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by munchler 4y ago
It refers to real web pages, so it's not making up results the way that ChatGPT does. The value of those web pages is assessed using an algorithm like PageRank.
872.
by munchler 4y ago
> ChatGPT gets tripped up in some edge conditions. No. ChatGPT has no idea of the truth value of anything it produces. That's fine for writing fiction, but it's not an "edge condition" when searching for actual inform
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by munchler 4y ago
Realistically speaking, what percent of the commuting population could do this on a daily basis? Many people have additional limitations that also need to be considered. E.g. Have to pick up the kids after work, have to shop after work, age
874.
by munchler 4y ago
Good luck selling that idea (in America, at least).
875.
by munchler 4y ago
They’re extrapolating from the performance of GPT-3.5. It’s speculative, but not anecdotal. GPT has improved rapidly over time, so it's not a huge leap to predict that GPT-4 will be even better.
876.
by munchler 4y ago
Wow. We were a small, private company. I’m sorry for whatever hurt you.
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by munchler 4y ago
That’s funny. I used to work for a high-end consulting company, and we always marveled at the level of dysfunction in our clients’ IT departments. They would call us in when their devs couldn’t/wouldn’t do the work. We were pretty expe
878.
by munchler 4y ago
"Day 1" is just motivational poster nonsense, anyway. No company can reinvent itself every day.
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by munchler 4y ago
Microsoft has come a long way in supporting .NET on non-Windows boxes, but I agree that it's still not as good as it could be. C# certainly has better tooling, but C# has possibly the best tooling of any programming language on the pla
880.
by munchler 4y ago
I think F# has a good tooling story, since it's part of .NET and a first-class citizen in Visual Studio. It doesn't get as much love from Microsoft as C#, but it's still quite nice to use.
881.
by munchler 4y ago
Perhaps, but those are still FP solutions that have been added to non-FP languages.
882.
by munchler 4y ago
Pure functional programming does require immutable data. There are lots of FP languages that aren't pure, though.
883.
by munchler 4y ago
Good article, but the chart of FP languages is way off. There are only 8,752 public Haskell repositories in GitHub (not 126,990, as claimed). Numerous other popular FP languages aren't even listed (e.g. Scala: 13,224, F#: 1,960).
884.
by munchler 4y ago
If a fish gets through a net, why would you need a better net?
885.
by munchler 4y ago
1984 is modern. That painting is from 1894.
886.
by munchler 4y ago
I wonder if you'd just answer my question, rather than coming up with another analogy. When does the copyright infringement occur?
887.
by munchler 4y ago
He's already admitted that he cheated. The only question now is how many times and when.
888.
by munchler 4y ago
You are missing my point. In your analogy, does copyright infringement occur when the box is created, or does it only occur when the box is used? This seems like a very important, but unresolved, legal distinction. If the former, then Micro
889.
by munchler 4y ago
That's not clear at all. Training a model on a copyrighted dataset might not be infringing, even if the output of that model is potentially infringing. It's an important question that hasn't yet been resolved, AFAIK. If Copil
890.
by munchler 4y ago
Yes, this is called “the singularity” in AI circles. Personally, I don’t think it’s imminent, but it’s certainly worth some concern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
891.
by munchler 4y ago
Why would you want to unfollow your own friends? To me, that's always been the one useful feature of Facebook.
892.
by munchler 4y ago
According to https://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/laziness/ , Clojure isn't lazy by default, but does support lazy sequences (like IEnumerable in C#).
893.
by munchler 4y ago
There are definitely scenarios where laziness is crucial. Haskell is the only mainstream language I know of where laziness is the default, but many languages offer laziness when needed. (E.g. IEnumerable interface in C#.) Monads are essenti
894.
by munchler 4y ago
I think it's better to put aside the hype about "geniuses" and break this down into two separate questions: 1. Is functional programming really better than other approaches? (My opinion: Yes, for most applications, although i
895.
by munchler 4y ago
TIL that Apple owns Shazam.
896.
by munchler 4y ago
I read the rest of the About page and didn't see anything supporting this claim. What makes Objective-S more general than other languages? If it's the four architecture "styles" listed, I'm pretty sure other languag
897.
by munchler 4y ago
> By allowing general architectures, Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language. Really? I stopped reading at this spot, since this claim is so ridiculous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-pur
898.
by munchler 4y ago
No, there's nothing in the dark matter hypothesis or observations that necessarily contradicts GR. However, it's true that some other theories that claim to explain the dark matter observations are in conflict with GR, which is
899.
by munchler 4y ago
Dark matter doesn't contradict general relativity, so it's entirely plausible that a) every experiment confirms Einstein, and yet b) we still need dark matter to explain some observations.
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by munchler 4y ago
> a model universe in which the normal matter we see around us in the form of atoms makes up only 5% of all the energy in it. About 20% is made up of exotic dark matter particles > for each gram of normal matter there are 25 grams of

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