strongpigeon

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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
Meta is going to surpass Google this year in revenue. I agree on the diversification front though
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
What you're saying is all true, but typically road design influence driving speed more than anything. Changing speed limits rarely has an impact on that (at least in the US).
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I know it's an unrealistic pipe dream, but it feels like a privacy-friendly user identity/attestation mechanism is the kind of digital infrastructure that should be provided by the government. We already trust the government to gi
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
> That doesn't make sense that a 1024x1024 is cheaper than a 1024x1536, [...] I think you meant more expensive, right? Because it would make sense for it to be cheaper as there are less pixels.
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
What's interesting is that ChatGPT ads sit on a spectrum of intent. It's definitely closer to Google in some sense as some of the ads can be in response to a very high intent prompt (what's a good X product), but it does feel
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I agree with you, but IMO the details are too sparse here to figure out what's really happening. Still, it feels very dangerous to try to go the reseller route first as you lose a ton of control and become dependent on your partner to
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
Agreed with the sentiment regarding that footage. This felt closer to something you could actually experience rather than another beautiful DSLR shot. Briefly seeing the inside of the capsule, the autofocus taking a long time, the iPhone im
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
So the first thing that's important to understand is that Excel is the product of another era. One where resources like memory were very constrained and compilers and optimizers weren't as good as they are today (so much so that t
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
Maybe but not drastically so. My guess is that most of the slowness comes from the tool calls round tripping+processing on Anthropic/OpenAI’s servers rather than the app latency. That’s without talking about the poor UI and security st
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
No, as the other comment mentioned. But I’ve heard of more than a few customers running their own “server excel workflow” where they have an instances of excel.exe running a VBA macro that talks to a web server (and does some processing).
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
> WAC Now that’s an acronym that I had forgotten about.
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I don’t think Excel web will ever be running the calc engine browser side, no. The only way I could see this happen would be via compiling the core to wasm, which I don’t think is worth the engineering effort. Excel has this legacy (but ext
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
To clarify: add-ins are essentially web pages. They can do some processing client side if they want, but yeah in the case of a ChatGPT add-in it's not like they're running the model in a web frame.
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I worked on the Excel Add-Ins platform at Microsoft, yes. By OM call I mean "Object Model" call, basically interacting with the Excel document. The reason those calls are expensive on Excel Web is that you're running your add
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
> I'm sure there's some edge cases, but MSFT has been moving away from OAI. You're not wrong, but you'd think that given their 27% stake in OpenAI they'd put more weight behind ChatGPT integration.
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
Oh wow, I used to work on Excel Add-Ins about 10 years ago. Even got a patent for it. I'd be curious to see how they implemented the calls. We came up with what I still consider a pretty cool batch-rpc mechanism under the hood so that
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I’ve tried them all and have come to slightly prefer Codex (with CC close second). Google has the benefit of being insanely profitable though.
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
NASDAQ just changed some rules recently concerning exactly this. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/new-rule-could-fast-track-spa...
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I think it’s the default system prompts of ChatGPT. I do think it’s better with the “Professional” tone with “Less Emoji” but that’s just me.
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I’m not saying others don’t provide a status page, just that they’re often misleading. I’m thinking for example of Apple having a multiple hour outages a couple weeks ago, preventing anyone be from installing debug apps on devices. Yet, eve
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I have to say, I do respect Anthropic's honesty for their status page. Most service provider seem allergic to declaring an outage... It is a weird thing to respect come to think of it... Having an accurate status page should be the bas
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
That was one of the problem with the original Material framework: every app looked too similar making it hard to distinguish one from another. Google was concerned about people associating bad third party app with itself. They added more cu
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
> You think people will put up with wildly accelerating inequality forever? No. Nor do I think they should. But UBI, higher income tax at the top and a wealth tax for the ultra rich sound like a much better plan to me than to blow a bunc
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
Being worried that people choose to channel their energy into actions that undoubtedly make their situation worse rather than have a chance of finding a solution is not the same. Or I guess it depends on how you decide to view things as bei
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I think you're extrapolating a lot from my comment... One can reasonably think something has to be done to address the current (and upcoming) economic situation and think that molotov cocktails won't help. Acts like these will lik
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I once knew a guy that used to be head of physical security for Bill Gates. He has body guards with him all the time and a sizable security team at his home in Medina. You wouldn't believe the amount of lunatics that show up at his hom
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
I mean, it's also scary because I don't think it works. People should demand a new deal and lobby for that. Throwing molotovs doesn't help with that.
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
Because it assumes the person actually making the food has no common sense?
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT&#x2F
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by strongpigeon 6mo ago
You don’t normally compress the system prompts, though I guess maybe it treats its own summary with more authority. This article [0] talks about the problem very well. Though I feel it’s most likely because models tend to degrade on large c

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