago
A quick enjoyable read, so I searched for posts/articles by the rather prolific "Lance B. Eliot" and found: "Our Neanderthal DNA Might Get Triggered By AI, Initially Set Off By Self-Driving Cars" https:/&#x
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3y ago
Maybe there's something you don't know perhaps? Here you are, trying to "outthink" an AI and speaking as if you understand (both the AI and the world of politics at the very least)! Isn't that silly!
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giardini
3y ago
Did the "bunch of people" also return (from Microsoft to OpenAI)?
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3y ago
How do these dosages compare to the usual human therapeutic dosages of doxycycline, azithromax and vitamin C?
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3y ago
flagrant_taco says >"How would you define or recognize a level of intelligence or autonomy that is sufficient to raise concerns?"< If it asks for the right to vote?
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3y ago
dartos says >"We do fully understand how, and why, they work. That’s how we can build and optimize them. We can and do explicitly explain their inner workings in math."< I certainly don't! I don't know of anyone
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3y ago
I'm glad to see that ChatGPT has reached the level of intelligence of a a "spirit board" (Ouija board), which has scared the bejeezus out of kids and adults for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouij
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3y ago
says ">But conspiracies don't work because the world isn't that predictable.<" Agreed but that doesn't prevent people from trying to instigate conspiracies. After all, Prometheus caused blind hopes to live in
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3y ago
Three years on a clothes hanger design ? She's paid to do this?! "There's a sucker born every minute!" - Old saying https://medium.com/skeptikai/the-real-story-behind-the-quote...
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giardini
3y ago
Perhaps, but isn't it better to refrain until someone at least tries to answer the (grandparent) question?
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giardini
3y ago
Some are elected by the great unwashed masses and some others are appointed. You must examine the rules for the particular judgeship to know.
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3y ago
That URL fails to find valid addresses and is likely EFF "Hoovering up" addresses - SOS.
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3y ago
Trees large enough to shade your home will tear up your foundation and house rodents (squirrels) that will nest in the walls and A/C units. Trees and pests will deposit leaves, branches and nuts on the roof which will clog gutters and
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3y ago
How much more does a heat pump installation cost? How many years before the heat pump pays for itself? I've got friends and family who installed solar panels a decade ago and claim they haven't "broken even" (the investm
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3y ago
The opposite has been painfully experienced. Firearms supplemented the excellent bow and arrow among native Americans. But the repeating handgun was the most significant weapon advancement in the struggles between Americans and the native A
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3y ago
>"So basically it's an algorithm designed to push out people who play nice?"< Perhaps should be renamed TCP-Peking in contrast to TCP-HongKong where queuing is accepted behavior.
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3y ago
Bear and moose have plenty of fat et al. The derailment isn't a simple metal-on-metal action, it's a metal-on-moose-on-metal interaction. The moose is skin-protein-fat-bone-fat-protein-skin. Do the math.
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3y ago
That depends: if you hire Cocaine Lawyer Bear to defend you, the opposing party will likely be unable to find counsel to argue their case.
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3y ago
I once thought squirrels were cute. Then I became a condo association president. I removed squirrel carcasses from all rooftop A/C units, along with the harvested nutshells that they had left behind. I patched the holes they opened int
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3y ago
Squirrels are large enough to make a meal. And you can sell squirrel caps to the neighbors' kids.
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giardini
3y ago
Seems to work pretty fast!
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3y ago
FWIW one might search for a house that has an transferable ( assumable ) mortgage. So the buyer picks up the loan where the seller left off. This would preserve the (presumably) lower interest rate of the seller's home loan. From http
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3y ago
One way to look at your choice is to ask which path will expose you to the most new ideas. If you're already proficient in one or more procedural programming languages then certainly Rust training will fine-tune your skills. OTOH if y
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3y ago
The future is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmUVo0xVAqE The film Idiocracy reviewed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
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