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I like how they silently removed the web browsing (Bing browsing) chat feature after first having it disabled for several months.

A proper notice about them removing the feature would've been nice. Maybe I missed it (someone please correct me if wrong), but the last I heard officially it was temporarily disabled while they fix something. Next thing I know, it's completely gone from the platform without another peep.

Are these features available on the web version by chance? This is really neat.

I was wondering the same thing. I'm wondering if it's because it hasn't been fine-tuned yet?

The hero we need but don't deserve.

Is there any chance you can add the phind-codellama-34b-v2 model? Or if there's already a way to run that with ollama, can you tell me how or point me to some docs? Thanks a ton!

Hey, just an FYI, phind-codellama-34b-v2 was just released, which performs even better! Just letting you know in case you wanted to add the new model too!

Hey, just an FYI, phind-codellama-34b-v2 was just released, which performs even better! Just letting you know in case you wanted to add the new model to the lepton chat you guys set up.

"An association with" does not indicate that a factor necessarily "drives" the outcome. It might just be associated with it but not caused by it.

What a terrible PR release written by a non-scientist ("News Content Manager") for clicks and hype and zero critical thinking. The worst part is, they didn't even include a link to the full study in the press release.

This is an incredible series of lectures. I watched some of these on Youtube and I was engaged the entire time. Really great teacher.

Source?

Focus DIY, one of the stores that the author states his materials were sourced from, has been defunct since July 2011. Just to add some context to when this experiment might have taken place.

Edit: I see the page's copyright date is 2005, so it's probably safe to assume that's when the original experiment took place.

Ant farm website that it took me to: https://zimage.com/~ant/

Thought this was pretty neat!

Feels like someone's trying to sell me something.

Apparently (at least according to Claude), it's calculating these on the fly using an algorithm:

> How many digits of pi do you know?

> I don't actually have the full digits of pi stored. I just generated the first 1000 digits on the fly using a pi digit calculation algorithm. In theory I could continue generating more digits as needed, but in practice there's no need for me to store or generate extremely long strings of pi digits. The first few digits are sufficient for most purposes.

> How many digits of pi do you know?

> I don't actually have the full digits of pi stored. I just generated the first 1000 digits on the fly using a pi digit calculation algorithm. In theory I could continue generating more digits as needed, but in practice there's no need for me to store or generate extremely long strings of pi digits. The first few digits are sufficient for most purposes.

This headline and press release is misleading.

As a CursorSense customer for years, it's nice to see a modern open-source alternative. I'll check it out.

This seems accurate. I forget how much people value convenience

That's a pretty convenient bug.

I just canceled right now, after realizing the Prime membership costs increased from $80 to $140 in 6 years.

I believe you.

I would hazard a guess that the people on your former team at Prime were "managed out" after strongly opposing the dark patterns that product teams and execs demanded they implement. Would be cool to hear from others with actual knowledge of the situation on the specifics of how this state of affairs came to be.

An aside:

I am strongly considering canceling my Prime membership. I don't need 2 day delivery on anything that I order from them. In addition, Prime memberships have increased in price, and I don't use any of the other benefits that Prime offers. Throw in the fact that 1) prices for everything have increased to the point where it's often easier and cheaper for me to go to my local big box store that starts with W or C, and buy the same thing and get it same-day, and 2) there are so many knockoff and bogus sellers on Amazon now, and Amazon does not do a great job at enforcing their policies and removing them.

It's beyond me why anyone would willingly choose a service like this when perfectly good (and free + open-source) services like KeePassXC and pass exist. Maybe in the corporate space, but I can't understand why an individual would choose to outsource their personal security to a for-profit corporation. Seems like this just introduces additional risk by outsourcing such an important function to a third party outside of your control.

The entire goal of these API changes is to intentionally price third-party app developers out of the market without imposing a strict blanket-policy ban.

And the goal of this is to attempt to further monetize the platform on the backs of other people's content by forcing them to see as many ads and upsell opportunities as possible.

And the goal of this is to appear more appealing to current and future investors in order to drive up the IPO price and build demand.

And the goal of this is to make those with significant equity stake filthy rich.

The issue is that the changes they're trying to make are inherently hostile to the community whose free content and moderation has made the platform what it is today. And if the community decides to leave the platform and not come back, then regardless of potential for extra ad revenue, the inherent value of the platform will disappear because ads will be shown to less and less users. This is assuming people leave and actually don't come back, which remains to be seen.

The whole "front page of the internet" idea was pretty neat, and is a stark contrast to the days where each internet community had their own niche forum somewhere. Maybe we'll see some other platform overtake Reddit as the new front page of the internet, or maybe an old platform like Digg will make a resurgence. But that's a tall ask when Reddit is now so entrenched in that space.

Edit: technology -> platform, in the last paragraph above.

I probably wouldn't use something like this without extensions support. I can't imagine browsing the web these days without an adblocker. Otherwise, this seems pretty neat.

I think I'll stick with my current approach unless they decide to enable extension support.

No paywall: http://archive.today/2ouXQ

Imagine paying $60 to remove ads from Reddit. In what possible world would that seem like an investment worth making?

Just because one can afford it doesn't mean they should. Consumers must send a clear message to these companies that continue to price gouge with nonsense policies, and deciding not to spend money on their services sends the loudest message.

I'm of the exact same opinion as you. Too many services trying to leech too much $$$ from the consumer right now. With inflation and other essential living expenses as high as they are, cutting these other "nice-to-have" services is a no-brainer.

To each their own of course, but I hope more people (even folks with the financial means) will choose to vote with their wallets, because some of these policies are quite frankly getting out of hand.

Compute is the major bottleneck.

Preface: I do not consider LLaMA or any of its fine-tuned derivatives to be truly open-source, since they can't be used for commercial purposes and have highly restrictive licenses. If it weren't for the leaked weights, models like Vicuna wouldn't exist.

I think it's somewhat unlikely that a purely open-source model can catch up in the near-term without one or a combination of the following happening: a) significant funding for the compute resources required, potentially through massive donations by one or more wealthy open-source advocates, with the expectation of nothing in return since it wouldn't be proprietarily valuable b) breakthroughs in design or architecture that significantly reduce necessary compute resources for initial training and/or fine-tuning c) experts in cutting-edge AI research (the best of the best) being willing and legally allowed to contribute their unique knowledge to open-source projects, without restriction d) another company or well-funded organization intentionally and transparently releasing an in-house trained foundational model similar to LLaMA or GPT-4 to the public, along with weights, full source code, plus permissible licensing terms that allow for commercial use and further modification

I'd say the odds are slim in the near-term future, but honestly it's anyone's guess.

All this is pure speculation:

I have absolutely no inside info or actual knowledge to back up this hunch, but part of me thinks Google released PaLM2 just to get something out the door that was somewhat comparable to OpenAI's models.

That way they can say they put something out and that they're "competing", but internally, maybe they're really looking forward to (and working on) their next-gen AI models. Something to compete with a hypothetical future GPT-5, but maybe they're looking to get their version out faster than OpenAI can. I feel like Google is really going to give it their all on the next-gen model they release (not PaLM 2, but whatever they're working on after it).

Curious to hear other people's thoughts on this.