StrandedKitty

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building carbeamapp.com
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Comment · 1 year ago
I think it's fine to not disclose it. Like, don't you find "Sent from my iPhone" that iPhones automatically add to emails annoying? Technicalities like that don't bring anything to the conversation.

I think typically, the reason people are disclosing their usage of LLMs is that they want offload responsibility. To me it's important to see them taking responsibility for their words. You wouldn't blame Google for bad search results, would you? You can only blame the entity that you can actually influence.

Comment · 1 year ago
You are describing Discord. Small, gated, heavily moderated by actual humans, and often invite-only communities on specific topics.
Comment · 1 year ago
Does it even fall into "AI-generated" category? GitHub Copilot has been around for years, I certainly remember using it long before the recent AI boom, and at that time it wasn't even thought of as any kind of a breakthrough.

And at this point it's not just a productivity booster, it's as essential as using a good IDE. I feel extremely uncomfortable and slow writing any code without auto-completion.

Comment · 1 year ago
For some reason I thought this article would explain how to ID a specific cat, that is basically facial recognition for cats.

Is this even something that's possible with current tech? Like, surely cats have some facial features that can be used to uniquely identify them? It would be cool to have a global database of all cats that users would be able to match their photos against. Imagine taking a picture of a cat you see on the street, and it immediately tells you the owner's details and whether it's missing.

Comment · 1 year ago
There's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy.

I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be beneficial for both parties.

Comment · 1 year ago
What do you think the purpose of extensions is? They enrich the base spec. If your renderer can't handle an extension it will simply ignore it.
Comment · 1 year ago
> sleeping on phenibut is very restful

Is this just you subjective experience or is it backed by some data or research? For me personally, sleeping after phenibut doesn't feel healthy at all -- in fact I often end up sleeping for 12+ hours unless I have something important to do in the morning, and it's extremely hard to get out of bed every time.

Comment · 1 year ago
Here in the NL I'd say it's at least €3600 if you have zero experience. This is my estimation for both theory & practical parts based on my own experience, current rates, and what little statistics I could find. Often much more if you fail and have to take more lessons.
Comment · 1 year ago
From what I understand, you are taxed on the unrealized gains from your assets, so you are effectively paying ~2% of the value of all your assets every year. Even if you simply own a stake at a startup, you still have to pay the wealth tax regardless of whether your stake ends up having any real value at all (most likely it won't).
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe the reason is that the number of Apple users is an order of magnitude higher? Plus, they control both hardware and software. Apple is making very consumer-oriented products, and this comes with it's own downside of having to handle billions of users.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was on desktop. The mobile version uses a slightly different layout and doesn't suffer from this issue.
Comment · 1 year ago
Please add more contrast to the black nav panel at the bottom. It took me like a minute to spot it because it was lost in the visual mess that the article previews create. At first I thought all this website does is article and video aggregation because all I saw was a list of categories and an endless feed.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not bad at all! WebGPU has compute shaders in the base spec, and it looks like 66%+ of internet traffic already supports it: https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu

By the way, if you are running any high-traffic websites you can donate your users' device data to web3dsurvey (with a simple JS snippet). I'm sure it will be appreciated.

Comment · 1 year ago
Surely it just reasoned that you made a typo and "autocorrected" your riddle. Isn't this what a human would do? Though to be fair, a human would ask you again to make sure they heard you correctly. But it would be kind of annoying if you had to verify every typo when using an LLM.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Follow-up analysis of the first experimental results revealed a marked positional bias with LLMs tending to prefer the candidate appearing first in the prompt

Wow, this is unexpected. I remember reading another article about some similar research -- giving an LLM two options and asking it to choose the best one. In their tests LLM showed clear recency bias (i.e. on average the 2nd option was preferred over the 1st).

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