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by robga 3y ago
I am not a fan of the text for the $5 plan, 300 searches per month, saying “Includes enough searches for 99% of internet users” when the average user who signs up for their service seems to be using 600 searches per month.
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by robga 3y ago
I found myself mildly annoyed that the author calls QWERTY the “first row” of letters not the “top row”. If there was a “first”, I might nominate ZXCVBNM. Is QWERTY commonly known as the “first row”?
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by robga 3y ago
6 x 1000 token calls per day, for a news bot (listed use case at application). I think what happened is the azure subscription was converted from a (multi year) promotional subsidy/discount to a full pay as you go subscription. No chan
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by robga 3y ago
I agree with your points. Having said that, Microsoft removed my Azure OpenAI GPT-4 access last week without warning. I was not breaking any TOS. Oh well, pointed back at OpenAi.
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by robga 3y ago
While interesting, very little of the content is Late Roman. Hard to see why it was tagged as such.
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by robga 3y ago
Spatial flux studies show they are a little more likely to hit the equatorial rather than polar regions due to the elliptic distribution of the source material. https://ukantarcticmeteorites.wordpress.com/2020/04/3
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by robga 3y ago
At least in my field, it would be an absolute complete irrelevance. You’ve said 2 years here. What sort of gap wouldn’t be a factor to you? 3mo? 9mo?
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by robga 3y ago
Who drinks 4.5L of anything a day? That’s 18 x 250ml glasses.
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by robga 3y ago
I can't go past Nehebkau, not least because of the proto imagery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehebkau#/media/File:Nehebkau_...
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by robga 3y ago
There are 56 members of the Commonwealth. There are 31 members of NATO. Only Canada and the UK are in both.
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by robga 3y ago
Note that the Azure endpoint is not being sunsetted until July 5th, 2024. One supposes openai has a 6 month notice period vs a 12 month period for azure. This might generally effect one’s appetite in choosing which endpoint to use for any m
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by robga 3y ago
Atlas Shrugged had a profound influence on me, too. It is a treatise on selfishness. A stench of arrogance leaks out from every paragraph. It showed me the worst of the worst. What not to be. I like to think reading it made me a more empath
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by robga 3y ago
I love going to the movies alone or a restaurant alone. Sometimes when I have half a day without family around these are exactly the activities that I choose to undertake. It’s not rare.
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by robga 3y ago
> The ISS has cost more than $150 billion so far. The UK's "High Speed 2" project is currently budgeted to cost about $125 billion for its ~300mi extent. I very much do hope that everyone involved is asking themselves hard
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by robga 3y ago
LOCATE international work with the podcast The Missing. They covered this case in episode 27, should you be intrigued by the article. I find the podcast very touching. https://www.themissingpodcast.org/episodes
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by robga 3y ago
I find it quite annoying and would rather it provide an accurate number. With no indicator, I’ve found I close less tabs. The icon also looks a lot like the Privacy icon on the tab browser.
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New images from the Inouye solar telescope(nso.edu)
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Giving it all away – philanthropy(jacobian.org)
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by robga 3y ago
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger
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May 20th is World Metrology Day(worldmetrologyday.org)
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by robga 3y ago
I was surprised to see the BBC report that he’d lost his battle with cancer as I’d thought BBC retired the term. Here is BBC reporting on the unusefulness of the term https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47002578 Here is
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by robga 3y ago
I’ve been using GPT-4 to help with some complex pandas work, and it’s been an excellent assistant. That said, I don’t get this product. Using query as code is no help at all. Integrating GPT into jupyter might be useful - I’m sure it’s been
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by robga 3y ago
Exactly. When I realised a $4 coffee is actually $14 dollars in todays money if I put it in a boring index tracker and leave it 30 years until I’d need to spend it, that was a massive mental switch in my head. I’m always aware of balancing
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by robga 3y ago
I mean the word “understand” is problematic. Machine and human understanding may be different but the word is applied to both. Does an XOR circuit “understand” what it is doing? I venture the word is inappropriate when applied to non-human
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by robga 3y ago
I anticipate we’ll shortly have PAFs, “Prompt Application Firewalls”, on the market that externalise some of the detection and prevention from model publishers and act as abstracted barriers in front of applications. Don’t leave it to model
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by robga 3y ago
> You are anthropomorphing. Agreed. The situation is so alien that we are prone to attribute human like terms to describe it. > The machine doesn’t “really” understand, it’s just “simulating” it understands. You are actually displayin
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by robga 3y ago
Bill Atkinson of Apple developed a new dithering algorithm for early Macs. I wonder if it was used for this rendering. https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html
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by robga 3y ago
It must have been a thrill to see a PowerBook 100!
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by robga 3y ago
Yes I understood the point of the singing part of the exams and tried my best (which wasn’t that good). Like you say, a broad base with specialities. I was empathising with how the cheaters must have felt - but I took another direction when
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by robga 3y ago
A lot of cheating is about time not difficulty. Rather than spend several evenings practising they partied instead, perhaps justifying cheating by deeming the exam topic an irrelevance. One of the takeaways here should be for the exam sette

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