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by jfk13 4y ago
Yes, but... Merriam-Webster also acknowledges that the use of "jive" in this sense "seems to have increased each decade since the 1940s, and may often be found in reputable and edited sources today". https://w
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by jfk13 4y ago
Doctors -- and the wider medical systems they're part of -- are certainly not perfect. I think there are issues with the American health system (if it's even meaningful to refer to "a system" there) that are crying out f
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by jfk13 4y ago
Misleading. That report discusses "medical errors", not "medical malpractice". They are not the same thing.
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by jfk13 4y ago
I don't think the issue with spaces is primarily about selection; it's about parsing.
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by jfk13 4y ago
Try Algol68.
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by jfk13 4y ago
For those who haven't seen this little gem before: https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on...
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by jfk13 4y ago
> Nobody would sue you for copyright infringement if you memorized a book, song or movie in your head. No, but what if you then produce "your own" rendition, or "remix", of that book, song or movie and offer it to the
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by jfk13 4y ago
It's interesting to recognise that the ads in these magazines were something many of us positively appreciated. Yet today, we go out of our way to try and suppress ads all over the web. I guess this is because the advertising industry
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by jfk13 4y ago
I don't think AppleScript achieved anything like the approachability, discoverability, and delight of HyperCard. It wanted to appear similar, but was constantly stumbling over the wildly varying levels (and quality) of support found in
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by jfk13 4y ago
> Japanese programmers continue to be utterly inept That's quite a sweeping statement! Plenty of Japanese programers I know are extremely competent.
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by jfk13 4y ago
In your country, perhaps so. Not in mine.
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by jfk13 4y ago
This being Hacker News, you could consider Knuth's approach: have one built for your home. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
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by jfk13 4y ago
I can confirm that 230V is plenty to give you a serious jolt -- like, throw you a couple feet backwards from the thing you shouldn't have touched. I imagine it could've killed me if the connection hadn't been so rapidly broke
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by jfk13 4y ago
> the same could be said of random google search results Yes, of course it could. But at least with the search results, you can see where they come from, and make a judgement about sources.
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by jfk13 4y ago
> Is there any merit to the pages you're trying to create? No, but maybe they can be monetised for a few extra dollars in ad revenue. (Do I sound cynical? Yes, I'm tired of the recycled garbage that fills so much of today'
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by jfk13 4y ago
Experience suggests that people are all too willing to unthinkingly follow instructions just because "the computer said so". https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-fo...
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by jfk13 4y ago
And do you trust its answers to be accurate? I expect they often are, but how will you know when it comes up with a spurious one?
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by jfk13 4y ago
Surely the whole thing is full of digits?
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by jfk13 4y ago
And comparing these two results for the same question serves to illustrate how ChatGPT does not in any meaningful sense _understand_ what it is "talking" about . It basically just strings together relevant-seeming words in a plau
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by jfk13 4y ago
> C) ... should anything ever happen to him I'm pretty confident he will eventually die, one way or another. > apparently in the jurisdictions he has concealed his wealth, buried treasure is taxed far more lightly than inheritanc
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by jfk13 4y ago
For some discussion, see https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3828
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by jfk13 4y ago
For another awesome rendition, try the Simon Gallagher production, with Derek Metzger as the Major-General; the entire show is (in my opinion) utterly fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJaNbD6R2s&list=PLXRhW-jV
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by jfk13 4y ago
But can you seriously deny that everything the model generates is a derivative of the inputs? And if it's a derived work, it might not constitute "fair use" of the input materials. That depends on.... well, I'm not a cop
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by jfk13 4y ago
Yes, transformative works may be allowed. So I'd guess that creating a model is probably OK (speaking as a non-lawyer!). But using output generated by that model is another matter. The "model" is fundamentally a machine t
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by jfk13 4y ago
As I understand it, "fair use" would allow you to do various kinds of analysis of all those pages, and to quote fragments of them in your own work, which is arguably similar to what copilot etc might do. But republishing large chu
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by jfk13 4y ago
There are Unicode characters for superscripted digits; you can probably find them in some kind of character-map application, depending on the platform you're using.
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by jfk13 4y ago
What this says to me is that the society/country in which he's living -- yes, I can guess which one it is -- is pretty broken.
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by jfk13 4y ago
> everyone, even the skinny folks, should be on GLP1 drugs Seriously? No thanks. Think I'll give you all a few decades to see what the long-term effects are like, and let my body largely take care of itself except when specific medi
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by jfk13 4y ago
And that they weren't just written by ChatGPT.... OK, that's probably not a big concern quite yet, but how long until it is?
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by jfk13 4y ago
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

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