whistle650

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by whistle650 8mo ago
To understand the impact on computer programming per se, I find it useful to imagine that the first computer programs I had encountered were, somehow, expressed in a rudimentary natural language. That (somewhat) divorces the consideration o
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by whistle650 9mo ago
Sorry, just a vercel free tier project used by two people… Perhaps this is too much success. Seems to be a rate limit on one of the free data sources I use. Should be vibe-fixed now.
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by whistle650 9mo ago
Vibe coded this with my son. Something I always wanted since we often record sporting events and want to know if it’s worth watching. So, successful in that sense and works in real time. https://www.donttellmethescore.com/nf
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by whistle650 9mo ago
I’m a longtime New Yorker lover myself. I think there is some truth to this though: https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/how-the-new-york...
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by whistle650 11mo ago
That’s true. But you probably can’t. At least any more than others. It’s a systemic issue in the ad network ecosystem which you don’t have much control over. If you can figure it out, odds are lots of others can too. People do assess the
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by whistle650 11mo ago
And imagine how much more you’d have to pay for each of those clicks if everyone could stop those fraudulent clicks. In equilibrium it shouldn’t change the total ad spend.
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by whistle650 11mo ago
This is the key point. Ads and clicks etc are priced in a competitive market. If they don’t deliver the ROI because of bots, then people (including the allegedly hopelessly confused e-commerce retailers) would pay less for the same amount o
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by whistle650 1y ago
I thought you could set up an automatic Takeout export periodically, and choose the target to be your Google Drive. Then via a webapp oauth you could pull the data that way. Frequency was limited (looks like it says the auto export is “ever
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by whistle650 1y ago
Ok, so how does general anesthesia work? How does ketamine work for depression? The recipes for those are well-known.
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by whistle650 1y ago
Agreed, and I did mention medicines as examples of things that work but we don’t understand. But they weren’t “made” by us in quite the same way imo.
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by whistle650 1y ago
It seems they use 70% of the benchmark query-answer pairs to cluster and determine which models work best for each cluster (by sending all queries to all models and looking at responses vs ground truth answers). Then they route the remaini
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by whistle650 1y ago
Looking at the home page of Meanwhile only made me think of how life insurance is such a different thing than, say, a mortgage. With life insurance, counterparty risk matters. You don't care about your mortgage counterparty. I'
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by whistle650 1y ago
Have you tried the Gemini Live audio-to-audio in the free Gemini iOS app? I find it feels far more natural than ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode.
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by whistle650 2y ago
I don't know much about what it's like to do a PhD in physics at Berkeley, but many years ago I did a PhD in physics at Stanford starting out working in experimental quantum optics. I wound up doing something completely different
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by whistle650 2y ago
Interesting read with lots of good detail, thank you. A comment: if you are balancing the classes when you do one vs all binary training, and then use the max probability for inference, your probabilities might not be calibrated well, whic
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by whistle650 2y ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/13f553a8-5cff-42a1-be95-4a9d33cd10... May also be easy to correct a lot of it: “For better safekeeping, Russia’s $24,000,000 collection of crown jewels, probably the finest array of gems ever
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by whistle650 3y ago
This is a great project thank you. I've installed the TestFlight app. FYI, right now it's saying in response to "Who was the president in 1973" that it was "Gerald Ford" which is wrong.
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by whistle650 3y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing that link. It was rational and humane and I found it very moving. I didn't know who he was, but I'm glad to know of him and his work now.
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by whistle650 3y ago
In the talk he specifically mentions the very interesting fact that as they improved "alignment" it affected the unicorn output (negatively if I remember correctly). So as long as "alignment" is changing, the output sho
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by whistle650 3y ago
It is a strange article, speaking as if AutoGPT were not completely nascent, which it is. So the critiques aren't even really wrong. The most valuable observation is that vector DBs are overkill (does LangChain have a stake in Pineco
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by whistle650 6y ago
This feels like a very sterile view of science and it's actual history and practice. I was recently remembering how Marconi's puzzling success in sending a transatlantic wireless signal stimulated the discovery of the ionosphere.
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by whistle650 8y ago
Totally agree with this. Though I often want something similar but not necessarily “creative”. I’d like to be able to ask “show me blogs or discussions that are substantial about x”. x could be a scientific paper or something. It is a quest
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by whistle650 8y ago
Google Takeout may at least partly have been the result of (some) employees thinking it was the right thing to do. It’s gotten a lot better over time, it used to be something much more crude that did seem like an internal grassroots thing..
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by whistle650 8y ago
Partly as a result of regulation it seems all companies are offering ways of giving you your data. E.g. Google Takeout and Facebook’s data download etc. One thing that’s missing are software tools to allow you to do interesting things with