mmahemoff

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by mmahemoff 3y ago
How do you learn about the internals by running LLMs locally? Are you playing with The code, runtime params, or just interacting via chat?
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
This is fun. I like the fact you can click anywhere, which is nice for a non-touch device. Probably would help to emphasise those slider ticks as they are almost invisible, it would it more inviting to click instead of drag.
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Cynical take: Oracle didn’t need MySQL to be a profit center since it already offers a much more expensive alternative. They enjoyed good ROI by fragmenting the MySQL community, chilling usage and external development, and therefore slowing
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
A Bayesian tragedy
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
You’re correct. One suggestion is explicitly request email or text instead of calling. (Or WhatsApp in many countries.) Since some people are hearing-impaired, it’s not even an unusual request even before this spam program arose. It won’t
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
I keep seeing "worldbuilding" like it's a new kind of hobby and Google Trends has the search query consistently growing over past two decades ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=world
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Also interesting that English is one of their official languages, the other being Maltese, making Ireland and Malta the only EU countries with that status now. There's a big scene of English schools and young Europeans going there to l
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Both have their uses. Travelling with a tablet (in addition to a laptop) gets you a useful standalone device that's more portable than a laptop and better for certain tasks such as reading.
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
You can and correct Google won’t review it - that’s why Android shows a warning when you enable sideloading about only using APKs from trusted sources (to my recollection). Those alternative channels typically provide a tiny percentage of
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
It’s a commercial/legal requirement imposed on developers, not directly enforced through the technology. It comes down to the review process in practice. At some point a human reviewer will need to detect the app is allowing the user t
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Yep. YouTube search has become smart about this, blending search with browsing. It typically gives you a handful of reasonably close matches, followed by a whole lot of wildly offtopic suggestions based on subscriptions, watch history, or w
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Since Obsidian and Jekyll both use Markdown, you can create a Jekyll project, open it as an Obsidian vault. You could then use Jekyll to run it as a web server on your own machine. (It also works nicely with Github Pages for public websites
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
I also use Readwise Reader and the speech update they dropped a month ago made great strides towards AI reading. It’s just missing some UX improvements now, mainly the ability to continue playing across multiple articles. It’s also not smar
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
The web has really closed in 2023. StackOverflow, Reddit, Github, Twitter all put the brakes on scraping and API access. The trigger was preventing AI training combined with a push to increase profitabilty due to commercial realities (tech
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Maybe if the bot operators have the resources, but it's far from trivial to keep an up-to-date mirror of every project on Github, especially if Github is actively putting up barriers to prevent it. Once login is required, it becomes mu
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
There's probably going to be a growing market of active noise-cancelling earpods. QuietOn is pioneering this category (quieton.com - no affiliation), but I guess at some point we'll see it combined with a personally moulded soluti
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
China and Japan also have numerical stock tickers, e.g. Sony's ticker 6758 instead of e.g. SONY. I guess numeric IDs like that were a consequence of early tech making it hard to deal with more complex character sets ... maybe the assoc
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Many have and there seem to be cultural differences about this. In any event, the modern internet incentivises outlandish positions sincerely held. Thus sarcasm is indistinguishable from what is presented as a genuine (even if insane) belie
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Thankfully competition from AirBNB made them re-think the idea. That's my theory why it mostly went away anyway. There's still some stragglers though, offering "basic" access free but charging for higher data limits, fas
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Looks interesting, but as feedback, the above-the-fold message on your homepage is buzzword salad, not really clear what you're offering a potential customer here. "Elefunc is building the real-time web, to empower thought-speed c
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
I'm curious if you're using GPT-4 ($)? I find a lot of the criticisms about hallucination come from users who aren't, and my experience with GPT-4 is it's far less likely to make stuff up. Does it know all the answers,
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Took me a while to realise I can just type search queries into ChatGPT. e.g. simply "london bridge history" or whatever into the chat and not only get a complete answer, but I can ask it follow-up questions. And it's also per
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
OpenAI's demo on the linked page stars a kitten named Milo. Easter egg?
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
It’s funny how blatantly every streaming service waits for Netflix to do anything bold before doing same thing. It’s like what happens when Apple does something like removing headphone socket. Backlash from the loud minority “I’ll never bu
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Hah fair point. It's like when people set their Vim leader to , or ; instead of ESC.
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
By “local”, I’m mainly concerned with the country rather than city level. I’m not US based and most search engines have that bias. For example, searches about news, public holidays, or certain statistics should default to the user’s home co
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
They bought $127 call options (the right to buy Splunk at $127) while Splunk was valued at $119 and the options were due to expire in one day. That's a cheap option to buy, given the improbability of a sudden jump like that. The only w
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Good to see DuckDuckGo's Bang syntax [1] has become commonplace with alt search engines. Following convention, Kagi lets you append !g to divert the search on Google. A simple escape hatch like that is worthwhile as Google is often sup
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Searching transcripts is really something YouTube itself should be doing as part of just regular search (and fed into Google search too). I have a feeling the regular search already does it to some extent, as the system presumably is taggin
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
"Which one is selected?" This has been a trope since the invention of GUIs. Somehow, people keep designing toggle interfaces where you can't tell which state it's in, including some high-profile apps and toolkits.

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