Can anyone measure in how Claude compares to copilot? Copilot feels like a fancy auto complete, but people seem to have good experiences with Claude, even in more complex settings.
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grp000 commented on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.... · Posted by u/hesk
Wikipedia has moderation and standards for sourcing, etc. that has made it generally very reliable. ChatGPT is a fancy parrot that sounds reliable. To actually verify that its output is correct requires more work and cross-referencing sources, etc.
That's a good point. For more complex topics, the act of verifying correctness is also more complex. I think it's a fair tradeoff though. A more powerful tool also requires more work to use CORRECTLY. Now, whether people will actually put in due diligence is another matter.
grp000 commented on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.... · Posted by u/hesk
Privacy concerns and ChatGPT have different failure modes.
If ChatGPT fabricates a link or makes something up, there's a potential feedback mechanism. E.g. I ask ChatGPT to explain a science term, and then I get told that my understanding is incorrect in class when I use the ChatGPT definition.
It doesn't exist for every use case, but I'm hopeful everyone will be "bitten" once by ChatGPT etc., and then folks will verify its output appropriately.
This doesn't seem much different to me than how people should use wikipedia. It looks like it will be a useful tool to use, you just can't be careless.
grp000 commented on Where will all the laid off tech workers go? vox.com/recode/2023/1/31/... · Posted by u/JoeMayoBot
Agreed. One of my friends started casually looking for a job before the bloodbath began. He was being very picky and was in an employee market where he could command a large salary. Now he feel like a chump, because he can't start a conversation for more than 30% less than what he used as a baseline in October.
That must be one of the more extreme examples. I'm probably being under compensated at the moment, but about half of recruiters reaching out are matching my salary.
It is written in a humorous style, but I don't take it as a joke. How is this fundamentally different than GPT code completion, other than it's data instead of code?
I suspect our intuition tells us code will be verified first by a programmer, then by the language parser, whereas data is likely to be manipulated without human scrutiny.
Does anyone seriously believe that this will forever be the case?
You CAN'T close pandora's box, but you CAN make jokes about pandora's box.
> I've also heard legends about how great Dell's Worldwide repair program is where people have had parts delivered to them next day on the island of Borneo in Indonesia, but that's yet to be tested.
This was a long time ago, but I bought a Dell with Ubuntu while visiting my parents in Oregon, and took it back with me to where I was living in Innsbruck, Austria.
The hard drive (I told you this was a while back) died on me. I called up Dell, and expected some nightmare of having to ship it back to the US where I'd bought it and waiting months and who knows what.
But what actually happened was some guy showed up at my door the next day with a new drive and swapped it out.
I was so impressed.
Were they local to the area?
Couldn't that be more efficiently solved using a public database maintained by a trusted third party? We don't need a blockchain to know who owns shares for example.
I'm just an engineer with no background in finance, but didn't a fair part of the 2008 collapse come about by trusted third party risk auditing that went bad? Rather than maintaining a centrality of trust at some level, it seems intuitive that if there is a public database with trust decentralized among all the participants, there is less of a chance for that trust to be abused.
grp000 commented on MycelioTronics: Fungal mycelium skin for sustainable electronics science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/lioeters
I'd be very careful with anything fungal on my body. Last thing I'd want is a fungal infection in my lungs or something dreadful like that. This looks like the classic human folly were we get blinded and overhyped by the usefulness of the technology and minimize and discard the side-effects.
People eat it.
grp000 commented on Ask HN: Why is Python package management still a dumpster fire? · Posted by u/breckenedge
For any python project bigger than trivial, I literally just build a docker image and run it from that.