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Comment · 2 years ago
I guessed many words I didn't know on Wordle (not a native English speaker), if you are able to reduce enough the letters search space there's going to be only a few options that e.g. make sense phonetically.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sure, lower levels will change, but instead of the chaos above they’ll just continue to simulate upper levels in perfect order (even if different).

Edit: putting some effort to be more precise (though I may be on the wrong track): since the period of the pattern is 35328, it depends at which tick we introduce the change. Since we're changing a cell at a certain level N it makes sense to consider tick 1 out of 35328 for level N-1 (zooming in).

If we introduce a change at any other tick (out of the 35328), what we are really doing is a big change in level N-1 rather than a single cell change in level N.

Comment · 2 years ago
Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results - think about identifying important fields, linking them to existing glossaries, expanding said glossaries, etc. I wonder how much SQL looking like natural language helped for my use case.
Comment · 2 years ago
Which society? 34% of world’s population hasn’t even got Internet access
Comment · 3 years ago
In Italy we definitely often use "campo da calcio" as a quick measurement unit for areas. I'm guessing that's due to the fact that for most people using squared meters is really limited to measuring housing areas and other few use cases, so reverting to something that everybody knows well (a football field) is much more effective. For distances, everybody is very comfortable using all powers of 10 of the meter for all kind of purposes so there's no need to use references to real world measurements.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Asking it to “explain how GPS works like I’m a seasoned engineer” yields a more detailed explanation and there’s no mention of GPS terminals sending messages back to the satellites.

Probably the “false output” you mentioned is due to the fact that the prompt asked to “explain it like I’m five”, which made ChatGPT answer with a “dialogue between terminal and satellite” explanation, which (arguably) may be better understood by a 5 years old.

Comment · 3 years ago
Being not very good with numbers is one of the limitations of the current model. I imagine that in the future we will see integrations with a number of different tools to overcome these limits - WolframAlpha being the first one that comes to mind when talking about algebra and calculus.
Comment · 3 years ago
I guess that the story is already quite explicit as it is: simply recalling all that amount of details is a clear indicator of how much the time slowed down for the gp during the event.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Hi, I work at Hakuna Cloud as a developer. Thanks for your feedback.

If you don't like the idea of updating your DNS records, Hakuna provides a hostname creation feature for trying the product (*.demo.hakuna.cloud CNAME records that point to our load balancers).

You can install the Hakuna CLI on your laptop, no need to have it on the cloud instances. Also, most of the features you can find on the CLI are also available on the web dashboard.

Comment · 7 years ago
We cannot provide UI feedback during the wait: being a HTTPS proxy, we would need the SSL certificate to reply to the request, otherwise it would be some kind of MitM.

If the client closes the socket before the start of the server, the proxy gives up on its requests.

Comment · 7 years ago

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