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7,550karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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I use gpt through the api hooked up to a Telegram bot I save common prompts with /create blahbot you always blah
And then I can ask any bot something by saying /blahbot tell m…
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Can be a bit sensationalist but - https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/ -
https://www.statewatch.org/ Are the ones I've come across…
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I don't know much about cameras but if I read something like "One Plus new budget phone sells more than any flagship" I'd definitely assume that that meant it had outsold the iphon…
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Maybe title could be changed to something less clickbaity like > Faruk Özer, Thodex Crypto founder - 11000 year sentence for $2 Billion Heist
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Professional managers will absolutely run a company at 20% optimization while founders might get to 80%. But if the founder gets hit by a bus it's going to drop to 2% or die. Professional managem…
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I've tried most of these and this is definitely one of the best, especially since the latest version. It's not too heavy but includes all the features you don't know you need at the sta…
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"He was jailed for not following norms and we know he was not following norms because he was jailed" is maybe slightly circular
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Would have loved a comparison to some others. I haven't tried personally but been watching Pieter Levels post progress on fixing stuff like this for photoai.com and I think he has done a lot more…
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I used to always point to Sourcegraph as a company that really understood dev culture and what it took to make devs happy, so this slow transition has definitely been painful to watch. Just yesterday …
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https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/29414264463635-Up... Before slack kept the messages and didn't let you see them, but you had rhe option to unlock b…
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Odd Lots, it says its about finance, markets, and economics but it's super broad. For example they have a really interesting episode about how the Ukrainian postal service operates during the war…
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Funnily enough, all the crap out there makes useful content more valuable, not less. Sometimes it's harder to find on Google now, but people still need it, so if you can create it and help them f…
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https://xkcd.com/1494/
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There are some interesting challenges in fine tuning LLMs but this doesn't seems to address them. I'm not sure if the code samples actually work but they look super generic, and eg it talks …
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(June, 2023)
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Love this idea. Would be great to see how it applies to twitter (e.g. reduction of tweets during GPT outages) but I guess that twitter data is hard to get now
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Yeah I think Wise new about this long before it became public. We had our USD receiving account details shut down with like 2 weeks notice which caused massive cashflow problems as we had to get all c…
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Making the docs great is often part of what DevRel is meant to do. ZIRP or no ZIRP, technical people are more respected now and are more often decision makers. I think irrespective of market dynamics,…
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the blog he links to is clearly AI slop too. Even the LLM he used to write it agrees that what he's doing is unethical. > At the same time, we need to establish guidelines around transparency …
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I like a bit of ChatGPT bashing, same as the next guy, but this seems a bit unfair. The partnerships have been signed, but as far as I know OpenAI has made no indication that the implementation is don…
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Not sure I buy this. There was a massive drop in demand for these jobs due to layoffs but we (Ritza, a technical writing agency) have noticed a reverse of that since July last year which is where thei…