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asteroidzon GPT-4o

Why are you so confident that nobody will use this in real life? I know OpenAI showed only a few demos, but I can see huge potential.

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Twitter user @mr_james_c opined about this:

1984 ad: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human

2024 ad: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press

asteroidzon Devin: AI Software Engineer

> 0.2 or less

I find that questionable. What does "software engineering in a business environment" require that a competent competitive programmer couldn't also learn?

asteroidzon Boeing's woes continue as 50 injured on Australia-New Zealand flight

Another worrisome development: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/3/12/boeing-whistlebl...

Al-Jazeera has really been on fire digging into Boeing. This video (though from 2014) was remarkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os

asteroidzon Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

Certainly a bit disappointing that Lottie or SVG format export doesn't exist. Hopefully a work in progress?

asteroidzon Monodraw

What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.

asteroidzon Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration

This has always been my feeling about the well-known https://www.awwwards.com/

Would be lying though to say I wasn't inspired by some of the sites they showcase.

asteroidzon Biotumen: Bitumen Reinvented

The important question that matters is: Is the cost close to competitive vs. Bitumen, or is there any hope of reaching that threshold?

asteroidzon Internet search tips

I sometimes wonder about PMs who sign off on decisions like these, and the seeming lack of protest the developers put up.

asteroidzon Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

The "Strategies" section looks valuable.

Here are a few more great resources from my notes (including one from Lilian Weng who leads Applied Research at OpenAI):

- https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee...

- https://www.promptingguide.ai (check the "Techniques" section for several research-vetted approaches)

- https://learnprompting.org/docs/intro

asteroidzon How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)

Personally, in my locale March is usually when the crocuses start peeking out and the robins return... first signs of spring. But just 100 miles east the landscape might still be a winter wonderland well into April.

If I had to hazard a guess, this article was probably written with a British audience in mind, where "spring" loosely corresponds with March through May.

asteroidzon An evidence-based guide to expanding your comfort zone

Some studies/analyses are surely laundered opinions. I have a habit these days of checking if the authors have a product to sell or funding to raise. If so, pinch of salt.

asteroidzon Show HN: Promptr, let GPT operate on your codebase and other useful goodies

Wise decision as far as I'm concerned. Unfettered AI experiments on production systems are an IP and (depending on your field) regulatory nightmare waiting to happen. Unless you have lawyer-vetted guidelines and oversight, use OpenAI products exclusively for experiments and personal projects.

asteroidzon Show HN: Promptr, let GPT operate on your codebase and other useful goodies

The problem with your suggested approach is the resulting lack of holistic context. The problem of OP's approach (direct parsing) is cost and context-window-limits. There has to be a better way.

asteroidzon The Data Delusion

The usual caution applies here. The danger of data isn't in the data itself, but in how it's used and interpreted. In this particular case, a relatable comparison would be a book - it's just a bunch of words on a page, but those words can be used to inspire or to manipulate. Pretty important to be mindful of the context and the intent behind the data.

Something important I was thinking of the other day is the power dynamics that come into play with data as the new currency. Those with access to more data (money) and better tools for analysis (investment) of it end up having an unfair advantage.

asteroidzon Push notifications are now supported cross-browser

I'm genuinely curious: What about push notifications (at least on desktop browsers) bothers you that much? I give permission to a few (like Gmail, etc.) and that's that; it makes my life less stressful knowing that I'll get alerted when it's time.

asteroidzon OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models

Yep, and that's the difference between a big profitable company doing research as a side-hustle, and a company whose business IS the research.

One interesting and somewhat scary exception seems to be Microsoft; they seem to be converting a lot of their recent research projects into commercial value.

asteroidzon Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat

Who needs a never-ending smartphone feed if you can have a never-ending tile pattern to gaze upon!

asteroidzon Jaron Lanier on the danger of AI

> Lanier, 62, has worked alongside many of the web’s visionaries and power-brokers. He is both insider (he works at Microsoft as an interdisciplinary scientist

And his unique perspective on AI is all the more valuable (and courageous) considering that Microsoft, recently laid off their AI ethics team. It's super important we don't let human considerations fall by the wayside in this rush. The potential of AI is limitless, but so are the potential risks.