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OpenAI warns developers to no longer use GPT in their name(twitter.com)
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by melvinmelih 3y ago
Just today we were being lectured by our pediatrician that our two year old needs to sleep in her own bed, in her own room. When we asked why, she went on a tangent that parents also need their own sleep and that she did it with her own k
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by melvinmelih 3y ago
I use http://paulgraham.com
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> FiveThirtyEight's political forecasts absolutely provide a desirable service! Who doesn't want to know who will win an upcoming election? Does it actually work though? I don’t think they were able to predict the past 3 presid
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> It sounds like a patriotic song until you actually listen to what he says. Sounds like a great songwriter to me!
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> «maar ik kan een beetje maar Nederlands spreken» and I'm not even sure I'm supposed to use "maar" twice in that sentence or not. “maar” can both mean “but” or “only” but you have to use it like this: «maar ik kan ma
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by melvinmelih 3y ago
I think it's easiest to compare writing prompts to writing SQL. You don't write SQL on a regular basis to interact with products (and with ORMs not even directly in your code anymore), it's been abstracted in many ways.
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> I think the issue is that people who are paying for an account they are sharing are likely to keep the account active so their family members can continue watching, even if they are also using a competitor. When the family are cut off,
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I call it “weak ideas, strongly held”
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There's also only one distinct positive integer that satisfies this equation: x + 1 = 2
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by melvinmelih 4y ago
Nassim Taleb had some nice words to say about Lex Fridman: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1609576801168228352
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by melvinmelih 4y ago
There’s a way bigger market and more profitable way of doing this (and I’m sure it’s already being done): train a model based on your data and behavior to pre-determine your reaction to certain ads and then start serving those ads that trig
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> Does anyone know whether bookshop.org or any of the other networks ship to the EU without customs issues? Ehrm… you are required to pay import duty and VAT for any imported goods into the EU (there are no low value exceptions anymore a
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I also used to outsource copy writing for $70 per 500 words but last weekend I wrote a script and rewrote copy on 40,000 pages within half a day. It cost me $40 in total. This would have costed me 3 million dollars and months in human labor
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> It has been estimated that during the 17th and 18th centuries, 660,000 to 1,135,000 enslaved people in total must have been transported to the territories under control of the Dutch East India Company. I wouldn't necessarily roman
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by melvinmelih 4y ago
I'm 38 and I still won't swear when my parents are around (maybe it's a cultural difference because I also can't imagine what a "they can say whatever they want in front of me" household would look like).
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Indeed - why stop at human-readable code? At some point in time we will be solely reliant on AI to understand our own codebase.
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The Netherlands is also infamous for its tough privacy laws but at the same time has the most phone taps per capita in the world. Your every move in traffic (both by car and public transit) is tracked and tied to your id. The police can see
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by melvinmelih 4y ago
I want this to answer all my spam callers so I can waste their time with this dreadful GenZ AI.
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> Even with version controlled migrations, it was an absolute mess to work with, to debug and extend, even though the performance was great. This is exactly what I mean. Sure, anything is technically possible, I’m not saying that you can
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> where you want to store some amount of logic in the database itself If you’ve ever worked on a decently sized project, you’ll quickly realize this is an anti-pattern that you should avoid at all cost. Imagine having multiple teams upda
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> If you’re good, you’re already looking. But.. where do you go as an overpaid FAANG employee? Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc all have layoffs
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by melvinmelih 4y ago
I remember having to choose between mining bitcoin or running folding@home back in 2011. I chose to save humanity…
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Productivity junkies need to remind themselves that their goals aren't necessarily useful or practical goals. The mind is working exactly how it should: there is no practical need to remember everything you've read or seen (it ha
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It’s not as funny when the real world is crazier than the parody show. See also what happened to Veep.
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> you would expect that the clients of SVB are a little more sophisticated than your retail bank demographic being start-up companies and all Sometimes you can be too smart for your own good: in this case the CEO might have assumed that
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I'm pretty sure it went viral
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First time I saw fontawesome being imported in a PR I had to double check to make sure fortawesome wasn't a typo. npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core
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> They’re sharing fantasies about using AI to create every step of your business, from coming up with the idea to writing email campaigns to helping them write all of the code. They share examples of high profile success stories that cla
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> A machine could do in a minute what a knitter would do in a day, it doesn't mean knitters got a 7 minute work week That’s why the capitalist class owns the means of production (the owner makes their profit in 7 minutes now).

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