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ludwik
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  1. > Just had the sitename put into the value of the cookie since, and never really needed to think about that.

    How would that help? This doesn't seem like a solution to the CSRF problem

  2. As a childless OMSCS graduate, I also can’t imagine doing it while having kids, because it took basically all of my free time. That said, I met quite a few people in the program who were in situations similar to yours. I have no idea how they managed it, but they somehow did.
  3. > In that case the winning strategy would be to switch hedge funds every 3 years.

    When you flip a coin, you can easily get all heads for the first 2-4 flips, but over time it will average out to about 50% heads. It doesn’t follow from this that the winning strategy is to change the coin every 3 flips.

  4. Okay? I specifically responded to your comment that the parent comment implied "if you make a mistake and say sorry you are also a psychopath", which clearly wasn’t the case. I don’t get what your response has to do with that.
  5. I think the point of comparison (whether I agree with it or not) is someone (or something) that is unable to feel remorse saying “I’m sorry” because they recognize that’s what you’re supposed to do in that situation, regardless of their internal feelings. That doesn’t mean everyone who says “sorry” is a psychopath.
  6. But this sounds like an ideal setup, doesn't it? Tim is fantastic at execution, but he does need a shot of big-picture vision every now and then. Tim as CEO with Steve as Chairman, steering the broader direction, feels like it could have been a perfect pairing. The issue with how things actually turned out is that Tim ended up on his own - all execution, no vision.
  7. Good call. I would feel extremely weird seeing "[my full name] is still alive" as a title somewhere...
  8. I think you misunderstood what people are taking issue with. You explain that this matter is complicated and non-trivial - and yes, that’s exactly the point!

    People don’t have a problem with real-time communication via audio or video in general. They have a problem with the suggestion that it’s a trivial issue that can be easily fixed by "jumping on a quick call."

    The point about there being a "fairly in-depth" description of the issues isn’t that there’s nothing more to discuss - fixing those issues would obviously require talking through the specifics. The point is that this is a real problem that requires action and commitment, so suggesting it’s a non-issue that can be clarified with “a quick call” comes off as dismissive and unproductive, whether that’s intentional or not.

  9. There is a big leap between them not being the sole person responsible for technical decisions and them not even necessarily having a seat at the table for technology direction. The former is understandable. Later - quite surprising.
  10. That’s like saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy supports Trump. Foreign politicians operate outside of U.S. domestic politics - they don’t get to choose other countries’ leaders. Their job is to use diplomacy to navigate international politics in whatever shape those politics happen to be in.
  11. 20 million unique users is not that much. I don't understand the claim that this constitutes 9% of all IP addresses. It doesn't. There are about 4 billion public IPv4 address. 9% of that would be closer to 300 million.
  12. I don’t see a claim that anyone with a negative attitude toward AI shouldn’t be listened to because it automatically means that they formed their opinion on older models. The claim was simply that there’s a large cohort of people who undervalue the capabilities of language models because they formed their views while evaluating earlier versions.
  13. Turns out what constitutes "claiming" an IP on the site is nothing like you’d expect. You don’t need to prove you control the IP. All it takes is embedding a transparent 1x1 tracking pixel on a website, and every IP that loads the page gets counted as “claimed” by you. In other words, it’s just a tally of visitors (or even ad impressions), not actual control of the IPs. So there’s really nothing meaningful here.
  14. Why train the model to know how to use very specific tools which can change and are very specific only to ChatGPT (the website)? The model itself is used in many other, vastly different contexts.
  15. It is used here as the default for cases when the user doesn't know or care about the technological details and is only interested in the end result. It is preferred because it integrates well with the built-in preview tool.
  16. There is "performance" as in "speed and cost" and performance as in "the model returning quality responses, without getting lost in the weeds". Caching only helps with the former.
  17. No, it's because that's what ChatGPT users internally to calculate things, manipulate data, display graphs etc. That's what its "python" tool is all about. The use cases usually have nothing to do with programming - the user is only interested in the end result, and don't know or care that it was generated using Python (although it is noted in the interface).

    The LLM has to know how to use the tool in order to use it effectively. Hence the documentation in the prompt.

  18. No. It is for saving information in a bank of facts about the user - i.e., their biography.

    Things that are intended for "the human" directly are outputed directly, without any additional tools.

  19. My guess: if given multiple examples of using ALl CAPS for emphasis, it would start doing it back to the user - and humans tend to not like that.
  20. Why? The explanation given to the LLM seems truthful: this is a string that is directly displayed to the user (as we know it is), so including json in it will result in a broken visual experience for the user.
  21. > Worse, after attempting to delete all chats and disable memory, I noticed that some information still seemed to persist.

    I'm fairly sure "seemed" is the key word here. LLMs are excellent at making things up - they rarely say "I don't know" and instead generate the most probable guess. People also famously overestimate their own uniqueness. Most likely, you accidentally recreated a kind of Barnum effect for yourself.

  22. > there are far more ways for a system to be disordered than ordered

    I'm a complete layman when it comes to physics, so forgive me if this is naive — but aren't "ordered" and "disordered" concepts tied to human perception or cognition? It always seemed to me that we call something "ordered" when we can find a pattern in it, and "disordered" when we can't. Different people or cultures might be able to recognize patterns in different states. So while I agree that "there are more ways for a system to be disordered than ordered," I would have thought that's a property of how humans perceive the world, not necessarily a fundamental truth about the universe

  23. Is "game-changing" supposed to imply changing the game to a completely different one? Like, is the metaphor that we were playing soccer, and then we switched to paintball or basketball or something? I always understood it to mean a big change within the same game - like we’re still playing soccer, but because of a goal or a shift, the team that was on defense now has to go on offense...
  24. Okay, but which one of the two is the elephant-destroying one?
  25. We used to have this in the form of a pair of HTML tags: <frameset> and <frame> (not to be confused with the totally separate <iframe>!). <frameset> provided the scaffolding with slots for multiple frames, letting you easily create a page made up entirely of subpages. It was once popular and, in many ways, worked quite neatly. It let you define static elements once entirely client-side (and without JS!), and reload only the necessary parts of the page - long before AJAX was a thing. You could even update multiple frames at once when needed.

    From what I remember, the main problem was that it broke URLs: you could only link to the initial state of the page, and navigating around the site wouldn't update the address bar - so deep linking wasn’t possible (early JavaScript SPA frameworks had the same issue, BTW). Another related problem was that each subframe had to be a full HTML document, so they did have their own individual URLs. These would get indexed by search engines, and users could end up on isolated subframe documents without the surrounding context the site creator intended - like just the footer, or the article content without any navigation.

  26. Neither is impressive solely because we've gotten used to them. Both were mind-blowing back in the day.

    When it comes to AI - and LLMs in particular - there’s a large cohort of people who seem determined to jump straight from "impossible and will never happen in our lifetime" to "obvious and not impressive", without leaving any time to actually be impressed by the technological achievement. I find that pretty baffling.

  27. Correct. They've mentioned the name during the live announcement - https://www.youtube.com/live/kA-P9ood-cE?si=GYosi4FtX1YSAujE...
  28. I don't think they mean "knowledge" when they talk about "intelligence." LLMs are definitely not knowledge bases. They can transform information given to them in impressive ways, but asking a raw (non-RAG-enabled) LLM to provide its own information will probably always be a mistake.
  29. Can you elaborate?
  30. > Russians would be on the border with Poland right now

    He doesn’t even realize that Poland already borders Russia in the northeast. The arrogance coupled with the incompetence is staggering.

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