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by mathgeek 1y ago
I love that “the AI” has become a modern day “the Google”.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> However, I'd love this as a general device. I get home and it auto plays music , etc You can do this with most home automation systems today.
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> though back when copy-pasting from Wikipedia was the way to cheat Back when I was teaching part time, I had a lot of fun looking at the confused looks on my students' faces when I said "you cannot use Wikipedia, but you'
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> And why not a masters? Not GP, but in my experience most MSC programs will require that you have substantial undergrad CS coursework in order to be accepted. There are a few programs designed for those without that background.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> 1) Is that automatically good? Damn those capitalists and their slow and steady approach to major changes, I suppose. Wouldn't want to proceed too thoughtfully. Considering how long it’s taken even the most progressive regulations
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> No, it's obvious. Anyone that has to choose between getting $100 right now or $100 trickled in over months would opt for it right now... As usual, there are real life edge cases where folks don’t choose just on what makes the most
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Flew out of ABE most of my life, still an excellent airport, but it’s best to be aware that any connections through EWR or PHL will be by bus.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
It was surreal how many of my extended family stopped wishing me a happy birthday once I left Facebook. Automatic reminders are amazingly useful.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Wasn’t OG facebook about stalking women on your own campus? Did The Social Network lie to us? /s
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by mathgeek 1y ago
I had a feeling someone would build this after reading the HN discussions several months back about the folks who applied GTD to their friendships and professional network.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Lots of job offer spam in this area as well. See one or two a week.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
My mind went straight to “and now law enforcement is going to need agents handling phone calls to deal with the volume of agents calling them”.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
I’m not implying what you inferred. I am only referring to LLMs in response to GP. Another way to put it is most people building AI products are just using the existing LLMs instead of creating new models. It’s a gold rush akin to early mob
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by mathgeek 1y ago
It’s much easier and cheaper for the average person today to build a product on top of an existing LLM than to train their own model. Most “AI companies” are doing that.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
You're wrong about it being 100% luck (you have choices that alter the outcomes). You're correct that the game cannot be solved by the definition of a solved game (being one where the outcome can be predicted from any position if
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by mathgeek 1y ago
A better solution is to allow the user to provide their own API key if they want to use it without limits (and really the needed solution is authentication and authorization that provides access to the appropriate API accounts without manua
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by mathgeek 1y ago
It doesn’t even surprise me anymore that someone is charging a subscription fee to use an off the shelf LLM with scraped data from a public site. The gold rush can’t be over soon enough.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
The schedule of a baby is short lived though and much more easily managed than the ongoing commitment of having children around. While it’s an intense part of early parenting, the following decades of having kids with one or both parents at
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by mathgeek 1y ago
A 70% reduction in the labor force of product and engineering has a lot of consequences.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Memories here as well! Was working in Rails full time back then and dabbled in Elixir to some very fun experiments.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
While I wasn’t claiming it would work, that example is easily solved around the world already by allowing vehicles into pedestrian zones overnight.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
As they say, the cloud is just someone else’s server.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> Converting all of NYC into a huge pedestrian-only zone obviously isn't going to work The dreamer in me immediately asks “why not?” and while I agree it will never happen, it felt good to imagine it.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> That said, it's crazy how a burrito is $12 now and a two taco, beans/rice dinner at the generic Mexican restaurants in town is $16. Beans, rice, and burritos are still relatively cheap. Labor is not. > This is peasant food
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by mathgeek 1y ago
You seem to be arguing the same point? There’s nothing here unique to Americans or America.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
I believe GP was specifically addressing the “this is America” part.
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> Why is every app a startup now? Because VC money doesn't invest in apps, and it's trendy.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Planning for how you'll feel on your deathbed is like planning for how you'll live in retirement (not speaking of the financial aspects): it's wonderful to know you planned well if you end up in that situation, and there are
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> an unfortunate error accidentally made it public domain Never have I been so torn on my opinion of whether or not this was truly “unfortunate”.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Due to how much ChatGPT wants to please you, it seems like it's harder to _not_ get it to admit it's wrong some days.

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