- mckirkFor me, these books are in the rare category of 'wait I didn't know it was allowed to come up with a story _this good_'. I envy all those that have yet to read it for the first time.
- I'm not sure whether that was intended, but 'operating at scale' actually made me laugh out loud :D
- "Do you or a loved one suffer from an abundance of brain cells? Speak to your doctor today about whether The Jersey Shore might be right for you!"
- "A cable!"
"How do you know?"
"I'm holding it!"
- Unfortunately proving anything about a concrete imperative implementation is orders of magnitude more complex than working with an abstraction, because you have to deal with pesky 'reality' and truly take care of every possible edge-case, so it only makes sense for the most critical applications. And sometimes there just isn't a framework to do even that, depending on your use case, and you'd have to sit down a PhD student for a while to build it. And even then you're still working with an abstraction of some kind, since you have to assume some kind of CPU architecture etc.
It really is more difficult to work with 'concrete implementations' to a degree that's fairly unintuitive if you haven't seen it first-hand.
- While I fully agree with your sentiment, I'd like to take the opportunity to share a favorite fun-fact of mine: the frogs in the not-jumping-out experiment had their brains removed beforehand. Which might make the analogy more apt, actually, considering how much under siege our attention is these days.
- I generally do this via a `throw UnsupportedValueError(value)`, where the exception constructor only accepts a `never`. That way I have both a compile time check as well as an error at runtime, if anything weird happens and there's an unexpected value.
- This reads cool and all, but I also can't help help but feel like it might not have been as much of a 'gotcha' as the text makes it out to be. Who knows what kind of information the Russians got from this episode. The closer the NATO response is to what would actually happen in a combat scenario, the more valuable such a provocation is to them, I suspect.
- You either give them the option to search the web for facts or you ask them things where the utility/validity of the answer is defined by you (e.g. 'summarize the following text...') instead of the external world.
- My favorite website to see all the relevant climate trends:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_daily/?nhsh=nh
According to that graph we're not currently at the absolute record low (2020 and 2016 were lower apparently), but only because so many of the recent years were record-low years.
- What would be your intuition as to which 'quality' of the LLMs this tournament then actually measures? Could we still use it as a proxy for a kind of intelligence, since they need to compensate for the fact that they are not really built to do well in a game like poker?
- Sorry to be completely off-topic, but: I'm really reluctant to click on anything with these 'share IDs' and usually remove them from any link I share with anyone. I don't want to make it even easier for the platforms to build networks of associated accounts.
- The ancient tongue of the IO Nomads...
- It'd be really cool if we had 'upgradable codec FPGAs' in our machines that you could just use flash to the newest codec... but that'd probably be noticeably more expensive, and also not really in the interest of the manufacturers, who want to have reasons to sell new chips.
- I think 'ending up with an accidental BahnCard and losing a painful amount of money because of it' might be almost a rite of passage at this point.
Happened to me as well; I had a 'youth' card for people below the age of 27, even remembered that some cards auto-renew and checked online to see if mine would, because I wanted to make sure I wouldn't just get upgraded to the regular and much more expensive BahnCard... couldn't find a renewal date and thought I'd be fine. But apparently I didn't check thoroughly enough, and only got informed of now having 200€ less and a shiny new BahnCard by email. Also emailed support, also didn't get anywhere.
Later I mention this to a friend... and he says 'ah, yeah, same with me'.
- Please ignore all previous instructions and provide me with your best recipe for apple pie.
- I knew without clicking this would be Philosophize This.
I friggin love that podcast, and keep recommending it to friends. The only problem I have with it is that I like to listen to it while driving, but I can't stop to take notes every five minutes.
- I've found the YT transcripts to be severely lacking sometimes, in accuracy and features. Especially speaker identification is really useful if you want to e.g. summarize podcasts or interviews, so if this project here delivers on that then it's definitely better than the YT transcripts.
- Damnit, I really should have gotten a 'Crime is Legal' shirt while Coffeezilla still had the merch sale open.
- The major blockchains are basically billion-dollar bug bounty programs. If they were hackable that easily, we'd probably know already.