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Not new about LLMs. Targeted ads / big data is this. Another degree of capability, yes. But we have been trending here for a long time.

I started experimenting 2-weeks ago on using LLMs in a pseudo-deterministic way. I kept getting results that proved my hypothesis, which is that LLMs could be harnessed determinist…

OP here. I built this repository to demonstrate a specific concept, which is that LLMs are a probabilistic tool that can be harnessed within a deterministic architecture to do much…

My experience is that it's much better than the alternative of games running natively on your phone. I would say better than the switch too in most cases for me (more battery life,…

There's no way you're going to get top quality like those sites at a place like Fiverr either. They've spent millions on branding and marketing. I can see Midjourney already replac…

I wouldn't say useless. He'll look to buy other smart peripherals that fit into the Alexa ecosystem, not a competitor's. It helps build up the brand. There's also a lot of data the…

Yep, this is a feature, not just for tracking but also containment when navigating to external links. Big reason why all of those apps and others aggressively push users from web t…

I've been using it. It's gotten a lot better than when it first came out. Super annoying that they released a product that was far inferior (and probably still is inferior) to Goog…

Also includes YT Music, making it not much more expensive than other streaming music services if you're willing to use it over something like Spotify.

Yeah, this is the biggest reason I switched to MacOS. Not enough time / mental energy to deal with scaling fonts on external displays.

Heh, SA was a huge part of my formative years, spent a ton of time (years / many many hours) lurking there. Sad to see the spiral that happened with Lowtax. Feeling very melancholi…

Accessibility. I can't game on PC anymore because of RSI when using mouse. Even for cross platform games, the console version usually has far superior controller support.

I had a very similar experience around the same timeframe. I was also heavily discouraged by relatives in the field. How wrong they ended up being...

Something about the savings math doesn't check out, especially given the NEET aspect. 200k savings in 4 years out of school is a lot.

It's a rubber stamp like many other things in this development model. Not saying their QA is useful, but it's not tough to imagine their QA being many layers removed from decision …

Not trying to defend anyone, but I'm sure we can find many other reasons why there are so many bugs here unrelated to QA :)

Seems high, but this is par for the course for this type of work. You would usually estimate this in terms of months for a team. Let's say a team of 4 for simplicity -- that brings…

Which car and what did you drive before? And can you quantify how much benefit you see over adaptive cruise / lane assist / etc that is standard on many cars these days? I agree wi…

> If I break something, it usually means it wasn't built strong enough to begin with. I've broken a lot of stuff over the years... Based on my experience, this statement scares me …

Great idea. Could you explain what differentiates it from Tock? https://www.exploretock.com/ -- not that there isn't room for two solutions here, but just curious. We've used Tock …

> In order to have a net positive effect, such a program would need to be able to generate an income, not necessarily a engineer market-level one (because you could have students w…

Point well taken about culture and great examples. I completely agree with your premise. However, tone is an extremely important part of cross-cultural training, and the tone of th…