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j_maffe

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    Comment #49235088

    But that seems to have little to do with the quote... I'm confused.

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    Comment #49208474

    You think they'll shutdown FB?

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    Comment #49198335

    What does cheating benchmarks have to do with breaching financial user agreements? To use your argument: all it takes is one whistleblower to get the company sued for billions of d…

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    Comment #49168662

    > If not, congrats, you're on the same intellectual level as a racist. I remember HN comments used to be of higher quality than this.

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    Comment #49168624

    > So I'd rather spare myself from explaining it. Being snarky doesn't really help your position.

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    Comment #49168614

    It's good as a community to communicate what we prefer to read. At least that way the author knows why they're getting the cold shoulder.

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    Comment #49134542

    Such a brain-dead idea...

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    Comment #49124873

    Visualization of the configuration: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/9db65255-16ff-4f8e-8be1-1...

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    Comment #48976890

    Cheating how? The proof is in the pudding...

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    Comment #48957537

    > No one is claiming that time is a random variable drawn from a normal distribution. You are doing that implicitly by fitting a Gaussian curve.

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    Comment #48957522

    > statistically speaking That's a very big word you're using there for what is basically making shapes out of clouds. A bell-curve is the amortised function of a random variable wi…

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    Comment #48957500

    I'd call it significant that the number of questions halved within one year following the release of ChatGPT, the biggest relative or absolute rate of decrease in the timeseries.

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    Comment #48957482

    You don't just fit a Gaussian distribution to a timeseries dataset. That's not what a Gaussian curve is designed for at all. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1725:_Linear…

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    Comment #48957459

    > There's no one drop where "AI got into the market" Sure there is, number of questions halved from 100K in first of November 2022 to 50K exactly one year later.

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    Comment #48949834

    > better models consistently renders pelican in higher quality The article literally avoid making this argument and gives counterexamples to this statement.

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    Comment #48949773

    Yes and that would improve its ability to draw SVGs of pelicans on bikes, no?

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    Comment #48896731

    Yeah I felt the same about the decision when they decided to move to database structure. If it had this structure from the start it could've built up an ecosystem like Obsidian's b…

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    Comment #48883253

    They announced from the start that Fable was going to be on subscription for a trial period only, no?

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    Comment #48696063

    Didn't they announce they're stopping that system?

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    Comment #48525343

    I think it's a worthy retort simply because it's the only other major provider.

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    Comment #48515396

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_AiI9_XIAA67_t?format=jpg&name=...

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    Comment #48501744

    > because whoever was responsible for that would have had paid for it in front of the American legal system or American people That literally never happened. https://en.wikipedia.o…

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    Comment #48501600

    > was to me a shining example of progress and humanity. Which country was the US bombing to the ground at this period you're reminiscing on?

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    Comment #48478275

    I think the cited weight loss comes from energy efficiency gains leading to less battery capacity needed.

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    Comment #48453412

    > Maybe the solution is not more EU, but less EU. You haven't given a single reason why that would be beneficial.