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VirgilShelton

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About VirgilShelton

Tech guy since the 80's.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47662172

    Yes and now I use AI to build any website which locks me into their workflow and run it locally how I choose!

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    Comment #47662154

    I used to be a software test engineer at Microsoft in the late 90's and early 2000's. What I learned is that 60% of their business was International because of their language suppo…

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    Comment #46798333

    Ha! You're very welcome! Ah the good ol' days of CD install media, CD Keys and install times that took hours! RIP to your install CD!

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    Comment #46796544

    Yeah Windows 2000 had countless software test engineers, I was one of them and on my team there were 5000 of us. I stared in tech support in 97 and moved into QA and always filed b…

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    Comment #45510395

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45510388

    The best thing about being nerds like we are is we can just ignore this product since it's not for us.

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    Comment #45473494

    Great, now I learn about this when I used to have printers back in the 80's , 90's and 00's!

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    Comment #45458602

    Yup! I'm also super cheap and use open source everything but I do have a Mac Book Pro and will never buy a PC again. So when it's worth it, the wallet is coming out and OpenAI has …

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    Comment #45458584

    The best part is memory. If you use it daily like I do for everything from programming tasks to SEO and digital marketing, to budget stuff for investing and bill reminders. It will…

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    Comment #45457971

    I'm old and have been on the Internet since the Prodigy days in 90. Open Ai has the best start of any company I can remember. Even better than Google back in 98 when they were deve…

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    Comment #45109451

    My contrarian take on the astronomical costs need to scale LLM infrastructure is that since it does cost so much, innovation at the grid and power plant / renewables will also see …

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    Comment #45089212

    Self hosting and using your payment processor of choice is always the best move. Own your own data or be prepared for the jig to be up at some point. This is what every platform th…

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    Comment #44468748

    As for a Demo on that front here it is via OpenAI's Codex, see https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/ Here's the demo https://platform.openai.com/docs/codex/overview and

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    Comment #44468152

    It's just a buzz word but sadly it will (And already has) effected real engineers :(

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    Comment #43311576

    Hey Warren great job on the site, but what you'll need to do is SEO. You're a great writer so all you need to add to your writing skills is SEO. I did a basic SEO audit of semhub.d…

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    Comment #42537749

    Wow! A million thanks goes to you! I never thought of using ChatGPT to find an old book I had 30 years ago! I just found it! Epic! I use ChatGPT but never tried this before! Thank …

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    Comment #41721023

    You can read a thorough article on how LLMs work here https://medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/how-large-langu... . As Open Ai notes here are the limitations of ChatGPT Limitat…

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    Comment #41719823

    You clearly need to don't understand how Ai currently works. It predicts the next most likely word. With code it does the same thing and its prediction skills aren't tuned by human…

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    Comment #41039525

    [flagged]

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    Comment #31226875

    This is awesome! Bookmarked!

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    Comment #26312310

    Uhh what have you been searching for?

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    Comment #24076852

    Ha! I'll be waiting!

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    Comment #23500225

    Ah memories!

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    Comment #21820602

    You can buy the DVDs on EBay https://www.ebay.com/i/352893270127?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1...

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    Comment #19778000

    I've been there and I still experience this in life with family, friends and acquaintances. The trick is to deploy massive empathy for him and know that he's displaying sure signs …