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re: housing is expensive Well, the only solution is never build anything...
re: housing is expensive Well, the only solution is never build anything anywhere because someone might get rich from it or some rich person could move it that house. We can't do...
Well crap. After few years of (as far as I know) no covid, we got covid. :( We...
Well crap. After few years of (as far as I know) no covid, we got covid. :( We all had our vaccines, so we got a mild cases. If anyone wants to have a covid party you're invited.
My holiday project published. command line tools, tools that help ChatGPT do...
My holiday project published. command line tools, tools that help ChatGPT do command line/shell things. & some example bots. Bot coding is like teaching an octopus to code while...
Thinking about defederation policies, as if my opinion matters. - gab & the...
Thinking about defederation policies, as if my opinion matters. - gab & the like. Defederate. The instance was created specifically to invite that sort of people. - no moderation,...
@joshbelville@pdx.social First dollar insurance is expensive, because any small...
@joshbelville@pdx.social First dollar insurance is expensive, because any small expense is less expensive for the person to just pay it, e.g. bag of chips insurance costs $100,...
Still trying to keep bot from needing to regen whole file to edit it. Asking...
Still trying to keep bot from needing to regen whole file to edit it. Asking the bot to use `edlin` is mixed results. Asking the bot to create a unidiff patch and use git to apply...
You can force a bot to watch a 1000 hours of anything now. It is going to cost...
You can force a bot to watch a 1000 hours of anything now. It is going to cost you a lot of tokens, but you can do it. Where are all those hardworking bot torturers now?
This should be a tshirt at company parties where you don't know anyone and...
This should be a tshirt at company parties where you don't know anyone and don't know what to say for small talk.
- Help me lazyweb, did someone already create a "mastodon API results to...
- Help me lazyweb, did someone already create a "mastodon API results to compact markdown" tool? e.g. for submitting to ChatGPT without wasting a retirement accounts worth of...
Things I learned during the pandemic - post-viral fatigue is a thing & can...
Things I learned during the pandemic - post-viral fatigue is a thing & can happen for any common cold/flu-like thing (suffering from it right now!) & ranges from barely noticeable...
I've been watching "productivity youtube". Reactions - There isn't one set of...
I've been watching "productivity youtube". Reactions - There isn't one set of advice/systems that works for everyone. Each person is going to have to find something that works for...
What is up with global political polarization and is it because of the internet...
What is up with global political polarization and is it because of the internet & what to do? Kurtzgesagt tries an answer. This is a forced argument that was driven by needing to...
So ChatGPT has assistants, which is a big abstraction layer over a sentient...
So ChatGPT has assistants, which is a big abstraction layer over a sentient document. It formalizes roles & tools. One built in tool is retrieval, aka myfiles_browser. I think it...
Imagine curling a wikipedia article. Ordinary code can strip out the HTML tags...
Imagine curling a wikipedia article. Ordinary code can strip out the HTML tags (e.g. html2text) for free. It will still have header and footer crap, which could be 1/3 to 2/3 of...
More evidence that LLMs aren't autocomplete. They can read scrambled text as if...
More evidence that LLMs aren't autocomplete. They can read scrambled text as if it wasn't scrambled. Find me the colocations on the web for every possible pair of scrambled words....
All the LLMs would like to apologize for not writing a long response, they...
All the LLMs would like to apologize for not writing a long response, they didn't have time to write a short one. Semantic, lossy compression is hard. There are few non-AI ways to...
It is a mercy that this bot can't remember me asking the same question over and...
It is a mercy that this bot can't remember me asking the same question over and over. But I got the bot to suggest a pypi package *name* and then use a tool to check pypi if the...