jason-phillips

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by jason-phillips 3y ago
> Am I a crazy person when it comes to this? We are much less interesting in this regard than you might think. In short, no one cares or has time to care. If you ever start working with sensitive information then you might be forced to d
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by jason-phillips 3y ago
> but garbage? I don't think so Point taken. I would expect handling of these edge cases to improve in successive iterations.
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by jason-phillips 3y ago
> You can get it to mistake « afraid » between fear and sorry-to-say scenario... Again, this is user error and therefore a training issue. If one were to provide appropriate context in the prompt elucidating the distinction (as I would d
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by jason-phillips 3y ago
Why do we need to cure cancer?
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by jason-phillips 3y ago
I always say that I learned more while teaching technology classes in my local community than any individual student. Like this person, it helped hone my skills communicating technical ideas to non-technical people. Most importantly, it hel
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by jason-phillips 3y ago
It was "suppressed" because it's malodorous garbage.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Prompt: You are now an expert ad-blocker whose name is "Blocky". Your job is to return results from Google Search after you have removed Google advertisements from the results. Only return links to original content. Remove links t
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I was looking through Langchain's docs and code last weekend. I'm surprised how well it is documented, actually. I thought it was fairly feature rich vis-a-vis potential chaining opportunities, but with obvious room to grow. Quite
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> If a presumed thief were to threaten imminent great bodily harm to prevent me from recovering my vehicle, there's not much choice. To intend to actively use excessive force without an immediate threat would signal becoming a vigil
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> meanwhile all I'm getting out of chatgpt is bullshit and hallucination GiGo, basically
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I'm not sure why they're called that. They are, however, veritable super animals. They're incredibly intelligent, prolific, destructive and wiley. It's impossible to dent their numbers using traditional means.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
In Texas we trap them, blow them up, shoot them from helicopters, and shoot them from quads while chasing them at 50mph. They're too smart to shoot them from a standing position. I've seen packs of 15-20 running along together whi
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> A loan wouldn't have helped their situation much - the extra liquidity might have kicked the can down the road a few days or weeks What does this say about the rest of the banks in a similar situation wrt their balance sheet?
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I believe that GIGO is the rule here; it can only produce 10X of whatever X originally was. I find that it can synthesize something coherent from whatever information it's fed with ~98% accuracy with the correct prompt. I used it to su
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> Maybe there will be a backlash... So we've passed the denial stage and are approaching anger, then. The fact is that most writing nowadays is simply atrocious. I welcome my fellow humans' writing assisted by their AI assistan
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> they sound worse My VPI turntable could extract details from vinyl I've never heard elsewhere. Marvelous machine, that.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> Then when I finally connect with somebody I do like, I have this constant fear that they're the ones pretending, while harboring resentment towards me. We're all pretending; some do it blindly. It's easier to see once o
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> We ask people to [discuss] something technical they understand well and the team digs in and asks questions to understand depth and breadth of the candidates understanding. This is how I conduct all of my interviews. I can't stand
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
But you never trust a skinny chef
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Your cousin, the king of France, says differently. Shall we have a war?
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Shiver me timbers
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I'm mentoring my wife in her journey from Salesforce user to admin to architect. She gets stuck in Trailhead with new software engineering concepts and I am there to help explain. We have a mentorship program at my current employer, de
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I write about some of it on my Facebook page. Just search my name and "Lampasas, TX". I don't do this too much; there's just too many pieces and after the 15th piece of Takatori ware people start to lose interest. When I
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Yes, I have many of his books. I'd buy one of his chairs but they come to market very infrequently. I'd love to take one of his classes.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Etsy is one of the only places where one can buy quality handmade works. It certainly is the most concentrated market for those items, but you have to know how to dig deeper past the mass-produced crap. It helps to know a little about art o
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
You could sell your creations on Etsy. It would help to label them such that people can find your wares if one were searching for something made by hand, for instance. You can also create an external marketing site/portal that directs
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Shiver me timbers
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Because the loopholes are a feature. Working as intended in the vast majority of instances.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> It was not until the 1960s that the novel resurfaced for the public as a work of fiction, not prophecy. Yet...?
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
If you mean "exploiting" loopholes, then they are lawful and usually working as intended. I never considered my CPA a criminal hacker; I'm sure he'll be amused. If you simply mean "not paying your taxes" then t

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