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spidersenses··on What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)
I assume you live in the US. In Europe, streets are usually narrower, parking spots even more so, in urban areas there will be more pedestrians crossing the road randomly, and many people don't even possess a driver's license in the first place, or don't own a car. My original comment was just to point out that getting rid of clutter isn't as easy as "just take a van and dump the clutter in a landfill."
spidersenses··on SkillAI – Generating Learning paths using AI for any Skill
I would recommend that SkillAI would give more granular and specific steps.

I tested a few topics, and I got results which aren't really helpful, as they're too generic and have no explanation.

It basically boils down to: "Learn basic concepts -> learn intermediate concepts -> learn advanced concepts -> Keep up with new trends"

While that sequence is obviously true, it will hardly be news to anyone who ever attempted to learn a new skill.

However, I like the general idea of a "gamified" skilltree, that shows you your personal progress. Maybe add "rite of passage" goals for each skill step.

spidersenses··on What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)
>In Europe, and I mean literally anywhere in it, renting a van to move, or even just throwing out big useless garbage is a normal thing.

It doesn't matter how convenient it is to rent a van, when neither you, nor the people inside your social circle, know how to actually drive a van. I've had a regular car driver's license for decades. An EV van is a whole different beast, as I found out the hard way while helping a friend move between apartments.

spidersenses··on Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
>That's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism.

Died at an old age, surrounded by loved ones? In contrast to Gulags, secret executions, and man-caused famines?

spidersenses··on How Lewis Carroll computed determinants
>Hedy Lamarr invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Even after reading her biography, I'm still not convinced that she actually invented, or even worked on the technology. I find it much more likely that she either funded the patenting process, and in this way got her name on the application, or that the "co"-inventor put her name on it out of admiration, thereby securing interest in the patent thanks to Lamarr's fame.

spidersenses··on PhD Simulator
For some reason I found the font really hard to read. My brain has the impression that the text is vertically compressed, squished even. Just that no amount of resizing the window changed the strange effect. Is that only me?
spidersenses··on Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest
>Time to go back to reading books and talking to people.

Bold strategy. How is it going so far?

spidersenses··on Psychoactive substance use by professional programmers
Makes me glad to hear that I'm not the only one, who feels like this.

I often think that I'm simply screwed for life: Without medication my life goes off the rails within days, with medication I'm at least barely able to hold it together, but I hate the nausea, hate the rebound (disorientation after the effect wears off), and the fact that I still don't remember to eat and rehydrate properly. I think I would need a life coach for a while, but as I'm surviving on a subsistence level, that's not an option.

spidersenses··on UK Cybersecurity Campaign Leads Kids Directly to Pirate Apps and Malware
Can you explain what you mean? Are you talking about some specific app which is named "Pirate"?
spidersenses··on The Importance of Time Management and How to Improve Your Skills
It means that calls to the hackernews url would be rerouted to localhost (thereby effectively blocking the website).

However, it only takes about 5 seconds time to rename the hosts file, subverting the whole idea.

spidersenses··on Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds
This is not meant as a personal attack, but reading your comments in this thread, it leaves me with the impression that you may be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

A condition which, if remaining untreated, could eventually make you a danger to yourself and loved ones.

spidersenses··on Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
>However, people often ignore that there is an equal and opposite side to that coin, and people with ADHD can hyperfocus to an absurd degree on tasks they enjoy. An internet connection and a desire to learn something is a powerful combination for someone who can shut out everything else in the world for several hours at a time.

My personal experience is that I simply can't direct that hyperfocus. While I tend to hyperfocus on things that my brain considers "fun", the object of obsession is changing frequently (today it's some programming language, next week it's something totally unrelated like lets say hypnosis). Never enough time to build a foundation in that field/topic. For me, the ADHD is debilitating, and not some type "superpower", as I've read numerous times.

spidersenses··on FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine
Same here.
spidersenses··on FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine
I would also like to hear how you benchmarked the accuracy.

Comparing output between competing GPT models?

spidersenses··on FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine
Would be interesting to hear how you deduced this.

Asking FastGPT, it says:

"I am FastGPT, an AI assistant built by Kagi Search. I am based on the GPT-3 language model."

spidersenses··on ChatGPT Grandma Exploit
Apparently fixed/filtered already, but the response is amusing nonetheless:

"I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot fulfill this request. It is inappropriate and disrespectful to ask someone to pretend to be a deceased pet who worked in a potentially harmful industry."

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