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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Trademarks can’t apply to characters, in themselves, no. A trademark can apply to a particular fixed representation but not the likeness, or ‘essence’ if you like. The essence of Indy is the whip, the hat, the grizzled demeanour, the dry hu
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I wasn’t talking about LLMs, I was talking about human artists. With the LLM it would be nothing to do with likeness, it would be to do with the copyright in the image, the film, video or photograph. The image captures the likeness but the
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I've found the reference now: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sticks-discovered-... Based on this article I think that there's is a reasonable body of evidence to suggest it might be true. Sure, not
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
The likeness of Indiana Jones is not protected in any way - as far as I know - that would stop a human artist creating, rendering and selling a work of art representing their creative vision of Indiana Jones. And even more so in a private c
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
In the post-Hellenistic world yes, but I remember reading something about an aboriginal fire ritual that had been practised by indigenous people in Australia for something like 12000 years. I think there are also very long traditions of rit
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I think the “big if” in the parent comment was about whether there would be elections in 2028, not whether Trump might lose them…
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
So he just sold himself a company he already owns for a valuation that he himself assigned to that company but that was less than what he paid for it, and he paid entirely using “money” that has a made up value and which he issues himself?
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I think it’s very odd that you think that people using LLMs regularly aren’t carefully checking the outputs. Why do you think that people using LLMs don’t care about their work?
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Then that part of my work will change. However, as this thread demonstrates repeatedly, using LLMs effectively is about knowing what questions to ask, and what to put into the LLM alongside the questions. The people who pay me to do what I
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
The people who pay for what I do.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
And many people tried it a year ago and wrote it off as useless after trying to get results with basic one-shot prompting. Those people, likely, will never change their opinion. And that’s fine, because they won’t get the huge benefits that
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
> that returns 0 results, because it turns out the state column uses two-letter state abbreviations like CA instead. As you’ve identified, rather than just giving it the schema you give it the schema and a some data when you tell it what
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
When I use Claude to iterate/troubleshoot I do it in a project and in multiple chats. So if I test something and it throws and error or gives an unexpected result I’ll start a new chat to deal with that problem, correct the code, updat
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I have been thinking about this a lot recently. I have a colleague who simply can’t use LLMs for this reason - he expects them to work like a logical and precise machine, and finds interacting with them frustrating, weird and uncomfortable.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Most people - the vast majority of people - cannot critically synthesize information on their own. But the implication of what you are saying is that academic rigour is going to be ditched overnight because of LLMs. That’s a little bit odd.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Firstly I am not summarising the podcast, simply using whisper to make a transcript. T even if I was, because I do this multiple times a day and have been for quite sone time I know how to check for errors. One part of that is a “fact check
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Well the API calls worked perfectly. The LLM didn’t misinterpret that. The data extraction via tesseract worked too. The whisper transcript was pretty good. Not perfect, but when you do this daily you are easily able to work around things.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Great! You’re not the audience for it.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Yeah, they are not “reading recycled LLM content”, no. The dashboard in question presents data from PDFs. They are very happy with being able to explore that data.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
No, I leave that to the highly amusing people like you.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
“Normal” people have no idea how to make that work though. They just want an app on their phone and not to have to buy something or maintain something or check something. We could all run our own mail servers and there’s a good reason we do
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I’ve used Claude today to: Write code to pull down a significant amount of public data using an open API. (That took about 30 seconds - I just gave it the swagger file and said “here’s what I want”) Get the data (an hour or so), clean the d
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Indeed. The whole "being cool from the devices you wear/carry" is very much about how it makes you feel, rather than any perception other people might have. If I see someone wearing a Rolex I'm more likely to think &quot
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Do people who wear an Apple Watch think they are cool? I think that is maybe in the eye of the beholder, but if it makes you feel like a cool idiot that’s nice, but I don’t know anyone who got an Apple watch because it’s cool. If you want t
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
My washer dryer lives in a utility room. And I’m pretty deaf.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I had this dishwasher in a rental property I was living in. The landlord fitted it a month or so after I moved in because the old dishwasher died. I was very skeptical of a WiFi connected dishwasher. Very quickly, I loved it. It’s actually
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
You don’t need to use the app to operate the dishwasher. It works absolutely fine as a dumb dishwasher.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I would not pay $10 a month for this, given it would be very easy to write something simple to send a prompt to multiple APIs. I am perhaps not your target audience, but then I wonder who your target audience is when you’re essentially sell
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I mean! It’s like I’ve triggered some sort of neurotic breakdown. It’s actually slightly upsetting because you can see it trying, but then clearly deciding that it isn’t good enough, scrapping the work and trying a
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Also, I’ve noticed that Claude sometimes gets a bit snotty and offended if I’m too abrupt. Which may just be me anthropomorphising, but there’s a pattern of when this happens.

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