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mrtranscendence
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Comment #48230401
That doesn't work for library projects, though.
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Comment #44985194
> Your local plumber is going to want a funny action movie trailer slash plumbing advertisement to advertise their services. They wouldn't have even been in the market before. And …
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Comment #44985049
> "We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company." That's OpenAI (though I'd be curious if that statement holds for subscriptions …
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Comment #44984644
Microsoft claims that they have an AI setup that outperforms human doctors on diagnosis tasks: https://microsoft.ai/new/the-path-to-medical-superintelligen... "MAI-DxO boosted the …
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Comment #44984504
Waar heb je het over? "Welgelegen Buitenrust Nooitgedacht Rustenburg" is volkomen cromulent Engels. For what it's worth, I do use AI for language learning, though I'm not sure it's…
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Comment #42729026
> the iPhone was only "in charge" for a brief year or two, and then Android ate its lunch in terms of marketshare. This is true worldwide, but there are significant regions where i…
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Comment #42715996
Oh man, I played the shit out of the Lone Wolf books when I was a kid in the eighties and nineties. My brother had the first couple of them, and I still have his old books somewher…
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Comment #42715947
> Character stats, names, details about players - those are inputs, and structured ones at that. Some details about players are structured and can be easily stored and referenced. …
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Comment #42434982
You sound like a fun guy.
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Comment #42434646
You seem to readily agree that my use case is inappropriate for LLMs, but not ToucanLoucan?
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Comment #42432597
We're not allowed to record meetings at work, with some exceptions such as trainings. I'm not at all sure why, but I believe it has to do with merger plans. We're not working on an…
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Comment #42432546
I suspect you're overstating the degree to which an LLM might be unsuitable for some types of work. For example, I'm a data scientist who works primarily in the field of sales fore…
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Comment #42312055
If I'm not conscious, it's rather difficult to explain what I'm experiencing right now.
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Comment #41883051
Prove what point? There have clearly been crooked or underhanded companies that achieved success. Microsoft in its early heyday, for example. The fact that they paid a price for it…
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Comment #41651208
Act as high and mighty as you please, I won't mind. But bear in mind that: * most people will find it surprising that showing a photo from the internet to ChatGPT is as unsafe as o…
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Comment #41651103
Wait, how does rewriting a prompt until it gives you the output you expect help the LLM learn? Are you suggesting better prompting gets fed back into the training process in some h…
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Comment #41651006
People aren't infallible, but in my experience they're much less likely to give me incorrect factual information than LLMs. Sometimes lawyers are wrong, of course, but they are wro…
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Comment #41141878
X says "I would like RCTs on this subject", and you reply that most RCTs are worthless. Great, what do you want, a cookie? Presumably they want good RCTs, not low-quality ones.
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Comment #41110401
True, you might Xerox copies but you wouldn't Kleenex your stuffy nose (though I've heard of someone bandaiding a cut before). Like Kleenex I actually think AI is slightly too awkw…
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Comment #41036055
I did something similar to this using RAG except for Vampire rather than D&D. It wasn't overwhelmingly difficult, but I found that the system was quite sensitive to how I chunked u…
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Comment #40909077
Navigation between cells with j/k doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. I'm used to not having to move my hands to use the mouse when editing a Jupyter notebook.
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Comment #40908941
I generally tend to think that complaints about dependency management in Python are way overblown -- it's usually not a problem for me. But lately I've been trying out some off-PyP…
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Comment #40867122
You're missing the point. What's not realistic is to tell everyone that they should abstain from any type of entertainment that requires power (TV shows, movies, video games, etc) …
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Comment #40866773
> If advertisements were opt-in, I expect a single digit percentage of people would ever elect to see them. I mean, you'd see the same thing if paying for your groceries were opt-i…