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Comment · 1 month ago
What does this mean? I've been using AI as a replacement for both of those for longer than a year. If I need a PowerPoint file I have it generated off my tooling. Instead of fiddling to align text you say update slide 6 to look like this, strike this sentence. And you can add even more dynamic content. Like live application dashboards connected to real sources.
Comment · 1 month ago
Covid? Half the money printed happened under his watch the first admin. Biden continued the other half. Now we have yet another war to make matters worse. What are you proposing be done to fix it?
Comment · 1 month ago
You should partner with Cornell Ornithology.
Comment · 1 month ago
You learn animal husbandry and join the Amish.
Comment · 2 months ago
I saw this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

here on HN in 2013. I'd read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" so it particularly resonated with me at the time. I've watched the world get even more sucked in each passing year.

Comment · 2 months ago
When I use it for writing I usually have an idea or thesis to explore already. I typically write it out stream of consciousness. The core idea is mine.

I'm not using LLMs to think for me, instead just edit the writing so it has proper grammar and the run ons are reduced.

Even better for something that has data. You can pull PDFs with encoded tables and extract the data into consistent units to compare. You can have it write code to do it and cross check the outputs. You can do that in a minute. Would take hours without an LLM.

Comment · 2 months ago
Seriously. Whatever slop is going to be an improvement for 99% of enterprise products. 99.9% of internal tools at large companies.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah wondering that. I ended up almost paying for one when 2.0 came out. Still not sure I've found something official.
Comment · 3 months ago
There is a bacterial outbreak and I asked if it was possible that's what made my wife sick and it downgraded.
Comment · 4 months ago
My step mom was having debilitating pain. A year of going to doctors and no one was able to find a cause. I scanned her discharge paper work which had her prescriptions on it and gave it to Claude. It identified a prescription that had that exact side effect. They later confronted her primary care that concurred and took her off it.

A friend of mine's wife recently passed. They were chasing a suspected heart defect for over a year. She had been intermittently fainting. At about the year mark they decided to scope her digestive track. They found bleeding ulcers from cancer that was all over her body. I input her fainting symptoms into Claude and gastro impact was number two suspected after heart issues.

I have a few of other cases it's helped with. I'm not sure it could do worse than my own experience with the medical system. This is doubly true in places that lack any sort of medical care.

Comment · 4 months ago
I was going to upgrade my M3 Max to an M5 Max with more RAM. The machine I priced out was $5400 yesterday and costs $7500 today.
Comment · 4 months ago
That's better than the loop grok got stuck in trying to use git and push the work it did leading to a $15 api credit deduction.
Comment · 4 months ago
My father in law owns a small manufacturing business and is not technical at all. His computer skills stop with some CAD and basic excel. He pays for ChatGPT as does his wife and her kids. The internet and dot com bubble didn't have millions and millions of non technical users paying cash for a product. Almost every coffee shop I go to has people talking about AI and ChatGPT even in areas with no tech populations.

I still think it could crash, but it's got real users and a mind share like nothing I've ever seen.

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