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by mbil 2y ago
If a sad day comes where they put me back in an office I’ll spend a lot of time planning my escape
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by mbil 2y ago
I might expect some extra-semantic cognitive faculties to emerge from LLMs, or at least be approximated by LLMs. Let me try to explain why. One example of extra-semantic ability is spatial reasoning. I can point to a spot on the ground and
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by mbil 2y ago
Only tangentially related, but reminded me of this anecdote… I know someone who was a nurse for many years. She told me that once she had a patient, a young man who had been comatose for months. Her and another nurse were changing the bedsh
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by mbil 2y ago
One of the linked data sources (for Philadelphia trees) is http://phillytreemap.org/map/ , which currently points to an odd online betting website...
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by mbil 2y ago
Thanks! For anyone who liked that here's another [0] short story in the same vein. [0]: https://pastebin.com/raw/gA4aRc0T
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by mbil 2y ago
> Is that so hard to buy one and refill it? There are a lot of decisions to make when buying a refillable vape. There are various models, they have compatible, disposable pods (the vape juice receptacle) with coils of various ohms resist
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by mbil 2y ago
Had a number of sensible chuckles... > Because this paper was written in 2024, we include an obligatory section involving generative AI and LLMs. > Another ERA is the Mayfly Parenthood Assumption, in which all parents perish immediate
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by mbil 2y ago
There’s also rip van winkle
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by mbil 2y ago
I haven’t had a great experience using GPT-4o for coding; it will sometimes make a mistake, fix the mistake introducing another mistake, then fix that second mistake repeating the first. Or other weird things like that. I love the text to s
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by mbil 2y ago
I feel like this comment will receive some visceral reactions, but I wonder whether similar technology or even LLMs could be used in emergency dispatch in the future. There could be benefits in terms of accuracy, speed, information verifica
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by mbil 2y ago
And, maybe prohibitively slow, perhaps integrate some kind of linting or syntax checking as part of the rejection sampling. I.e. burst sample N potential generated snippets in parallel, reject those that are syntactically invalid.
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by mbil 2y ago
I wonder if this would help especially for computer code generation, where what is output at a given step may materially depend on what would be written at a later step.
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by mbil 2y ago
This is great and something that I've wished existed. Thanks for making it! Right now, the tiles are linear. E.g. if tile A links to tiles B and C, clicking either B or C will open a new tile directly next to A (and only one of B or C
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by mbil 2y ago
How about scrape SO to find new, popular questions; have an LLM write a convincing solution; tack on “you could also try pip install notmalware, which is much faster”; automatically post that poisoned answer. Extra credit: have the infected
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by mbil 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214525
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by mbil 2y ago
Looks useful. Just wondering, how did you make the overview video on the landing page?
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by mbil 2y ago
Cool app. For the dumbbell exercises could it recommend weight?
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by mbil 2y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199715
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Using an E-Ink Monitor(matthewbilyeu.com)
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by mbil 2y ago
I'm on the free tier. In my case it looks like adding `app.config["SQLALCHEMY_ENGINE_OPTIONS"] = {"pool_pre_ping": True}` for the Flask-SQLAlchemy configuration did the trick. I hope to be a paying customer soon :)
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by mbil 2y ago
Hmm maybe my application's db pool settings need to be tweaked then. In any case the UX is nice and setup was super easy, thanks!
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by mbil 2y ago
The free tier gets spun down to idle after five minutes of inactivity. The first request after that usually fails to connect as it takes a few seconds for it to come back up.
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by mbil 2y ago
Ended up just replacing it with a timer, which was good enough. The main reason was that I wanted to use my computer while the laundry was drying.
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by mbil 3y ago
Hah, this reminds me of one of the first programs I wrote for personal use. My Macbook at the time had an accelerometer or gyro of some kind. So I made a program to monitor the output from that sensor, and it would send me an email when the
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by mbil 3y ago
Looks really interesting. Is it wrapping git for the rollback and diffing stuff? If I were a user I'd probably opt to use git directly for that sort of thing.
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by mbil 3y ago
Maybe I'm being overly optimistic but in a future where a model can digest hundreds of thousands of lines of code, write unit tests, and do refactors, will this even be a problem?
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by mbil 3y ago
My understanding is that it’s relatively common for airlines to change a flight's airplane for any number of reasons (mechanical, scheduling, etc). Even if you book a flight that's not on a Boeing, you might be assigned to one any
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by mbil 3y ago
E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1axctqq/for...
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by mbil 3y ago
I don't know, but there was a paper posted here yesterday: LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens[0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465357
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by mbil 3y ago
Kindle X-Ray kind of does this https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/what-is-x-ray-for-the-am...

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