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Plough_Jogger··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
Let's just change the title to "LLM coding agents don't use copy & paste or ask clarifying questions" and save everyone the click.
Plough_Jogger··on Disinfection with Far-UV (222 nm Ultraviolet light) (2020) [pdf]
The team at R-Zero Systems has a Far-UV product on the market: https://rzero.com/vive/
Plough_Jogger··on CustomGPT
My guess is that they are simply finetuning the model on your provided data: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
Plough_Jogger··on Bing AI can't be trusted
I have a feeling we will see a resurgence of some of the ideas around expert systems; current language models inherently cannot provide guarantees of correctness (unless e.g., entire facts are tokenized together, but this limits functionality significantly).
Plough_Jogger··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
If you'd like to determine if other words are harmful, feel free to use this GPT playground: https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/E8MTssK5Xk4dphyWFDtGwDb...
Plough_Jogger··on Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (2019)
They forgot the "Testimonials" from fake customers.
Plough_Jogger··on Druid: A Real-Time Analytical Data Store
My sense from the few projects I've seen attempt to use Druid is that there is quite a lot of infrastructure overhead / DevOps support required to manage a cluster at scale, and that fairly complex ingestion pipelines are required to load the data in the right format.

Anecdotally, I've heard that ClickHouse is easier to deploy from this perspective with similar performance, but would love to get others views / experience with these and similar data stores.

Plough_Jogger··on ML is not that good at predicting consumers' choices
This review omits techniques from reinforcement learning (especially bandits) that have been used successfully in industry for years now.
Plough_Jogger··on DALL·E now available in beta
Is this referring to the first version of the model, or DALL-E 2?
Plough_Jogger··on What to do with no work history for 4 years?
No, you are not your own relative.

> a thing having a relation to or connection with or necessary dependence on *another* thing

Plough_Jogger··on We are no longer a serious people
Previous [flagged] discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203148
Plough_Jogger··on Where are the robotic bricklayers?
FWIW, there are many opportunities for significant ROI in ML / analytics projects.

Low-hanging fruit I've seen in this area has included automating or augmenting labor-intensive manual processes (e.g., classifying insurance claims), replacing human judgement with time-series forecasts within an ordering system, and optimizing email campaigns with RL.

Plough_Jogger··on Clubhouse opens its doors to everyone, is anyone rushing to get in?
Possibly PR-driven: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Plough_Jogger··on Too much coffee can cause brain to shrink, raise risk of dementia by 53 percent
There is also the possibility that the causation happens in reverse: those with early symptoms of dementia could be self-medicating with excess caffeine.
Plough_Jogger··on Too much coffee can cause brain to shrink, raise risk of dementia by 53 percent
"Consumption of >6 cups/day was associated with 53% higher odds of dementia compared to consumption of 1–2 cups/day"
Plough_Jogger··on California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate
I was recently surprised to learn about how big of an industry already exists around ketamine therapy. A search in your area (if in the US) would likely turn up several clinics nearby.

Bay Area: https://bit.ly/2S3VNjW Austin: https://bit.ly/3ccj2zk

Plough_Jogger··on [dead]
The biggest question mark in Tether's reserves are the 65% of 'cash equivalents' held in unspecified commercial paper.

Depending on the issuer of this debt, these holdings may not be very liquid.

Plough_Jogger··on The health benefits of better air
I believe these are evaporative and are mentioned:

>Just use an evaporative or steam humidifier, which seem to create almost no particles.

Plough_Jogger··on Tesla Q1 2021 Results
One interesting tidbit: they appear to be reporting a $272M in revenue from the sale of Bitcoin holdings
Plough_Jogger··on Wildtype: Sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells
Yes, see Wright's Law: https://ark-invest.com/wrights-law/
Plough_Jogger··on [dead]
No details on past performance, backtesting results, portfolio allocation, asset classes involved, risk management strategies, etc.?
Plough_Jogger··on [dead]
To summarize, the author estimates that 120k lives could be saved if everyone who plans to travel home for the holidays gets tested prior to traveling (and avoids travel if they test positive).

In addition, the author makes some unsupported claims that the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. will subside in Feb. 2021 due to herd immunity.

Plough_Jogger··on Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
Also interesting that they provided a dedicated summary of the topic for the related trending hashtag https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HunterBiden&src=trend_click&...
Plough_Jogger··on Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
The article in question can be found here: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...
Plough_Jogger··on How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
I think this is a typo. Perhaps the author means to say that the training process has been completed?
Plough_Jogger··on Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
The COO of Starbucks has the last name Brewer
Plough_Jogger··on It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016)
I've observed that grumpiness in a business setting is often a learned behavior of individuals who are too frequently distracted from their work by colleagues.

Constantly responding to questions with a gruff demeanor eventually decreases the number of interruptions and becomes self-reinforcing.

Plough_Jogger··on Stripe Atlas includes $5k in AWS credits – we recevied $1k
To save you the click:

> We have not received $5,000 in AWS credits. But now the good news: We have still received $1,000 in AWS credits.

Plough_Jogger··on YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
An interesting aspect of Aereo's model is that they attempted to circumvent these regulations by leasing each customer an individual antenna which they could access remotely. They maintained "antenna farms" full of tiny antennas.
Plough_Jogger··on Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed
Many corporate travelers can book and re-book with no change fees, so this happens more than you would expect.

The most common reason I've seen is a large corporation cancelling or rescheduling an all-hands / quarterly meeting that everyone above a certain level (e.g. directors / VPs) from non-HQ offices travels to HQ to attend.

For an Oakland to Las Vegas flight, I'd guess a conference, music festival, or sporting event was cancelled.

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