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by sireat 4y ago
ChatGPT has an infinite number of uses as long as those involve text transformation in some form. My favorite has been to feed it some slab of text and let it generate synopsis and then bullet points and then you can expand on those bullet
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by sireat 4y ago
Indeed if those were Linux / BSD based machines Setting up cron and rsync on different Windows machines (WSL, cygwin?) was not something I would have looked forward to.
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by sireat 4y ago
I am ashamed to admit I've run into a case where SQlite was the wrong choice. I have a cluster of 20 Windows 7,8,10,11 machines spread across multiple sites that I wanted to run some log analytics. This was for some custom software ru
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by sireat 4y ago
10 years ago I loathed doing plots in Matplotlib. When Plotly offline version matured (circa v 4) I moved over. Lately, I've found that matplotlib is just fine for quick exploration when combined with Copilot prompts. Instead of spendi
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by sireat 4y ago
I've been a Python instructor for 5+ years and I've never taught to my students that __init__ is not a constructor. That is I teach that __init__ works just like a constructor. Sure technically (the best type of correct) it is not
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by sireat 4y ago
I could never figure out a good use of JupyterLab over regular Jupyter notebooks mainly because of compatibility reasons. Still it is good that they are making progress. Over the last 5 years I've gone: * Anaconda install of Jupyter No
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by sireat 4y ago
It does seem like some subcultures on 4chan are Panther Moderns who thrive on chaos. https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Panther_Moderns
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by sireat 4y ago
ChatGPT is very good at two tasks(and many more): 1. Taking pseudo-code for a well defined task and making a function 2. Translating said function into multiple other languages using idiomatic code. Prompted: "Solve the following probl
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by sireat 4y ago
I can live with my batch of 980pros and 870 EVOs failing. Bad batches happen to every manufacturer. However this seems like a systematic problem at Samsung. What really stinks is that I've been recommending Samsung EVOs and PROs to rel
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by sireat 4y ago
Difference is that with GPT-3 playground you need to know your prompt engineering a bit. You need to worry about hyperparameters (temperature etc). With ChatGPT you have none of that complexity. All the fine tuning choices are made for you.
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by sireat 4y ago
Reasonable pricing - (my upper limit in the OpenAI survey) Does it mean that you have to be from US AND be on the waitlist to buy Plus? I am on the waitlist but not US based... If a friend buys US based subscription will they geo-block it?
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by sireat 4y ago
Google Maps keeps thinking that road repair that lowers 4 lane highway to 2 lanes means that the road is closed. While you are driving on the "closed" road Maps keeps insisting on turning back and suggesting silly alternate routes
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by sireat 4y ago
Vuescan is fantastic! Aunt's computer had been upgraded to Windows 10 and HP printer/scanner had the scanner part stop working... I was cursing Microsoft and HP for half an hour reading various failed workarounds. I was getting se
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by sireat 4y ago
Another use - generate pop quizzes for teaching/review - saving me 30 minutes every workday. ChatGPT will take previous context and create reasonable quizzes (open prompt or multiple choice with answer key). Sure you do need to know th
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by sireat 4y ago
Good exercise! 5:29 on the first try (FM), 3:27 on 2nd try once I realized we have to move the knight to non attacked squares from top right to left bottom At first I thought I had to implement the knights walk by myself so wasted about 30
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by sireat 4y ago
Whenever I see CEO taking "full responsibility" and staying put I am reminded of Gavin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48vYSLvKNQ Full responsibility that does not involve massive shakeup at the top is not full
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by sireat 4y ago
Somewhat shockingly her site (from TC link) has been taken over by domain squatter with gambling links. Surely 3 years is too little time to be forgotten. I suppose none of us gets to go to Kislovodsk .. https://www.youtube.com&#
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by sireat 4y ago
Good to see that Thonny is still getting love! I've used Thonny to teach programming to complete beginners with good results. Most people love it and are loathe to switch to VS Code to PyCharm later on in the course. What really works
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by sireat 4y ago
Lot of fun chess variants. Reading about Lloyd Shapley (2nd in Game Theory after von Neumann) I discovered that he was supposed to be master at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess) Basically chess with Fog
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by sireat 4y ago
Looks like anime fansubbing scene has not changed much in the 30 years. Back then there were multiple fansubber camps - notably Artic Animation which fell into "janky but really fast translation" releasing many shows and purist f
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by sireat 4y ago
I suppose that's the price for the small core but I do wish Lua had string interpolation. Instead there are like 5 hacky ways to do it: http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringInterpolation
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by sireat 4y ago
I've learned the hard way to avoid git-lfs at all costs. Main issue is that git-lfs is NOT "it just works". The migration process if you mistakenly in/excluded a file is quite painful and bug prone. I'd rather just
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by sireat 4y ago
Fascinating! However two things are not clear: 1. How does marginalia build up the 10M bit vector for a site it has not seen before? 2. How do you do a cosine similarity on a 64 bit bloom filter? ======== Example: https://explore
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by sireat 4y ago
Life is ridiculously short once you move past the mid point - early 40s. Even the luckiest ones among us get to do a tiny fraction of personally meaningful activities. As I am piggybacking my youngest one up the stairs, I am enjoying the tr
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by sireat 4y ago
You can get a VM for way less for simple needs. I have a VM from those lowendbox providers from a few years ago that costs $4 a YEAR - static IP, 256MB RAM/512MB virtual, 10GB storage, U18.04 I do not use it for anything serious, but i
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by sireat 4y ago
It all starts with a simple late book fee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
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by sireat 4y ago
I've heard promising things about Nuitka so this will be a good time to try it out and see how .exe size compares to one generated by PyInstaller. Also I think instead of undetermined donation amount a fixed $99 personal commercial lic
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by sireat 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT to provide an academic source on Pearson correlation coefficient. ChatGPT responded with an abstract to a fake 1904 article. The link to the article it gave lead to 1913 article on crab claw length by a different Pearson.
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by sireat 4y ago
ChatGPT has no knowledge on how to play chess. It can't even get the basics of openings or even colors right. Prompt: What are the moves that characterize Latvian Gambit in chess? ChatGPT response: The Latvian Gambit is characteriz
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by sireat 4y ago
I too bought Aranet 4 a few months ago. During winter nights we routinely hit 3k-4k in the bedroom by the morning. During summer it never went over 900 due to open window. Solution, get up in the middle of night to open balcony for a few mi

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