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by thimabi 1y ago
> How important is it to be using SOTA? I believe in using the best model for each use case. Since I’m paying for it, I like to find out which model is the best bang for my buck. The problem is that, even when comparing models according
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by thimabi 1y ago
It’s been hard to keep up with the evolution in LLMs. SOTA models basically change every other week, and each of them has its own quirks. Differences in features, personality, output formatting, UI, safety filters… make it nearly impossible
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by thimabi 1y ago
Oh, God! Please, no. Though I can certainly draw some parallels between Tinder and the job market. The supply and demand issues, the ghosting after a date/interview, people selling themselves well above their actual value… it’s all the
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by thimabi 1y ago
I think the idea that LLMs are incentivized to write verbose code fails when one considers non-API usage. Like you, I’ve accumulated tons of LLM usage via apps and web apps. I can actually see how the models are much more succinct there com
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by thimabi 1y ago
At least according to customary international law, a head of state has full sovereign immunity regardless of any nationalities that they might hold. By the way, the immunity covers not only the head of state, but also the head of government
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by thimabi 1y ago
If my memory doesn’t fail, there has also been an American adventurer called William Walker who doubled as president of Nicaragua back in the 19th century
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by thimabi 1y ago
Oh, I didn’t mean to say that these models were unavailable through the app or website. Rather, I’ve realized that using them through the API or AI Studio yields much better results — even in the free tier. You can check that by trying prom
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by thimabi 1y ago
That does work in Google’s favor. Users who are technical enough to want a better model eventually learn about AI Studio, while the rest are none the wiser.
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by thimabi 1y ago
I find it baffling that Google offers such impressive models through the API and even the free AI Studio with fine-grained control, yet the models used in the Gemini app feel much worse. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been using Gemini Advan
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by thimabi 1y ago
I'd love if tools like this one were available for non-API users as well, even if we had to be rate limited at some point. But I guess OpenAI will never do it because it incentivizes people to use the ChatGPT subscriptions as a gateway
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by thimabi 2y ago
That’s such a petty move by the U.S. government. I hadn’t heard about this library before, but it seems something so innocent and devoid of problems that I wonder why the government bothered to mess with it.
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by thimabi 2y ago
It bothers me that many devices are so easily remotely bricked and that keeping them offline is the only way to avoid such issues. Automated updates were supposed to give us peace of mind instead of having us worried about what bug or enshi
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by thimabi 2y ago
Does anyone know the current usage limits for o3-mini and o3-mini-high when used through the ChatGPT interface? I tried to find them on the OpenAI Knowledgebase, but couldn’t find anything about that.
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by thimabi 2y ago
Do you think it is possible for a society to switch from emphasizing price to emphasizing value? If so, how do you think such a change would take place?
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by thimabi 2y ago
The change makes me question the authenticity of the text. I mean, did the author actually read files from top to bottom, or did he just write that because it suited his narrative? That’s a trivial change to make for a line that did not rec
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by thimabi 2y ago
99% of humans who make content for Meta’s platforms receive no revenue from them. In fact, some of them actually pay the platforms for greater reach. Even without AI personas, Meta can surely have its cake and eat it too.
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by thimabi 2y ago
> 90% CL: Top search engine results completely inundated by LLM text Are you sure you meant this as a prediction for 2025? It has been months, if not years, since search engines have been inundated by LLM articles. The pursuit of adverti
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by thimabi 2y ago
Maybe that passage itself was rewritten by an AI :)
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by thimabi 2y ago
I think my expectations for a feature called “locked chats” are somewhat different from those of WhatsApp. What is the value of locking something if the lock can be easily bypassed? Just preventing the least sophisticated attacks? In this c
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Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit(arstechnica.com)
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a "full digital twin" of Earth(arstechnica.com)
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by thimabi 2y ago
It’s simply absurd that people who have traded their perfectly-functional Kindles for a discount in the Colorsoft now are left without a Kindle at all. Amazon knows that many Colorsoft devices have screen issues. I don’t see why it couldn’t
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Faulty Colorsofts have left some Kindle owners without an e-reader(wired.com)
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by thimabi 2y ago
Even worse: if you send the PDF back to the Scribe, all previously-written notes are uneditable. It seems note taking is treated more like an afterthought. Of course, this means I only use my Scribe as a scratchpad for disposable notes.
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by thimabi 2y ago
> Pen strokes are not vectorised and come out inexplicably jagged and aliased. That’s something I’ve been experiencing with the Kindle Scribe as well. You can’t zoom in on notebooks in the device, but all PDFs exports contain jagged line
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by thimabi 2y ago
Thanks to the wonderful SpaceX engineers who are actually responsible for the company’s achievements. What they’ve been accomplishing recently never ceases to amaze me.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I have never imagined that simply by using your app it would download and cache a 100 MB file on my phone. If I hadn’t read the discussion here, I wouldn’t even know about it. That’s an irresponsible waste of both bandwidth and storage. You
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by thimabi 2y ago
I guess when you add type safety and tests to an app like Excel, it becomes so much closer to programming languages that it makes more sense to ditch the app and just write code directly. Even today, complex logic in Excel is mostly done th
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by thimabi 2y ago
Not disagreeing, but I find it very ironic that there’s little difference in performance between Excel as a native app and as a web app. I don’t know if that mostly reflects the technical prowess of the web dev team or the inefficiencies o
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by thimabi 2y ago
I don’t know about a German shepherd dog specifically. But my experience with dogs is that they will wake me up whether I like it or not… whenever they feel like it, even in the middle of the night. That can be severely disrupting.

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