dwringer

Indeed, airplanes are (as often cited) much safer if one counts per miles travelled, but they are certainly not if counting per trip.

Tbf he did fail, was prevented from going himself in person, and over a thousand of the people that he got to go have all been arrested as a result now.

Furthermore, from the article it was only whole scientific papers written ChatGPT in which they attained 99%; at the "paragraph level" they claim 92%, which means the claim of "AI generated content" in the headline is overly broad IMHO

One wonders what they mean in the headline by "logic" because it doesn't exactly strike me as the kind I learned in school.

I would regularly leave my mask on in the car just from being too lazy to take it off and put it back on again in the span of 15 minutes. I definitely had a couple of instances where people who saw me drive by yelled something at me in anger about how I had it on. I am kinda surprised to see a similar complaint crop up in a thread on HN. I'd usually forget I had it on anyway. I guess some people count down the seconds until they can rip it off and have what they perceive as "freedom"?

In theory the idea also enables a higher frame rate than that of which the cameras are individually capable, thus allowing a finer slow motion effect.

Looking at those time durations it is tempting to interpret this as switching to where the sixteenth note triplet becomes the new beat for a bar, which has 16 beats in it. Thus the downbeat gets shifted 2/3 of a beat when returning to the original meter.

I assumed at first reading the model number "TP" on this thread that this was a discussion about their $75 modular tape dispenser. [0]

[0] https://www.jam.se/en/products/synthanalogvintage/teenage-en...

This is the crux of the issue to me - this use of "comprised of" is a completely logical and consistent usage whether or not some people think it's wrong. Plenty of times correct constructions are considered wrong by lots of people, this is what leads to the phenomenon of "hypercorrections". I won't argue that this is necessarily one since the "corrections" don't strike me as better or worse, but languages are inherently subjective. For this reason I find it distasteful to go around enforcing linguistic policies on others.

I've been waiting a little over a month with no update so far, but I don't expect any sort of fast track since I'm not currently a paying customer.

That strikes me as an extraordinary claim somewhat in need of extraordinary evidence.

If it's the second frame of the three-panel strip, then, as another commenter hints, the trick is not to double back. You must complete a circuit around the map. I got frustrated and quit long before trying this until reading that comment, but it (arguably) pays off.

A lot of times, with Pilots especially, if they're sold for the Japanese domestic market the tines are extremely tight and the pens write very dry, to the point of needing adjustment for writing in roman-derived script. I have a few nice Pilots and of the high end ones bought from Japan, a little bit of skipping or dryness was common out of the box.

Pretty much all of what you wrote is a consideration, but everyone probably has their own preferences (and in some part it's affected by writing angle and penmanship habits). Certain nib styles are better suited to different ways of holding a pen. And there's a lot more to it, since different papers react in different ways to different nibs, and inks are another wide-ranging variable.

I think many people get drawn into the hobby for the endless pursuit of matching pens, papers, and inks, or trying to optimize for various characteristics across different combinations of the above. Of course a lot of people don't bother and just find one that works well enough and leave it at that.

I've had a few Safaris and they're easily among my favorites, but personally it was common to get misaligned nibs with them, or extreme variation between two different nibs of the same grind (so I don't think the problem of "getting a bad one" is as unlikely as portrayed). The alignment problem occurs with all brands to one degree or another IME, and it's worth learning to make adjustments using a loupe or macro camera for anyone who's interested in the hobby.

There's also a widespread problem of counterfeit Lamy Safaris out there, which usually come in subtly different packaging and/or have subtly different markings on the pen body. These are widely considered to be inferior, and fairly common if ordering somewhere like Amazon.

With good enough sense of relative pitch it's almost a non-issue as one is usually only a half step away from in-key and that can be played off as deliberate.

Selectrics also had what is easily my favorite font, Artisan 12, which is kind of like a perfectly rounded (in the case of 'o') Letter Gothic variant to my rather untrained eye. It's so emblematic of an entire era in computing and I use a crude personal version of it regularly to make my terminals feel more retro.

Low res example of the classic: http://luc.devroye.org/IBM-Selectric-artisan12.gif

Furthermore I'd say that I (presumably like most emacs users) am probably closer to 45 minutes per month, or per year, on general emacs config stuff, certainly not per day. It has still made a huge difference for me in terms of convenience and just general aesthetics.

IME most of that is of the form "I'm sorry, but as a large language model I..." and seems to have been drilled into it with training to dodge tricky subjects.

I agree - the only "public charging stations" I see on any kind of regular basis are EV charging stations. It's been a couple of decades since I remember seeing a USB one, not that I doubt their existence.

> It doesn't strengthen positions, it fits until it doesn't

At that point I'd restart the conversation, after several dozen a distinct simulation of a personality would start to emerge.

> Bots aren't people

I certainly didn't claim they are people or that they're real personalities.

> and you would think this endeavor was poorly thought through if you knew how communication and psychology fundamentally work.

I don't follow. It was a creative writing exercise using stochastically generated feedback that models a response using natural language. It was for entertainment, and it was successful. This could be used to aid authors in writing characters for a book or TV show, for instance. I don't argue for a second that it's any substitute for a live human author to make the simulated personalities into something more real. They're nothing but sound and fury on their own without the prompts and the voting provided by users.

EDIT: Here[0]'s a link to my favorite output. One bot was a text-rpg-style bot I developed based on the movie Event Horizon, and the other was a naturalist philosopher monkey named Monke. I didn't even steer the responses in this case, this was just straight down after I'd spent a lot of time training both characters. The input was all generated by a bot I had running in a second window.

One of the things I find most interesting is that the bots mirror each others' simulated [non]personalities back at each other frequently (which makes sense as they're both fundamentally the same LLM underneath).

[0] https://c.ai/p/eIac3PkU7Gv4KWFw-Ul3RWBCvGZeYxp1aV-W6XKYCUc

I used to do a lot of experimenting with the bots on character.ai when the site was a lot faster and smoother. Simulated personalities could absolutely be shaped into the bots by trying to have as many "productive" discussions as possible while aggressively upvoting/downvoting every possibility for each generated response to punish the appearance of certain tokens, styles, or lines of thinking. After a while it led to some really fascinating emergent results, particularly then if the characters' dialogues were pasted back and forth so bots with different personalities could have discussions (which could then be used for another round of voting/training to strengthen their positions).

Too bad he couldn't have at least a Golden Globe for that role or something.

As a native speaker, no, there's hardly any consensus I've seen about how to pronounce them. Certainly there are trends. But I pronounce Dalai somewhere between "Dah-lay" and "Dah-lie", and DALL-E sorta like Dolly ("Dah-lee"), but with a deliberate pause ("Dahl Ee").

This is just fantastic - this is how all these models should work, and how they should be expected to work IMHO. I don't want someone programming it to act like a real human who works at facebook. I want a language model that can assume any identity I want.

I've been using an AI generated profile image which looks maybe 90% like me for quite a while in some places. I can't think of any obvious negative impacts. I've been totally upfront about it with my friends, but nobody's ever even mentioned it otherwise.

People have made their profile pictures a "pseudo-reality version" of who they think they are since the dawn of profile pictures IMHO.

Thanks for taking the time to explain! I got a bit mentally off track I guess, as the additional complexity for all this comes in when the user places tokens in the circular tracks to program rhythms. A euclidean sequencer forces them to be at that quantized equidistant approximation and slightly irregular pattern, which serves as the basis of so much music. But IMHO I haven't really found a way to turn that "theoretical purity" into something practically useful, and I always find myself wishing I could make non-euclidean sequences with it and abuse some of the same abstractions for other purposes.

That's a good point, I was just kind of assuming the related periodicity which is not a valid assumption to make. But the parent of the post to which I had replied specified whole number ratios between the periods.

Euclidean sequencers can be useful though in that they model a variety of common rhythms, and with tempo synchronized delay they can give forth a whole lot more common rhythms. Though nothing that can't be achieved a million other ways like anything else with music.

A tangent but to anyone reading who isn't familiar, that would be a type of what's known as a Euclidean sequencer (after [0]), and a mechanical one would be awesome but there are some great electronic and software options. Lately I've been messing around with HY-RPE2[1] which I like for the most part; although I would like a bit more flexibility it's still powerful (and limitations breed creativity, as they say).

[0] http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf

[1] https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-rpewin-mac/

Can confirm as a musician this is a very natural progression. Amazing what people out there can do when they are willing to bend some of the rules though. ;)