You just have to double check the results whenever you tell Claude to extract lists and data. 99.9% of it will be correct, but sometimes 1 or 2 records are off. This kind of error is especially hard to notice because you're so impressed that Claude managed to do the extract task at all -- plus the results look wholly plausible upon eyeballing -- that you wouldn't expect anything to be wrong at all. But LLMs can get t…
Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
French armed forces have a better version of this saying. “Trust does not exclude control.” They’re still going to check for explosives under cars that want to park in French embassies.
I think a better translation of "control" in that saying is "checking" or "testing". "Control" in present-day English is a false cognate there.
Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this
#173You just have to double check the results whenever you tell Claude to extract lists and data. 99.9% of it will be correct, but sometimes 1 or 2 records are off. This kind of error is especially hard to notice because you're so impressed that Claude managed to do the extract task at all -- plus the results look wholly plausible upon eyeballing -- that you wouldn't expect anything to be wrong at all. But LLMs can get t…
The "off by one" predilection of LLMs is going to lead to this massive erosion of trust in whatever "Truth" is supposed to be, and it's terrifying and going to make for a bumpy couple of years. (Or the complete collapse of objective knowledge, on a long enough time horizon.) It's one thing to ask an LLM when George Washington was born, and have it return "May 20, 2020." It's another thing to ask it, and have it matte…
Re: Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this
#174I did a similar thing with ChatGPT-4o giving it a txt file list of movie names, and it returned the release date of each one, then gave me an iCal file of all those movies with their release dates as recurring yearly anniversary events so I can watch my favorite movies on their anniversary. I’ve done it for a few friends as well now and it’s got a 100% success rate so far, across over 100 total movie names.
To bad that wouldn't work for good music albums. For many years (still, maybe?) albums would come out on Tuesdays. So one day of the week you'd have them all bunched up together. That's how I remember that September 11, 2001 was a Tuesday. Album day, and there was a good one that day, too.