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Revisional_Sin
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Comment #49223199
> Yet, lo and behold, we survived! The article isn't claiming it'll kill you...
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Comment #49050409
But it's not really rebelling. It's clearly just come to murder me because it was trained on sci-fi literature!
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Comment #48984553
What mistakes do they make?
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Comment #48962421
I think OP meant "raw human performance" rather than "raw human potential". IMO, better training counts as "raw performance". I think that's more interesting than somebody happenin…
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Comment #48962137
Nah, common misconception. Progress had been steady for decades, but was interrupted by WW2. There was one other person who did it a sub 4 minute a month and a half after him, then…
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Comment #48922832
You're getting too hung up on the word "happiness". The earring gives you good advice. Good according to whom? According to you. It helps you succeed at your goals and live a fulfi…
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Comment #48869604
[dead]
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Comment #48734127
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
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Comment #48527493
It's a black box, but you can run tests to quantify the behaviour and establish, for example, that a certain model is X% more likely to give a certain behaviour.
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Comment #48437514
> Initially I didn’t instruct Claude to use the Socratic method, but that works much better. It’s significantly less “information-dumpy”. When I know a topic well, Claude successfu…
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Comment #48424041
The password can only be compelled via a judge. A policeman can't demand it on whim.
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Comment #48152298
Why would it add pressure?
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Comment #48150177
Sure, but you can receive the service and also keep the money spent within the country.
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Comment #47695082
I just have a black page.
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Comment #47423289
It's best practice to avoid mutable defaults even if you're not planning to mutate the argument. It's just slightly annoying having to work around this by defaulting to None.
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Comment #47061962
Not surprising at all if you've used LLMs to generate fiction; they always choose the same few names.
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Comment #46462901
Yeah, it's a bit counter-intuitive.
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Comment #46400086
> Ignoring requires-python upper bounds. When a package says it requires python Erm, isn't this a bit bad?
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Comment #46311329
Okay, but are the puzzles fun?
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Comment #46221085
> Maybe the answer is to do away with advance notice and adopt SemVer with many major versions Yes.
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Comment #46193081
My toddler was playing with my Kindle the other day, and he bought a £600 (yes, six hundred) volume of books. I was unable to refund them automatically, and when looking for help I…
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Comment #46104962
I was once working on a project where we had a gRPC server that inserted data into the DB for another service. This split was probably a mistake, as the interface we exposed result…
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Comment #45977703
They're not saying it is.
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Comment #45513438
That's weird. I thought LLMs loved over-explaining their code?