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by palidanx 3y ago
I played around with this quite a bit with chat gpt 4 with confirmation instructions, and after a bit of time it starts going haywire. I played around with just creating in a simple csv format, transactions date, name, category (asking it
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by palidanx 3y ago
Dittoing this. I think 'authentic' is a loaded word, as often in a Vietnamese Facebook food group I'm in, there constantly are arguments about what is 'authentic'. Is it someone who lives in country, the same ethn
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by palidanx 3y ago
Funny this got posted, because I just read about the 72 seasons in Nancy Singleton Hachisu's new vegetarian cookbook. https://www.amazon.com/Japan-Vegetarian-Nancy-Singleton-Hach... Oddly enough the more I think about
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Ask HN: LLM Leaderboard for Code Generation?
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by palidanx 3y ago
https://www.dquach.com/ A scattering of personal newsletters, tech, and data engineering. For the personal newsletters that involve traveling, what I do is journal every day while I am in the destination country, and then
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by palidanx 3y ago
Yea what you are doing sounds like reference class forecasting (shameless plug, a blog post I wrote about it) https://www.dquach.com/2023/04/21/reference-class-forecastin...
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by palidanx 3y ago
Weird thing is I began comparing things like Uber Eats reviews and Google Maps reviews for local Asian restaurants, and I see things in Google Maps are reviewed substantially lower. For example some of my favorite Asian restaurants in the c
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Ask HN: Where to start in playing with open source generative AI models?
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Accurate Predictions(dquach.com)
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‘Sukiyaki’ turns 60 [audio](theworld.org)
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by palidanx 3y ago
would you mind sharing what you are doing for AI integration?
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Are You a Mosquito Magnet? Check Your Soap(wsj.com)
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Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation [pdf](hhs.gov)
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West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island (2021)(dquach.com)
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Ask HN: Have you made any money off Substack?
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Ask HN: How do you deal with spring allergies?
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by palidanx 4y ago
I'd read https://www.amazon.com/Predictable-Revenue-Business-Practice...
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by palidanx 4y ago
Funny you say this, because I actually cite my failed start-ups when talking about my resume when chatting with bigger companies. It provides a uniqueness that you are a risk taker and you should use that narrative to your advantage to sti
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by palidanx 4y ago
so typically there are two sides of the house 1. data engineering - dealing with etl pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes, databases 2. data science - ai/ml, models etc #1 preps things so #2 can do their jobs
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Ask HN: How come in a kindle when you go back and forward the text is different?
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Ask HN: Should we be asking 'how did you sleep' vs. 'how are you'?
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by palidanx 4y ago
I recently had a task to see how a migration from SAP Hana to other data warehouses, and I was able to ask questions, generate sample schema, and do comparative analysis with other data warehouses in about 10 minutes. The problem with Goog
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Ask HN: If ChatGPT charged a monthly fee would you pay?
2 points by palidanx 4y ago|9 comments
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by palidanx 4y ago
Unfortunately the US already spends quite a bit, and has one of the worst outcomes compared to other countries https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2... .
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Ask HN: Do we need sunblock if the ozone layer is healed?
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by palidanx 4y ago
I have adult braces, and this has been a godsend ($30 USD) https://www.amazon.com/Cordless-Portable-Irrigator-Rechargea... Basically I can waterfloss after eating and not have to pull out ortho picks and a toothbrush
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by palidanx 4y ago
Generally 1. Read a travel guide (like Lonely Planet or Rick Steves) for an idea of an itinerary 2. Read travel itineraries on Reddit or Google search 3. E-mail travel writers from the guide books and book a paid 1 hour zoom session to refi
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by palidanx 4y ago
A lot of is my personal perspective on events, either things like travel or circumstances that have occurred to me which I thought were interesting. Below is a sample of an older newsletter about dentistry, a neighbor, and a long hike to V
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by palidanx 4y ago
Everyone does get the same email
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by palidanx 4y ago
Since the early pandemic, I've opted to e-mail 100 of my closest friends quarterly some really long form e-mails. It does take me quite a bit of time, maybe about 40 hours of writing and editing. What is interesting though, is when I

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