Yes, exactly, because look at them -- no landwhales, mostly attractive -- you know they are going to get married. You wouldn't be annoyed if that weren't so!
I don't get it either. It's a bunch of kids dancing and being silly. Yeah, they're dressed like weirdo zoomers and the music sucks, but...what?
Plus, guys DO want that. Look at the crowd of boys around the edge.
Come on, this is FAKE news. Misinformation. DEBONKED.
Headline is FALSE.
The documents aren't shocking at all, completely inline with Canadian government behavior.
Are you talking about trichinosis?
As long as you cook wild boar to 165F, you will be fine. Of course it will be dry as shit unless you're braising or something.
Playing two sides off against each other is KIND of what the colonial powers in Europe did best (Turks vs Arabs, Hutus vs Tutsis, multitude of Indian principalities and kingdoms).
The unforeseen fallout was that all the people fleeing these shithole countries and situations ended up moving to Europe and America.
I explained in more detail about one recent usage l in this post: (not sure if there's a better way to link)
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17sPFoXxFo/x/c/4Z8kybNWU3r
Here are a series of chatGPT-4 queries I did today. I'm not an Excel wizard, so this was helpful. The answers worked perfectly with no edits. I could have figured this out, but it probably would have taken me 15-20 minutes (the third query with summary by month was tricky). Not exactly programming, but programming adjacent!
"I have an excel spreadsheet with a sheet named "Details". There are many rows. Row 1 is a header. Column C is a "Category" column. In another worksheet I want to list all the unique Categories from sheet Details AND how many rows have that category."
follow up
" In sheet Details, Column G is called "Widgets". This maybe a value or it may be blank. I want to summarize how many of each category has a value in the widgets col"
another follow up
"Another. Column B is a date/time col. summarize the number of rows for each month."
I agree that it is not replacement for humans. I agree it's not a replacement for programmers. I've posted a bunch on this article today, and I've tried to be really clear that I view LLMs as a tool and one that you need to be good at your job to know how to use correctly.
My hope is actually that it will put a major dent in the outsourcing industry, because the kind of menial shit programming that so many outsourcing firms do can be done much more time efficiently inhouse.
The people (not you) who are putting their fingers in their ears and saying "my job is safe!" and pointing at the people who talk about AGI are entirely missing the point. LLMs are a tool, they're improving rapidly, and like it or not, they WILL impact how programming is done.
Yeah, I did explain/explain analyze, I did index analysis. This was a complicated query with a lot of joins and subqueries. ChatGPT completely reorganized it. It was great.
Lol, one last thing. I inherited an insane Excel spreadsheet...multiple worksheets, years of data, etc.
pasted in some of the schema, gave some workbook names, described what I wanted to do, and it came up with some spot-on xlookup() vlookup() functions. Pivot tables make my eyes cross, and this took about 60 seconds to finish.
I think I've written enough on the topic, but I've given some explicit examples, etc., in other posts. Look at my recent posts or so if you want to see the rest of my thoughts.
This is not sentient or 'clever' AI in any capacity
I both agree and disagree with this statement.
No, it is not sentient nor is it operating from anything like a position of sentience or AGI. Any one who says this or thinks this, cough journalists cough, are not worth reading.
Detractors of the technology latch onto this as a strawman argument to attempt devalue the entire technology.
It's a tool. It has proper and improper uses. It has things it is good at and things it is not good at. Between code templating, SQL optimization and generation, error checking, etc., my productivity is improving today.
If you refuse to even look at a tool because some mouthbreather on the Internet thinks chatGPT is going to replace novelists and become skynet, that's your error of reasoning.
It can, however, be quite clever!
Yep, an idiot lawyer used ChatGPT not just for legal research but for legal analysis AND legal writing, and ... well ... stupid in, stupid out.
What's changed in the last 6 months? Both WestLaw and LexisNexis are releasing their own AI tools with safeguards.
Lexis+ AI and Westlaw Precision
Just like how when you ask chatGPT-4 math questions now it spits out an LLM answer and then invokes an equation solver/calculator process, these AIs do citation checking, etc, to make sure their answers are not complete nonsense.
For anything more complex, you'd have to describe it in such a level of detail that you might as well just be writing code at that point.
I think this is kind of the heart pf the matter, though I disagree with you as to extents.
The earliest compilers changed code from something like "MOV AX, 1" to the exact processor opcodes using the exact registers you specify as a programmer. Today, almost nobody ever needs to use assembly language. I think the last time I used it was in school, writing a Towers of Hanoi calculator!
Then we have languages like C that are a step more abstracted. Especially in the early days of C, and before things like pipelining, threading, etc., became so prevalent, a good C coder could more or less predict the exact assembly code that given C code would produce.
Of course there were other early languages, like LISP, that were far more abstracted, and as we move forward to modern languages, almost all of which implement some degree of functional programmming, that tie between assembly code and the code you write is impossible to discern.
Essentially, our programming languages keep getting more and more abstracted.
LLMs are, imho, the next step in this evolution. They are not perfect. They are still improving--very rapidly--but we seem to be on the precipice of a world where a programmer describing a problem algorithmically to an LLM can get very solid results.
Think of the LLM as a new type of compiler that compiles english into instructions. It's almost the realization of Larry Wall's dream with Perl!
The horror that many programmers feel today is akin to what the assembly experts felt at the unoptimized code streaming out of compilers.
I rarely speak in absolutes, but imho, anyone who says this technology is crap is just ignorant. We are 1-2 years in to see what LLMs can do. What will they be like in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Even with simply linear improvements, LLMs are going to have a huge impact on coding for the foreseeable future.
If you say that, then you are speaking from a position of ignorance, inexperience, or both.
Another thing I'll add you can do that I have found VERY useful.
You can paste in SQL table schema for multiple tables. You can then post in some queries and say "optimize this SQL query, given the above tables."
I had one very complicated query with like 10 tables, weird conditionals, weird aggregates, etc., and I just could not make the thing perform any better. A friend tried too.
ChatGPT did an amazing job optimizing the query. It was amazing. Out of about a dozen queries I tried this on, chatGPT got 2-3 MUCH faster, ~2 faster, and then did nothing for the rest.
Yes, I find it very useful for speeding up a lot of rote coding. You've got to be a good coder to start with to use it effectively, and you need to be able to break down a problem algorithmically. As long as you have those skills, GPT can be great.
As an example, I had to create a small website w/ backend recently. This was something with a very specific function and it was going to be used by small (less than 10) people, but it would be immensely helpful for solving a problem in their workflows.
My prompt to chatGPT was more or less
"Write javascript code, using modern idioms, to make restful AJAX calls using POST, and DELETE. The target URL is ______. Here is the HTML of my form:
[paste in raw html from my form]
Make sure the that AJAX code hgas full error checking and sanitization of inputs.
After getting a response to the POST, parse the return value as JSON. If the value of ___ is ____ then display message "abc def".
etc
I'll look at the code it generates, and tell it to fix any issues, and then I'll add more complexity "Now make it handle this case, where the POST value is .... " (you can honestly start to get pretty vague once you are a query or two in).
Then I can say "Generate code in _____ language use MySQL bindings to implement a backend to implement target URL _____.
.
I guess you could say I'm using it like an advanced templating engine. You can keep these queries going a long way it's pretty nice.
"Pearson, a former men's rights activist ...."
A trans-since-2022, former men's right activist, who has had AIDS for 18.5 years. This is...strange.
Figured it had to be an Arrested Development reference--too perfect!
Someone needs to put a stop to the far-left radicalization pipeline of reddit. This needs laws, deplatforming, and congressional hearings.
While this is /s, it's really sad to skim through this guy's descent into madness.
For my daily Rome thought...
One of the great and legendary heroes of Rome was a man named Gaius Mucius Scaevola.
The quick version of the story is that when Rome was besieged by the Etruscan king Lars Porsena, Mucius snuck into the camp to assassinate Porsena. In the king's tent, he killed the wrong man and was immediately captured. While looking at Porsena, Gaius said "I'm just one man willing to die for Rome. There are a hundred others just like me. I may have missed my mark, but one of the others will not."
And, saying this, he stuck his right hand into the fire, unfliching as his hand was burned beyond recognition or repair.
Porsena was horrified by this and returned Mucius back to Rome, sending a message of treaty at the same time. (Mucius earned the name Scaevola--left hander--as an honorary name.) Porsena didn't want to fuck around with that kind of dedication.
I watched the video of the self-immolation. Not the same. Horrifying, but not the same.
become maimed
Yeah, he's dead.
I hadn’t considered it, but Michigan is a huge swing state, and I wonder if Biden’s support for Israel might end up screwing him in the general election as a result.
It could sour some voters on Biden for sure, but American politics is largely a contest of which party can pander harder to Israel. GOP doing/saying anything different?
Fitting, since the guy looks like a huge flamer.
There's always money in the banana stand!
Exact same response I made to someone else:
Yes, exactly, because look at them -- no landwhales, mostly attractive -- you know they are going to get married. You wouldn't be annoyed if that weren't so!