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maciekpaprocki commented on Grok3 Launch [video]   x.com/xai/status/18916997... · Posted by u/travelhead
phtrivier · a year ago
Off topic, but just in case: is there a good reference on how people actually use LLMs on a daily basis ? All my attempts so far have been pretty underwhelming:

* when I use chatbots as search engines, I'm very quickly disappointed by obvious hallucinations

* I ended up disabling github copilot because it was just "auto-complete on steroids" at best, and "auto-complete on mushrooms" at worst

* I rarely have use cases where I have to "generate a plausible page of text that statistically looks like the internet" - usually, when I have to write about something, it's to put information that's in my head into other people head

* I'd love to have something that reads all my codebase and draws graphs, explain how things work, etc... But I tried aider/ollama, etc.. and nothing even starts making sense (is that an avenue to persevere in, though ?)

* At once, I tried to write in plain english a situation where a team has to do X tasks, in Y weeks, and I needed a table of who should be working on what for each week. I was impressed that LLMs were able to produce a table - the slight problem was that, of course, the table was completely wrong. Again, is it just bad prompting ?

It's an interesting problem when you don't know if you're just having a solution in search of a problem, or if you're missing something obvious about how to use a tool.

Also, all introductory texts about LLMs go into many details about how they're made (NNs and transformers and large corpuses and lots of electricity etc...) but "what you can do with it" looks like toy examples / simply not what I do."

So, what is the "start from here" about what it can really do ?

maciekpaprocki · a year ago
finally, after two years of hype I have some usage for llm.

we import descriptions of products from a seller. the problem is they are mental ( probably written by chatgpt :)) and are way too long. we need only small blurb.

I put our style guide and given text to chatgpt and I get somehow reasonable description back. then editors still need to check it, but it's way less work.

maciekpaprocki commented on     · Posted by u/mvelbaum
maciekpaprocki · a year ago
Lol. Most of the open-source communities will have a nazi and a fury working in tandem :)

You run a community it's up to you what standards you enforce. And there's plenty of other projects you can contribute to if you disagree with them. You can also fork things and create your community.

Yes, some organisations take a piss, but at the same time, you have loads of other options.

Additionally, except for anecdotal cases, you can submit PR, which will be reviewed and merged no matter your political stance.

maciekpaprocki commented on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app   pimosa.app/... · Posted by u/anshrathodfr
zwnow · a year ago
Does SEO really matter still? I have seen a few videos that show how the SEO algorithm works a few months ago, at least googles, and you basically can't optimize in that regard.
maciekpaprocki · a year ago
SEO very much does count. And on site optimisation is the easiest return on investment as it's generally not a lot of work. few hours of work can bring you tons of clients.
maciekpaprocki commented on Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way    · Posted by u/pyeri
maciekpaprocki · a year ago
You dont want to exclude your images. That can very much affect your results as it will remove you from image tab, but also content of articles that contain them might be affected.
maciekpaprocki commented on The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)   blogs.loc.gov/internation... · Posted by u/palmfacehn
maciekpaprocki · 2 years ago
For those that loved the book. Hasek also wrote an autobiography, which is even funnier than the life of Svejk. It's definitely made up quite a bit, but the stories in it are great. I cannot find english title ( it might have been not printed ), but transleting from polish it's called "3.5 beer".

Spoilers!!! Stories include:

- One time he wrote to paper called animals and unfortunately run out of animals to write, so he just started inventing them. It ended up in year long trip to Australia paid by some wealthy women who really wanted to get her own "Tasmanian Vampire"

- Russian general invades city. Hasek knows the best way to stay alive is to have a drink with him. They get very drunk and general ask Hasek what's his biggest problem. Hasek says that the fact that people cannot read. Next day he wakes up to bunch of posters around the city saying that whoever will not be able to read by noon tomorrow will be executed.

maciekpaprocki commented on UC Berkeley freshman, son of former YouTube CEO, found dead in dorm   sfchronicle.com/bayarea/a... · Posted by u/fortran77
maciekpaprocki · 2 years ago
How is that newsworthy? Some poor kid died and his mum is a retired CEO of YouTube. Just seems like invasion of privacy in quite terrible moment for the family.
maciekpaprocki · 2 years ago
not diss on OP more on SF Chronicle
maciekpaprocki commented on UC Berkeley freshman, son of former YouTube CEO, found dead in dorm   sfchronicle.com/bayarea/a... · Posted by u/fortran77
maciekpaprocki · 2 years ago
How is that newsworthy? Some poor kid died and his mum is a retired CEO of YouTube. Just seems like invasion of privacy in quite terrible moment for the family.
maciekpaprocki commented on Ask HN: What are some effective strategies for students to attempt assignments?    · Posted by u/burhanrashid52
maciekpaprocki · 2 years ago
If I would tell any of my tutors/teachers that I am not able to find time for it, I would be thrown out of the school or at least didn't pass. I am like 30, so i don't think that much changed.
maciekpaprocki commented on     · Posted by u/Cobratate
maciekpaprocki · 2 years ago
The f*** is that? Some crazy scam on hn.
maciekpaprocki commented on Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript   goose.icu/introducing-sha... · Posted by u/awesomekling
sirk390 · 2 years ago
For example you could set cookies before visiting another website. This is currently impossible in an iframe but possible in a browser. I've wanted to do this to automatically login users on some external websites.
maciekpaprocki · 2 years ago
That's a security feature. If you would have that in any environment it would be massive security issue. If you actually own the service you can still do that.

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