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by jmerz 3y ago
Rice cooker.
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Show HN: Cyberkitty – an experimental hybrid-GPT+Human long-form fiction editor(github.com)
2 points by jmerz 3y ago|1 comments
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by jmerz 3y ago
The only thing that would make this whole saga better is if OpenAI actually had a baby machine god in its basement right now and meanwhile the entire organization is collapsing to humans being human right above it.
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by jmerz 3y ago
As of yesterday this situation has crossed into omnishambles territory. Sunday you could still have reversed this and treated it as a blip. Now it's Tuesday—there's not really an option anymore that doesn't cause some kind of
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by jmerz 3y ago
I think he's not as known in the outside world but it's really difficult to understate the amount of social capital sama has in the inner circles of Silicon Valley. It sounds like he did a good job instilling loyalty as a CEO as w
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by jmerz 3y ago
This is certainly making a case for the fallibility of human leadership.
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by jmerz 3y ago
I'm hacking on some GPT-for-long-form-text stuff right now and it is _eye wateringly_ expensive once you start generating at anything close to "professional human" token outputs. $80 per month sounds already pretty optimized.
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by jmerz 3y ago
Feels like they've been trying and failing to grow past their core product flow (send pics to friends) for a decade now.
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by jmerz 3y ago
The intersection between politically/socially unpopular and low impact.
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by jmerz 3y ago
We're far more likely to pump a bunch of sulfates into the air than we are to stop driving pickup trucks everywhere. Humans aren't rational, and this is the kind of irrationality that democracy in particular cannot solve.
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Show HN: Pantry – Brew/Docker for LLMs(github.com)
5 points by jmerz 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmerz 3y ago
So there's actually a lot of academic debate on the merits of reparations, and exactly what and how much reparations should be. A very oversimplified pro argument: if it wasn't for slavery, these families would have generational w
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by jmerz 3y ago
You’ll absolutely nab me with a wanikani integration. I think the biggest challenge for these learning apps with me is that nothing talks to each other and everything wants me to use it in a silo.
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by jmerz 3y ago
This captures it well. We're at the "startups are throwing GPT at every possible wall to see what sticks" stage of this. We're going to see both improvements in application, and parallel improvements in the underlying mo
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by jmerz 3y ago
As someone who currently spends time on two continents it's always jarring to return to the USA. The first thing that hits you is the wealth. The second is the wealth disparity. The third is the dysfunction. It's truly a remarkabl
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by jmerz 3y ago
Must be a phone survey—anyone who still answers phone calls from strangers is probably pre-disposed to being victimized like this.
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There's such a thing as too young for (parts of) Y Combinator(jmerz.is)
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by jmerz 3y ago
Shot, meet chaser: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/04/10/california-first-... I appreciate this as an anti-inequality measure, but it feels like in California low/med income buyers are bei
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by jmerz 3y ago
I think most humans today massively underestimate just how absolutely shitty the life of a medieval peasant was. You would have lived in a one room house without electricity, worked the fields from childhood (if you survived childhood), eat
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by jmerz 3y ago
It's crazy how fast humans normalize and adapt. Five years ago this stuff was science fiction, now we're arguing about how it's wrong sometimes. We just kind of walked straight past the Turing test and nobody cares.