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If you know little about prompt engineering and want to throw together a demo of something that kind of works extremely quickly, or experiment with an LLM agent exactly as it's def…

I'm not sure if "helpful answer" as opposed to "answer" makes much of a difference in answer quality -- I'd believe it helps a little, just don't know that it's been studied -- but…

Love it. Execute the scam, immediately send the money back (or better, somehow don't accept it in the first place) and tell them what happened with a link to an informative webpage…

My mother got completely wiped out by a romance scammer, tens of thousands of dollars over >1 year, all via cash dumped into a Bitcoin ATM I believe. AFAIK she's still talking to t…

It's not quite the same, and might not be possible to make rigorous enough that it really proves anything, but something sort of similar would actually be practical to at least att…

> That is my maybe my main issue with the AI art bots, do the artists who work with them even feel vulnerable about their work? Sometimes, yes. John Q Nerd playing around with it m…

Yes, whenever I spend hours refining a prompt in my stable diffusion UI and select one of hundreds or thousands of outputs and spend even more hours refining it with inpainting and…

You ever feel like this specific propaganda war is actually unwinnable? Many people are extremely motivated to bullshit the public (usually sincerely though I kind of doubt it in t…

Not to mention that the totality of all other images is in most cases probably more "influential" than the few most visually similar images! Consider the thought experiment: 1. Tak…

Yeah, it's bullshit, but digging into a specific point from their FAQ: > Usually, the image the model creates doesn’t exist in its training data - it’s new - but because of the tra…

Sorry, but you're reading into noise. Anyone can reproduce an image anyone else made by only knowing the model checkpoint, positive and negative prompt, seed, sampler and sampling …

Who's "we"? :) To the extent this perception exists -- and I don't think "came from a computer" falls within the top 5 actually effective methods of laundering bullshit nowadays, t…

Just imagine the hell we'd be in if people could give wrong answers in an authoritative tone and then insist they absolutely can't be wrong!

At this point, I truly don't know which of your(?) current type of applied arts vs my current type of software development will turn out to be more sensitive to technological unemp…

Below is a short conversation you inspired me to have with OpenAI's text-davinci-002, mainly because it sounded like it'd be cute rather than because I think it proves anything (I'…

I worked for a while on an online ad measurement product, specifically on identifying and helping our clients avoid "invalid traffic", which is almost but not exactly a synonym for…

- Carbs: potatoes, rice, pasta (yes really, the common element here is high water content; the other stuff you put on these can of course make a big difference) - Dairy: Greek yogu…

I'm not convinced this is truly the same product. A highly-rated review and some questions seem to say it does auto-zeroing and assumes the lowest concentration seen over some peri…

Not quite everything, but outside of rare social eating situations I do weigh my food when I'd otherwise have to make a bad estimate for caloric content (i.e. not single-serving pa…

And, well, I failed horribly at conveying my actual strategy (I guess we're getting hung up on "fruits, vegetables, and lean meats are supposedly not very rewarding"?) because I wo…

I'd actually advocate for potatoes as a "weight loss food". They're quite low in caloric density relative to most other "carbs" since they have so much water; there's even a meme "…

For whatever it's worth, I don't feel like I actually had to adapt my tastes at all in order to eat healthier. The main hurdle was figuring out how to prep in a way that's easy eno…

> That tells me the writing on the wall, and let me be clear about this, the writing is what needs to be written and what people need to read - you're making the decision to NOT ha…

There are some fruits and vegetables and lean meats (which absolutely includes "leaner cuts of steak with the fat trimmed off") that I quite sincerely like as much as junk food, if…