jameslevy

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by jameslevy 2y ago
The only longterm solution that makes sense is to allow students to use AI tools and to require a log provided by the AI tool to be provided. Adjust the assignment accordingly and use custom system prompts for the AI tools so that the stude
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by jameslevy 2y ago
Does it require Azure to work? Or could the Azure steps be relatively easily be swapped out for AWS/GCP/etc?
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Squiggle: One line code change to add insights to the OpenAI Realtime API(squiggle.ai)
7 points by jameslevy 2y ago|1 comments
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by jameslevy 2y ago
Squiggle is an extension of the OpenAI Realtime API that generates insights (summarization, highlights, structured data, and content flags) in realtime as the conversation occurs. You can use Squiggle with a one line code change, no account
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by jameslevy 2y ago
First money in at a 40M valuation? Assuming this is pre-seed, that seems like the investor is taking on a lot of risk based on the distribution of outcomes.
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by jameslevy 2y ago
"Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome". I do not know anything of the culture of Tesla and am not commenting on it specifically, and that quote could apply just as much to a company like Boeing. But at companies w
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by jameslevy 2y ago
Goodhart's law applies to how inflation measures have ceased to be an accurate measure: "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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by jameslevy 2y ago
It's surprising how many parents I know who are in denial about this. It must be because they themselves are constantly using social media and don't want to accept what it is doing to their own mental health.
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by jameslevy 2y ago
These types of tools should exclude all files and directories in the .gitignore as standard operating procedure, unless those files are specifically included. Not just because of secrets, but also because these files are not considered to b
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by jameslevy 3y ago
It's amazing to me how often Goodhart's Law can be observed in the wild, and I've come to believe it is an important enough concept that it should probably be something (along with logical fallacies and other concepts related
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by jameslevy 3y ago
What about the MMT concept of just taxing the rich and "burning" their funds as a targeted method of reducing the money supply?
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by jameslevy 3y ago
Perhaps prompting the model to first describe its approach to answering the question. This type of chain-of-thought technique can yield better results.
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by jameslevy 3y ago
Hopefully they will publicly commit to only using this trademark defensively if granted. In other words, to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt here, they may just want to prevent someone else from trademarking "GPT" and taking l
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by jameslevy 6y ago
At least he's talking about the infotainment system, and not an internal system or something where there's no conceivable use for HTML/JS.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
And cash that disappears from your bank account? Great for going long in the stock market.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
The thing that really gets me is that even once you hear these conversations, the price might 2x or 3x from there. I felt this way about Bitcoin by the summer of 2017 but obviously it still had some room to run.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
These streaming services need some way to identify the number of viewers. I'm sure there'll always be some ways around this (there already is via piracy), but they'd want something better than just asking you how many people
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by jameslevy 6y ago
As us engineers like to say, the goal is to automate ourselves out of a job.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
"Master" is similar to the master copy of a work. It is used as a reference to base branches from.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
"Slave" is not a term used by Git or Github, and its use of "master" is not related to the vocabulary of "master/slave". Not the first to say this, but the media seems to be getting this all wrong.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
"We’re also working more closely with partners like Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce..." Is Facebook Shops not a direct competitor to Shopify? Or is this just "embrace, extend, and extinguish"?
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Has there been any research into the extent that masks do or don't result in modified behavior, not directly related to the mask? For example, if you go out and most people are wearing masks, it may serve to remind you to wash your han
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Mountain House near Tracy? I don't think I've ever heard of Mountain House before.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Would an article about immigrant workers at meat processing plants get to the HN frontpage?
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by jameslevy 6y ago
The Bay Area can mean Pacific Heights, or Concord. Probably half or 2/3 the cost of living in the latter.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
A rock seems unlikely to be conscious in any real way. Something as complex as a star, however...maybe all of the humans worshipping the sun throughout many thousands of years were onto something after all.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Would you say the same thing about gold? Genuinely curious, since obviously Bitcoin is frequently compared to gold as a store of value instead of a unit of exchange. The most persuasive defense of Bitcoin as a store of value is that the wor
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Sure, but presumably the miners leaving will still want to do something profitable with their mining equipment. I'd expect to see the hashrate increase for other PoW coins. Unless there's some reason for that not to happen.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Everyone thinking this seems to have resulted in it happening a couple days early. It's not yet clear whether today or tomorrow is a good time to short BTC.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Is there speculation regarding what miners will do instead of mining Bitcoin? For example, mining another cryptocurrency instead of Bitcoin? This would seem to have implications for the mining power for these altcoins, and perhaps implicati

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