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1,819karma·417submissions·March 30, 2011
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This is an incredibly cheap way to visualize a sleep timing proxy metric. Who needs fancy sleep trackers when you have this!
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I see the "indie web" or "small web" vs. "centralized web" or "large-scale social media web" as very much mapping onto the "rural vs. urban" dichotomy…
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Would you be able to explain this in more detail?
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I'm desperately looking for more documentation on the file size / token count thresholds for this.
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This is such a fantastic comment, thank you! I agree 100%. This moment feels very much like ~15 years ago at the dawn of the app economy. Back then, every boardroom conversation was "We need a mo…
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It's interesting how Apple debuted their new Classical app some time ago, and then only now are they purchasing this record label (or perhaps this is when they're merely going public with th…
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This just occurred to me as well but I'm a US-based Plus user.
3y ago·view thread
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You are not alone. It takes strength to leave that situation. There was a reason you got married in the first place to this first, so the change that occurs is often shocking and unexpected. Cut your …
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I find this inclusion at the end very interesting: > In our paper, we detail how we built a highly effective classifier that can distinguish between authentic speech and audio generated with Voice…
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Ah, but where is the "System Card", ala GPT-4 [1], with pages about alignment research and red-teaming? [1] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf …
3y ago·view thread
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The level of mature, respectful, civil discourse on HN never ceases to impress me. I see this less and less on other discussion boards.
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This is an absolutely fascinating development from the GLP-1 treatments. A Reddit thread (yes, anecdata at best) titled "It's correcting my impulse control disorder" shows Ozempic taker…
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100% this. I've had success using it as a "micro-therapist" to get me unstuck in cycles of perfectionism and procrastination. You currently cannot get a therapist to parachute into your…
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I can't help but think that these new Copilot offerings, when fully implemented in 2-3 years or so, make project managers / program managers / release managers obsolete.
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How is this different from Quora's new Poe web app? [1] [1] https://twitter.com/adamdangelo/status/1631714221171023873 …
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