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colinplamondon
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About colinplamondon
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Comment #47077235
Ironically... ChatGPT having such a positive attractor basin for DEI probably widened the net here tremendously.
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Comment #46784253
I think investors like Amazon taking shots like this? It was never a broad roll-out, 43 stores is micro-scale for Amazon. Still, would love to see a breakdown of why it didn't impr…
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Comment #46782656
Why would they face consequences? Every store has video surveillance that can be reviewed. They trusted their tech enough to accept the false-positive rate, then worked to determin…
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Comment #46709971
It's a human-readable behavioral specification-as-prose. If the foundational behavioral document is conversational, as this is, then the output from the model mirrors that conversa…
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Comment #46208428
Depends on worldview. If you believe in God, amazing has many dimensions for evaluations. What teaches us more about the the world He created, things that create beauty by expressi…
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Comment #46208372
Sure - and the people responsible for a new freaking era of computing are the ones who asked "given how incredible it is that this works at all at 0.5b params, let's scale it up*. …
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Comment #46207770
- A queryable semantic network of all human thought, navigable in pure language, capable of inhabiting any persona constructible from in-distribution concepts, generating high qual…
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Comment #46207606
It wasn't sycophantic at all? OP had a cool idea no one else had done, that was a one-shot just sitting there. Having Gemini search for the HN thread leads the model to "see" its o…
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Comment #45421200
Super well said - right. “Try again with quick feedback” vs “try again with significant feedback” vs “try again, but only a subset of the original task” vs “let’s have someone else…
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Comment #45419760
That code taste of yours, your ability to understand the minutiae, makes you superhuman at managing agents. Comments, docstrings, naming, patterns - by defining better approaches a…
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Comment #44618913
Honest question - how is that not true of those past researchers? IE, they... - Start with the context window of prior researchers. - Set a goal or research direction. - Engage in …
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Comment #43304557
- Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status. - A pure focus on web browser monetization c…
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Comment #43304555
- Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status. - A pure focus on web browser monetization c…
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Comment #43304548
- Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status. - A pure focus on web browser monetization c…
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Comment #39775320
Church Members have a somatic sense mapped to the Holy Spirit, and regularly experience symbolic & somatic injections. When those occur, the somatic sense of the Spirit is used to …
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Comment #36673507
Allowing porn monetizes and aids a probabilistic percentage of revenge porn, child porn, deepfake porn, and human trafficking. Even if a waiver is signed, there's significant dures…
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Comment #36274138
I would expect extracting out more of the meta-logic via GPT, and showing relevant panes dynamically. If you get an error, automatically search for the answer and propose the chang…
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Comment #36178855
OpenAI seems to be prioritizing the mobile experience over web. Their mobile app is extremely fast with GPT-4, faster than web. I’d imagine once mobile is well-established, they’ll…
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Comment #32510415
(Fwiw, I think most of the feedback in this thread is thoughtful and encouraging - speaking more generally below.) I think the gap is the difference between giving feedback to a pe…
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Comment #31696165
This might be what that looks like. (1) Kill the subscription (2) Immediate Priority: Biz-dev deals, make sure every major release's early demo is available on Stadia. Expose peopl…