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by leobg 10mo ago
> The chatbot has given quite a few questionable responses this year What kind of a news story is that? It’s an LLM. It serves thousands of requests per minute. Of course some answers will be silly.
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by leobg 10mo ago
Well. Don’t forget I wasn’t really studying “the law”, or “justice”. I was studying for the bar exam. Pretty much two separate things. :)
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by leobg 10mo ago
Dito. (Or MeeToo, +1, or whatever the hell people say these days.)
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by leobg 10mo ago
For the bar exam, I used a combination of an outliner and flashcards. Back then, I was usimg a PalmPilot. The idea was: 1. Turn the subject matter into a knowledge tree. 2. If a branch has more than 5 leaves, you split it up. 3. Flashcards
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by leobg 10mo ago
Guilty as charged. First time I hear about it. Thanks. Looks like a natively LLM friendly database format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recutils
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by leobg 10mo ago
I find it interesting that your comment centers around principles and justice. There are thousands of young people who are dying in trenches and blown to pieces by drones each week, and have been for the past three years. You don’t even men
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by leobg 10mo ago
Thanks. I had no idea something like that existed. How do we know using such a tool won’t trigger an account lockout? How ironic would that be.
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by leobg 10mo ago
It was snowing. I scraped the windshield of my car. When I was done, I turned the key - and the battery was dead. I shrugged, gathered my belongings and was about to go back into my apartment building. But a woman who has just arrived in he
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by leobg 10mo ago
That’s what Elon’s vision was before he ended up buying Twitter. Keep a digital track record for journalists. He wanted to call it Pravda. (And we do have that in real life. Just as, among friends, we do keep track of who is in whose debt,
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by leobg 10mo ago
Chapter 4 - The Father and Mother > Transplanted, moreover, to a world in which women had to work, and work hard. On washdays, clothes had to be lifted out of the big soaking vats of boiling water on the ends of long poles, the clothes d
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by leobg 10mo ago
> I'd rather read the prompt. That’s what I think when I see a news headline. What are you writing? Who cares. WHY are you writing it — that is what I want to know.
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by leobg 10mo ago
Dying businesses like newspapers and local banks, who use it to save the money they used to spend on shutterstock images? That’s where I’ve seen it at least. Replacing one useless filler with another.
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by leobg 10mo ago
It must have been around 1998. I was editor of our school’s newspaper. We were using Corel Draw. At some point, I proposed that we start using HTML instead. In the end, we decided against it, and the reasons were the same that you can read
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by leobg 10mo ago
So tell me where to find a not-profit-seeking human. I’d say a government employee just seeks profit by doing as little as possible for the fixed paycheck they get. _Everyone_ has a profit motive. The question is how their profit aligned wi
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by leobg 10mo ago
It would be nice of them to diffuse the clickbait. As it is, when a video has a catchy clickbait title, I screenshot the thumbnail and have ChatGPT give me the solution. Or I’ll copy the URL into a transcript fetcher and feed that into Gemi
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by leobg 10mo ago
That was the funniest social critique I’ve heard in a long time.
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by leobg 10mo ago
80% there. The next step would be to generate many more versions of that picture. Even if you go back into the 80s, the hairstyle should change. If you go back into the 1800s, you probably don’t have the bright colors in the shirt. If you g
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by leobg 10mo ago
Does your company use Microsoft Teams?
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by leobg 10mo ago
Answering my own question: Artificial Analysis ranks them close in terms of price (both 0.3 USD/1M tokens) and intelligence (27 / 29 for gemini/mistral), but ranks gemini-2.0-flash-lite higher in terms of speed (189 tokens&#x
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by leobg 10mo ago
Did you compare it to gemini-2.0-flash-lite?
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by leobg 10mo ago
Agree with your points. Trucks are a tragedy of the commons kindof thing. I just dislike that you’re singling out Cybertruck. It’s not bigger than the Doge Ram, F150 or a Hummer. Big trucks happen to be a popular market in the US. If you bu
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by leobg 11mo ago
Musk came to Canada with a few hundred dollars to his name. Worked on farms. Never got a loan from his dad, afaik. It’s probably true that he could have somehow gone back to South Africa as a “safety net” if you will, but I believe that wou
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by leobg 11mo ago
? It’s not like the machine would be custom built for him. Are you saying it’s fine to drive a huge truck if you’re single and just need to get around the block to buy a pack of eggs, just because the emissions are nothing compared to those
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by leobg 11mo ago
I dream of having that for video: For any given clip, short or excerpt, find the most complete, unedited version that it was taken from.
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by leobg 11mo ago
Seems like Arendt got it wrong. She let herself be fooled by Eichmann. He wasn’t banal at all. Bettina Stangneth, “Eichmann Before Jerusalem” (2014) https://newcriterion.com/article/the-profundity-of-evil/
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by leobg 11mo ago
He was excited about cutting waste and regulation. Most business people wouldn’t be that theatrical about it. But they sure share the sentiment.
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by leobg 11mo ago
If I read it correctly, they’re not physically “moving” out of France. They are merely switching servers away from OVH.
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by leobg 11mo ago
Let’s all remember Bill Gates’ prediction from 2020: > Even with big breakthroughs in battery technology, electric vehicles will probably never be a practical solution for things like 18-wheelers, cargo ships, and passenger jets. Electri
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by leobg 11mo ago
It was also two teenagers who, some 50 years earlier, came up with the idea of flying machines and the aerodynamics of wings in the first place: The brothers Otto and Gustav Lilienthal were watching the storks take flight in the meadows of
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by leobg 11mo ago
How would you know? What world knowledge do you have access to that they do not?

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