- >At high school level maths you genuinely can’t get gpt-5 thinking to make a single mistake. Not possible at all.
If you give an LLM an incomplete question, it will guess at an answer. They don't know what they don't know, and they are trained to guess
- >Why do people continue to go on cruises?
There is a level of convenience that is hard to get elsewhere.
I went on a Disney cruise 2 summers ago. All restaurants were in walking distance. All of deck 5 was dedicated to child care. They took you straight to excursions. Family was close, but not too close.
There were some downsides, too, but let's not focus on those. I think the "king" reason we went is because the grandparents were paying and they wanted everyone to be "there" and not leaving. I think the main reason we aren't going again is cost.
- >quoting Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction :-)
SAY WHAT AGAIN MOTHER F**er - Hezakiah, 15:8
- >It's not all-or-nothing. I'd rather have a choice instead of none.
I used to work adjacent to car financing. One of the "tricks" used in car negotiating is the "fake choice": "oh, you want to pay less for the car? Well. I can give you X OR Y for FREE!". Now you spend time thinking if you want X or Y, forgetting thay they are worth $200, and what you really want is $1000 less on the car.
Be careful with the "choice" you think you are making
- >AWS is great if your IT/purchasing department is inefficient
Fwiw, I think a lot of companies have this problem.
- Thanks for the pics! The prevalence of rifles is... thought provoking. The pic of the guy on a bike with a rifle is so metal
My overall impression of the area is "gloomy" all pics are overcast. It feels sad. It is beautiful, but I long for the sun
- >It's like allowing people to buy drugs, but not to use them.
Well, since you mention it: I have prescription drugs that I am allowed to buy, but I am NOT allowed to abuse them. I must take exactly 1 each day.
- Can't people with these type of issues control what they think about?
Can't they have a go-to list of positive things to think about when they notice they are thinking negative thoughts?
- >It reminds me of when people first got their phones and couldn't stop showing everyone how cool they were.
Your comparison to smart phones is interesting. Smart phones are definitely transformative. There was a lot of hype, but still transformative.
Do you believe that LLMs and AI is also going to be transformative?
- >Every single project meeting I've sat in started with an non-technical exec asking, "what can we use AI for?"
To be fair, if the goal is to learn and discover how a new tool works and when to use it, then a legitimate strategy is to solve a bunch of problems with this new tool
- To quote a military friend of mine: "Why build 1 plane when you can build 3 planes for the cost of... does math... 3x!"
- >Myself and some other people pay their cards off every month but that isn't the norm. Many people keep a balance
I've heard this statistic a lot, but I haven't seen any recent evidence it is true. I used to work for a bank, and our Credit Card holders would (mostly) pay off their balance every month.
We called them Transactors vs Revolvers. 85% of our CC were Transactors, and some of them would pay down multiple times a month
- Thinking about grocery shopping makes me think this need is real, but for poor people.
The amount of time that goes into "what food do we need for this week" is really high. An AI tool that connected "food I have" with "food that I want" would be huge.
- Isn't this the reason why Britney Spears cut her hair a coupleb of decades back?
- I'm curious about how the LLMs handle non English languages. Is it good? Does it work well with hard/advanced content?
If you don't mind me asking, what languages do you speak? Which do you use when interacting with LLMs?
- Why isn't anyone talking about the bevvy of drag-and-drop no colder solutions that have already been in the market? Surely the LLMs are competing with those tools, right?
- You think that the only code that is valuable is code that is written by a professional SWE.
There are LOADS of people who need "a program" but aren't equipped to write code or hire an SWE that are empowered by this. And example: last week, I saw a PM vibe code several different applications to demo what might get built after it gets prioritized by SWEs
- >Fifty four percent of American adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level
I have a 4th grade child. When she was in 3rd grade, I realized that a 3rd grade education allows you to function in many different forms. A 3rd grade reading level is more than enough for living in nearly every situation.
I would hope that full grown adults develop other "intellect" skills that help them in life, but as far as reading level - 3rd grade is plenty.
- Can you elaborate on the mistakes you see? What languages are you working with?
Of course, only authorized users could see the data, but that was a different compliance line item.