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by jfk13 4y ago
Wow, that little Cox engine ... that's a blast from the past. Must've been 1972, if memory serves correctly. Being in Sweden at the time, mine was attached to a (highly simplified) little balsa Draken plane. Good times indeed.
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by jfk13 4y ago
> Would you stop visiting hacker news even though ChatGPT is using the content from its pages? NO. Would I stop visiting hacker news once most of the articles and comments come from ChatGPT-driven bots? Yes. And how are we to avoid that
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by jfk13 4y ago
Yes, it does some seriously impressive things. (Some of the time.) But to refer to it as "understanding" anything is to make a rather large leap of faith, IMO. (Or it's a devaluing of the word "understand".)
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by jfk13 4y ago
> ChatGPT did exactly what it was told Actually, I'd suggest it didn't. The prompt implies (but without explicitly stating) that she is the passenger (maybe even one of several) in the helicopter. You wouldn't say "in
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by jfk13 4y ago
Yeah, I looked at the article expecting to find out about some writing system I hadn't previously known. Oh, it's Ajami? That's hardly news, it's been widely known (at least among people with an interest in such things)
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by jfk13 4y ago
Have you considered that > I talk very fast, shortly, and pack my sentences with information might mean some people find it quite difficult to listen to you? And perhaps "need" to interrupt in order to clarify some of that pack
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by jfk13 4y ago
And I don't see any fundamental reason to believe that language models can learn or reason at all.
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by jfk13 4y ago
Or that such machine "knowledge" is anything remotely like human knowledge? (Personally, I see no reason to believe that it is.)
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by jfk13 4y ago
I don't think that follows at all. Twitter is quite unimportant to me: I don't tweet, and very rarely look at anyone else's tweets either. Yet I'm fairly aware of Musk's behavior during and since the takeover, and w
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by jfk13 4y ago
Why not? OK, looks like "microsoftsupport.com" is taken, but GoDaddy is happy to offer me alternatives like microsoftsupport.app, microsoftsupport.site, microsoftsupport.tv, or microsoftsupport.uk that should work equally well for
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by jfk13 4y ago
Also, sending such a reply may turn out to be a chargeable message, not included in your standard plan.
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by jfk13 4y ago
This comment (which I read before looking at the post) made me think we're talking about someone fresh from college (or boot camp, or whatever) who hasn't yet "settled in" to how the world of employment works. But no: ap
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by jfk13 4y ago
If you'll excuse me saying -- and I may be totally misreading your comment -- it sounds like what you were looking for (and finding) so easily in the past wasn't really a partner , at least in the life-long sense, but rather a st
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by jfk13 4y ago
Is this simply our beloved "fake it till you make it" ethos at work again?
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by jfk13 4y ago
> it is now “climate change” to blame and not piss poor management of land Have you considered that both might be important factors?
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by jfk13 4y ago
I don't recall running across video on gov.uk sites -- and offhand, can't think of any case where it would have been desirable.
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by jfk13 4y ago
> standards are made or broken (or flaunted) I think you may have meant "flouted" there? Though sometimes flaunting a standard might also be a thing.
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by jfk13 4y ago
Also in/from the south (though outside London), and was not familiar with that usage at all. A search does turn up some confirmation, though (e.g. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/287275.html ).
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by jfk13 4y ago
Likewise... by the time I got my hands on MS-DOS, I'd tinkered with a half-dozen or so other systems, from Commodore PET to IBM System/370.
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by jfk13 4y ago
I remember it as "...and what the fsck is he doing reading my disk?"
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by jfk13 4y ago
Absence of a suitable meteor?
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by jfk13 4y ago
You're probably right, but I wasn't sure if there might be some regional variation even within the US. In contrast, if you asked where my son is and I replied that "he's in school", I think that'd be fine, woul
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by jfk13 4y ago
It can be either "in hospital" or "in the hospital"; this tends to be a regional difference. UK English prefers without "the", while US English is likely to include it. "in pub", on the other hand, wo
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by jfk13 4y ago
On the other hand, if random exchanges can print them, there's little to guarantee their stability.
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by jfk13 4y ago
I felt better about Abebooks before Amazon got their hands on it. Now, I'll only turn to it as a last resort.
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by jfk13 4y ago
> greatest potential to positively impact humanity That's a bold claim. So far, I haven't seen much sign of anything even remotely like "positive impact".
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by jfk13 4y ago
There was the guy who trained his local magpies to collect discarded bottle caps... https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/magpies-traine...
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by jfk13 4y ago
And now, examples of this kind of "reasoning" are ending up scattered around the internet, where they'll likely get picked up as additional training material to "improve" the system... this could spiral downhill in
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by jfk13 4y ago
For my own safety's sake.
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Musk feuds with Apple over Twitter advertising(bbc.co.uk)
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