You may know this, but that doesn't mean we all do. LLMs are marketed towards many different groups, including folks who don't have much tech knowledge.
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I absolutely loved the premise of the first book. Every time I think about it I get the same kind of excitement I feel when I come up with the perfect idea for a D&D campaign.
But the second book gathers dust on my shelf, and no matter how many times I think "I should get back into these!" I just can't. The first book ended in a fizzle and the second completely failed to keep my attention.
I'll take a look at Merchant Princes and see if that's more to my liking!
The example that I heard in school was that of a giraffe's neck. It seems reasonable enough to say "giraffes evolved long necks in order to reach food sources in taller trees", but this is usually a kind of misleading shorthand for the much more accurate "some proto-giraffe acquired a mutation that increased the length of its neck, that change increased its likelihood of procreation (possibly by allowing it to reach food sources shorter-necked proto-giraffes could not, therefore allowing it to survive in harsher conditions), and that mutation was passed down to its offspring".
It's easy to make the mistake in thinking "organisms change their characteristics to survive", but that's applying intent where there is none. Organisms' characteristics change naturally through mutation. Those organisms either live to reproduce or they don't. Mutations that increase the chance of reproduction are more likely to get passed down to future generations. Over a long enough time period you end up with a lot of distinct species that evolved naturally and entirely accidentally.
It's another thing entirely to make a "rocket" that will take a human being to space, or to school, or to work, or to the mall, or to the bank, or to church on sundays. And also it functions as a TV, a telephone, a radio, an encyclopedia, a games console, or anything else one can imagine. And then you wrap that up in a user interface that my grandmother can use without a NASA astronaut's level of training (YMMV).
I had migraines at least once every two weeks for most of my life. Nothing too out of the ordinary, just that 7/10 dull pain in the center of my head that shut me down for 5 or 6 hours.
I'm very skeptical about supposed instant fixes like this. I didn't expect it to work, but I wanted to start getting ear piercings and I figured I'd give it a shot with something not too flashy. I went with my wife to her piercing appointment and convinced them to pierce my left daith while we were already there.
That was at least seven years ago. I haven't had a migraine since. I keep assuming it's placebo and it'll wear off, but it hasn't.
That was in August of last year. Absolutely nothing has changed since then. I'm not even sure how to reach out to them to appeal the ban. Maybe nobody's home.
I took that as a sign that maybe the platform wasn't worth my time.
The fact that I needed to log in, wait 24 hours for my account to unlock due to inactivity (!!!), and enable sync in order to disable it was enough for me to finally decide that Windows 10 will be my last Microsoft product. It may be a small annoyance, but to me it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Not surprised. That wheel definitely looks mangled enough to warrant a hefty repair bill.
It looks like she wrote several books after 1936, including one about Anne Sullivan.
Not to be rude.
Actual worst case, you're stuck on the side of the road god-knows-where, for god-knows-how-long, hoping that someone will drive by and have the decency to stop and help.
I think I'll buy a car with a spare tire.