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by jpollock 3y ago
Sorry, my comment wasn't LLMs in general, it was this specific pair of LLMs at this specific time. I've been trying the same prompt since ChatGPT was released, and I keep revisiting it. They are getting better at writing code, Bar
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by jpollock 3y ago
I use the same programming prompt on both Bard and ChatGPT. "write a function in java to decode a rfc 3588 diameter header" They both need a lot of hand-holding. Too much to make it worth using them. Things they get wrong... 1) Th
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by jpollock 3y ago
Lots of things have been lost because people didn't consider them worth paper. What is important ends up being very strange. Ephemera become _very_ important. For example, how did women care for their hair during Victorian times? Did t
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by jpollock 3y ago
Even in the USA kids are allowed to work, either paid or unpaid. There is insufficient information to decide if this is exploitative labor or not. I’m guessing you don’t have many friends that grew up rural?
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by jpollock 4y ago
Yeah, the table in the article doesn't match the dataset they're quoting from. The dataset they're supposedly using is: https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/ Which has UK: USD 0.413 for
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by jpollock 4y ago
Nitrogen run-off can be a major pollutant in waterways. It can either be over-fertilization, or cow dung and urine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024564/ https://www.epa.gov/nu
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by jpollock 4y ago
A bunch of owed vacation is a great addition to an exit package.
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by jpollock 4y ago
The same way you force them to buy a map. Unless "I have to buy" is a mistranslation.
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by jpollock 4y ago
It doesn't register a loan, so there's no new account to affect credit score?
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by jpollock 4y ago
They typically don't pull a credit score, or register a loan. They try to maintain a continuous auth for the next month's payment. That essentially lowers your credit card limit by the payment amount for the lifetime of the loan.
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by jpollock 4y ago
I get way too much of these bulk-generated documents to read _now_. Making their generation more efficient is a bad thing, not a good thing.
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by jpollock 4y ago
I believe that allowing people to refinance a house without it becoming a taxable event is the problem. If getting a second mortgage on the higher valuation required the valuation to be used for both property and income tax purposes, people
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by jpollock 4y ago
I just saw a podcast about a startup that was working with Medicare/Medicaid to reduce costs by improving preventative care [1]. They look for people at risk, target them and take a cut of the overall reduced spend. If Medicare is requ
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by jpollock 4y ago
The hard part in the early spellcheckers wasn't figuring out that you want to find a set of words with a minimum edit distance from the input. The hard part was fitting the dictionary in memory, and then searching all possible strings
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by jpollock 4y ago
Most languages have the ability to call C functions. Use the language that helps you write your code and convert to call the third party API. For example, a C++ Vector provides a generic container and the code can still call C functions wit
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by jpollock 4y ago
By the time they're beached, they're not owned by a Western company. They've been sold for scrap to the scrappers. "right now, selling a vessel to a beaching facility would get maybe $500 (£371) per tonne." https:&
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by jpollock 4y ago
p=h/λ https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/phy2053bc/chapter/photon-m... . Edit - mislead by Google, corrected.
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by jpollock 4y ago
If they were broken, they are deterministically broken, unless they are really poorly written the calculator won't randomize the answers to the same inputs.
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by jpollock 4y ago
I think that's ok, For me, it's more about "change the system, instead of ignoring it". Once you change the system (document/rules/alerts/etc), then if it breaks, you change it again and learn the lesson.
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by jpollock 4y ago
It is Efficiency Optimization when you know why the rule is there, and having made an estimation of the risks, perform a cost-benefit analysis. aka "Chesterton's Fence" Otherwise, it's "Normalization of Deviance&quo
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by jpollock 4y ago
My job as an engineer has been to make my current position unnecessary. That's how I justify my pay increases, by becoming more efficient and making the organisation more efficient. I look at where the organisation is going and solve p
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by jpollock 4y ago
The model itself would probably be considered a transformative work, and Microsoft likely has a broad license to do whatever they want with code hosted on GitHub. However, there is a reason the CoPilot instructions say that users shouldn&#x
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by jpollock 4y ago
Because copilot is a copyright hellscape that litters codebases with landmines. Anyone using it for company-owned code is relying on the cloned code never being discovered. Google would have learned an expensive lesson from Oracle v Google.
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by jpollock 4y ago
The Foundation Series doesn't have any aliens because the humans created a bunch of robots that then decided to kill _EVERYTHING_ELSE_ in the galaxy to protect the humans.
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by jpollock 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT to decode a Diameter header in Java (RFC 6733 Section 3). It supplied this : // Parse the Diameter header ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(message); int version = buffer.get() & 0xff; int f
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by jpollock 4y ago
That's a great way of phrasing it. A boolean can be a FSM in hiding. Tracking FSM transitions is the change history/transaction log, isn't it? It would be: {timestamp, old_state, event, new_state} If we convert booleans to ti
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by jpollock 4y ago
The timestamp doesn't give you enough information to answer the questions it's typically going to be used for. It tells you "when", but not "who", and "what else at the same time". A change history is
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by jpollock 4y ago
The problem with the timestamp is that it keeps people from thinking that they've got an enum. For example, let's start with an object, which has a boolean flag "active". boolean is_active; We will always want to get a b
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by jpollock 4y ago
That would have different tax results depending on whether or not it was operating under a reseller model, where the reseller is the one importing the item. Then there is little or no revenue local to France.
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by jpollock 4y ago
Santa Clara has data for the south bay, and I couldn't find it on the verily page. https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater

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