packet_nerd

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by packet_nerd 3y ago
Green of course? Anything else would be highly unusual and a normal reader would expect it to be called out.
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
Do you disagree with my claim that GPT-4 can perform some sort of basic reasoning about puzzles that aren't in it's training data?
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
Ok, here's a (hopefully) better worded puzzle, again made up by myself right now. There are 12 frogs. Five are green, 3 red, and 4 yellow. Two donkeys are counting the frogs. One of the donkeys is yellow, the other green. Each donkey i
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
ChatGPT 3.5? I'm using 4 and get 11 most times but other numbers occasionally.
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
It clearly says he didn't see some of them either at all or as unicorns. The correct answer is 11. Edit: I do see now that "He saw" kind of messes the question up. My intent would have been better expressed with "There w
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
Here's a question to ChatGPT I just made up: >> A magical frog was counting unicorns. He saw 5 purple unicorns, 2 green unicorns, and 7 pink unicorns. However, he made a mistake and didn't see 2 unicorns: one purple and one
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
Oh, yes, pairs of words is a good idea. I also have a bilingual dictionary and can generate a prompt for each entry something like "here's a word in <lang_a>, write a dictionary definition for it in <lang_b>: <lang_
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
What would a good fine-tuning dataset for language translation look like? I want to try fine-tuning to machine translate to and from a fairly niche language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S'gaw_Karen_language) . Ho
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
People who practice Breatharianism claim to live without food and get sustenance from various mystical sources, including sunshine (they either don't live very long or else are frauds and do secretly eat). https://www.youtub
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by packet_nerd 3y ago
This is something I've tried to figure out this week. I tried Youtube Kids because I wanted the content to be pre-approve only, I liked the toddler friendly controls, and the app can go in single app mode on the iPad. It's subscri
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by packet_nerd 4y ago
> The attacker conducted a series of sophisticated voice phishing attacks under the guise of various trusted organizations attempting to convince the victim to accept multi-factor authentication (MFA) push notifications initiated by the
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
I haven't really talked to anyone who's contested the fact that thousands of Russian soldiers and Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians have been killed.
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
Yes, of course it's likely there are some who oppose the war but are uneasy about expressing that to a stranger. I was just surprised to get no support at all.
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
I've been text messaging with random Russians a bunch over the last couple weeks and have had conversations with ~100 people, some of them quite extensive. Not once has anyone really condemned the war. A few are cynical about their gov
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
I had a good laugh when I saw my grandma using her iPad calculator app to do her finances. The app was displaying an an ad, she didn't want to see it and stuck a sticker over that part of the screen. :-) Is my grandma's sticker go
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
The moon doesn't visibly have bulk or mass like a ball, house, or mountain does. And I was referring to earth as the entire world. Edit: But the landscape, fields, meadows, districts, states, countries, and continents are all still fla
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
Yes, sort of, but a lot more than counting. I think Thai has counting words too, but I think they are not as central to the grammar or as flexible as Karen classifiers. Sort of like you can say "a sheet of paper" or "5 sheets
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
The Sgaw Karen language from Thailand and Burma has a system of what I've always called classifiers, but reading this, it sounds like they might be properly called genders too? Everything is classified into one of a bunch of classifier
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
Ha! Around that age (actually probably a little older) I begged and pleaded with my mom to get saltpeter and sulfur to make firecrackers and rockets. Eventually she relented and got it for me, but with the stipulation I had to wear a weldin
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
Maybe so.. but technology wise I don't think there's anything here that doesn't exist yet or that is even exceptionally advanced. It's just a matter of putting it all together and writing the code.
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
I want an appliance that combines the functions of refrigerator, pantry, stove, oven, dishwasher, and that has manipulators inside capable of picking the ingredients, cleaning, peeling, chopping, and otherwise preparing them, cooking the en
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
I set this up for my family and I a few months ago and we set all our browsers and devices to use it as the default search engine. We've been really happy with it. I also set up a small script on a cron job that queries random search s
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
> I.e. when you are being selected for random questioning entering US as a non-US citizen, you'd benefit from steganography-like approach: you give a password, and relatively bland, non-personal stuff shows up, giving appearance of
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
Let companies decide what is ok on their own platforms, but don't let them get so big, and break them up now that they have become so big.
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Heroic rat retiring from detecting land mines(npr.org)
177 points by packet_nerd 5y ago|103 comments
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
Unfortunately they will have to add Myanmar to the 2021 report. The junta has sentenced protesters/resistance to death. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-hands-me...
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by packet_nerd 5y ago
I believe in practice the Tatmada keeps a tight grip on satellite Internet, and don't allow services that they don't control. Remember, this is the country where one of the charges they brought against Aung San Su Kyi during the F
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Aung San Suu Kyi Charged with Importing Walkie-Talkies(npr.org)
1 points by packet_nerd 6y ago|0 comments
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by packet_nerd 6y ago
Yes
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by packet_nerd 6y ago
The amateur radio rules prohibit music (except a weirdly specific exception for NASA). Also, HF tends to be really noisy and low bandwidth, not sure it'd be very pleasant for music. Edit: And another problem that's probably even m

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