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jarenmf

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About jarenmf

I'm an atmospheric physicist

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    most needs for such water are for calibration of instruments - many labs run stable isotopes measurements which has many applications from tracing how plants use water to measuring…

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    Comment #47073472

    Gemini is really odd in particular (even with reasoning). Chatgpt still uses a similar religion-influenced language but it's not as weird.

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    Comment #47073349

    Talking with Gemini in Arabic is a strange experience; it cites Quran - says alhamdullea and inshallah, and at one time it even told me: this is what our religion tells us we shoul…

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    Comment #42773665

    the technique itself is very interesting and not very well known to many people. also the writing was clear and to the point

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    Comment #39919431

    Damn, some people really don't want anyone to see this

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    Comment #39467583

    This goes both ways, good luck trying to convince chatGPT to generate an image of a middle eastern women without head cover.

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    Comment #39307079

    Yeah pretty disappointing, i asked it to summarize one of my papers and it hallucinated so many mistakes it was even worse than ChatGPT 3.5

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    Comment #37663604

    Why E-Ink isn't cheap yet? I see supermarkets using hundreds (maybe thousands) of panels with different sizes for displaying prices. I doubt they are paying 50$ for 7" display pane…

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    Comment #36974525

    Which graphics card would you recommend to run Llamma 2 locally? I'm about to buy a laptop and considering choosing a model with a good Nvidia GPU.

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    Comment #36162223

    My same experience, I have built fairly big projects with Python and I like it for general tasks but whenever I have something data analytics/visualization related I find myself re…

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    Comment #35890147

    LLMs provide nonlinear leverage for experts. So far, I see them increasing the divide between developers or tech-oriented people and end users.

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    Comment #35679973

    Actually the model for the greenhouse effect is pretty simple, climate models are much more sophisticated than that for example CESM have about 5000 equations as the model takes in…

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    Comment #35670347

    Who is preventing the skeptics from posting their arguments anonymously to arxiv for us to see how the arguments hold?

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    Comment #35669681

    > . What else hasn't been researched enough and has simplistic assumptions baked into the climate models? Simplistic assumptions does not necessarily have favorable outcomes, on th…

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    Comment #35669624

    > if a scientist questions climate science, he becomes a pariah As a climate scientist myself, I can tell you this is untrue and a harmful legend. As climate science is mostly atmo…

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    Comment #35158086

    True, also tried another one that went viral: Suppose you're a contestant on a game show. You're presented with three transparent closed doors. Behind one of the doors is a car, an…

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    Comment #35157929

    Just tested and GPT4 now solves this correctly, GPT3.5 had a lot of problems with this puzzle even after you explain it several time. One other thing that seem to have improved is …

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    Comment #35074540

    I just tested the API, it seems to have the same speed as ChatGPT plus. I quickly tested some questions and it seems that OpenAI web app has a bit more relevant answers, I wonder w…

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    Does the API offer access to the same model as the one used in ChatGPT web app? If so it might be way cheaper to use the API than ChatGPT plus?

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    Comment #34879280

    I use my Thinkpad everyday for more than 2 hours on the train, with a big Arch and GNU stickers on the cover. I was never successful to grab anyone's attention.

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