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This reminded me of something the historian Megan Marshall wrote in the introduction to her book The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (2005): “I became expert in deciphering the sisters’ handwriting, and that
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I’ve been wondering that, too, for the past two years, ever since it became clear that the then-new GPT-4 could translate better than Google Translate could. A lot of people still use Google Translate because that’s what comes up in Google
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Yes, it was a good read. As someone with no direct connection to Linux or open-source development, I was surprised to find myself reading to the end. And near the end I found this comment particularly wise: > The world as a whole does no
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Note that kokoro (心) means “heart” in the sense of “spirit,” “soul,” “mind,” “emotions,” etc. It doesn’t mean “heart” in the sense of “internal organ that pumps blood.” That is shinzō (心臓). I once heard an American friend with so-so J
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Same here. Any text editor would work, of course, but I like BBEdit because of all the customization options. I’ve set up a bunch of shortcuts for frequently used tags; after some practice, I’ve become able to write prose in HTML almost as
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A few weeks ago, Anthropic published what seemed to me to be a level-headed discussion of agents: https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents Simon Willison had some valuable comments about that articl
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Similarly if you could let a person from five years ago have a spoken conversation with ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode or Gemini Live. For me five years ago, the only giveaways that the voice on the other end might not be human would have been
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And that post has already generated much discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42617645 (322 comments)
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Later: I came across a streamer’s video taken from his motorcycle as he rode through Altadena on Wednesday afternoon. In this part, he passes through a burned-out neighborhood I used to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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I feel really sorry for you. I grew up in north-central Pasadena and had many friends who lived in Altadena, and it’s been heartbreaking to watch the news from a distance and realize that many of their homes might have burned.
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The posters reminded me of a pamphlet found among my father’s belongings after his death in 2016. He had served in the U.S. Navy during the occupation of Japan in 1945 and 1946. The pamphlet warns sailors to be careful about venereal diseas
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Claude Tries Standup(simonwillison.net)
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The above link is to Simon Willison’s blog, which in turn links to Amanda Askell’s X feed. I don’t have an X account so I cannot see her full thread, but inspired by her I had Claude produce a similar standup routine: https://gal
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> Our team is ex-OpenAI, Anthropic, and Asana research scientists and AI engineers The page includes the logos of those companies. Is it normal to do that for companies one used to work for?
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The accuracy of the results might depend on the language you’re reading, the LLM you’re using, the nature of the text, and the amount of context you give to the LLM. When I’ve tested the best models with more or less standard texts, such as
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I have been using LLMs to restore some of my very rusty Russian reading skills. I give them a text in Russian and ask them to explain it word by word and sentence by sentence, and I ask follow-up questions about parts I am still unsure of.
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I followed the link to The Opry House [1] and ended up watching it to the end. I had forgotten how much fun the early animators had with their versatile new tool. [1] https://archive.org/details/the-opry-house-1929_20
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That is one of the great strengths of LLMs for school education as well. Students often refrain from asking questions in class out of embarrassment at showing their ignorance or hesitation at interrupting the flow of the class. When used w
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Archibald Low published a book in 1922 titled The Future . Courtesy of the Digital Library of India and the Internet Archive, here are some excerpts: “One of the greatest blessings of television will be to bring the most expensive educatio
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I’ve had a pretty negative reaction to AI-produced music, too. But I will say that the following track caught my ear when it appeared on my YouTube video feed a few days ago: “Nirvana Tribute ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ Girl Group 1960’s Trib
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> I’d really love to have a discussion on how these heuristics of software development change with the likes of Cursor/LLM cyborg coding in the mix I would also be interested in reading people’s thoughts about how those heuristics m
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Thanks! Very interesting indeed.
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Thanks for testing that! (And, while I’m at it, thank you for your blog and for all of your contributions to HN as well. I am constantly learning from you.) I wonder if the response was not truncated this time only because the word “Tiananm
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Is the locally run model censored in the same way as the model hosted on HuggingFace? If so, I wonder how that censorship is baked into the weights—particularly the errors thrown when it starts to output specific strings.
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It’s fun to test the censorship. I tried various photos with the prompt “When and where might have this picture been taken?” Nondescript photos of Beijing street scenes in the 1990s get full responses. A nondescript photo of Tiananmen Squar
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The city where I live—Yokohama—is very different in layout and density from the U.S. cities shown in that video. My neighborhood consists of many small plots of land, each with a different owner, separated by narrow streets. Unless it all g
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This will be interesting. As an aging nondriver living in Yokohama, I’ve been both hoping that self-driving cars become available here before I develop mobility issues and wondering how feasible they will be. Since I don’t drive, I don’t ha
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It uses the live video feed, and you can talk with the LLM.
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A few days ago, OpenAI released live video integration with Advanced Voice mode for ChatGPT—point your phone at something and ask what it sees, and it will tell you pretty accurately. I thought it was just a cool trick until I read the top
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A lot of university courses don’t have exams. Rather, the students are graded based on projects, papers, or presentations. I’ve been teaching at a university for more than 20 years, and only a few times have I given students a final exam. I

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