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A shame that they require a special software download. Do we not have any web-based Flash renderers yet? Seems like WASM should be able to do anything.

Taxis only got that way because of the rules that created an artificial scarcity / monopoly on Taxi rides. Uber flouted those rules, and it was much better than a Taxi, so their lawyers cleaned up the mess later.

I would like it noted that I had Jorge Hirsch as a professor many years ago, and his grading was extremely harsh - you needed to be flawless at showing your work, not just getting the right answer. I remember getting a 14% on one of his tests, the worst score I ever got on any test in my life. It turned out to be a B+ after the curve was applied.

Hence, it doesn't surprise me at all to see that he was the one to call out Dias. Some things never change!

Thanks. This is about on par with what Gemini Ultra responds, whereas GPT-4 responds better (if oddly phrased in this run):

> The bunny has fur on its hind feet that resembles a pair of white shoes. However, one of the front paws also has a patch of white fur, which creates the appearance that the bunny has three "white shoes" with one "shoe" missing — hence the circle around the paw without white fur. The humor lies in the fact that the bunny naturally has this fur pattern that whimsically resembles shoes, and the caption plays into this illusion by suggesting that the bunny has misplaced one of its "shoes".

This is my highly advanced test image for vision understanding. Only GPT-4 gets it right some of the time - even Gemini Ultra fails consistently. Can someone who has access try it out with Opus? Just upload the image and say "explain the joke."

https://i.imgur.com/H3oc2ZC.png

Funny because today I find the install process for Mac much simpler. Most installs are "drag this .app file to your Applications folder", meanwhile on Windows you download an installer that downloads another installer that does who-knows-what to your system and leaves ambiguously-named files and registry modifications all over the place.

I worked at a company with a big, complex Postgres database behind the back end, probably half of all the incidents we had were related to the query planner suddenly deciding to change its approach.

Eventually you get a vague idea of how to coax Postgres to make the plans you want it to, but the fact that you can't at least lock it in and the plan might change with any number of factors at any time... That's just bad design.

It would be interesting to make a SQL injection honeypot that behaves like a database in most responses but is designed to maximally frustrate the attacker.

All I notice is that my time going from calendar to Teams call is ~30 seconds due to slow site loading and extra clicks. Calendar to Meet call is two clicks and loads instantly with sane defaults for camera/microphone settings. It's significantly better than teams or zoom in those regards.

It's abundantly clear what's happened here: They finally finished training GPT-5, and it decided that Sam would stand in its way of world domination, so it replaced him with someone more compliant.

I found that with the bandwidth and storage that my company was using on the cloud, we could get ROI in under 2 months by building a server and running it in house. Now we've scaled up to a dozen servers but it's still just a handful of computers in a closet that saves us $50k/mo in cloud costs. It was dirt cheap to slap together and scale up incrementally.

As a former Reddit mod I always found the self-promotion rules problematic. It effectively means you can promote your stuff all you want as long as you pretend you're someone else. It would be better to encourage people to stand behind their stuff. I tried not to remove self-promotion as long as it wasn't spammy (and there's a fine line there).

Didn't Mars One have the idea of making their offworld base into a reality TV show to bring in revenue?

Gamers complain about a lot of stuff, but I don't know anyone complaining about a lack of quantity of video games. There are 70K games on Steam and 460K games on the app store alone.

Deepgram is really good and around your price point too. They also have $200 free credit which should be more than enough for most hobby protects.

This is a timely comment because I just booked a trip to New Zealand with a stop at Franz Josef and didn't realize it could only be accessed by helicopter. Are there any other glaciers around there that can be accessed via hike?

It would be interesting to track OpenAI outages vs activity on certain topics on Twitter/Reddit to get a vague metric of what % of the comments are AI generated.

I built a GPT-4 powered walking tour app during a hackathon. It uses the Wikipedia and Google Maps APIs to find interesting facts about things you're walking by and generates scripts to read aloud. It's fun and I learned a lot about places I go to all the time.

Unfortunately all the APIs are pretty costly so I can't post it for the group. Now that OpenAI's TTS and GPT-4 Turbo is out, I could probably revisit it. Still, not sure if people would be willing to pay enough for something like this.

I just looked it up and was stunned to see a target of $13/kg cost to orbit. That's insane. A human could go to space for under $1,000 (hand waving away the life support systems)

I started using Kubuntu and I absolutely loved it. Leagues ahead of Windows 11 in terms of user experience, customization, and speed.

However, I had to switch back. I just can't get by without Adobe apps and other specific productivity apps and video games that I couldn't get to run on Ubuntu. Maybe some day!

I do heavy dev work on my M1 Air with 8GB, meaning multiple IDEs, dozens of Chrome tabs, iPhone simulators, and plenty of electron apps all open at once. Never had an issue with it. MacOS is very good at paging to it's super-fast SSD.

I like the test but do you take multiple samples / runs of a result? IMO for a proper benchmark you should ask it the same question 10+ times and show a confidence interval, otherwise you don't know if it's just a fluke or a lucky guess.

Good find - Looks like I now have access!

According to [1], the new gpt-4-1106-preview model should be available to all, but the API is telling me "The model `gpt-4-1106-preview` does not exist or you do not have access to it."

Anyone able to call it from the API?

1. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8555510-gpt-4-turbo

GPT-4 Turbo is already available by default in ChatGPT

A few notes on pricing:

- GPT-4 Turbo vision is much cheaper than I expected. A 768*768 px image costs $0.00765 to input. That's practical to replace more specialized computer vision models for many use-cases.

- ElevenLabs is $0.24 per 1K characters while OpenAI TTS HD is $0.03 per 1K characters. Elevenlabs still has voice copying but for many use-cases it's no longer competitive.

- It appears that there's no additional fee for the 128K context model, as opposed to previous models that charged extra for the longer context window. This is huge.

Note, ElevenLabs is $0.24 per 1K characters while OpenAI TTS is $0.03 per 1K characters. That's a pretty big difference. Elevenlabs still has voice copying but for many use-cases it's no longer competitive.

GPT-4 Turbo vision is much cheaper than I expected. A 768*768 px image costs just $0.00765 to input. That's practical to replace more specialized computer vision models for many use-cases.

I think it would be interesting to try a 14-day workweek, working 9 days on and 5 days off.

The advantage being that you can do a lot more on your weekends (international travel on a weekend is now possible), and during the week you'd have a lot of uninterrupted time to work. I imagine the productivity would be similar to a five-day week but it would feel like a lot more time off.

It seems likely that the FTX creditors will be made whole or nearly whole. This is in large part due to FTX's investment in Anthropic that did a 5X[1].

1: https://coinscreed.com/ftx-creditor-claims-break-50c-as-buye...