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Portable ACs are generally less efficient than regular window ACs and PTAC units since the compressor is inside the room.

Another option would be to install a smart timer in the outlet. However, you need to ensure that the heat won't automatically go on when the device is turned off, and sometimes the…

This drawing influenced Douglas Harding in developing "The Headless Way", a recognition that in immediate experience there is no head or self (and influential on Sam Harris). https…

I wouldn't have expected there to be enough text from before 1913 to properly train a model, it seemed like they needed an internet of text to train the first successful LLMs?

I recently wrote a short post on something similar: while AI is able to solve increasingly longer tasks, people's attention spans are getting shorter. https://www.zappable.com/p/ai…

Before advanced AI, "essential complexity" was a bottleneck and Brooks was right that there couldn't be continuous exponential gains in software productivity. However advanced AI w…

I've used Pocket from back when they were called "Read it later" and have saved just shy of 30k articles. They've gotten worse recently, but when I tried other apps (instapaper, ge…

Here's gemini https://g.co/gemini/share/ab287b25648f I also asked Chat GPT o3 and it thought for 11.5 minutes! https://chatgpt.com/share/682d0993-db4c-8004-a66c-3908ef7203...

AI is a potential silver bullet since it can address the "essential complexity" that Fred Books said regular programming improvements couldn't address. It may not yet have caused a…

Clicking the link opens the Ticketmaster app on my phone.

They use higher-caffeine beans for decaf coffee - Robusta instead of Arabica. Robusta beans aren't considered as good so they're cheaper, and they sell the caffeine they extract to…

ChatGPT already does that when you create a custom GPT. If you don't connect it to an external text or service that's basically all custom GPTs are.

This looks pretty cool! Anyone know of visualizations for simpler neural networks? I'm aware of tensorflow playground but that's just for a toy example, is there anything for visua…

This is certainly true and there will be many ways to improve on the default chatGPT experience to provide a full tutor / educational experience. Wonder who's working in this space…

+1. It's labeled as an experiment, of course it might shut down.

Had a few blogs before, started one recently on AI: https://ageofai.substack.com/ * Overview of ML: https://ageofai.substack.com/p/how-does-machine-learning-wor... * On AI & writin…

Very interesting! I generally avoid coffee after the morning since I know I'm sensitive to it, but your link points to the specific gene I have that causes it. I wonder if I should…

There are some configurations where it's easy for black to blunder early on, I'm surprised they don't show white having an advantage. For example, sometimes there's an immediate di…

This article is from Dec 13. But by Dec 23 there were already reports that ChatGPT was becoming more moderate: https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/16062492311859...