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by specproc 3y ago
Entitled, eh? Some assumptions being made about people's ability to afford and access the physical books. I've got cash, plenty of people around me don't and I don't begrudge their piracy. I pay, see below, when I was yo
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by specproc 3y ago
I worry there's a bit of HN bias here. I don't know anyone whose partner owns an investment management firm or similar. I know a fair few day jobbing musicians and creatives of other stripes though, only one of which with parents
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by specproc 3y ago
I think the interesting thing about this article is how quaint it feels five years on. In terms of methods, sure, but also the goal. There's this implicit assumption that a) ML could effectively spot bad actors, and b) this is a fight
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by specproc 3y ago
What's beautiful about the tradition is an acknowledgement of a fundamental connectedness of all things. Some may scoff, but as a young man I had a nice little mushroom trip, topped off with a little baby woodrose in the hills above an
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by specproc 3y ago
I made wine last year, a really fun process. I'm not particularly into wine, but my wife is and I live in a wine country so we thought we'd give it a try. We used some grapes from the garden and a load we bought, our process was r
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by specproc 3y ago
I guess use case is everything. There are numerous reasons, not least of which confidentiality, why chatgpt is a no go for me. What I'd like to see more of is systematic comparison between chatgpt and classic models. I was hoping to se
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by specproc 3y ago
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. If you're running 500k in tokens through through someone else's hallucination-prone computer and paying for the privilege, I want to know why that's any better than something like SetFit. All I saw
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by specproc 3y ago
Whudup sheetheads! Still can't believe that Chinese localisation BS.
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by specproc 3y ago
I'm a self-taught one-man show, and just in the process of onboarding a new, more experienced colleague. In some ways it's terrifying, as I know a lot of my work is trash. On the other, recapping everything I've achieved myse
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by specproc 3y ago
OK, not gonna argue with that. There is, I guess, a perception that it matters because policy-makers, and the wonks and hacks that influence them are hooked. The value for me (and ergo the public, some classic NGO thinking there for you) li
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by specproc 3y ago
The thing with social media platforms is that this data is user-generated, so you've got the company "owning" user content. This data is often of great public value. I track conversations around a social issue as part of my w
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by specproc 3y ago
I think there's nothing wrong with exploring them. By the sounds of it OP is not keen, but if the concern is career then there's something to be said for being able to say "I had a look and it wasn't for me." I&#x27
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by specproc 3y ago
I know it's a UI thread, but for me the most important thing is usability. This has been the year of linux on the desktop for me, after trying on and off for the last few decades. I don't know if it's a few things finally cli
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by specproc 3y ago
Some odd Python "class" syntax in there. ## Python class called Car def Car(make, model, year): """This function creates a new car object""" car = {"make": make, "model&qu
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by specproc 3y ago
Ach, I understand, there are a lot of issues with alcohol. Had quite a journey myself. That said, I liked the article and might give this a go some time. My hearing is lousy for the same reasons as the author. Whilst I don't drink regu
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by specproc 3y ago
More a question as to the wisdom of LLM-powered chatbots as interfaces, everywhere. What was wrong with curl anyway :-p
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by specproc 3y ago
Yeah, I'd been working with them for ages before I really wrapped my head around the sausage machine. There was a Wolfram blog a while back that really helped me grok it [0]. The last state of a neural network prior to prediction, if I
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by specproc 3y ago
I think I was about 9 when I read the Hobbit. It absolutely blew my mind, and gave me a very different sense of what was cool to my peers.
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by specproc 3y ago
Yeah, I was staying at an Airbnb last week and they had a TV with YouTube. Absolutely horrendous, I couldn't get through a short video without it being cut in the middle. Was quite a shock after getting so used to Ublock.
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by specproc 3y ago
As someone who spent a past life doing reporting and compliance for non-profits, I assure you meaningless work exists outside the private sector.
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by specproc 3y ago
Capitalism is not monolithic. Markets and businesses work very differently in different countries on different continents. Or in the same country a few decades apart. Shrugging at shitty practices and saying "capitalism" is at bes
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by specproc 3y ago
I've got a colleague who's been doing it with some success. Nothing fancy, just a bit of doodling around in Python for fun. He's been leaning heavily on the repl.it Copilot thingy, so it's more autocomplete than code blo
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by specproc 3y ago
I guess this is preference. I like to have the relevant code and output side-by-side, and dislike scrolling past outputs to get at code. Again, pure preference. My screen copes fine with two tabs and the sidebar hidden most of the time, but
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by specproc 3y ago
I had a quick play around with the Mcdonald's chatbot, in the hope that they might have hooked it up to GPT and it could be tricked into saying something funny. No dice, the thing is as dumb as a Beavis and Butthead Christmas special,
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by specproc 3y ago
My hope is that the old are dying and the new cannot yet be born, and that whatever comes next is as, if not more programmatically accessible. It's kinda on us to ensure that it's only in the interregnum that we have the morbid an
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by specproc 3y ago
I have to confess I've never had much need for YouTube videos in my code. Pics are just output as far as I'm concerned. Naturally, if you need these things then .ipynb makes sense.
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by specproc 3y ago
I'm glad you asked, because you made me think about why. Initially, I guess I just thought it was kinda neat and stuck with it, but on reflection this is what I personally feel I get out of it: - Same interface for analysis, scripting,
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by specproc 3y ago
I've not been back to full-fledged Jupyter since getting in to VSCode. Most of my analytical work now is done in .py files, broken up into blocks with `#%%`. Real notebooks feel really clunky since adopting the approach.
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by specproc 3y ago
They might do for specific jobs, but you want them nice and fresh for a career path. Too much time out in the world fosters the sort of independent thinking that's a liability in that line of work.
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by specproc 3y ago
There's a fantastic film called The Day Shall Come, which is a very dark comic take on this theme. Thoroughly recommended.

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