jasonhanley
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Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve recently been perplexed by the new policy to charge 25% tariffs on incoming goods from America’s two closest suppliers: Canada and Mexico.
So I decided to put the question to 3 of the most advanced AIs I have access to using their “reasoning” models.
Comment · 1 year ago
You know what's wild? Not ever having heard of him, I can find out who he is and how this relates to the conversation in milliseconds.
For others' benefit:
"Kurt Vonnegut explored themes of humans being observed by extraterrestrial beings in a zoo-like setting in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. ... While this scenario involves humans being placed in a zoo by aliens, it does not specifically depict artificial intelligence (AI) as the captors. However, Vonnegut did address the impact of automation and machines on human society in his debut novel, Player Piano."
Amazing times we live in. Strange and scary, but also amazing.
Comment · 1 year ago
As far as I can tell, the training is still going pretty well.
Once humans learn enough, they are able to start coming up with and evaluating their own ideas.
This ability isn't 100% apparent with current public AI models, but I strongly suspect that this is happening behind the scenes.
Certainly researchers are already using AI extensively to improve AI, and that really has the potential to go exponential.
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree the multimodal stuff is amazing. I'm seriously impressed with the new Gemini 2.0 family of models and can't wait until the full multimodal capabilities are in general release.
In terms of the HeyGen vid, it's passable, but that was something I literally whipped up in 10 minutes. You can make ones that are much, much better if you invest in creating better training material. The voice and video model in this case only used the one 3-minute source video.
Funny you mention the "people zoo" thing. That's actually part of a sci-fi story I've been trying to write since I was in my teens. Roughed out here: https://youtu.be/2KLdaVs_ugw
Comment · 5 years ago
I've quit caffeine several times on and off, but overall I think that a small amount of caffeine does more for mental acuity than none at all, even considering sleep quality.
But it's really easy to overdo. And really easy to keep ramping up your dose as your body adjusts.
If you just want to _reduce_ your caffeine intake, I found that the easiest way is to pre-mix different ratios of regular and decaf in a container and use that. You can make 50:50 or 25:75 regular:decaf and easily taper off your intake (especially towards the afternoon/evening) while still enjoying a nice cup of coffee :)
Comment · 8 years ago
Dare I say there's a mini-movement starting? :D https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/2018/09/making-websites-eff...
Here's hoping...
Comment · 8 years ago
If anything, the rants about this are getting better. That's probably a good sign. This rant is at least 10x better than mine from last year :) https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/2017/08/when-did-software-g...
To the author: I'm with you. Recently rebuilt my website and blog as an experiment in efficiency.
Comment · 8 years ago
Down here. Hardly news considering it's Twitter :P
Comment · 8 years ago
I feel like stuff like this is why golang and rust were created.
(edit: Forgot about Rust, sorry!)
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