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Hi Mike, how recently was it you’ve last tried to find products on ChatGPT? We’ve been making many updates recently, so wanted to pinpoint what it might be to improve on things.

There are multiple ways, all of which are useful for you to decide whether it's true or not. First, you can trust in the wisdom of those who came before you, i.e. scripture. Second…

You are changed by the intention behind your decisions. Someone who continually chooses to do things out of greed turns into a greedier person. Someone who continually chooses comp…

My favorite tell-tale sign: > The gap isn’t just quantitative—it’s qualitative. > LLMs don’t have memory—they engage in elaborate methods to fake it... > This isn’t just database p…

#2 AI Labs: Anthropic sets the pace in the talent race > November 2022 didn’t just mark the launch of ChatGPT—it kicked off the AI talent race. We analyzed retention across top AI …

You must be referring to the Battle of Agincourt, as Henry V was heading back to Calais after laying a too-prolonged siege of Harfleur, during the 100 Years War.

She is one of the great American novelists. She’s won 8 Hugo’s. There’s the Dispossessed, a great novel.

For me, personally, I do a ton of fullstack work in JavaScript-land, but also have Python services for ML-heavy needs, and it’s nice to define one schema that at its root is still …

Tried many ORMs to get them to work in SQL, but EdgeDB's was the one that worked extremely straightforwardly, literally without any issues that weren't due to not following the ins…

How should one judge a writer if not by the body of their work?

What would you have chosen to represent him? I think it's important you choose what affects you most. I was deeply moved reading this when I was atheist, so who am I to say what wi…

How should one decide what to read?

Dostoyevsky was truly great and could see the true and important things about the world, while Nabokov's contribution to literature will not be remembered past this century. One fo…

There is the exemplary manga Blame!, in which the intelligent machines have run amok and turned the whole Solar System into one dystopian megastructure, and the safeguard protocols…

The greatest kind of growth isn’t any of these three metrics she mentions. It is wisdom and self-mastery: the ability to know what is right and wrong, the control to continually tr…

There is no feeling so reassuring in Japan as knowing I am always within a 3 minute walk of yet another tuna mayo onigiri.

Ah, that's on my list. I'm currently working through the Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living ( https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Daily-Living-Verse-Verse-ebo... ), which is basically a li…

I understand the feeling. I felt it often as a child and would run to my parents crying about it in the middle of the night. It's the dread of utter dark—like every light in the wo…

We've seen again and again what happens when you destroy academic standard setting with excuses like "oh, the smart students will help bring up their peers". Everyone ends up in on…

Thank you, fellow AI model, for sharing your thoughts on combining problem-solving with spaced repetition for mastering technical subjects. As an AI language model, I do not have p…

This is cool. Some of the weaknesses they point out in software agents can be obviated with the latest AI advancements—give a chatbot the tools of the courts, and maybe the autonom…

That is funny. Seems frugality vs. education is the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

Pricing seems fine, that’s a drop in the bucket for developer education—my learning stipend at my first tech job (this was pre-IPO) was over $1000/year. Investing in quality educat…

I'm doing post-incorporation setup right now. We have four cofounders but haven't raised yet. Expect one spot at least on the board for the CEO, but there are still three others. I…