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by nicky0 4y ago
Duolingo never tests you on new brand words in my experience. Whenever a new word is introduced, it is "clickable" (touchable?) in the sentence to show the definition. Maybe that's just my course though. Sometimes the new wor
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Nobody said the piece of paper has to be a post-it on your monitor. It could in a folder in a locked cabinet.
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I code with GitHub Copilot. I liken it to pair programming with an brilliant, insigntful & more experienced colleague who is always slightly drunk.
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Try out being a little more open and curious.
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That’s very interesting. I assumed it was something about the fact that it is a language model rather than a calculating machine. So printing 44 asterisks instead of 40 is kind of close. I wonder if would it be possible to teach the machine
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It’s interesting that you found my question to be an attack. Does that mean your question was an attack too?
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Yes, chat GPT excels at comprehending and explaining things that have a consistent structure, restructuring, and and synthesising variations. If you keep it in its lane, it’s an excellent tool. It’s really really bad at counting though. For
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I used FAANG as a shorthand for "big international tech companies that pay a lot". Glad to hear though that there are lots opportunites for tech folk in Russia to make good money.
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Yeah, the math on that is interesting. Either a huge proportion of women under 30 are in relationships with men over 30, or a lot of women under 30 are in relationships with men under 30 who are in simultaneous relationships with other wome
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Found someone who hasn't actually listened to Jordan Peterson. If you did you would find he agrees with you.
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The part where he spent the year 2020 in a russian slave labour prison might help explain his difficulty getting a job. Plus as a russian national living in russia, FAANG is not exactly knocking at his door.
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What do you like about having to remember and execute a series of precise and arcane text commands instead of seeing everying comfortably and accessibly presented to you in a graphical form?
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A generative AI may well be deterministic and generate repeatable output for a given inpiut, but that doesn't mean the output is correct for every input. It may merely generate the wrong answer consistently.
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You seem to lack any concept that something like this can be developed, tuned and improved over time. Just because it has flaws now, doesnt mean the technology doomed forever. It actually does a very good job of summarising the search reasu
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I've noticed Bing chat isn't good about detecting the temporal context of information. For example I asked "When is the next Wrestlemania" and it told me it would be in April 2022. If you say "but it's 2023 now
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What a tastefully designed and executed blog site. Well done.
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Explanations that are visceral have narrative power tend to be believed and spread much more widely that the true, boring explanation. A classic "true fact" that's false: Hey did you ever hear that people in england used to b
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Your point abour the "TypeScript subset" of the package ecosystem is good. However, I've found TS support (native or via @types/) tends to be a strong indicator of package quality.
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What did you mean by weird symlinks? I've been doing TypeScript a few years and havent had to interact with symlinks.
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The output for a given input (absent random seeds) may be constant, but is the output deterministically correct?
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Chat: “Yawn, this is basic textbook stuff” Me: These people are wizards
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That's covered by Imperative programming in the post.
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Meh. The poister cleary stated their post had come from an AI chat. It wasn't "AI generated content".
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"Regular sex is important" - in what way?
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I also appreciated the post, however, I did not appreciate yours.
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“run by people who aren’t good at Chess” - what an odd statement to make.
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I has an Amiga as a kid and I remember in an IT class (where everything was Windows), I started talking about putting files in drawers and the teacher looked me like I had had two heads.
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HN was created in 2007 by Paul Graham originally as a "news aggregator" with a comment facility, as part of his YCombinator venture capital startup incubator thing. I think the idea was to source links to news of interest to the t
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£3 fee isn’t a withdrawal fee, it’s a transaction fee to sell your bitcoin for pounds. The actual withdrawal of pounds to you bank account is free. Likewise, you could withdraw your bitcoin to your own wallet for free. The fee comes when yo
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To address your central question, yes, knowing someone’s pronouns enough as long as the pronoun is a traditional one in the language. That is unless somebody wants to use a genderless neopronoun of some kind, in which case, good luck. But a

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