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by sdwr 3y ago
What changed since then? Asking for a friend ;)
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by sdwr 3y ago
Interacting with APIs is the old style. The magic of ChatGPT is the same magic as google had back in the day - you ask it in plain english and it has an answer. I'm guessing the solution looks like a model trained to take actions on th
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by sdwr 3y ago
This is the hoodoo-voodoo magic! It just **ing knows!
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by sdwr 3y ago
Good shit!
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by sdwr 3y ago
The main problem with instant noodles is not the salt or fat, but the same thing as all other junk food - it takes the place of actual food with actual nutrients. The healthiest way I've ever found to consume instant noodles is as a me
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by sdwr 3y ago
I was thinking about this yesterday. ChatGPT really is good enough to act as a proper virtual assistant / home manager, with enough toggles exposed.
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by sdwr 3y ago
The world median will be chinese or indian, but the american median will be white!
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by sdwr 3y ago
Beautiful! Or at least beautifully prescient. I'm starting to think storytellers are smarter than they let on.
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by sdwr 3y ago
There's at least 3 prongs there. PvP - someone will use it against me PvE - someone will do it better than me and EvP - it will take something away from our human experience None of those really capture the weight of tradition though.
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by sdwr 3y ago
How does Code Interpreter work vs base GPT-4 for code snippets? I'm writing questions and pasting context code into GPT-4 right now, and it works pretty well.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Can see Wolfram's approach here - interesting how he's coming to generative AI with a beginner's mind, from first principles. He makes a lot of interesting points, but I can't help and think that he would save a lot of t
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by sdwr 3y ago
Incredible! You should make music videos
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by sdwr 3y ago
> the experience of most people is "dark matter" Love this, maps really well onto my experience. I see (and feel) a sharp deliniation between do-ers and be-ers, with the be-ers wishing they could do, and the do-ers not having t
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by sdwr 3y ago
Nice metaphor. I like the paper = financial, social constraint and metal as "down to the metal" physical limitations. Kinda clunky though, needs a few rounds of workshopping!
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by sdwr 3y ago
I like the tangents, but I believe archeology is just used definitionally - when the context is lost, sifting through source code may as well be digging up ancient artifacts.
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by sdwr 3y ago
I've believed the lab leak was likely at least since the Atlantic (?) expose of the lab came out. Disheartening but not unsurprising to see political concerns + firefighting trump the truth. Threading the needle between naivety, skepti
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yup! Pretty much magic!
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by sdwr 3y ago
The tolerance for error is a huge thing! I also see (or intuit) people making tradeoffs between fault-tolerance and speed, ex. taking a tight curve on a regular block and a wide one on a piranhna plant. That's more interesting and reas
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by sdwr 3y ago
15 years ago, solar and wind looked stupid expensive compared to fossil fuels.
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by sdwr 3y ago
That first paragraph hits the nail on the head for me, perfect definition of elitism.
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by sdwr 3y ago
My guess is that it isn't doing a lot of self-interaction. I've been using it for coding, and the replies feel much too coherent to be either: 1. expanded from an outline (2-stage process) or 2. being chained between models If it
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by sdwr 3y ago
Sometimes it's more fun to just be wrong about it
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by sdwr 3y ago
Isnt that alan aldo, not alan arkin?
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by sdwr 3y ago
There was a SSC post a while back about how every new kind of psychotherapy works great at first, and then reverts to the mean over time. Gotta be the same idea - some guy thinking "I'm going to be so successful once I prove my ne
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by sdwr 3y ago
Not a linguist, was briefly taught sentence diagramming as a child, found it confusing. When I think back on it, it feels counterproductive to actual reading. Constantly labeling subject / object / adverb as I'm reading would
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by sdwr 3y ago
Cmon, D4 looks sexy as hell. Great style, detailed models, looks way better than D3. Not a perfect game but its a visual treat.
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by sdwr 3y ago
I think we're reaching a point where the Turing test is no longer useful. If you get into the nitty-gritty of it (instead of just handwaving "computer should act like person"), it's about roleplaying a fake identity. Whi
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by sdwr 3y ago
" In retrospect, it seems clear that “Inside Out” was when Pixar’s Silicon Valley brain trust began to peel off from the universe and float into the metaverse, borne aloft by a kind of totalizing cleverness. " Aka disappeared up t
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by sdwr 3y ago
It's very relevant. Asian families (at least the ones who immigrate) tend to have 1 or 2 kids, and focus hard on them achieving material success in a safe profession. They also tend to micromanage to reach that goal. It's not a ne
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by sdwr 3y ago
As a non-professional semi-musician, it also made me uncomfortable. The "my children are wonderful miracles" attitude shone through, in a way that feels unrealistic + overly magical. I met a Chinese couple last week coaching their

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