Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 17d ago
There is definitely a separate "Fast" mode that the app claims to yield a x1.5 speed increase (I have not tested it) with more token consumption. I believe you refer to the "Ultra" mode that does what you say and it is a
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by Kurtz79 2mo ago
https://i.imgur.com/Eheu90I.png
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by Kurtz79 7mo ago
I admit that I don't know who Tyler Cowen is, but millions (billions?) of people have drunk coffee daily for centuries and if there were ill effects in the same ballpark as opioids or tobacco by now we would certainly know?
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
Since he might not be known to most (especially a younger audience), the author is a writer best known for many of the Choose Your Own Adventure books that were hugely successful in the 80s. Jimmy Maher wrote about them recently https:&#x2
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
Sherlock Holmes stories are very interesting to read in order because they span a good 40 years. The first stories are set in the classic Victorian setting with horses and carriages and in the later ones the first cars appear, WW1 happens,
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
I don’t see anything inherently wrong in a news site reporting different views on the same topic. I wish more would do that and let me make up my own mind, instead of pursuing a specific editorial line cherry-picking what news to comment an
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
That makes no sense. No one sane wants to go back to a time where all mobile electronics had separate chargers, especially since the number of mobile devices we use on a daily basis is higher than ever before. If anything, manufacturers tha
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
Yes, thanks OP for sharing. I check HN front page mostly everyday and had no clue such sophisticated scams existed (I pretty much don’t use social media). It’s easy to think “eh, it will never happen to me” but hindsight is 20/20. I im
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
"what model are you?" ChatGPT said: You're chatting with ChatGPT based on the GPT-4o architecture (also known as GPT-4 omni), released by OpenAI in May 2024.
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
Does it even make sense calling them 'GPUs' (I just checked NVIDIA product page for the H100 and it is indeed so)? There should be a quicker way to differentiate between 'consumer-grade hardware that is mainly meant to be use
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
You can install ollama with a script fetched with curl and run a llm model with a grand total of two bash commands (including curl).
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
If I understand correctly, looking at API pricing for Sonnet, output tokens are 5 times more expensive than input tokens. So, if rate limits are based on an overall token cost, it is likely that one will hit them first if CC reads a few fil
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
If we assume that AI coding actually increases productivity of a programmer without side effects (which of course is a controversial assumption, but not affecting the actual question): 1) If you are a salaried employee, if you are seen as l
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
Or Marvin, the Paranoid Android: “I have a brain the size of a planet and you are asking me to modify a trivial CSS styling. Now I’m depressed.”
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
I append this to basically every prompt as soon as Claude starts getting frustrated, to preserve my sanity: "Don't apologize. Don't say I'm right. Don't say it's a good idea. Don't say something is fixed
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
The article that is linked in the post is a much more interesting read. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/behind-the-next-battl...
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by Kurtz79 1y ago
According to Wilkipedia, general average wages in Italy in 2023 were 48K, and SWE jobs are usually above average. It would be interesting to know from where Chatgpt sourced those figures as some of them look very sketchy.
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by Kurtz79 2y ago
That is true but also probably misguided. Scientific knowledge evolves as new discoveries are made, immutable and unequivocal “truth” is the realm of religion, not science (which makes the former much more appealing to many than the latter)
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by Kurtz79 2y ago
I’m not sure how this decade is any different than the one that preceded it? The current console generation is 4 years old and it’s at mid-cycle at best. Games running on modern consoles are visually marginally better than those in the prev
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by Kurtz79 2y ago
Yes. For example I fed it a public tender and associated regulations in Norwegian and it was able to answer questions about the parts I mas interested in correctly and succinctly. I have also fed it research papers that normally I would not
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by Kurtz79 2y ago
Funnily enough, “AI search” (Recall) is one of the most touted feature of Copilot+ PCs. I’m no Microsoft hater, but their track record in implementing that feature at a basic level definitely does not bode well for something more complex…
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by Kurtz79 2y ago
Diary in UK English can mean “Planner” or “Datebook”, and the article is from the BBC. https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/04/diar...
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by Kurtz79 2y ago
I fed it an Italian Wikipedia entry and it generated a (relevant) podcast and summaries in English, so at least the input seem to support multiple languages even if the output is in English. If I had come across something like this 2/3
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by Kurtz79 2y ago
Even being unable to see the eclipse live, I felt compelled to read Nightfall again, yesterday. One of the things I appreciate about Asimov as a scifi author is that he never goes too deeply into explaining the science or physics of his nov
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by Kurtz79 3y ago
I think the title is misleading. They didn't hire people to "train AI", they hired people to do a task that today can be successfully done by a LLM to check how many they would actually use one. It's like asking people t
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by Kurtz79 4y ago
Easier to use is often all that it takes. In Midjourney you get fantastic results just by using their discord and a text prompt. To get some similar results in Stable Diffusion you need to set it up, download the models, understand how the
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by Kurtz79 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. As useful at it might become, "Bing it" will always sound ridicolous.
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by Kurtz79 4y ago
Here it is the USDA regulations on how cucumbers are supposed to bend and how to grade them: https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/cucumber-grades-an... Damn that US government overreaching, telling cucumbers how m
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by Kurtz79 4y ago
The thing is, chatGPT seems to be already capable to perform Google's function reasonably well. If you ask for the top websites about [topic], it will output a shortlist of web links each with a description of the website. You can narr
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by Kurtz79 7y ago
It's the concept of "Terroir": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroir The same crops acquire very specific characteristics based on the geographical location they are planted. I never tried salad tomatoes

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