nmfisher

38 ms·

481.
by nmfisher 4y ago
We are roughly the same age, and I firmly believe the internet we grew up with is not the internet we have today. I don’t think you can use our childhood as a reference point for how to raise kids nowadays.
482.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Over the weekend I tried to tease out a sed command that would fix an uber simple compiler error from ChatGPT [0]. I gave up after 4 or 5 tries - while it got the root cause correct ("." instead of "->" because the pr
483.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I'm starting the transition from "building in private" to "building in public" (emphasis on the "build", though, because the product still isn't ready so it's not like there's any real finan
484.
by nmfisher 4y ago
(1) the expected value of the company changing its mind and choosing to pay dividends in future + (2) the value of vote to remove management and replace them with someone who will pay dividends + (3) a legal right to share in the proceeds
485.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I feel exactly the same way - a few years ago I was lamenting the fact that I was writing JSON serialization/deserialization code for the 1000th time, and begging for a tool that could automate it for me. I haven't tried ChatGPT f
486.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Generic house style is fine for a lot of real-world applications. The dirty secret of the legal profession is that they spend a huge amounts of time (aka client's money) writing clauses/pleadings/etc that have been written th
487.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I didn't actually need the pinyin conversion (I implement that myself), it was just a test to see how well LLMs* were progressing at "out-of-domain" tasks. I always used recent newspaper headlines, so the possibility of findi
488.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Figured I'd add a screenshot of my pinyin test with ChatGPT: https://twitter.com/NickFisherAU/status/1598621215056625664?...
489.
by nmfisher 4y ago
That's basically the idea! Thanks for the note on the email signup, I'll have a look - I threw it together very quickly just before I went on a plane a few weeks ago so it's very fragile.
490.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Thanks! I agree, I'll stay away from characters, at least at an early/beginner level (although I am including them mostly for aesthetic purposes). It's a huge hurdle that lots of people don't necessarily need/want t
491.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I’m building something similar for Chinese[0]. Every time a new language model was released, I tested it with pinyin conversion (the standard Mandarin phonetic romanization), and they all failed miserably - until ChatGPT, which so far has p
492.
by nmfisher 4y ago
That was my reaction too, 20,000 (euros) seems quite decent for a tiny freelance engagement, and just skimming the contract, that all seems bog-standard, too. If he didn't think the money was fair, he shouldn't have accepted it. I
493.
by nmfisher 4y ago
WER is really dataset-dependent, you can’t really compare across different test sets unless they’re almost identical (acoustic environment, microphone quality, speaker profiles, linguistic domain, etc). WER for the exact same model can vary
494.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I recently found out that all trains (metro) are automated!
495.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Would you be willing to play a computer at chess if there was a possibility on any given move that it would squash you like a pancake?
496.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Ask yourself this - if we didn't need to pay to publish apps to the Store (or even less, if we could just publish apps that could be side-loaded), how many of us would voluntarily pay $99 per year for Apple's developer support? Yo
497.
by nmfisher 4y ago
We (38) had our first child this year, and if there's one thing I wish I had done, it's had kids earlier. Probably in my late 20s. We didn't have any complications during pregnancy but it would have given me 10 more years to
498.
by nmfisher 4y ago
What’s also amusing is that their support for advertisers is just as bad. The reality is that companies will tolerate just about anything as long as you have eyeballs to sell.
499.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Gut feeling is that the cellphone was already far more mainstream in the year 2000 than VR is in 2022. I had one (Nokia 5110?) as a teenager (admittedly I was in the minority), but I remember they were extremely common amongst professionals
500.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Upvoted for "Break the Build Joe" and "Rewrote It In Rust Rob".
501.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I think the poster's point was that initial reactions to LLMs are similar to initial reactions to Eliza. Everyone was gobsmacked for a while, but then once the shine wore off and its limitations were exposed, everyone got bored and mov
502.
by nmfisher 4y ago
If I'm simply consuming a library, I find most real-world documentation to be pretty superfluous. A full working example is usually enough to understand how things fit together. If I'm working on a library, design docs and comme
503.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Every time I see this guy’s name I see a similar comment about SPACs, is there a link to explain exactly what he did?
504.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Not saying you’re wrong, but I also see these in Singapore, which is one of the safest countries in the world (I’m guessing they must be left over from the 60s when things were more chaotic?)
505.
by nmfisher 4y ago
This was the one project that made me think I should revisit my opinion that “blockchain is a solution in search of a problem”. I thought that the ASX would know better than me what’s needed to build a clearing and settlements platform. Nop
506.
by nmfisher 4y ago
That was my original reaction to Twitch, too. Who in their right mind would pay to watch someone else play a video game? It was ludicrous to me (and to some extent, it still is). I'd make a terrible VC.
507.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I wouldn't believe a word SBF says, I'm pretty sure the guy is a pathological liar: https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1590773534615572481
508.
by nmfisher 4y ago
I am 100% on Mick’s side here, but so much about this situation screams naivete and poor contracts/legal advice on his part. He should have come down on them like a ton of bricks as soon as they announced an OST with his name on it, bu
509.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Even as a native English speaker I experience this from time to time. I'll idly hear someone speaking - usually at quite some distance - but their words are very indistinct, I'm unable to make out what they're saying. I'
510.
by nmfisher 4y ago
> Tokyo's building codes do require bathrooms. Plus minimum sunshine for a room to count as a bedroom, along with shutters on all windows. I'm actually interested to know if Melbourne has similar minimum standards. I'm m

More ›