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maCDzP··on Ask HN: What charity have you recently donated to?
The Red Cross.
maCDzP··on How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like
On a long enough timeline everyone’s fucks drop to zero.
maCDzP··on ed.bf: text editor in Brainfuck
Finally an enterprise solution for my brain fuck stack.
maCDzP··on Ask HN: Childhood dream vs. your actual job
My favorite pass time as kid was building small cities with infrastructure. Then I discovered Railroad Tycoon and the likes.

Now I work as a civil engineer.

I can go out and look at big machines whenever I want. Five year old me would be proud.

maCDzP··on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
Looking forward to the new season of Silicon Valley.
maCDzP··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Didn’t OpenAI close signups for plus a couple of days ago? Could they be connected in some way?
maCDzP··on Use ChatGPT4-Vision to create SQL schema from a diagram and save it as a SQLite
I tried uploading a SQL-schema diagram to ChatGPT-4 and had it create a SQL schema which worked. I also had ChatGPT create a SQLite file for me that I then could download.

I thought this might interest the HN-crowd since we have a lot of ChatGPT and SQLite fans.

maCDzP··on Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)
2. Made me think of UML and use it to build SQL statements or a program that is object oriented?

That would be nice.

maCDzP··on Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
I did something similar. I ran a workshop and uploaded all the post it’s for transcription and summarization. It worked great, saved a lot of time.
maCDzP··on Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
I had the exact same problem and just like you I believe it’s an important feature.
maCDzP··on Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
You mean the code? Sure, here is the ChatGTP conversation.

https://chat.openai.com/share/954f6b3e-7edc-4421-bfb1-89045e...

maCDzP··on Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
Regarding getting better results with RAG.

I have had some luck with that.

I use the Assistant API, which I believe is not the same thing GPTs. I have played with it through the web interface.

I had 100+ PDF:s files that were OCR:ed with Tesseract. I then had ChatGPT write a script that combines all files in to a single txt-file keeping the layout.

I uploaded the file and started asking questions. The files contains highly technical data regarding building codes in non English so I am guessing the model isn’t so used to that type of language?

Anyway, it worked surprisingly good. It was able to answer questions and the answers were good. Plus that it is supposed to annotate from where it took the answer, although I didn’t get that to work properly.

I tried to upload PDF:s, JSON-files, CSV:s. Raw text has worked best so far.

maCDzP··on Ask HN: Any tool to help with writing technical design documents?
I would recommend ChatGTP.
maCDzP··on Ask HN: How to be a manager? Any good sources for learning how to delegate?
Managing people requires that you are emotionally mature.

My view is that you are basically a parent. You coach, guide and set boundaries all while keeping your and your co-workers dignity.

Regarding sources, I like the US army’s handbook on leadership (FM 6-22). It short and on point.

maCDzP··on Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts
I believe algae, and speifically Coccolithophores, have played a large part in capturing CO2 in the atmosphere. But I believe the efficiency per volume is low.
maCDzP··on Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow
Someone here that is sceptical to climate change maybe can shed some light.

To me the fact that insurers aren’t insuring natural disasters due to climate change is a good argument that it’s real.

Otherwise they would just sell the insurance to a premium and collect free money?

Or do you guys think that it’s just some companies being dumb and are likely to go out of business?

maCDzP··on As a self learner which courses, books, etc have rewired your mental model?
Do you hade a link to the Youtube video?
maCDzP··on Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor
Has anyone tried to use ChatGTP 3,5/4 with a prompt like: “You are the worlds best tutor for German language and I am the student in the world. Teach me German!”
maCDzP··on Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study
Thank you for creating that. I scored 800 and 2,52 in dogmatism.

I thought I would score lower than the average in dogmatism, but didn’t. So I’ll have to revise my belief about my own dogmatism. (:

maCDzP··on In praise of blowing up your life
I can recommend the book Quit. It explores the same ideas but it’s a bit more level headed. It gives a framework for knowing when to quit.

I just skimmed the article but I got the feeling the author always is in favor of quitting.

maCDzP··on On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit
In the age of ChatGTP it’s going to be a useful skill to detect and not receive bullshit.
maCDzP··on How to spot cult leader personalities
Thank you for the book recommendations!

If you wouldn’t mind sharing what you found most interesting while reading the books you mentioned.

maCDzP··on So, how do you refill an aquifer?
This is pretty common where I live. We take water from the river and replenish the aquifers.

Why do it manually you ask? We have thick layer of impermeable dirt that prevents natural infiltration.

maCDzP··on The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs
It was T/S Atlantica.
maCDzP··on The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs
It was during a two week long sailing course.
maCDzP··on The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs
I sailed a tall ship between Shetland and Norway.

We zig zagged between oil rigs.

I felt like I was starring in Water World, The Pirates of the Carabeean and The Goonies all at once.

It was awesome.

maCDzP··on Ask HN: How do you generate ideas?
I have periods of intense thinking of a problem I am trying to solve.

Then I just do something different. Take a shower, go for a walk, whatever. For me changing the environment helps a lot, or using my body.

Then the ideas start to flow.

maCDzP··on Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces
I listened and I think it’s really good. I wonder how much effort went in to polishing the sound.

Or did they just feed a script into some voice generator?

maCDzP··on GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam
The cool thing about learning a new language really well, is that it creates a new world.

You get to learn words that describe things that your mother tongue can’t.

Just like a programming language? Some things are easy and other things are hard to express depending if you use LISP or Python.

I believe it’s the same with spoken languages. Some thoughts are easy to articulate, other hard. And it’s cool to shift language depending on what you want to articulate.

maCDzP··on Ask HN: Is it appropriate to ask a startup to let me see their cap table?
I am guessing golly_ned is based in the US. I am based in the EU and I have a question for US residents.

I am studying corporate finance and valuation. Recently we had an analysis assignment of a private company. In the EU a lot of financial info is still available even if the company isn’t listed on any stock exchange.

Would it be possible to answer golly_ned:s questions with public financial statements?

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