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return_to_monke··on Tailwind CSS v3.3
an argument for it is that it couples content and styling together, instead of them being in different layers.

Sometimes, they are, and should be, separate. But in other cases, styling is related to the content, or part of it.

return_to_monke··on Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview
that would sadly hurt more, I think.

Journals are eager to publish new studies as facts (did you know that eating sugar will make you lose weight???) (ignoring that all those who were studied were pro byciclers burning off 3000 calories a day)

this will just make it worse, because a bit larger amount of bad papers will get publushed

return_to_monke··on Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview
also: https://youtu.be/USKD3vPD6ZA
return_to_monke··on Show HN: Open AI is not Open – A browser extension
they are probably banned from doing any business in eg. Russia
return_to_monke··on Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit
how else would one know they aren't sponsored by Big HDD?
return_to_monke··on Jsonnet – The Data Templating Language
The nix language, albeit for a package manager, is really similar. You get json-like "attrsets" and can have variables and functions. Then of course you can export it to different formats as well.

https://nixos.org

There is also the Dhall and Nickel languages providing features alike

return_to_monke··on And yet It Understands
The title encompasses my thoughts about the LLM perfectly. It is amazing to see that a very weird concept (randomising data, testing it, and randomising the best ones at predicting the next tokens again) would work but it seems to do.

Of course, this is not intelligence. these chatbots should come with a "HEY THIS IS NOT INTELLIGENT AND VERY NOT A HUMAN" warning sticker.

Yet, I wonder were we are in the hype cycle. If have hopes if this will somehow go on to improve.

Maybe by AI companies fine-tuning on initial prompt -> last response [what the user accomplished, by prompting gpt incrementally] pairs?,

I think we could come like 50-60% close to what a human mind can accomplish.

last thought; from my own experience, toddlers sometimes hallucinate / string random words together, too.

return_to_monke··on Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts
Tick tick has a free version. Reflect does not.
return_to_monke··on GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data
The internet has turned people into a mindless mob, also including myself.

Most people tend to take the same side their favourite celebrities do, and then argue for that to the extremes.

return_to_monke··on Alpaca-LoRA with Docker
I think your first statement is incorrect. Lora seems to be a method to fine-tune and optimize the weights of models like Alpaca. It is not a different dataset.

This reduces model sizes and therefore also compute costs.

See the abstract of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf

return_to_monke··on Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI
a) you shouldn't be demoted because of your political donations, as long as you're not donating to do harm - whether Eich was donating to a harmful organization is debatable

b) This has nothing to do with "wholeness" and everything to do with Google pushing chrome as hard as they can.

- There is android phones, and I am pretty sure some Google services would advertise it to you - Chromebooks are used in most public schools across America

c) Eich later went on to found Brave. Have you ever seen anyone in the real world use Brave? They passed 50M users one year ago: https://brave.com/2021-recap/

Wikipedia states 63% of people used the internet worldwide in 2021: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...

that is 4.9 billion people. So, brave has a market share of, drum roll, 1%.

In conclusion, the argument that Eich would have led them to success is not a good one, in my opinion.

return_to_monke··on Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK
we could do a rematch tho, where gpt goes first and Bart answers.
return_to_monke··on Google Bard waitlist
about 5 months late, and not public. not looking that great.
return_to_monke··on Curl 8.0.0
of course I can ! just pull in libcurl and then it is just parsing cli arguments
return_to_monke··on Section 230 Won’t Protect ChatGPT
I do not think so.

I see this argument made all the time. While it might be correct at a Micro-Level ("all it does is predict the next word!!!" "it just finds patterns!!!") I dont think that semantics matter here.

It has demonstrated to create new things based on existing ones.

ChatGPT will happily create a fan fiction about the rust mascot Ferris, in the style of the Bible.

I am 99% certain that wasn't in the training set

return_to_monke··on John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next
hn is much more ... extreme
return_to_monke··on Not by AI
I wonder how fast this badge will get into datasets, and AIs, which will then try to replicate it - as part of the content they generate
return_to_monke··on GPT-4
they were a non-profit at some point, iirc.
return_to_monke··on Show HN: I Scraped Hacker News for TLD Popularity
to be fair, that is large part because CH seems to have a topLevelDomain function
return_to_monke··on “Healthy obesity” doesn’t exist. It is unequivocally bad for you
There are multiple such measures. Ones I could think of right off the bat is hip/waist ratio, BAI, or simply waist circumference.

Those all fail to reliably predict body fatness in all populations.

All of those measurements should be taken in context with other health signs, like blood pressure, fasting glucose and maybe eating/exercise habits as well.

return_to_monke··on “Healthy obesity” doesn’t exist. It is unequivocally bad for you
I think the 3rd point is different for each person. Some people do like "tough love" - being told that they are in a bad place and need to improve will motivate them.

Others, on the other hand, will be pushed further back into the hole by such talk. This is very individual.

return_to_monke··on Pgrok – Poor Man’s Ngrok
also, for a lot of use cases (eg accessing your home-hosted stuff, on the go) simply tailscale, even without funnel, is fine
return_to_monke··on Write Posix Shell
I'd rather have false lints than miss lints
return_to_monke··on Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support
i think voice assistants can perform actions on phones (eg "open app, message Alice, call Bob, turn off Bluetooth"). This couldn't do that (I think), which is an obvious drawback
return_to_monke··on Multimodal GPT-4 to be released next week
Does this mean that MS, with their new stake in OpenAI, makes OAI release a new model, or just that they'll release a model called GPT4?

I feel like GPT* is forever connected with OAI. prove me wrong, tho.

return_to_monke··on Meta mulls a Twitter competitor that will be interoperable with Mastodon
I think most servers will likely just blacklist the FB instances and move on.
return_to_monke··on Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
Because nix develop is inherently a flakes-bound feature, and Nix Flakes aren't officially stable yet.
return_to_monke··on 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf]
because languages that were popular before but aren't now are always a hit.

see COBOL for example.

return_to_monke··on Twitter was down
wait, so did they lock themselves out of their api?
return_to_monke··on EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit
sorry for killing the mood. great article and great progress.

but. didn't openai start as a nonprofit, too?

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