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Here’s a video that happened to come up on my YouTube feed today. It’s by someone doing what I’ve always thought of as the quintessential hobo activity: hopping a freight train. Beautiful scenery. https://youtube.com/watch?v
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I was a TA for an introductory linguistics course at UC Santa Barbara in the 1970s. On the first day of class, the instructor would have the students answer a few questions intended to show if they were from northern or southern California.
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> My main advice then is to think about jobs OUTSIDE the technical sphere. Here’s one second-hand data point to support that advice. I do writing and translating (among other things), and in the past few years I have worked on a couple o
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I entered junior high school in Southern California in 1969. At that time, all of the girls took home economics and all of the boys took shop classes: about eight weeks each for woodcraft, metalworking, electricity, drafting, and print shop
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You might want to add an appropriate modifier before “grammar” on your top page to indicate your domain. Being a natural-language person, I thought your tool might be something that, say, generates rules for verb conjugations from a corpus
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The Atlantic recently had an interesting article about Sam Altman and OpenAI. Some excerpts about unrestrained GPT-4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36859633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=368615
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No. I just thought that information should be mentioned on the public-facing front page. If you are just planning to support all of the languages that ChatGPT can respond in, then be ready for complaints, because its performance reportedly
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What languages are supported?
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I've often wondered the same thing. I look forward to reading people's responses.
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I spent many hours in and benefitted much from physical libraries in the 1970s. But let’s not forget how limited libraries were then: research libraries were usually accessible only to people with the proper affiliations or qualifications,
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In my ignorance, I didn’t know that virtual pipe organs even existed until a couple of months ago, when I happened to hear on BBC Radio 3 a recording of a Bach prelude and fugue that caught my attention. It sounded to me like a regular pipe
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Another: “The ARC team gave GPT-4 a new reason for being: to gain power and become hard to shut down. They watched as the model interacted with websites and wrote code for new programs. … Barnes and her team allowed it to run the code that
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Interesting article. I’ve been following AI news pretty closely since last December, but I still learned some things. The following passage in particular stood out: “After [GPT-4] finished training, OpenAI assembled about 50 external red-te
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Discussed here in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7831025 I personally agree with skywhopper’s comment then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832893
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My experience matches yours. In my case, I think it was due to the different teaching methods I was exposed to in the early stage of language learning. I studied Mandarin for two years when I was in college in California. From the first day
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> We don't notice how much adapting and adjusting our brain has to do in our own language, but in a new language, we have to re-learn those sound boundaries, for potentially dozens of new sounds. Some examples from Japanese and Engl
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A couple of lists of those recent defenestrations: https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-russians-fall-windows-put... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_b...
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Yes. You can both write notes for percussion instruments on a staff and apply preset drum patterns and fills. I don’t compose with percussion myself, and I don’t know how the drums and percussion in StaffPad might compare with other program
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> I want to ensure everything gets backed along with other personal documents on my computer. Same here. I started using e-mail around 1993 and for the next decade went through a series of e-mail programs that used different storage for
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After dabbling with LilyPond and MuseScore, I recently started trying out StaffPad for composition: https://www.staffpad.net/ It requires a tablet and pencil/stylus, and it’s a bit pricey. But I’ve found the handwritte
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by tkgally 3y ago
Good point. I was aware of that, of course, but, like some others here, I like to believe that HN is different in significant ways: no images or videos, no personalized feed, no following or being followed, no targeted advertising, etc.
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I am close to never having used a central-platform social media site. I had a Facebook account for a few months about ten years ago because the manager of a project I was working on insisted that we use it to communicate. I closed down the
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Ask HN: Are you using Code Interpreter on ChatGPT Plus?
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Telegrams are still commonly used in Japan to send messages of congratulations and condolence. https://www.denpoppo.com/ https://www.ntt-east.co.jp/dmail/ Wedding and funeral ceremonies often include a
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From the conclusion: “This is just scratching the surface of Code Interpreter, which I think is the strongest case yet for a future where AI is a valuable companion for sophisticated knowledge work. Things that took me weeks to master in my
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Code Interpreter appeared in ChatGPT+ for me yesterday and I spent several hours experimenting with it. It seems to have huge potential, and I was barely able to scratch the surface. I'm looking forward to seeing what uses other people
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Interesting "brain drop," as the author describes it. It reminds me, though, of theories of human language that treat language as cognitive processing inside individuals' minds rather than as a social phenomenon. It might be
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I live in Japan and have been surprised by how much coverage there has been of ChatGPT in the mass media here during the past few months. Popular awareness seems to be increasing quickly, too. Here are some results of a survey conducted by
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Magnificent! From 1986, when I was living in Tokyo and bought my first computer, until 1999, when I moved to Yokohama, I probably visited Akihabara a couple of times a month on average. I would go there mainly to buy computer and audio equi
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The Internet Archive has many catalogs of house plans from Sears and other suppliers: https://archive.org/details/artisticmodernho00asso/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/BetterHomesAt

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