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by tablatom 4y ago
When GPT gives an answer like that, is it actually a meaningful description of its capabilities? Does it have that kind of self-awareness? Or is it just a plausible answer based on the training corpus? Genuine question.
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by tablatom 4y ago
> as art it's pretty worthless My experience browsing midjourney supports this. It's amazing how quickly you go from "wow" to "whatever". But that's probably cold comfort for a huge number of jobbing il
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by tablatom 4y ago
Is GPT3 used to process the data itself? As opposed to something like automatically generating validation rules. If yes, how does this avoid creating plausible but incorrect data? e.g. the blurb mentions "It is important to identify an
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by tablatom 4y ago
I feel this underestimates the seriousness of the difficulties we are facing in the area of social cohesion. The conflating of real/non-real and credible/non-credible is very much at the heart of the Trump/Brexit divide
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by tablatom 4y ago
> learn everything the knowledge engine knows Isn't this an effectively infinite set? Wolfram Alpha could be said to know "all the numbers", and "all the formulas". > LLMs can learn structured domains too if t
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by tablatom 4y ago
That's pretty radical on the diet. Was it difficult to adjust? I'm pretty thin as it is so I'd be worried I'd waste away!
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by tablatom 4y ago
Is the Oura a good purchase? I've been really eyeing the health benefits of the Apple watch but there's no way I want a portal into the digital world that's a flick of the wrist away. It's bad enough with the phone picku
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by tablatom 4y ago
This is turning into a great thread and this comment is the most impactful one for me. I'm going to give it a go. My daughter is 18 and at least half her peer group are in a dreadful state in terms of mental health. You have to wonder
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by tablatom 4y ago
I'll second this. Based on my own experience (I'm 50) it's all about energy levels. When my energy is high, I can code like I did two decades ago. Probably better. I guess the difference is that in your twenties, energy is al
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by tablatom 4y ago
Can you provide any details about the harder problems you mention?
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ChatGPT struggles with a simple logic problem(gist.github.com)
2 points by tablatom 4y ago|4 comments
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by tablatom 4y ago
The understanding of the rules is very impressive, as is the solution to the first, trivial problem, but things quickly go sideways when the problem gets a bit more complex. I tried to coax it towards the solution, but it didn't help m
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by tablatom 4y ago
Share a link to your project?
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Ask HN: Blockchain success stories that did need to be decentralised?
23 points by tablatom 5y ago|55 comments
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by tablatom 5y ago
Nhost is a very similar offering, built on Hasura https://nhost.io/
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by tablatom 6y ago
The first review on that page[1] is a well argued counterpoint to Graham's essay. Getting your ideas understood is often only one part of what you're trying to achieve. If that really is your only goal, then I agree, the simpler t
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Show HN: Kitcoder – build with easy-to-assemble code kits(kitcoder.com)
2 points by tablatom 11y ago|0 comments
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by tablatom 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. If Google start logging license plate numbers (and, hey, it's Google), they could build a database of known dangerous vehicles and automatically give them a wide berth.
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by tablatom 11y ago
You'd want to get smarter, not dumber: taking into account the fact that the unpredictable (to the car behind) braking could in itself cause an accident, and calculating a best compromise to avoid both collisions, with priority to the
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by tablatom 12y ago
So glad to see this book mentioned. The follow-up, Turning Pro, which is effectively the second half of the same book, is also golden.
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by tablatom 13y ago
It is so important that something like this happens. The mental image of all the knowledge workers of the world riding tricycles because a real bike is "too difficult", is absolutely perfect.
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by tablatom 14y ago
My understanding of this article was that he pulled off the hack entirely by himself, without having to get someone to visit his page. Maybe I misunderstood.
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by tablatom 14y ago
> Custom JS on your subdomains is a bad idea What is the difference between allowing users to put custom JS on a subdomain, vs. someone just opening up the developer console and running whatever JS they like? Does JS loaded from the ser
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by tablatom 14y ago
This is great to hear. Growth without a corresponding decline in quality. I must admit, when I read the original article, I was a little skeptical it would work out well. Are there any design choices you would particularly attribute the suc
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Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?(paulgraham.com)
229 points by tablatom 14y ago|98 comments
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by tablatom 14y ago
> You'll run into a set of requirements that no one has run into before. Inevitably. Which means you'll have to resort to "real programming" (as opposed to component assembly) for /that part/ of your project. I don't see this as a funda
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by tablatom 14y ago
To date, software engineering has failed to deliver on one critical goal, which is why we are in this mess. The world of software development needs to be divided in two -- the component creators, and the component assemblers. To stick with
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by tablatom 14y ago
For those unfamiliar with ObjectiveC syntax, this[1] is a very nice example, in JavaScript, of how amazing this idea is. [1] https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/rxjs-html
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by tablatom 15y ago
I don't see the problem with VAT. Just keep rack of where your customers are and pay the VAT on those in Europe. Where does the payment processor come into it? If you owe VAT then pay it.
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by tablatom 16y ago
Very nice. Another nitpick - I really like what Apple have been trying to do to in creating a UI affordance that says "this is a search box" - i.e. a text entry with round ends. I hope all the devs out there can join in and not use that app

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