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Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life? on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:34AM (#40511272)
I would just remind you of the paradox of Buridan's ass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

"It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the donkey will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water."

If you have many interests it is easy to not make any appreciable advancement in any of them. Rate your interests. Pick maybe 2 and work those until you are content with them or find out you dont really like them.

Ask HN: Great, concise resource to learn LLM technical fundamentals?

Can anyone recommend a great, concise resource to learn LLM technical fundamentals including transformers, pre-training, fine-tuning, etc from the ground up starting with neural networks?The resources I can find are either how to use langchain to write LLM apps, which is not what I want, or very deep graduate level book study, which I don't have the time for.Something that starts with neural...

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Re:An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:39AM (#38473361)
Besides the tools mentioned, what are some other AI tools that can be used to accelerate coding for established codebases? I have some money to try out new tools, but am wondering if there are that are less "black boxy" and would work with a company's private instance of Azure ChatGPT?
Re:Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts on Sunday November 12, 2023 @07:05PM (#38245459)
This is gold. THANK YOU.
Have you tried googling or asking chat-gpt? That is what I do when I don't understand things.
Re:How to calculate how much water you should drink on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:28AM (#37174721)
I am surprised they don't mention salt.
Re:Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college on Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:05AM (#37160349)
It doesn't work because the state interfered. College is so expensive because of federally guaranteed loans. This means colleges can charge any price they want because the student has access to any sum of money.
Re:More hospitals create police forces on Monday May 15, 2023 @09:54PM (#35956951)
Of course, there is nothing so invaluable in modern society than the life of a junkie.
Re:The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:30AM (#35886394)
Anyone have any good examples or tutorials of specifically how to use ChatGPT for greenfield code development ?

Ask HN: Where do I begin studying to run LLMs locally or in a private cloud?

Where do I begin studying if my goal is to run LLMs locally or in a private cloud with solid software engineering practices? I am unsure of where to even begin.Let's say I want to:0.) Find the locally run LLMs and identify which are applicable. 1.) Containerize the LLMs 2.) Use source control to capture changes to the LLM. Versioning output. 3.) Develop repeatable pipelines driven by APIs for...

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Re:Effective Spaced Repetition on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:40AM (#35511572)
I use SuperMemo https://super-memo.com/ for memorizing things. It uses spaced repetition. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out, very effective. I feel like I have seen an article on HN about it before.
Re:Get Running with Couch to 5K on Sunday January 01, 2023 @12:01PM (#34208069)
What do people think about during their runs? Anything over 30 minutes I find very mind numbing and boring.
Re: on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:16AM (#34092921)
Wow man, this is amazing, thank you for responding!
Re: on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:25PM (#34087738)
Can anyone recommend some more articles about this ? Specifically, using chatgpt to write code? The more in depth, the better.
Re:Show HN: Tweek perfect tool for daily task management on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:07PM (#33646557)
The world can't have enough ToDo web apps !
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:47AM (#33261329)
Look at the bright side, at least you are not an indentured servant to some lady who got pregnant and left you.

One of my friends is literally paying for the house his ex-wife brings boyfriends home to.

:: shrug :: Things could be worse.

If it really means that much to you...adopt ?

Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:46AM (#33247045)
Could you be more specific ?

Like if your weakness is poor communication leading towards unintentional hostility to coworkers or inability to prioritize work, that weakness is probably worth be developed.

He is big brained.
Re:Do you remember Ultima Online? on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:35AM (#33190131)
I recently started playing "Shards of Britannia" - a Legends of Aria Community server. I am loving it.

It plays exactly like UO at its core, with some new frosting layered on.

Most importantly, you get that UO experience with a nice fresh GUI.

https://shardsofbritannia.com/

My malware bytes goes nuts when I try to visit http://www.uoforever.com - is this the correct URL ?
Memorizing is meant in a different context.

Ultimately the problems boil down into a few "types". So you are memorizing the types.

https://dev.to/fahimulhaq/14-patterns-to-ace-any-coding-inte... https://neetcode.io/

I am interested as well. I can't seem to find a decent end-to-end article on this.
What platform do you use ? Is it all run from home ?
Re:The computers are getting better at writing on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:01AM (#27038333)
What is current state of the art that a user can actually access ? For example, GPT-3 requires open ai beta access.

Is it still GPT-2 ?

Re:Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:13AM (#25872891)
You're good at wording.
Can you recommend any good tutorials on prompt design for GPT-3 ? Or how to use GPT-3 in general ?
Re:Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:41AM (#25373571)
This is really neat! My challenge with random recipes from the internet is they are all 4 or 5 stars, but sometimes they are kind of gross :/

Can anyone recommend a curated recipe list / website even if it is pay.

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging? on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:31AM (#24836508)
What is wrong with wordpress ? Asking bc I use it to host a few blogs.
Any good tutorials on this you recommend ?

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