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by steveridout 3mo ago
I wonder how much this depends on the quality and consistency of the context? For example, it may be the case that a long context full of useful information relevant to the task is completely fine, perhaps even beneficial. And if the contex
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by steveridout 8mo ago
Human doctors are probabilistic systems.
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by steveridout 1y ago
I run readlang.com as one person. I started it back in 2012 and it currently makes about 14K euros / month, with expenses of about 1.5K, so it's mostly profit.
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by steveridout 2y ago
Just use a VPN to pretend you're in the US and it works.
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by steveridout 2y ago
Same, along with the Tron soundtrack from Daft Punk.
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by steveridout 2y ago
Even if you don't feel like reading the whole article, do yourself a favor and skip down to the video of the final product at the very end. It's delightful and put a big smile on my face. The fact that all the modern technology is
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Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project(decarpentier.nl)
421 points by steveridout 2y ago|55 comments
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by steveridout 2y ago
I've got a bunch of scripts to handle my finances, both personal investments and to help with certain parts of my company tax reporting. Among other things it uses ChatGPT to extract structured data from PDF invoices for reporting expe
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by steveridout 2y ago
I'm under the impression that this CPU is faster AND more efficient, so if you do equivalent tasks on the M4 vs an older processor, the M4 should be less power hungry, not more. Someone correct me if this is wrong!
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by steveridout 2y ago
I'd been using 2 external displays with my macbook pro for the past few years. The most annoying thing for me was waking the mac from sleep and getting it to detect the two of them. Once they were both detected I honestly thought the e
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by steveridout 3y ago
Interesting point but I don't think it's that clear cut. Twitter/X seemed to increase the pace of product changes directly after laying of the majority of its employees after Elon Musk took over. Also, when Steve Jobs returne
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by steveridout 3y ago
A very relatable story! Are you going to write follow-up posts with more details covering the rest of the journey with more of the ups and downs of running a tiny bootstrapped startup? I'd be interested in reading!
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by steveridout 3y ago
I've gone retro with my watch. Wearing a simple Casio to avoid getting sucked into using my phone and checking notifications each time I want to see the time. For my laptop I have an M1 pro macbook. It was a huge upgrade over the previ
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by steveridout 3y ago
Nice start! I love the idea of an AI assisted learning experience structured around stories. I make a tool in the same space (readlang.com). I started it before the current LLM wave but I've recently added LLM-generated explanations an
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by steveridout 3y ago
At first glance this doesn't seem that surprising. We often use "is" in a way which isn't reversible. e.g. "A dog is an animal" -> Makes sense "An animal is a dog" -> Doesn't make sense
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by steveridout 3y ago
Thanks. I did an (admittedly quick) search to confirm this but didn't find anything. Do you have a reference by any chance?
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Ask HN: Does OpenAI make a profit on GPT-3.5-turbo API?
8 points by steveridout 3y ago|5 comments
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by steveridout 3y ago
GDPR obliges them to delete your data upon request. But I'm not sure how well Facebook/Meta complies with this. This post from 4 years ago doesn't sound encouraging: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/
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by steveridout 3y ago
You can use the bookmarklet, which you can drag into Firefox's bookmarks bar from this page: https://readlang.com/webReader It works almost exactly the same as the Chrome Extension.
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by steveridout 3y ago
I agree that there can sometimes be a tradeoff between retention and learning. But having been on the inside the overwhelming impression I got was that Duolingo really does care about teaching effectively. They have a whole Learning Area wi
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by steveridout 3y ago
Basically it's because I don't think Duolingo wanted the product so much as they wanted me. No-one used the term acquihire at the time but I was under no illusions that that's what it was. I did think that I might push to dev
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by steveridout 3y ago
Yeah, this is a problem. Anyone is free to share texts to the public library and there's no quality control, just an upvoting feature to try to surface the best content at the top. I accept that the public libraries are a mess at the m
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by steveridout 3y ago
That's wonderful to hear! I hope you find it useful. If you have any feedback after using it for a while please let me know!
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by steveridout 3y ago
I'm planning to add some more languages after improving the UI. Right now the dropdowns to select languages feel unwieldy with so many options. If you want me to let you know when I get around to adding Albanian, email me at $MY_FIRST_
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by steveridout 3y ago
The ideal fix was to upgrade the version of Stripe checkout. At the time though I was looking for a quick solution and was scared to update the Stripe libraries for fear of accidentally breaking something else. So here's what I did: -
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by steveridout 3y ago
Yep, I like the fact that it's a simple business model with well aligned incentives. It's a direct relationship between me and my customers. I keep getting paid as long as the site continues to be useful. I also send an automated
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by steveridout 3y ago
Yeah I use the Google Translate API for the translations. You can also embed a custom dictionary of your choosing in an iframe in the sidebar: https://blog.readlang.com/2013/11/07/custom-dictionaries.htm... A
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by steveridout 3y ago
Getting close to 5k yeah. The average over the preceeding year was around 4k.
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by steveridout 3y ago
For now it provides the whole sentence that the word was in for context. It works pretty well but I'm sure it would be better if I gave it a little more. 2 or 3 sentences would probably be great, but obviously more expensive to run.
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by steveridout 3y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I think in that case I'd probably want it to automatically combine certain adjacent words into phrases, which is definitely doable with AI but could be expensive to do for an entire text vs just paying for th

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