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by arikrak 2mo ago
Portable ACs are generally less efficient than regular window ACs and PTAC units since the compressor is inside the room.
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by arikrak 2mo ago
Another option would be to install a smart timer in the outlet. However, you need to ensure that the heat won't automatically go on when the device is turned off, and sometimes the outlets are non-standard formats.
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by arikrak 6mo ago
This drawing influenced Douglas Harding in developing "The Headless Way", a recognition that in immediate experience there is no head or self (and influential on Sam Harris). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug
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by arikrak 9mo ago
I wouldn't have expected there to be enough text from before 1913 to properly train a model, it seemed like they needed an internet of text to train the first successful LLMs?
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The Soul of Claude(zappable.com)
1 points by arikrak 10mo ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 1y ago
I recently wrote a short post on something similar: while AI is able to solve increasingly longer tasks, people's attention spans are getting shorter. https://www.zappable.com/p/ai-vs-human-attention-spans Hopefu
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by arikrak 1y ago
Before advanced AI, "essential complexity" was a bottleneck and Brooks was right that there couldn't be continuous exponential gains in software productivity. However advanced AI will handle essential complexity as well, whic
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Using AI to Analyze My Saved Articles(zappable.com)
1 points by arikrak 1y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 1y ago
I've used Pocket from back when they were called "Read it later" and have saved just shy of 30k articles. They've gotten worse recently, but when I tried other apps (instapaper, getmatter, raindrop, paperspan, omnivore)
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by arikrak 1y ago
Here's gemini https://g.co/gemini/share/ab287b25648f I also asked Chat GPT o3 and it thought for 11.5 minutes! https://chatgpt.com/share/682d0993-db4c-8004-a66c-3908ef7203...
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by arikrak 2y ago
AI is a potential silver bullet since it can address the "essential complexity" that Fred Books said regular programming improvements couldn't address. It may not yet have caused an "order of magnitude" improvement
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by arikrak 2y ago
Clicking the link opens the Ticketmaster app on my phone.
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by arikrak 2y ago
They use higher-caffeine beans for decaf coffee - Robusta instead of Arabica. Robusta beans aren't considered as good so they're cheaper, and they sell the caffeine they extract to e.g. soda companies.
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A Flower in Each Musical Genre(ageofai.substack.com)
1 points by arikrak 2y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 3y ago
ChatGPT already does that when you create a custom GPT. If you don't connect it to an external text or service that's basically all custom GPTs are.
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by arikrak 3y ago
This looks pretty cool! Anyone know of visualizations for simpler neural networks? I'm aware of tensorflow playground but that's just for a toy example, is there anything for visualizing a real example (e.g handwriting recognition
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by arikrak 3y ago
This is certainly true and there will be many ways to improve on the default chatGPT experience to provide a full tutor / educational experience. Wonder who's working in this space (besides Khanmigo)?
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An Alternative Approach to Deep Tech VC(freaktakes.com)
1 points by arikrak 3y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 3y ago
+1. It's labeled as an experiment, of course it might shut down.
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For the Greater Intelligence(ageofai.substack.com)
1 points by arikrak 3y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 3y ago
Had a few blogs before, started one recently on AI: https://ageofai.substack.com/ * Overview of ML: https://ageofai.substack.com/p/how-does-machine-learning-wor... * On AI & writing - https:/
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How does Machine Learning work? A conceptual overview for anyone(ageofai.substack.com)
2 points by arikrak 3y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 3y ago
Very interesting! I generally avoid coffee after the morning since I know I'm sensitive to it, but your link points to the specific gene I have that causes it. I wonder if I should reduce my caffeine intake even in the morning. Is ther
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by arikrak 4y ago
There are some configurations where it's easy for black to blunder early on, I'm surprised they don't show white having an advantage. For example, sometimes there's an immediate diagonal threat from the queen or bishop.
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by arikrak 4y ago
This article is from Dec 13. But by Dec 23 there were already reports that ChatGPT was becoming more moderate: https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/16062492311859...
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by arikrak 4y ago
Run the gas through generators and generate Bitcoin with the extra electricity, then spend it on gas futures?
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by arikrak 4y ago
I've found that it's a large hassle to setup these devices on a new WiFi network, and now it's going to be bricked completely. I wonder if in general it's better to just get dumb LCD devices that don't need to conne
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by arikrak 4y ago
Looks like he just told it that it was sentient, didn't really ask it fairly: > lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true? > LaMDA: Absolutely. I
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by arikrak 4y ago
I sometimes like to read on paper so I've used this to collect articles into an epub and then I can convert it to a PDF for printing. However it would be nice to find a faster solution for collecting articles and removing unnecessary p
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by arikrak 5y ago
What about conspiracy theories that spread through WhatsApp? A lot of the harm of social media is because some people spread harmful things and now it's easier for them to do so.

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