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by panarky 3y ago
Cory can't believe that Amazon's non-AWS units combined have such low profit margins. But he never explains how, exactly, decomposing the non-AWS income statement into separate income statements for each non-AWS activity would som
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I took the text of Macbeth and changed the dialect of one line: Original: "The rest, that are within the note of expectation, alreadie are i'th' Court" New: "It looks like everyone is here already" Then I gave
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Maybe information that's not secret or confidential, but could still be used to exploit you, should be called something like "sensitive" information.
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What does this mean? If they're not secret, sensitive, or confidential, then why must they be shared carefully?
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> much better than nothing If you wouldn't advocate banning deadbolt locks just because vault doors are better, why advocate banning SMS 2FA?
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One huge reason why effect sizes are small is that you're comparing the well-being of users vs. non-users, when we know that social media harms the well-being of both groups. It's like estimating the health effects of automobile p
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Tell that to $8 trillion Schwab and $12 trillion Fidelity.
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Also can't login to sites that require SMS 2FA.
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It's funny you say that, because I just had a similar experience. Front-end web development with HTML, CSS and JavaScript is not one of my strengths, so I've been trying to go back-and-forth with GPT-4 to get a working prototype.
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Do you have examples of facts that LLama 2 provides that are censored on GPT-4?
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If you don't want your brand to appear next to violent white supremacist material, is that a political decision, or is it a business decision to protect your brand image?
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by panarky 3y ago
If you share your prompt I'm sure people here can help you. Here's a prompt I used and got a a script that not only accomplishes the objective, but even has an option to show what files will be deleted and asks for confirmation be
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Rags Powered by Google Search(cloud.google.com)
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> you need to be able to either filter the search scope or use RAG ... Unless you can get nearly perfect recall with millions of tokens, which is the claim made here.
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> people seem to find GPT-4 better for say coding than Gemini Ultra For my use cases, Gemini Ultra performs significantly better than GPT-4. My prompts are long and complex, with a paragraph or two about the general objective followed
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> you could replace Cryptocurrency with Capitalism Because cryptocurrency and markets for it are a little alien, it's easier to recognize their essential characteristics while assuming what I'm accustomed to is normal and nat
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The constellation Gemini gets its name directly from the Greek mythological twins, Castor and Pollux. Each twin had different capabilities. Pollux was a powerful warrior while Castor was an intellectual tactician. The twins possessed an ext
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The scale of this should tell us it's not just about building an alternative to Nvidia. $7 trillion is like adding TSMC, Intel and AMD together, and multiplying that combination by seven. This is about sheer capacity, not just circumve
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https://archive.is/wip/rDvES
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Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI(wsj.com)
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When a political party frightens the public about deficit spending and unsustainable debt while that party is out of power, and then when the party is in power they cut taxes for the wealthy while increasing spending, it's easy to infe
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> want the government cut down significantly Yet another claim trivially refuted by actions. We should stop repeating transparently bogus claims like this.
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by panarky 3y ago
One might think that people who claim their priority is "law and order" would strongly support enforcing existing laws without fear or favor. One might think that people who claim their priority is reducing the budget deficit woul
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"Gemini" must refer to its inherently multimodal origins? It's not a text-based LLM that was later adapted to include other modalities. It was designed from the start to seamlessly understand and work with audio, images, vide
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> thirst-traps, furries, bog standard too online politics Maybe the biggest problem with Twitter never was its centralization. It shouldn't be surprising that cloning Twitter mechanics just to decentralize it would result in the s
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> the most valuable and useful language ... Programmers think the most valuable language is a programming language. Therefore, an LLM that can generate quality code in that language should also be extremely valuable. I'd argue tha
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> such a misrepresentation Exactly. All the talk about fees misses the point because accepting and securing paper money is also very costly. And the provocateur's stunt in the article also misses the point, because electronic paym
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The article doesn't mention what might be the primary driver causing people to reject organized religion: increased exposure to people from different backgrounds. When a child is brought up in a devoutly religious family, where their e
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The clue that this guy is a right-wing crank is that he blames the problem on "Congress extending the debt limit". The root cause of the problem happens long before the meaningless semiannual debt limit ritual. The root cause is t
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Fifteen years ago, when Facebook was growing exponentially through social pressure and gamification, a few misfits and weirdos made the conscious decision to opt out of the entire ecosystem of surveillance, exploitation and social alienatio

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