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Re:The Goths on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @03:52AM (#41233272)
No wonder goths expanded so much. They have very cheap infantry.
Did they test whether GPT4 replicated already existing social science experiments? If so, this might have happened because the experiment was in the training data
I'm a programmer and data scientist. Using LLMs (specifically Claude 3.5 Sonnet) made me at least 10x as productive. I don't write boilerplate code anymore.
Re:Butts Are Difficult on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:48PM (#41058979)
> The hard thing about this

I see what you did there.

Do you really do this, and is striking out a line of a contract binding?
Serious answer: do you want me to build it for you? If you give me a contact email, we can discuss the budget
Are there any which can generate consistent characters (especially faces)?
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:55AM (#38909607)
Winning rock-paper-scissors enough times against cgpgray: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWQmZXYd74
To better understand the validity of this document, check this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_Urgency_Decree.

I used google translate to produce an English version of the document, accessible here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LolYohAqQZBjCZ-mqfCr2xWg3uQ...

This is a massive change to the economy, bringing Javier Milei's libertarian ideas into effect.

Does anyone know a tool like this but for arbitrary PDFs?
Well, everyone knows Mongol cavalry archers fire 25% faster...
Re:The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:23PM (#36537791)
I agree that the feedback loop wouldn't make the models smarter than us, but training data would. I can see how with more computing power we will be able to feed it the whole of YouTube, Spotify and perhaps also millions of physics experiments.

With this data, perhaps a model will be able to understand the hidden patterns of the world (e.g. physics equations governing reality) better than us, don't you think?

Try eating more! I have a similar lifestyle to you, and I discovered I was undereating.

When I increased calories by 20%, suddenly my memory wasn't so foggy, I was more motivated...it was awesome

Re:Show HN: If Spotify and Tinder Had a Baby on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:38AM (#33246255)
Does it use any kind of recommendation engine based on my current tastes/already liked songs?
Re:Show HN: If Spotify and Tinder Had a Baby on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:36AM (#33246244)
Oh now it works! But it wasn't intuitive for me that I needed to do that
Re:Show HN: If Spotify and Tinder Had a Baby on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:03PM (#33153091)
I logged in but it doesn't show me any songs :(

Ask HN: Is astrological data used in ML models?

A positive argument for astrology being true would be that a person's sign, natal chart or characteristics derived from it are used as attributes for machine learning models.Is this happening? Do you know of any company which used it? I'm genuinely curious.(On a similar note, another positive signal for astrology would be if companies like Meta offered this kind of data for filtering in...

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Re:The next century of computing on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:45AM (#32992192)
About #10: issn't undecidability the same as uncomputability? AFAIK, they are synonyms.
I think it's easier to get a new job if you have a job, otherwise they can low-ball you because you look more desperate
I'm confused, why do people need to miss the feature? If it's that important to them, just don't buy the newest iphone.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite math/logic puzzle? on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:14AM (#32317570)
Ooooh. The prisoners can't hear other prisoners' guesses then. Ok! But in your example, isn't the probability of winning 1-(99/100)*100?

I don't think your "best case scenario" comment is actually true

Re:Ask HN: Is there a way to solve this using Maths? on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:14AM (#32306229)
If you have sufficiently many examples of this relationship (that is, input/output pairs) you can train a machine learning model with this data, and you will get (if successful) an explicit mathematical function which captures the relationship
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite math/logic puzzle? on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:06AM (#32306107)
OP, if I understood your puzzle, then 99 prisoners can answer correctly. Is that right?
Re:Ask HN: Why do I keep getting rejected? on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:34AM (#32081758)
3 pages? Is that common in your profession? If it's not, why don't you trim your resume?
Pleonasms! The following text contains 6 examples:

Dear John,

You have been invited to the president's birthday, please RSVP by post.

Attached you'll also find a PIN number. It's part of a free gift; true fact! Just use it on any ATM machine.

Best, Tim

PS: could you please bring some chai tea?

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