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Comment · 2 months ago
It runs a local neural net in your browser running the synthID-text algorithm.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can anyone measure in how Claude compares to copilot? Copilot feels like a fancy auto complete, but people seem to have good experiences with Claude, even in more complex settings.
Comment · 3 years ago
As I also doubt there's a good reason to define intelligence in just a range from 0-100.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's a good point. For more complex topics, the act of verifying correctness is also more complex. I think it's a fair tradeoff though. A more powerful tool also requires more work to use CORRECTLY. Now, whether people will actually put in due diligence is another matter.
Comment · 3 years ago
This doesn't seem much different to me than how people should use wikipedia. It looks like it will be a useful tool to use, you just can't be careless.
Comment · 3 years ago
That must be one of the more extreme examples. I'm probably being under compensated at the moment, but about half of recruiters reaching out are matching my salary.
Comment · 3 years ago
You CAN'T close pandora's box, but you CAN make jokes about pandora's box.
Comment · 3 years ago
Were they local to the area?
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm just an engineer with no background in finance, but didn't a fair part of the 2008 collapse come about by trusted third party risk auditing that went bad? Rather than maintaining a centrality of trust at some level, it seems intuitive that if there is a public database with trust decentralized among all the participants, there is less of a chance for that trust to be abused.
Comment · 4 years ago
People eat it.
Comment · 4 years ago
For any python project bigger than trivial, I literally just build a docker image and run it from that.
Comment · 4 years ago
I used to work in concrete construction, doing post tensioned and SOMD for elevated slab. Coring might be simpler for SOMD, but post tensioned has such a high density of cables that I don't think it would work.
Comment · 4 years ago
You need to run plumbing through the floors to every unit. The floors are structural.

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