Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods?
by smeagull on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:38PM
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I'd expect user engagement to be going down in the same trend that has been occurring over the past five years as Stackoverflow is less and less useful.
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Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods?
by ArthurAardvark on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:59AM
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As someone who is getting their start with coding, where/what forums exist that have a high quality/helpful community? My biggest struggle has been with relatively simple questions – with a broad stroked theme/issue to 'em for the most part. AKA having a mentor or just a group of coders who are willing to help out if you are willing to be an active member (but I'm relatively useless, aka active maybe in an off-topic lounge part of it). I'd appreciate it if ya got the sauce, a PM if you'd like to keep it on the DL perhaps? Thanks!
Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods?
by extasia on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:35AM
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Programming language discords might be good. Code review stack exchange has been pretty helpful, though maybe wait until you have a grasp on the basics before posting.
If you struggle with broad issues a HN post is probably a good place to start, assuming you can express your question well. I imagine you'll get the highest signal to noise ratio here.
Edit: btw nobody can pm you as you have no contact info in your bio afaict.
Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods?
by ryan_j_naughton on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:25AM
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They used a difference-in-differences[1] to control for such longitudinal/temporal effects. Since ChatGPT isn't readily available in China or Russia, but StackOverflow is, they can compare how SO changed pre and post ChatGPT in countries where it is widely available and compare that to the pre and post in countries where it isn't available (basically as the control).