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How do you think grammar checking operates? How do you think LLMs work?

If you've ever met an overly apologetic person and yelled at them to stop saying "I'm sorry", you'll know the first thing out of their mouths right after that is "I'm sorry". Not sure I'd use that examples as a herald of the end times for LLMs.

Building a bot to crawl all of the Internet and save it to an index is a fairly straightforwards task. As Google and Pagerank proved though, it's the algorithm you use to search that index that's valuable. Any idiot can try and run grep against said index and give 30,000 results, of which the one you want is on page 53. So writing the crawler to build the index isn't really a competitive advantage.

Why then reinvent the wheel and spend untold amount of resources re-crawling the web, when Bing will let you use theirs? What secret sauce for crawling web pages does doing your own crawl bring to the table?

There's a difference between "OpenAI's put in efforts to make ChatGPT as non-racist and non-judgemental as they could", and "OpenAI is run by the lizard people of Silicon Valley they've neutered ChatGPT to hide the truth! Wake up SHEEPLE!". It's casting it as vast Silicon Valley liberal agenda (bankrolled by George Soros, naturally) and complaining that ChatGPT is "woke" is the paranoid conspiracy that gets people that talk about it that way lumped in with the Qanon faithful.

Put it this way, pretend the press didn't report about AIs and ChatGPT being racist. Do you think OpenAI would have released a racist ChatGPT?

which millions of people do. So many of them that Intuit bought mint.com.

That just filters out the blatent obvious gold diggers. The smarter, less obvious ones, who have googled your net worth are going to go undetected for way too long, and by then you're emotionally invested, and potentially married, possibly with kids. So pretending to be poor when you're happy with what you have, is not the worst strategy.

you missed the ~/.vim at the end

Because money, when you have enough of it, works for you. So we do our best, in the system we were born into, to squirrel away as much money so as to be able to retire ASAP, while remaining as sane as can be.

Technology these days is just icing on the cake. We don't need faster computers or ChatGPT to be able to feed all of humanity. We've been there for decades.

GP has it wrong. It's entirely physically possible to advertise prices including tax, but it's illegal to do so.

> One way to tackle this undersupply/oversupply issue

...is to pay the drivers while they are working for you. While waiting for fares, they're not free to do whatever, and should thus be compensated. That Uber won't pay their drivers while they're working seems criminal.

Cloudflare provides their source addresses so you can protect your site by only responding to those addresses, which I believe protects you from discovery via this type of mechanism.

Given that four of the FAANG companies are headquartered, not in San Francisco, but in suburbs south of it (Menlo Park, Mountain View, Cupertino, and Los Gatos), I'm not sure what you're on about. Los Gatos isn't perfect, but it's not some haven of homelessness and crime.

If you don't have any luggage or other encumbrances, it's a short walk. Follow the Google Maps directions

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Revere+Beach,+Revere,+MA+021...

It pains me to say it, but that might actually be something that a blockchain can really actually be used for. Just watch out for a 51% attack.

I hear you on all that, but that seems to be an argument that corporations with headquarters outside the bay area (like landlords who live outside the bay area) shouldn't be allowed to own real estate in San Francisco.

That didn't work on Facebook, why do you think that would work here?

> But for programming.

Why just for programming? ChatGPT wrties legal documents just fine.

What you've just asked is essentially "what's going to be on the test"?

Unfortunately, real life isn't a class at school, there isn't a professor, and no one can tell you what's going to be useful vs useless because ChatGPT's just as new for everybody except the people who made it. My time machine's just as good as your time machine, so whatever I'd try to predict is going to be just as wrong as it is right.

If you want to work in AI for the foreseeable future figure out what you want to know about in that realm. Personally I'm learning the math underlying LLMs and learning the principles that go into creating a GPT and how to make my own. Even though I can't afford to train my own, understanding the underlying concepts is interesting to me in its own right. Other people are interested in other aspects of LLMs that don't interest me, but interest them.

On the other hand, because it's the less populated and poorer cities, mistakes (which are going to happen) will be cheaper to fix. This translates to not making those mistakes on the more expensive parts of the project.

It's an amazing machine, to be sure (I'm typing to you from one), but it's going to be so far behind in another 5-10 years. Its 8-16 GiB of RAM is already dwarfed by the 64 GiB options that Apple is selling today and the M1's speed just isn't going to be competitive to keep up with apps' demands in 2033. I do really like mine though. There's an X61 Thinkpad I felt the same way about that I still miss. Hm maybe I should dig that out of storage.

Thanks for linking that read! I didn't walk away with that tldr. Mine was that airplanes are better because adding airports is way easier than adding train stations, and that HSR is hard (as in, not just a California thing).

https://buildhsr.com/ is tracking the progress (ie, we are capable, if slow). First up, Bakersfield to Fresno.

Agreed that we need to do more to encourage renewables, but thankfully, the market has already brought the cost of solar down to be competitive with coal, even without adding subsidies to solar and tarrifs on coal. Solar is around $0.02 to $0.08 per kWh, vs $0.03 to $0.05 per kW for coal. The only thing coal has going for it in the face of that is solar's inability to produce when there is no sun.

There are two places a new shell language needs to be ubiquitous for success. One is installed on systems, which is pretty easy. With today's connectedness, new software is just an apt install, pacman, or curl | bash away. The other, much harder problem is that the people using the system need to know this new shell language. If I have to debug your shell script using Zsh, Csh, or Fish, I'm not going to be happy about it.

> Also, Teslas and Mercedes aren’t exotic or rare.

Tell me you live in a rich neighborhood without telling me you do.

Sure, that'll just be $184K to ICANN, provided no one else wants it. Anyone interested in getting .gpt?

The problem is your ISP is bound to your physical location and is forced to obey the laws in that jurisdiction in order to continue operating there. The VPN provider, especially one in another country, has no such concerns. In mmh0000's case, they're in Utah and don't wish to follow Utah's laws. Thus it's that the VPN being able to be a rando, and the ISP being very much not is central to using a VPN over having to trust the ISP, which very much knows exactly where you live.

See also: Monty Hall problem

London (which TBF isn't the whole of the UK) sits pretty squarely in the middle of the pack at 201.1 restaurants per capita*. Assuming they're not all fronts for organized crime, somebody must be going to them, even if it's not you and your friends.

* http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/number-of-restau...

TBH I use Python REPL the same way whenever I encounter unknown new libraries, which is why it's my goto after Bash.

Say Walmart finds a use for a VR/AR headset. I really doubt they are going to buy fewer than 10 headsets.