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by leobg 4y ago
Beating around the bush for the first 70 % of the article about that mystery “basic iPhone feature”. In the end, it’s this: > Groups of two or three thieves would go to a bar and befriend victims, often asking them to open up Snapchat or
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Coffee Roasting History: The Beginning of Roasting Coffee and Roasters(helenacoffee.vn)
2 points by leobg 4y ago|0 comments
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by leobg 4y ago
You’re missing the heatgun. For roasting.
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SRA Cards: A History of Programmed Instruction and Personalization(hackeducation.com)
1 points by leobg 4y ago|0 comments
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by leobg 4y ago
"Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated." —Paul Valery, quoted by Walter Benjamin, Storyteller
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by leobg 4y ago
If it’s that remote they might actually have to pay YOU. :)
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by leobg 4y ago
Are you in a densely populated area by any chance? I’m just guessing, but perhaps they’re using price to level the field of distribution?
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by leobg 4y ago
I am a subscriber. And they lowered my price a few months ago. By something like 10%. I don’t remember seeing any WSJ headlines about that.
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by leobg 4y ago
I like the project. Had been wanting to do this myself for a long time, because HN has become the first place I go to nowadays for answers, and I value the intelligence and experience distilled in the comments here. I do not like that it se
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by leobg 4y ago
Same. I have “site:news.ycombinator.com” as a keyboard shortcut on my phone. Use it all the time.
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by leobg 4y ago
Prompt engineering. The pick-up lines of the NLP world…
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by leobg 4y ago
Engelbart’s dream. A computer, that stores all the knowledge of your company, and of humanity. Always tells you what you need to know exactly when you need to know it. Helps you resolve apparent conflicts in your data. And basically makes s
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by leobg 4y ago
Rich Hickey says “the computer is the worst place to work“. I guess he means precisely for the reason you state. The best ideas come when there’s no input from outside.
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by leobg 4y ago
Applies to coding, too, I find.
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by leobg 4y ago
So can we continue training RoBERTa to get it to, say, GPT3 Ada level
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by leobg 4y ago
Slightly off topic: Any recommendations for good detective novels?
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by leobg 4y ago
Could you send me an email please? I read your comments here on GPT-3 and I’d like to ask you a few things privately, if at all possible. Thanks
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by leobg 4y ago
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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by leobg 4y ago
That is a cool idea! And I just realized the Whisper.cpp guy has already built something like this. Whisper WASM. [1] Unfortunately, on my iPhone this runs so slow that I might just as well send my mic recordings to a typist. And mobile is
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by leobg 4y ago
Cool. I built something similar for myself. Though it uses the GPT-3 API rather than ChatGPT: Whisper.cpp for text input. Google WaveNet Voice for text output. One button for the user to start and stop speaking, like Siri. Allows me and my
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by leobg 4y ago
Awesome. Let me know how you liked it. It’s fairly short.
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by leobg 4y ago
Gotcha. So could you first point me to the one or two AskHistorians answers that you are either most proud of personally or that you think people should read? I think I’d like to read those!
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by leobg 4y ago
What does "am familiar" mean? You have heard "of" them, or you have read their work? With Skinner, even if you just read a biography, I would imagine that it's hard that one would not want to Google more about his s
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by leobg 4y ago
If you email me I can send you my notes. Contact info in profile.
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by leobg 4y ago
Hm. Maybe get it from Anna’s Archive and send the author a tip if you like it. It’s an old book. And he’s responsive. There is an article by the author that covers some of the topics of the book, which is freely available as a PDF: https:&
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by leobg 4y ago
BTW, relevant to OP’s question: > Skinner was the happiest, most productive, most creative person I've ever known, largely because he was so skilled at self-management. That’s from the first book I mentioned.
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by leobg 4y ago
Oh. I’d like to hear that, too. What would be a good format for you?
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by leobg 4y ago
That is the mainstream view. I know. And yet books like Atomic Habits rank way up there in the bestseller lists. Skinner is probably the most underestimated figure in 20th century science. His ideas are generating billions in value to this
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by leobg 4y ago
The author of that book has been writing about behavior for years. And yet when I once sent him a picture of B. F. Skinner, he didn’t know who that was. If you really think you need to optimize yourself, I’d recommend to skip the millennial
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by leobg 4y ago
How do you know they’re not using things like ozone? Allows them to claim it’s germ-free… but who knows what chemicals are now leeching from the thing (due to the ozone having reacted with compounds in the toy).

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