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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Not useless at all. This is exactly my primary use of the Anthropic api: feed in a source document and ask for specific outputs that include exact citations from the source I provide.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I have but only via the chat interface. I wasn’t particularly impressed, and for my purposes I’d rather use chained prompts via the API than try for “one shot”. However that could be because I’ve not amended my prompting style extensively e
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Very interested to try this. I’ve built a number of quite complex prompts to do exactly this - cite from documents, with built-in safeguards to minimise hallucinations as far as possible. That comes with a cost though - typically the output
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I think a post about Metaphor would be a much more interesting entry point to this!
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
You’re very welcome!
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I’m not saying people shouldn’t have children. Just that if you do, you have to stop flying, go vegan, and sort your recycling properly for ever after!
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
[obviously I know nothing about the state of your code which I am sure is very good and so this should simply be understood as me being ‘amusingly’ mean!]
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Hmmm. Given the state of your code we would also need to incorporate a VS Code Veterinary Hospital and I’m not sure you can afford the insurance premiums.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Isn’t it also the case that a lot of those plastics come from those rivers because the first world ships is plastic water to China to be processed (“recycled”) and that this is what skews the numbers like this?
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I wish charts like this would score the carbon impact of having children. It would be off the scale.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Possibly. But my Claude prompts work fine on ChatGPT, the only difference being ChatGPT isn't very good. I pay for both. I would not pay for Gemini - which is presumably why they've added it for "free" for everyone. My a
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I tested Gemini today, asking it to extract key pieces of data from a large report (72 slide) PDF deck which includes various visualisations, and present it as structured data. It failed miserably. Two of the key stats that are the backbone
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Vivaldi and Bach mainly. Elgar’s Cello Concerto in C Minor seems to be a favourite right now. They like Delius in the right mood, but unfortunately I do not. Their favourite is Jaap Ter Linden’s recording of Bach’s Cello Suites, I think bec
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
$2 million plus his unvested shares. Plus the millions he’s made over his time as CEO. I reckon he will be just fine.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
No surprises here. Sonos has become pretty much unusable since the app "upgrade". I wanted to start some music playing via Sonos in another room for my dogs earlier while I was on a call. It took nearly two minutes for the app to
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Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle(reuters.com)
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
The copyright exceptions in the UK are very limited. There would not be a copyright exception in this situation.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
That’s exactly my point though - Mullenweg’s impact on Wordpress is toxic both to the community of users, and the community of contributors.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
It is still his property though because he still effectively owns and controls the trademark, despite making efforts to make it appear that he does not.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Ah, we are at cross purposes here. I stand by my statement that you have quoted. The “personally” bit was that I, personally, can no longer have full faith that his Wordpress commits are his work, given his recent conduct. There is nothing
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Absolutely that. I now have people in my network, friends, the guy who runs the car washing service, my greengrocer, a friend who is a personal trainer, people like that - not remotely technical but who have Wordpress sites - who are saying
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
That would be beautiful next level to his insane public breakdown. Honestly though, I feel very genuinely sorry for him, and very sad for him. Clearly something has cracked and it’s unimaginable being on the pedestal he’s been on for as lon
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
This blogpost is astonishing. It’s like Mullenweg has been taking lessons from the Trump school of media relations. “ Joost is a self-proclaimed leader in the SEO space, an industry known for making the web better… he was not effective at l
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I was pretty much blissfully unaware of Matt Mullenweg before this recent nonsense. I knew him as “the Wordpress guy” but beyond that I didn’t really care much. I now know far more than I would ever have liked to know about him, including h
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
From the guidelines: > Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to. > Please don't comment abo
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Messy Wordpress drama is messy Wordpress drama though, and that’s the problem, whatever the truth of one or another story. Have I unflinchingly recommends Wordpress to dozens of people over the years? Yes. Have they gone ahead and used it?
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
That disregards the value and recognition of the Wordpress brand beyond people who understand the concept of forking. The problem is that the tens of thousands of small businesses who placed their trust in Wordpress will be damaged by this.
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
I don’t trust his commits, given how he’s acted recently. He’s funded the development via his own private company which profits from wordpress - and Automattic (also funded by profits from Wordpress - plus VC and private equity money deri
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Mullenweg is a cuckoo. He did not create Wordpress and yet has managed to closely associate the product with his own persona and ever since has spent most of his life wringing money out of Wordpress. He is now annoyed that someone else has
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by saaaaaam 2y ago
Who doesn’t have an option?

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