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by wizofaus 3y ago
Indeed: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/05/tuesday-... For your next trick can you give us tomorrow's lottery numbers?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The Guardian hears you: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/05/tuesday-...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> HN's editorialised version does not say that. True, "on record" was elided, but nor does it say "ever". And given the readership of HN I doubt it was done for sensationalist purposes, purely space-saving. >
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The headline doesn't say "ever", it says "on record". That's widely understood to mean "since accurate temperature records began", and doesn't include the fact that the earth was known to be far
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wonder how long before university-level courses will in fact expect students to use and be familiar with LLMs to generate code.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Did anyone else notice the fact that on the home page, for any window width >= 1280px, the text "Your design. Our HTML and CSS" (in the body) overlaps the text in the footer (and is strangely hard to select for copying to the c
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Slightly ironically given the gist of this discussion, the ad shown before that video was actually one I wanted to see and watched till the end (trailer for latest Indiana Jones movie).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It's certainly something that made Tokyo stand out among other cities even 20 years ago, before huge digital billboards ads became commonplace everywhere. I'm not super bothered by most advertising, it's only shouty/ cr
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Further, if you restore an application's state to exactly what it was before it crashes, computers being the annoyingly deterministic machines they are, there's really only one possible outcome...(*) State isn't what you want
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Songfacts.com Is a Teapot
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by wizofaus 3y ago
BTW I tried it with ChatGPT 3.5 - with a prompt that roughly described the database schema and a question "I need to know the manufacturer for the vehicle with VIN X7820-A and to confirm whether it has the feature 'rear camera&#x2
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Existing LLMs are already pretty good at this, no? The tricky part is mapping however the NL question refers to the various types of data to the actual column names, which is where I'd imagine some prompt engineering (or pretraining) w
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I would expect the solution is to take the NL question and get GPT to transform it into a SQL (or similar) statement to extract the data. Then another call (or set of calls) to generate "reports" summarizing the data returned by
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm curious about this sort of use case - how long does it take for a GPT-based system to process a bunch of documents it's never seen before so that you can perform NL searches on them? Assuming something ike a million total page
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Is that actually what happens though? And does a phrase like "the bottom of the class" mean all that much when you're talking Harvard students? I can't imagine they're just taking in students to satisfy quotas despi
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I literally have no idea what you mean. But if we see that, for instance, average life expectancy is markedly lower for the subset of population that identifies as "native American" vs that of those that identify as "white&q
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And that would be my biggest concern about AA (certainly at hyper-elite institutions like Harvard) - it does little to address cultural issues among disadvantaged communities that work against social mobility, including the degree to which
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I don't think anyone seriously suggests "equality of outcome" should mean "regardless of any actions/decisions you take in life". I would treat it as meaning "given two different large subsets of society t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Accepted, the Tutsi/Hutu division isn't one where difference in genetics/appearance seems to be a major factor, though I'd still assume the average Tutsi or Hutu could easily distinguish one from the other in a way outs
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> tribal massacres in Africa, where the victims and oppressors a) look exactly the same To you. There's almost certainly more genetic difference between two people randomly selected from two African tribes than two people randomly s
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except those even able to immigrate out of such recently "impoverished" nations are a small self-selected subset of that population, that are likely considerably better off than those who stay behind and and certainly likely to be
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by wizofaus 3y ago
As opposed to somehow traveled here via a mechanism that's not possible by our current understanding of the laws of physics?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> both of those are easy to read Most accessibility problems aren't things that those without some sort of sensory disability (beyond mild long-sightedness) can detect easily - at least, without using tools to do so. Surely though t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Interesting that there seem to be a large number of scholars who would accept either 4 AD or 8 AD was the first AD leap year. But less clear what such a year would have been called by Romans at the time. I'm assuming it wasn't com
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Debatable - the concept of leap years was invented before 0 AD/CE but I'm not aware of any reason to believe that particular year (which certainly wasn't called 0 AD at the time, it was possibly the Roman year 753) was cons
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Have to ask...is "artificial child pornography" demonstrably a bad thing, if it a) isn't generated based on images/descriptions of real, individual children b) can't be shown to increase the likelihood of consumers
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Is that so different to how Java+Tomcat or .NET+IIS work? A crash handling one request generally can't/doesn't affect the ability to handle other requests. Unfortunately it does often mean you have limited control over how th
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by wizofaus 3y ago
How is that better than a simple monitor/alert for low disk space? That low disk space is likely caused by having an application store too much cumulative data in log files or temporary caches etc. and often easy enough to fix. And man
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by wizofaus 3y ago
GP was suggesting it's far more realistic in Vegas than London, where they moved to.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Hence the quotes around "cramming" - it's now standard practice for the commits for a new feature to be merged into the mainline days before building a release. I can't say I ever remember doing that 20 years ago - there

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