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callmekit··on Brood War Bench
It plays from a special API. Some things that are impossible with normal UI are possible with API, like selecting a unit under other units. Invisible units are also reported via the API.
callmekit··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
I don't see which model generated each request, where exactly do you see this?
callmekit··on I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost
So yesterday we had a post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35200267) that you need a special "play as a grandmaster" prompt to reduce the number of illegal moves for GPT3.5, and that "GPT4 sucks" at chess completely compared to GPT3.5.

Now we have this post that GPT4 plays good and doesn't make illegal moves at all. What changed? What was the prompt? Is it just random noise?

callmekit··on ‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon
What's controversial about Sim City?
callmekit··on Ask HN: Why there are no large scale programs to synthesize a cell?
Thanks, but on the first glance this doesn't seem to be about bottom-up approach of synthesizing a cell from amino-acids, but about modifying existing cells.
callmekit··on Ask HN: Why there are no large scale programs to synthesize a cell?
What exactly are you referring to on that page?
callmekit··on Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or renting someone else's GPU
Technically it's not ToS to GPU, it's a license to the software: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/ So using a completely open source or third party driver and no CUDA is fine.
callmekit··on Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or renting someone else's GPU
The customer use license specifically talks about datacenters, not "cloud": "The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted" https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/
callmekit··on Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
There were numerous issues. First one (somewhat mitigated lately) was extremely large number of actions per minute and (most importantly) extremely fast reaction speed.

Another big issue is that the bot communicated with the game via a custom API, not a via images and clicks. Details of this API are unknown - like how invisible units were handled, but it was much higher level than a human would have (pixels).

If you look at the games, the bot wasn't clever (which was a hope), just fast and precise. And some people far from the top were able to beat it convincingly.

And now the project is gone, even before people had a chance to really play against the bot and find more weaknesses.

callmekit··on I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR
I bought Oculus Quest 2 about a month ago. The games I play the most probably wouldn't be even possible (or at least fun) without VR - Pistol Whip (you need to evade slow-moving bullets) and Thrill of the Fight (boxing simulator). It's more of a fitness device for me now.
callmekit··on Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
Does Copilot use other files open in the editor? Are they becoming a part of the prompt?
callmekit··on Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
The exact answers to leetcode questions are probably included many times in the Copilot dataset, in many programming languages. Fresh Advent of code problems are much more interesting.
callmekit··on Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
That's already mentioned in the blog post: the author first wrote a solution in a normal way, and only then decided to try copilot.
callmekit··on Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
I think you need to actually get the new data from Github and finetune the model. Maybe it's done very frequently, but unlikely.
callmekit··on Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
I would think the today's code is not a part of the Copilot yet...
callmekit··on The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3
Do you know how previously unseen numbers in the prompt are encoded, probably the same way? Then GPT3 can not do any math at all, unless the specific numbers were seen before?
callmekit··on Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret
From the article: "ViaGen created embryos and implanted them into a domestic ferret surrogate".

I wonder how the "created embryos" step can be done?

callmekit··on I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
But with self-hosted Wordpress, especially with large number of plugins, you will have to constantly update your Wordpress installation or get hacked and spammed, no?
callmekit··on Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support
Schwab's 2FA is app or hardware token-based. https://www.schwab.com/help/two-factor-authentication
callmekit··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
I use Akregator (part of KDE) for many years.
callmekit··on Picat 3.0 released (logic-based multi-paradigm programming language)
Picat was born out for BProlog, and it used to be like a pre-processor for BProlog, but I don't think this is true anymore.
callmekit··on Picat 3.0 released (logic-based multi-paradigm programming language)
Loops, optional destructive assignment, tabling (although some Prolog implementations also have tabling), better constraint programming support than many Prolog implementations.

With version 3.0 Picat is also mostly backward-compatible with Prolog.

callmekit··on Disposable Mask Under the Microscope
On the first photo, the whole horizontal field of view is about 6mm. On the second - about 3mm.
callmekit··on Belarus president: “Until you kill me, there will be no other elections”
He spoke Russian, here is the clip: https://censor.net.ua/en/news/3214153/until_you_kill_me_ther...

I'm a native Russian speaker. He said something like "We held the elections. Until you kill me, there will be no different elections.", meaning the elections will not be cancelled (this also follows from the previous context in the video).

callmekit··on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
These are "adversarial answers" - additional answers to a multi-choice test. If you know the correct answer to the test, adding more possible answers shouldn't make you change your selection.
callmekit··on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Maybe is case of large numbers you can compute digital root easier than the answer.

For example, 25 * 26 = 650, digital root 2. Or take digital root of 25 and 26 first, get 7 * 8 = 56, same digital root 2.

callmekit··on On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs
I couldn't login into their systems about a week ago. I just tried again after your comment, and now it works for me too. But yeah, for how long?
callmekit··on Tellina: Translate natural language into bash commands (built with TensorFlow)
Looks like it's down currently https://github.com/TellinaTool/tellina/issues/9
callmekit··on Tellina: Translate natural language into bash commands (built with TensorFlow)
Doesn't seem to work at all, just some random potentially dangerous guessing:

> what the day it is?

  find /home -type d -name "apt" -exec rm -f {} \;
callmekit··on GitHub isn't fun anymore
Quote from the article: "I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub".
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