A pun on Altman-sama?
It's his online (HN/X) handle
Readit Newsbinarysolo commented on Sama says "build for GPT-5 and AGI Now; GPT-5 in 2024, AGI in 2025" twitter.com/H0wie_Xu/stat... · Posted by u/swah
Seems like an oddly high risk process. Not only are you risking bad taste from major missing ingredients like salt, but also ruining things with the wrong temperature/ cooking times.
A reasonably comprehensive cookbook like The Joy Of Cooking or something specific to your preferences seems like less effort overall vs Google or a LLM.
I would treat it analogous to asking ChatGPT to code for you (but for food) - some times it works great, other times you gotta nudge it a bit.
The tool is currently best used by people who already know how to code/cook and don't want to spend too much cognitive bandwidth, but have the skills to mofidy as needed.
Can't comment on the macroeconomic trends, but personally as a consumer, hotels are more attractive than AirBNBs for <1-week stays due to cleaning fee and chore lists ($250 cleaning fee per stay, still have to clean up the house and pack the garbage out). Most of my travel is solo for work for 2-3 days so this nudges me towards hotels.
For 1+ week stays AirBNBs make more sense (family vacay, larger house with children), though it seems like the house owner lists the same house on VRBO and for whatever reason prices it slightly cheaper there, so I just book it at the cheaper place.
binarysolo commented on Why you can't Kickstart a conference abnercoimbre.com/post/why... · Posted by u/abnercoimbre
Unless you're dancers who are famously stingy and usually order one drink a night, often water.
Are you a social dancer? :D Salsa dancer for over a decade and event (Congress/social) organizer for a few... I know exactly what you're talking about!
PS - the issue is that many social dancers want to dance over being social, and alcohol detracts from it. People have jobs and want to pay to contribute. We ended up settling on a cover charge that comes with food credit so people can booze up if desired, and buy water/snacks if not. Win-win.
binarysolo commented on AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club wsj.com/articles/how-ai-i... · Posted by u/impish9208
Still kicking myself for selling the ~20 shares I bought in high school for a mere 100% gain back when the price was $40.
Just... don't. Enjoy the profits when you get 'em. :)
This forum is filled with people who sold all sorts of tech stocks way too early (or too late), and people nerding out over things and tossing them and them magically gaining tons of value over time - I'm thinking about all of my super early CCGs that I tossed when cleaning house, the 20 bitcoin I mined for fun way back in 2012 or whenever and then deleted from my laptop (that I then sold on eBay for $100), the 10k of AAPL I bought for like $5 and sold for $10, etc. etc.
Same with all the early job opps and what not too - but we're the sum of our life choices till now and that's OK. :)
binarysolo commented on My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021) danlawton.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/fxtentacle
This "meltdown" is a highly known outcome of the practice (and kinda why people historically do it with guidance in a safe space with a lot of time-honed set of best practices from thousands of years of history).
It's kinda like people who are in reasonably healthy mental shape suddenly decide to run an ultramarathon of the mind. I'm not sure if OP may have the correct expectations.
binarysolo commented on Work life balance is impossible blog.nateliason.com/p/wor... · Posted by u/radicallyblind
Kinda click-baity and not a lot of substance, prob not worth the 5 min reading it. Article TLDR - work is part of life (duh) and you're just trying to integrate everything.
binarysolo commented on Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
People need to have their expectations set on ChatGPT, just like how they have to set their expectations on Dall-E/MJ/etc. My experiences so far with both as an ML person with interests in both domains is that they get things 80-90% right, with some big flaws.
Just like how Dall-E can paint a human face pretty well but then mess up on their fingers and other extremities, ChatGPT can give you some really logical-sounding statements but totally bomb the actual facts of things.
Am curious how they'll execute - I def see a lot of potential usefulness.
If there exist AI robocalls that start spoofing my friends and loved ones... ugh, I can just imagine the hassle of doing due diligence for every voicemail going forward. (This does kinda remind me of the scams where someone pretends to be a kidnapped distant family member, cries in the background of the call, and asks for ransom money....)