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Comment · 1 month ago
By definition, a black swan event cannot be predicted. It doesn't just mean "a larger fire" or "the event of a lifetime".
Comment · 2 months ago
Your examples are cases in which you know what the bill is going to be before placing your order. With LLMs, you're paying per output token, not per request, yet you don't get all the tokens.
Comment · 2 months ago
They offer both a subscription model and a lifetime purchase. Or that used to be the case, at least. But I agree that it feels like it's getting behind.
Comment · 2 months ago
In softness I guess? Because I wouldn't consider any of the "B" series really matte :)
Comment · 2 months ago
How do they compare with Faber Castell 9000? (I normally write with these, in HB or 2B hardness)
Comment · 2 months ago
How are laptop GPUs these days in terms of energy consumption? My last experience was a while ago, but the battery drained fast with them active.
Comment · 2 months ago
I only know the Uni system of a few European countries, but generally I would expect Philosophy to be a prerequirement that you take for your entrance examinations, not during studies per se (unless you're studying humanities, of course).
Comment · 2 months ago
Taking propranolol in this case is, in fact, an example of being a functioning adult, and a solution that also works for oral examinations.
Comment · 4 months ago
I would claim the difference between being rejected an API request and being potentially jailed/shot is significant.
Comment · 5 months ago
Not WW2, but GPS depends on General Relativity to calculate time differences between satellite signals and ground correctly.
Comment · 6 months ago
Not lawmakers in this case, but judges having no understanding of what they're ruling on.
Comment · 6 months ago
How much is it spending in the Anthropic API so far?
Comment · 7 months ago
The fact that the oldest current law in the list is about places where nuns are allowed to be buried is quite amusing, in some sort of way.
Comment · 7 months ago
To be fair, the BOE website often offers the consolidated version for many important laws, which includes further amendments by other laws in one text.
Comment · 8 months ago
It says it's OSS, but I can't find a link to the source code in the website, am I just being dense?