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Show HN: A custom GPT conversational language tutor that generates Anki cards(chat.openai.com)
4 points by weeksie 3y ago|2 comments
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by weeksie 3y ago
The way to tackle that is with RAG and local embeddings so that you can set examples for the code conventions you prefer. ChatGPT isn't going to do it without a lot of manual copy/pasting, and most tools I've seen are not tha
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by weeksie 3y ago
Yeah, it really didn't seem like there was a lot of "there" there. Maybe I'm missing something in the codebase but they're just piping specs to the gpt-4 api?
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When I was a kid on the gillnetter I'd read that book all the time and would practice tying some of the more elaborate knots. I wish I still had my dad's old marlin spike. Had it for years, with a wobbly old turk's head I&#x2
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by weeksie 3y ago
The best way to read terrible fiction is to join a critique group and read other amateurs. This is good because you can run across different levels of writers: * People who have no business writing and have no idea what they're doing.
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by weeksie 3y ago
Interesting. There are a lot of old faith Russian communities in Alaska. I'm from a small town and we'd often have "locals vs Russians" teenage feuds through the summers. They're good fishermen.
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by weeksie 3y ago
This is also the case with any thread that touches on economics. I'm sure there are a lot more but if they land outside my Murray-Gellman bubble I don't notice as much.
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by weeksie 3y ago
A (very) tiny bit of econ knowledge is dangerous, isn't it. Markets find prices, yes, but that's not applicable to what we're discussing. Maybe in some Georgist utopia we might have housing prices being priced purely at their
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Extraordinary
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by weeksie 3y ago
> you are actively sacrificing what makes it desirable in the first place Amazing how the carrying capacity of every location just happens to be exactly the number of people who live there at this moment in time. > I also think in gen
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by weeksie 3y ago
Sorry, that is a very narrow point of view that's only popular as of relatively recently. People who block housing in cities because they don't want the cities to be "overcrowded" are ridiculous because: 1. Cities are by
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by weeksie 3y ago
If you're arguing that Hawaii should be returned to the Natives and they should have some kind of tribal rule, that's certainly something that you can advocate for. In a world where this part of Hawaii exists within the US system
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by weeksie 3y ago
Well, it's not even a matter of that. If they don't want new development then the price of what's already there will only skyrocket and that will end up excluding the residents. In other words, by refusing to develop, the res
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by weeksie 3y ago
Municipalities all over the world refusing to build enough housing (and hotel space) is what's pricing people out. These are all pretty simple problems to solve but there's fractal resistance to making enough room. In New York we
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by weeksie 3y ago
> "I'm more concerned of big land developers coming in and seeing this charred land as an opportunity to rebuild," Of course, people like that will organize to block these big bad developers making housing even more expens
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Larry shapes the "Art World" both in and out of the US
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by weeksie 3y ago
I'm reminded of the Gay Talese essay that opens with an account of vast numbers of feral cats waking up all over New York. I'm surprised the story didn't mention that the city used to be full of them.
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by weeksie 3y ago
This book is near and dear to my heart. Back in the mists of time (~05?) when I was learning Haskell I reimplemented several of these in order to get my head around things. Lots of fond memories.
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by weeksie 3y ago
Ha! I love it.
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Lots of them mixed in. We get a ton of alders and birches, but in the winter it looks like everything is coniferous b/c the leaves are off the others. Where I was it was lots of spruce, but I grew up in the coastal rainforest in Prince
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by weeksie 3y ago
Growing up in Alaska I had always taken it for granted that when Bob Ross painted outdoor scenes they looked just like the outdoors I was used to. It's funny how that never stood out enough for me to see it as peculiar, given that abso
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by weeksie 3y ago
Yes.
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by weeksie 3y ago
Javascript is this generation's C++. It's a massive language and the only way to stay sane on a project is to agree to use a well demarcated subset of it. Nothing wrong with being C++. The reason JS is so massive and weird is beca
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by weeksie 4y ago
I dunno. Fucking duh, a government bond that pays you a fixed amount of interest is going to lose value when inflation is higher than the loan rate.
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by weeksie 4y ago
I don't think you're getting what I'm saying. I'm _faster_ without autocomplete
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by weeksie 4y ago
I've used it and it did nothing helpful. I also find autocomplete slows me down. The code it suggested always needed enough reworking I would have been faster writing it out from scratch. It's just not that helpful for me. Maybe i
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by weeksie 4y ago
I almost always turn autocomplete off except in circumstances where the API has bad documentation. I also found that copilot was an aggravation more than a help after using it for a couple weeks.
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by weeksie 4y ago
A fun experiment but LLM generated stories will never escape the uncanny valley, because they're not novel, they're remixes. I know the critique of that position is "but humans just remix the things they know from the world&q
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by weeksie 4y ago
I think I agree with this take. Is it conceivable that a model could leak PII that is present but extremely hard to detect in the data set? For example, spread out in very different documents in the corpus that aren't obviously relat
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by weeksie 4y ago
Copilot has a ton of well publicised examples of verbatim code being used, but I didn't realize that it was as trivial as all that to go plumbing for it directly.

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