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by convexfunction 3y ago
If you know little about prompt engineering and want to throw together a demo of something that kind of works extremely quickly, or experiment with an LLM agent exactly as it's defined in some paper, LangChain is pretty useful. If you
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by convexfunction 3y ago
I'm not sure if "helpful answer" as opposed to "answer" makes much of a difference in answer quality -- I'd believe it helps a little, just don't know that it's been studied -- but a lot of silly stuf
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Love it. Execute the scam, immediately send the money back (or better, somehow don't accept it in the first place) and tell them what happened with a link to an informative webpage. Might even be self-sustaining if you solicit donation
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by convexfunction 4y ago
My mother got completely wiped out by a romance scammer, tens of thousands of dollars over >1 year, all via cash dumped into a Bitcoin ATM I believe. AFAIK she's still talking to the "guy", or she was when I broke off co
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by convexfunction 4y ago
It's not quite the same, and might not be possible to make rigorous enough that it really proves anything, but something sort of similar would actually be practical to at least attempt in many cases. Stable Diffusion checkpoints of the
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by convexfunction 4y ago
> That is my maybe my main issue with the AI art bots, do the artists who work with them even feel vulnerable about their work? Sometimes, yes. John Q Nerd playing around with it might not, but the "good AI artists" I follow on
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Yes, whenever I spend hours refining a prompt in my stable diffusion UI and select one of hundreds or thousands of outputs and spend even more hours refining it with inpainting and other non-AI tools, I've felt nothing whatsoever, and
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by convexfunction 4y ago
You ever feel like this specific propaganda war is actually unwinnable? Many people are extremely motivated to bullshit the public (usually sincerely though I kind of doubt it in this case), and from I've seen, the public are far more
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Not to mention that the totality of all other images is in most cases probably more "influential" than the few most visually similar images! Consider the thought experiment: 1. Take the prompt you used, and use it with a model che
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Yeah, it's bullshit, but digging into a specific point from their FAQ: > Usually, the image the model creates doesn’t exist in its training data - it’s new - but because of the training process, the most influential images are the m
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Sorry, but you're reading into noise. Anyone can reproduce an image anyone else made by only knowing the model checkpoint, positive and negative prompt, seed, sampler and sampling steps, &c &c they used. (Well, in principle, an
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Who's "we"? :) To the extent this perception exists -- and I don't think "came from a computer" falls within the top 5 actually effective methods of laundering bullshit nowadays, though maybe it used to -- you
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Just imagine the hell we'd be in if people could give wrong answers in an authoritative tone and then insist they absolutely can't be wrong!
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by convexfunction 4y ago
At this point, I truly don't know which of your(?) current type of applied arts vs my current type of software development will turn out to be more sensitive to technological unemployment, or on what margins and time scales. So, hopefu
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Below is a short conversation you inspired me to have with OpenAI's text-davinci-002, mainly because it sounded like it'd be cute rather than because I think it proves anything (I'm no expert prompt engineer): ==== What is th
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by convexfunction 4y ago
I worked for a while on an online ad measurement product, specifically on identifying and helping our clients avoid "invalid traffic", which is almost but not exactly a synonym for "bots". Reading this article, you'
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by convexfunction 4y ago
- Carbs: potatoes, rice, pasta (yes really, the common element here is high water content; the other stuff you put on these can of course make a big difference) - Dairy: Greek yogurt or cottage cheese are usually part of my breakfast. I&#x
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by convexfunction 4y ago
I'm not convinced this is truly the same product. A highly-rated review and some questions seem to say it does auto-zeroing and assumes the lowest concentration seen over some period of time is "outside", which as I understan
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Not quite everything, but outside of rare social eating situations I do weigh my food when I'd otherwise have to make a bad estimate for caloric content (i.e. not single-serving packaged food or food from a restaurant that publishes nu
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by convexfunction 4y ago
And, well, I failed horribly at conveying my actual strategy (I guess we're getting hung up on "fruits, vegetables, and lean meats are supposedly not very rewarding"?) because I would describe what I'm doing as "eat
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by convexfunction 4y ago
I'd actually advocate for potatoes as a "weight loss food". They're quite low in caloric density relative to most other "carbs" since they have so much water; there's even a meme "potato diet"
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by convexfunction 4y ago
For whatever it's worth, I don't feel like I actually had to adapt my tastes at all in order to eat healthier. The main hurdle was figuring out how to prep in a way that's easy enough that I'll actually bother.
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by convexfunction 4y ago
> That tells me the writing on the wall, and let me be clear about this, the writing is what needs to be written and what people need to read - you're making the decision to NOT have cheesecake when you only kind of feel like it. It
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by convexfunction 4y ago
There are some fruits and vegetables and lean meats (which absolutely includes "leaner cuts of steak with the fat trimmed off") that I quite sincerely like as much as junk food, if not more. Two pan-fried salmon fillets and a big
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by convexfunction 4y ago
It's all relative, innit? Compared to "telling people to diet and exercise", which is an almost perfectly ineffective intervention (as usually practiced at least), getting morbidly obese people to become "merely overweig
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by convexfunction 4y ago
That one word you elided, "stereotypically", was doing a lot of work! I'm not actually eating fewer highly rewarding-to-me foods, just less junk food, and I'm not constantly hungry.
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by convexfunction 4y ago
> losing body fat means that you must continuously make choices that decrease your comfort in some way - eating fewer highly rewarding foods, maintaining a state of hunger, increasing activity level Not necessarily! I've successfull
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by convexfunction 4y ago
The article says the low BMI people ate "12% less food" (presumably that's measured in calories), though it may not be fully true that they're "less hungry". There's a very common tendency to assume that t
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by convexfunction 4y ago
I said "much of the same parts of my brain", not "the experience is identical".
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by convexfunction 4y ago
I've found it difficult after starting to work full-time to fully enjoy Zachtronics games, since they use much of the same parts of my brain as my day job, but the sheer joy I got out of Zach's earlier games (SpaceChem, KOHCTPYKTO

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