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by gwd 3y ago
Just to be clear, you're saying that because they're tweaking GPT-4 to give more explanations of code, you shouldn't rely on it for coding? Obviously if that's your own preference, I'm not going to tell you that you
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by gwd 3y ago
This comment has an interesting take on it, haven't read the paper to verify the take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781968 EDIT: FWIW I haven't noticed any such regression. I don't generally use it
903.
by gwd 3y ago
> I would classify this as marketing and self-promoting hyperbole Or probably better, "clickbait". The author actually did a video about why he started using clickbait titles; basically, his goal is to make actually educationa
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by gwd 3y ago
Why do you think this? FWIW I use GPT-4 regularly to explain Koine Greek from the New Testament to me; its ability there certainly hasn't diminished in the last two months.
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by gwd 3y ago
Before the iPhone 6 and its rounded displays, I never used a case on my iPhone (including models 3g, 4s, and 5). I occasionally dropped it, but never had more than minor scratches or minor dents on the metal edging. Then I got an iPhone 6,
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by gwd 3y ago
> They lead the creation of a market but failed to maintain any competitive edge in it. That's a story of initial success that ultimately ran through their fingers, like so many other examples you've presented. Calling this ful
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by gwd 3y ago
> Type-1 and type-2 hypervisor is terminology that should at this point be relegated to the past. Maybe it's because of the time I grew up in, but in my mind the prototypical Type-I hypervisor is VMWare ESX Server; and the prototypi
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by gwd 3y ago
Listen people, Firecracker is NOT A HYPERVISOR. A hypervisor runs right on the hardware. KVM is a hypervisor. Firecracker is a process that controls KVM. If you want to call firecracker (and QEMU, when used in conjunction with KVM) a VM
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by gwd 3y ago
If you're using the API, you construct the "memories" as well, including the "system" prompt, even in the playground. (When you click the "(+) Add message", the new one defaults to USER, but you can click
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by gwd 3y ago
> But Git was initially written by one cranky Finn, in ten days. It totally changed the way we all work. To be fair, Linus was trying to replace Bitkeeper, a proprietary DVCS which he'd been using to maintain the kernel for several
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by gwd 3y ago
> "All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one’s activities into harmony with conscience, or (2) hiding from oneself the indications of conscience in order to be able to continue to live as
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by gwd 3y ago
You're right that in plain English, "compare" is a perfectly adequate word in this context. However, the person I replied to wasn't quite satisfied with it: they felt the need to add "(negatively)". I was try
913.
by gwd 3y ago
> I compare (negatively) to “Saving Private Ryan” I think the word you want here is "contrast"; i.e., "Contrast this to Saving Private Ryan, which..."
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by gwd 3y ago
> It boggles my mind that, given stories in the Bible like this, anyone would think worshiping such a cruel and vengeful god is a moral thing to do. We're getting far afield from Ellsberg here, but let me just point out the logic of
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by gwd 3y ago
You could start by asking why God mentioned his intentions to Abraham at all. What the text says about that: > Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation,
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by gwd 3y ago
The question was about the minimum number of "righteous" people required for the city to be saved. Abraham started at 50, then 45, then 40, 30, 20, and finally 10 -- at each point, God said "OK, if there are that many righ
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by gwd 3y ago
> Why shouldn't you be able to install a linux distro and turn your old iPhone or iPad into a really power-efficient home server-type appliance, if you want to? Why didn't you buy a phone that allowed you to do this? This sort
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by gwd 3y ago
Keanu spent 8 hours a day for months doing one thing. You can bet your bottom dollar that the director, Stahelski, didn't do that; and that if he had, the movie wouldn't have been a success. I think the proper recognition here
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by gwd 3y ago
> if the average person felt the same way, they wouldn't be doing it? You might think this, but I tend to doubt it's true... people making these decisions end up being in their own little bubble, and not really have a good idea
920.
by gwd 3y ago
I mean, that would be kind of insane, but it could actually work: OpenAI needs "clean", high-quality data as input for its AI; rather than harvesting data to sell to advertisers, they could and finance major internet infrastructu
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by gwd 3y ago
I didn't say I had a project at all; I think I just said I wanted to learn about it. I got access w/in 3 weeks. Maybe I was lucky and it was random? Or maybe they figured I wouldn't add that much load?
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by gwd 3y ago
My biggest issue with both perl and python (apart from no static checking) is third-party libraries: 1. I definitely want to use third-party libraries, so I don't have to re-invent the wheel 2. I hate having to install and manage third
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by gwd 3y ago
> Trademark is suppose to be about customer confusion, no one is confused here. If you read the article carefully, SCOTUS agrees. What the toy maker was trying to do was use a "shortcut" called the "Rogers test"; al
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by gwd 3y ago
Reading the article closely, SCOTUS seems to be ruling on a legal technicality; specifically, whether the "Rogers test" applies to the case in question. A lower court said it did, which made the toy-maker's case way easier.
925.
by gwd 3y ago
I mean, I was pretty happy with GPT-3.5 while I was waiting for GPT-4 access. But once you get used to it, it's hard to go back.
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by gwd 3y ago
...that's why everyone in the UK has a Hoover. The most common term I've heard for {acetominophen, ibuprofen, etc} in the US is "pain killer".
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by gwd 3y ago
Every so often I go back to GPT-3.5 for a simpler task I think it might be able to handle (and which I either want faster or cheaper), and am always disappointed. GPT-3.5 is way better than GPT-3, and GPT-4 is way better than GPT-3.5.
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by gwd 3y ago
I think there's a way in which ChatGPT is paying this, by having released GPT-3.5, rather than just waiting 6 months and releasing it with GPT-4 out of the gate. In this thread everyone is making a clear distinction, but in a lot of o
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by gwd 3y ago
> The “declassified” UAP videos so far are rote footage containing easily debunked garbage. Why would the military release lens flare videos and claim they’re UAP? They could be blithering idiots not knowing they’re looking at lens flare
930.
by gwd 3y ago
Right, but that R1 chip is going to be doing work constantly, and can't be moved without increasing the latency (decreasing quality and increasing issues with vertigo); so you have to work on thermal regulation within the headset any

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