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EForEndeavour commented on 183M Gmail Passwords Leaked   forbes.com/sites/daveywin... · Posted by u/FrostKiwi
larholm · 2 months ago
The title of the article makes it clear that these are not 183M Gmail passwords, but that Gmail passwords are a part of the leak.

"Gmail Passwords Confirmed As Part Of 183 Million Account Data Leak"

EForEndeavour · 2 months ago
By the article's logic, I just exhaled 5 * 10^18 kg of carbon dioxide into the earth's atmosphere.
EForEndeavour commented on My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs   verdik.substack.com/p/how... · Posted by u/frenchmajesty
pietz · 2 months ago
I enjoyed reading this, but it seems overly complex and at least slightly flawed.

Why not embed all tweets, cluster them with an algorithm of your choice and have an LLM provide names for each cluster?

Cheaper, better clusters and more accurate labels.

EForEndeavour · 2 months ago
From my limited experience trying exactly this, it gets you 80% of the way there, then devolves into an infuriating and time-wasting exercise in endless iteration and prompting to sweep clustering parameters and labeling details to nail the remaining 20% needed for acceptance by downstream "customers" (i.e., nontechnical business people).

If your end goal is to show an audience of nontechnical stakeholders an overview of your dataset in a static medium (like a slide), I would suggest you do the cluster labeling yourself, with the help of interactive tooling to make the semantic cluster structure explorable. One option is to throw the dataset into Apple's recently published and open-sourced Embedding Atlas (https://github.com/apple/embedding-atlas), take a screenshot of the cluster viz, poke around in the semantic space, and manually annotate the top 5-10 most interesting clusters right in Google Slides or PowerPoint. If you need more control over the embedding and projection steps (and you have a bit more time), write your own embedding and projection, then use something like Plotly to build a quick interactive viz just for yourself; drop a screenshot into a slide and annotate it. Feels super dumb, but is guaranteed to produce human-friendly output you can actually present confidently as part of your data story and get on with your life.

EForEndeavour commented on Trap the Critters with Paint   deepanwadhwa.github.io/fr... · Posted by u/deepanwadhwa
evan_ · 2 months ago
JezzBall was also pretty similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall

Jezzball was a TI calculator classic.

EForEndeavour · 2 months ago
This is so nostalgic. I remember feeling like I was so good at Jezzball. In later levels I'd start a wall near one corner of the screen, closer to one edge than the opposite edge, to ensure the shorter wall would connect, and sacrificing the longer wall. The surviving wall would create a "corridor" in which to trap balls with tiny horizontal walls, often such that they ended up completely stationary.
EForEndeavour commented on Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr   washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/Tadpole9181
Bhilai · 2 months ago
Does it matter? Who is listening? Who is reading? Definitely not the Trump administration and the GoP. They simply don't care about these appeals and truths.
EForEndeavour · 2 months ago
> Does it matter?

If they speak up, maybe. If they stay silent, definitely not.

EForEndeavour commented on What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?   motivenotes.ai/p/what-mak... · Posted by u/AnhTho_FR
stingraycharles · 2 months ago
Yeah, AI isn’t creative. You need to ask it to describe these types of patterns, and then include avoiding them in your original prompt to make it come across as somewhat natural.

What I wonder is whether the author of the article recognized these patterns and didn’t care, didn’t even recognize them, or didn’t proofread the article?

EForEndeavour · 2 months ago
I gather he's operating Beyond the Prompt, and isn't here to rehash prompt engineering tips.
EForEndeavour commented on Burnend alive inside a Tesla as rescuers fail to open the car's door   msn.com/en-us/autos/elect... · Posted by u/dsego
piker · 3 months ago
Parent of 2 actually, and lots of time.

I'm talking about child locks, not auto-lock. Locking the door from the inside. A commenter above suggests that it's to stop the little idiots from popping out into the middle of the street .7845 seconds after I put it in park. That actually makes some sense.

EForEndeavour · 3 months ago
Ah got it. The conversation upthread had focused on auto-lock, and someone had mentioned child locks in passing, and my read of your comment was on the auto-lock on shift to drive (or on starting to move). And my bad for falsely guessing you weren't speaking from personal experience!
EForEndeavour commented on Burnend alive inside a Tesla as rescuers fail to open the car's door   msn.com/en-us/autos/elect... · Posted by u/dsego
piker · 3 months ago
I hate this "feature". Was there a rash of children jumping out of cars that lead to its creation? It just seems like such a narrow set of facts where a child is big and smart enough to open the door but dumb enough to jump out and get seriously hurt. Opening a moving car door is presumably quite difficult given the aerodynamic pressure on the body. So the car would have to be moving rather slow and yet turning and moving fast enough that the child couldn't avoid disaster.
EForEndeavour · 3 months ago
> It just seems like such a narrow set of facts where a child is big and smart enough to open the door but dumb enough to jump out and get seriously hurt.

I had to guess, I'd guess you aren't a parent or spend much time interacting with children :)

Also, auto-lock reduces theft and carjacking risk, which is nice.

EForEndeavour commented on Israel's strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar shatters Gulf's faith in US protection   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/NomDePlum
votepaunchy · 3 months ago
The US is has been a net exporter of oil and gas since the fracking revolution during the Bush administration.
EForEndeavour · 3 months ago
Could you share your source? The USA only became a net exporter of total energy in 2019, ten years after the end of George W Bush's administration, and remains a net importer of crude oil: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-...

The United States has been an annual net exporter of natural gas since 2016, 7 years after the end of George W's administration: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/imports-and-...

EForEndeavour commented on I don't read your email threads   loganmarek.com/i-dont-rea... · Posted by u/xvok
rwmj · 4 months ago
and for a well-written email:

d) Someone spent some time forming and writing down their thoughts, which seems to be an increasingly rare skill these days.

EForEndeavour · 4 months ago
> increasingly skill

This is increasingly ironic :)

u/EForEndeavour

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