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by rst 3y ago
All the LLM is doing is generating text. Forcing it to describe a step-by-step reasoning process is the only way to get it to work through one. And the whole point of using this as a prompting strategy is that it often gets you something di
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by rst 3y ago
Just about any ticketing system (including the established open-source ones) could be described as an "alternative to JIRA", even if bare-bones, so you might be better off describing the unique capabilities or UX that makes this o
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by rst 3y ago
Projects have forked over leadership issues plenty of times before; there have been cases where both parts of the fork stuck around (NetBSD/FreeBSD), and at least a couple where the projects' former leadership effectively gave up
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by rst 3y ago
Theres a multimodal variant, but it's not widely available yet.
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by rst 3y ago
It's avoiding the problem by separating control and data, at unknown but signficant cost to functionality (the LLM which determines what tools get invoked doesn't see the actual data or results, only opaque tokens that refer to th
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by rst 3y ago
The metrics used in this paper are... deeply flawed, to the point that the authors admit that they label nearly half of known good papers in a curated sample as "fake" -- and particularly likely to generate false positives for r
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by rst 3y ago
Odd to see this the day after the appearance of what's supposed to be a "leaked" memo from inside Google advocating the opposite course -- claiming that the outsider crowd playing with (mostly) LLaMa derivatives is getting go
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by rst 3y ago
The claim that Fortran and assembly languages "trace to" Algol is... odd. Fortran I was released in 1957; the first fragmentary spec for Algol wasn't released until 1958 (with Fortran project leader John Backus as one of the
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by rst 3y ago
IBM is a bunch of businesses, some of which still likely make sense -- their mainframe hardware line (S/360 successors, currently branded as z/System), and associated products, are still actively developed, and very likely profita
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by rst 3y ago
Doesn't necessarily apply to data being processed with plugins. The "Code Interpreter" plugin lets you upload files up to 100 MB for use by AI-generated Python scripts; see https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p&#x
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by rst 3y ago
People have gotten it to play chess. The quality of play you get is very sensitive to prompt details, and may also be affected by OpenAI's ongoing model tuning, but here's one experiment in which it won 11 games of 19 against a
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by rst 3y ago
If there's any justification for this kind of delay between detecting an intrusion and acting on it, it would have to be giving the government time to investigate, in order to correctly identify the source and means of intrusion, so th
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by rst 3y ago
One version of "Sweet spot" is having Linux preinstalled at the factory, which at least guarantees working drivers on new hardware. Obviously costs more than an older machine, though. Dell offers this on a bunch of models, inclu
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by rst 3y ago
Unfortunately, the switch from 2.7 to 3.0 is likely to be more troublesome, due mostly to the change in handling keyword arguments (they're no longer treated as equivalent to a last positional argument that happens to be a hash, and yo
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by rst 4y ago
Because they care more about getting things done than whether clout-chasers think they're "cool".
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by rst 4y ago
Some first-generation RISC processors, e.g. MIPS R2000, shipped with hardware multiply and divide, or even optional floating point.
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by rst 4y ago
There is a way around this -- find an initial target audience (team gamers for Discord, students of particular colleges for Facebook), start out as a specialty site for those to get a nucleus of active users, and then start building out. B
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by rst 4y ago
Already available in 2023: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-gpt-chat-bot-...
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by rst 4y ago
Compare and contrast that to this, from current OpenAI head Sam Altman, in which he literally promises AI systems that will tailor themselves to the user's political views -- which comes way too close for me to promising that they&#x27
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by rst 4y ago
Until one of those humans figures out how to write a Chrome extension that automates things... which, sadly, is something a lot of them would rather do than learn how to write.
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by rst 4y ago
Not sure how this is supposed to prevent a correctly verified, genuinely authentic human from pasting ChatGPT output into a submission box, and claiming it as their own.
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by rst 4y ago
They're trying to figure out what to do, but have already rejected these ideas for good reasons: https://twitter.com/clarkesworld/status/1628049689374334980 A dollar isn't nearly enough to deter most of
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by rst 4y ago
It's being promoted as a search engine; in that context, it's completely reasonable to expect that it will fetch the earnings report itself if asked.
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by rst 4y ago
By the time the S/360 was announced, IBM had already been producing top-of-the-line systems with the main processor sharing memory with several I/O "channels" for several years -- which would be "mainframes" by
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by rst 4y ago
[2004] -- Python is no longer a "comparatively esoteric language" these days. I suppose now this might be an argument for hiring folks using Haskell or the like.
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by rst 4y ago
Legal representation as a service is the service provided by, well... lawyers. As for automation -- I take it at this point we've all seen the likes of ChatGPT muffing simple and straightforward algebra, and digging in when people poi
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by rst 4y ago
But Google already offers full search of most public Mastodon posts -- add "site:mastodon.social" to a Google search on anything in the news, and see what you get. It's odd for people to get so worked up about what would hap
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by rst 4y ago
At least one of the actual trains is in the collection of the NYC Transit Museum (a decommissioned subway station near Borough Hall in Brooklyn), and at least intermittently on display on the tracks downstairs.
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by rst 4y ago
Unfortunately, you can't count on the enterprise's pre-existing DB to support all of ANSI SQL well. Oracle in particular deviates from ANSI in a whole bunch of well-known ways (messed-up date types, treating the empty string, &#x
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by rst 4y ago
If you're SaaS, enterprise doesn't necessarily care what database you're using -- and some of them may be a polyglot even internally. (My dayjob is a SaaS that's old enough to have started on Oracle in part because we

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