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peterth3

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    Comment #38115821

    That’s definition #2 with #1 being: > a man who presents a child at baptism and promises to take responsibility for their religious education. So, the original definition is a gend…

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    Comment #38110068

    Sorry, who’s “they” here? The incumbents OpenAI / DeepMind / Anthropic?

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    Comment #38110044

    Can we stop labeling prominent AI researchers as “AI Godfather”? It’s so silly and barely truthful. The concept of AI has been around since Turing and if anyone deserves a title li…

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    Comment #38109984

    Licensing can definitely turn into regulatory capture if it expands enough. It’s effectively a barrier to entry defined by the incumbent.

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    Comment #37463350

    The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman is a good place to start. https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expand...

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    Comment #36028408

    Glad to hear we’re not the only ones having an emergency LangChain hackathon. So far what we’ve been able to build feels brittle. But, LLMs are fun to play with though

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    Comment #34865225

    Why does Bing AI sign every message with an emoji? ChatGPT doesn’t do it and it comes off so strange.

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    Comment #34689665

    How well GPTZero can detect ChatGPT generated text by measuring perplexity (how random the words choices are) and burstiness (how diverse the sentence structure is) shows that what…

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    Comment #34423565

    What LLMs does LangChain support? Btw I asked chat.langchain.dev and it said: > LangChain uses pre-trained models from Hugging Face, such as BERT, GPT-2, and XLNet. For more inform…

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    Comment #33856781

    > We're predisposed to seeing meaning, and perhaps "intelligence", everywhere. I’m guilty of this with my dog. I can’t help it with her head tilts and deep stares! Her inner monolo…

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    Ask HN: Is there a search tool that indexes a curated subset of the web?

    Sometimes find myself appending filters to my search queries, like “site:reddit.com”, “site:github.com”, and maybe even something like “site:x.com OR site:y.com OR z.com”. I know I…

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    Comment #33627283

    Yes on all three points! Especially search. Notion’s search is so painfully slow. Whenever I try to link a row to another row the loader sounds for 2+ secs, even if I’m searching a…

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    Comment #33627169

    The first use case in the demo is generating a blog post, so I’d assume that they’re trying to win the “cynical marketers wanting to use GPT-3 to churn out keyword nonsense to game…

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    Comment #33521672

    I wouldn’t trust the narrator here. As the CEO, Jeremy is incentivized to exaggerate the impact. It’s yet to be seen whether Bitcoin, Ethereum or Doge will be considered securities…

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    Comment #33514252

    > One significant case the LBRY ruling could impact is the SEC’s suit against Ripple Labs and two of its executives, who have been charged with selling $1.3 billion in unregistered…

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    Comment #33402971

    Revenue/employee at Twitter is about $600k while it’s over $1.2M at Meta and Google [0]. Elon is winding up for a layoff with comments like this. Not sure if the accuracy of his co…

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    Comment #33402104

    It could be a bear market rally, which would not be too unusual [0]. Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan) says the market could drop another 20% before we hit bottom [1]. Then there’s OPEC threa…

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    Comment #33395770

    D-Wave is not a universal quantum computer. It’s a quantum annealer [0]. [0] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-D-Waves-quantum-computer-not-co...

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    Comment #31369726

    dang, a personal attack… I’ll leave. Peace

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    Comment #31368834

    I started to become concerned about Elon when I read his 2017 interview with Rolling Stone[0]: > I explain that needing someone so badly that you feel like nothing without them is …

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    Comment #31100430

    The other night I watched the Crypto Startup School video series by a16z on YouTube [0]. It includes presentations from smart people saying that blockchain/ethereum is the computin…

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    Comment #30226439

    > Medical data mining companies have made a business of scraping the details of consumers’ daily lives into medical dossiers that, if combined with MarketScan’s de-identified infor…