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> My normal bill for running this whole site is around $90 a month. During one bad spike month, it jumped about 500%. This is D1 - which has very surprising costs. you may just wan…

What type of agentic tasks are you using it for (eg how complex)?

Which do you recommend?

This article is filled with emotional triggers designed to drive engagement. Even the title. It can be hard to separate those things from objective facts. Putting an llm in front o…

The cool thing about the current generation of AI tools is how easy it is to uncover bias or an agenda in an article like this. paste the verge article text into your favorite AI t…

I wonder if it will turn out to be easier to adapt lifeforms to the planets than to try to adapt the planets to the lifeforms.

52 here, been a full time people manager for about a decade now. Coding manually makes me tired just thinking about it. When I think about embark on a new project my mind goes back…

It says this in bold red at the top - "This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal." I am not a climate scientist - how should I think about this statement? Norm…

What do you think this particular prompt is evaluating for? The more popular these particular evals are, the more likely the model will be trained for them.

This has convinced many non-programmers that they can program, but the results are consistently disastrous, because it still requires genuine expertise to spot the hallucinations. …

The cars are usually stolen

I’ve discovered a lot of research via two minute papers on YT. Entertaining and easy to understand. https://youtube.com/@twominutepapers?si=hyvCvW4UwS0QBbrZ

The drumming technique works for me for a few minutes if I need some temporary relief https://treblehealth.com/tapping-technique-for-temporary-tin...

Chicago had lower annualized endowment returns than similar universities, and so it couldn't support it's aggressive expansion. https://www.ft.com/content/4501240f-58b7-4433-9a3f-7…

One of my hobbies is Houdini which is like Blender. While I agree with you that you can build a nice parameterised model in a few days - if you want to make an entire scene or a sh…

40% of US households pay no federal income tax. https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-number-those-who-dont...

How do consumers utilize expensive compute resources in this model? Eg, H100 GPUs.

I suspect that it wasn’t trained well enough on your art, or even trained to reproduce a generic style. With enough data and training you might be convinced.

Also see the "Door Problem" https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/

I appreciate that the article spent a significant amount of time explaining the flaws of this research. This headline is clickbait, though.

Is there a version of the Fred indeed job postings list that goes before 2020? I wouls be interested to see similar data since 2000 or 2010 The narrative that software engineer job…

yes if your kid loves math - my kid benefited from Math Academy (currently in college studying CS). Started with Math Academy as a HS freshman and finished BC Calc 2 years early wi…

> Eventually we will pull the black ball out of the urn What is this reference?

The article referenced in there about Lamb Weston and MvCain foods and goes into a lot of detail about how prices get determined in this market. The “behave themselves” comment was…