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Hugh Thomas - hugh@blockatlas.com
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NameError··on AWS us-east-1 down
I suppose "increased error rates and latencies" is technically true when the error rate is 100% and the latency is "until we fix it"
NameError··on Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT
It's right that only places between the tropics will ever see the sun directly overhead. I asked it the same question and it was kinda subtly misleading:

"The Sun is directly overhead, or at the zenith, at a given location only when that location is on the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north latitude) during the Summer Solstice (around June 21st each year) or on the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 degrees south latitude) during the Winter Solstice (around December 21st each year)."

There are other situations besides these - you don't have to be -on- one of the tropics for the sun to be overhead, you have to be -on or between- them.

NameError··on ChatGPT app for iOS
I am in the US and had the same issue - ended up installing it by finding the announcement post and clicking through from there.
NameError··on OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO
I'm curious about this, in the plugins section:

Do:

BarkBytes plugin for ChatGPT

BarkBytes ChatGPT plugin

Don’t:

BarkBytes plugin for OpenAI

BarkBytes plugin compatible with ChatGPT

BarkBytes plugin works with ChatGPT

BarkBytes plugin integrated with ChatGPT

A plugin is basically just an API that the provider allows ChatGPT to access, and a specification of that API. There's no reason you couldn't allow other non-OpenAI models to use your plugin too. Is OpenAI saying plugin providers -must- refer to their plugin as ChatGPT-exclusive, even if it's not?

NameError··on Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?
This seems important: "Since buying the farmhouse in 2019, the couple have spent about $150,000 on renovations"
NameError··on OpenAI Tokenizer
The API does tell you how many prompt and completion tokens each request used, if you're okay knowing after-the-fact
NameError··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
As far as I can tell, the only source in this article is a tweet from a developer with no connection to OpenAI
NameError··on ChatGPT Has Submitted a Pull Request to Rails
My reading of the PR is that previously, anything <=72 unicode characters was accepted, and they've changed it to limit to 72 bytes regardless of the actual number of characters (as some chars are >1 byte)
NameError··on Load LLaMA Models Instantly
The shell script you linked is indeed the raw weights, but if you have the storage space you can download them and use the llama-cpp repo posted here a few days ago (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) to compress them, the 'Usage' section of the readme worked for me.

I'm using a not-that-new Macbook Pro (intel, 16GB memory) and was able to run the 7B and 13B models that way, tried 30B but it seemed to hang.

NameError··on Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder
I agree. I pasted a block of code from a personal project into the prompt, and asked it to add a simple-but-not-trivial frontend feature, in human language (e.g. "This button expands the sidebar and shows some clickable options. It should open a modal instead, and include a search bar which filters the available options").

It gave me working code which did something kind of like what I asked. After some back and forth where I asked for changes, it -almost- got it working. I had to make one manual CSS change.

I don't think 8 year olds can do this - it feels more like an "instant junior developer" to me.

NameError··on Alameda took 1B hit in mobileCoin trade to prop up FTX
What are "ct natives", "left curves" and "right curves"?
NameError··on maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
Ah, you're right. It looks like the issue I'm complaining about only happens for "line" features - e.g. a river, or a road (https://www.google.com/search?q=route+66).
NameError··on maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
An example of poor google integration that bugs me from time to time - when you search for a geographic feature, the info panel shows a great preview map with the outline of the feature. E.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=rhine+river

If you click into google maps, the outline is gone. Searching "Rhine River" just puts a marker at one point along the river.

NameError··on An unofficial guide to Mastodon and Fediverse
That's fair - maybe it's a feature not a bug. I think that having a somewhat high-effort sign up process will prevent mass adoption of Mastodon, but maybe that's not the goal.
NameError··on An unofficial guide to Mastodon and Fediverse
Just going to echo something that's been said a bunch - I think having to choose a server to register on is going to be a huge barrier for people interested in Mastodon.

Following the "easiest way to sign up" link takes me to a list of servers with no clear default choice. The top few options all require applying for an account, and are for special interests (Ruby/Anarchism/Animation Professionals). The first "open" server is for the Glasgow area. I think tons of people will give up at that point.

At the same time, enshrining some general-purpose server as the default try-this-first one, would run counter to the core idea of Mastodon, so there's no clear solution to this problem.

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