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I can't find the article where I read it, but an interesting thing about the environment is that it's connected and we need it to stay alive.
Re:Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023 on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:34AM (#37613403)
lol at being stuck in xkgjd's walled garden. At least with hjafskdj I can sideload apps, but I guess some people just prefer a phone as a status symbol.
Is the significance of CO2's presence 1) it's necessary ingredient for (our) life, 2) it's a likely biproduct of life, or both?
Re:Find my cat: open-source Cat Tracker on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:20PM (#37525434)
These days, I just let Strcat live his life. If he wants to move out, that's fine, his call. Just meow at the door if you change your mind.
No, some people are not suited for military service.
Agreed. They're such sheep, it's embarrassing. One day they'll acknowledge our obvious superiority.
Re:Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:48PM (#37080839)
> There was a time in history where you COULD create real art and make a decent living out of it.

Honest question, is that actually true? Historically, professional art always struck me as the domain of the rich, the starving artist, or the person taking commissions for the rich.

Re:Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:44PM (#37080806)
Creating biblical-grade art with soul is probably a poor use-case for ChatGPT.
This recipe is toxic to Bender as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIJDfNO3d5E

Re:Bye, Gemini on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:10PM (#37052303)
Gemini felt to me like the web's quiet cabin on a lake. I'd view through a terminal emulator on a Mac Classic.

The lack of infinite content makes it peaceful and manageable. The lack of search (or maybe it exists and I just didn't care to find it) makes finding little haunts and communities more rewarding.

It's just some personal blogs about synthesizers or cereal recipes- but it's genuine and not people trying to build a brand. No one is trying to sell you anything. It's felt totally uncorrupted.

How can we forget that- 34 years ago- Pons and Fleischmann made a claim that was incorrect! /s
Re:Electronic Structure of LK-99 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:09PM (#36966528)
Agreed- after the Pons & Fleischman debacle 34 years ago, it's pretty pathetic to watch people get excited about such obvious scams. They'll never learn.
Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:51PM (#36966415)
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Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ on Monday July 24, 2023 @01:34PM (#36851518)
- Glorifies carbon-intensive international travel to athletic events

- An intellectual heist by an absentee husband and father.

TBF we're not sure he's dead yet. They said the submarine has 96 hours of oxygen.
Re:How Dowries Are Fuelling a Femicide Epidemic on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:19PM (#36299463)
what the fuck
Re:Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:13PM (#36230921)
Ah, you're right, it's pretty dumb then. Swing-and-a-miss, GPT-4.
Re:Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:58PM (#36230654)
Not sure I follow- the answer matches minus the first leading zeros. Change the range from 0-32, and it matches exactly. So it pretty clearly recognized the pattern and produced working code.

This question is a pretty obscure benchmark. Another commenter has it just printing the string, as suggested.

If there's some weird math trick to get an optimal implementation, it's probably beyond the grasp of nearly all actual people.

Re:Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:51PM (#36230540)
If you clarify the prompt a little (I used Write a python script that can produce this pattern:), GPT-4 gave me this:

To generate the given pattern, we need to identify the structure. After analyzing, it seems that the pattern follows a certain structure where the binary representation of each number from 1 to 15 is preceded by a certain number of zeroes. Here's a python script to generate such a pattern:

    def generate_pattern():
        pattern = ""
        for i in range(1, 16):
            # Convert i to binary and remove the "0b" prefix.
            binary = bin(i)[2:]
            # Number of zeroes to add before each binary.
            zeroes = 5 - len(binary)
            # Add binary to pattern with zeroes.
            pattern += "0" \* zeroes + binary
        return pattern

    print(generate_pattern())

The script starts by iterating through numbers from 1 to 15. For each number, it converts the number to a binary string and removes the "0b" prefix that Python adds by default. It calculates the number of zeroes to add before the binary string to maintain a fixed width of 5 characters, and then adds the binary string to the pattern with the preceding zeroes. Finally, it returns the complete pattern.

Which outputs: 000010001000011001000010100110001110100001001010100101101100011010111001111

It's missing the first set of zero's, but matches otherwise.

So, I guess it's AGI then.

Re:Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:28PM (#36230072)
Yeah, people asking to reverse the word 'lollipop' are notoriously luddite bunch.
Re:OpenAI Becomes ClosedAI on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:45PM (#35014761)
It's just people typing quickly.
Re:DIY 1,500W solar power electric bike on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:38AM (#34723674)
lol, y'all have some high standards for some dude tinkering on a bike in his garage.
Re:DIY 1,500W solar power electric bike on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:11PM (#34719656)
Agreed- another waste of space on the front page. This hobbyist should be embarrassed by their folly.
Agreed: another milestone not worth mentioning. I'm not sure why these trivial feats keep appearing on the front page.
Re:Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:56AM (#34479366)
LLMs are- literally and figuratively- opening a lot of doors in robotics right now. In the sense that LLMs can provide mostly usable code, with a few prompts or some fine tuning can translate text commands into fairly primitive robot commands.

SayCan is one I've seen: https://say-can.github.io/

Using an LLM map a conversation into discrete, real in-world states changes or actions seems pretty similar.

Re:What happens when babies are left to cry it out? on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:16PM (#34180428)
I disagree! Cry it out is the worst way!
Re:What happens when babies are left to cry it out? on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:16PM (#34180426)
I agree- cry it out sleep training is ideal for infants and parents.
Agreed, and I'm concerned that this journalistic malpractice will devalue legitimate breakthroughs.
Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:00PM (#33995038)
And a huge waste of $400,000.

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