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scotu commented on A guide to prompting AI, for what it is worth oneusefulthing.org/p/a-gu... · Posted by u/jger15

j0hnyl · 2 years ago

I don't think prompt engineering is temporary as long as we are using LLMs. Prompt engineering is about creating workflows that squeeze the most impact out of these tools. I don't see how that will go away.

scotu · 2 years ago

the expectation is that we won't be prompting this models the way we do now down the road. As in: prompting is the command line of LLM, at some point we'll get the equivalent of a GUI (either because we can be clueless on how to prompt because the LLM is so good, or it's so good at eliciting your requirements, or because there is no prompt at all and you interface with the LLM completely differently)

You could foresee that under the covers there is always going to be some prompting but it's going to be performed rarely by few people?

scotu commented on What are some interesting uses of WebUSB you have come across? · Posted by u/moondev

severak_cz · 3 years ago

Updating firmware of synth.

scotu · 3 years ago

Same, for example Noise engineering https://noiseengineering.us has 2 lines of eurorack synthesizer modules which are each built on the same hardware and they let you swap firmwares (change your delay module firmware to the distortion module firmware, your drum synth firmware to a compression effect firmware...).

(Also you can write your own fw)

scotu commented on Netflix’s big power clash and rivalries behind the crash hollywoodreporter.com/bus... · Posted by u/gmays

solarhoma · 3 years ago

I do not agree that the industrial revolution is equivalent to changing sexuality within a society.

I could agree that modern technology and the industrial revolution are very similar. But even with that it has taken 60+yrs for our society to have a computer in the majority of homes after the Manchester Baby was created (and I think this change happened extremely quickly). And, analog and electromechanical computers go back even further. So, again, I think even these things have been a very gradual change happening over many decades once the leading technology was invented.

To further expand on my thoughts, to imply everyone was using ‘industrial revolution’ technology overnight would be heresy. I’m sure it took factories many decades to build and retrofit equipment including a technology run up to the revolution itself. With this said, you peaked my interest in this area and I have some researching to do this weekend.

scotu · 3 years ago

> changing sexuality

The sexuality is not "changing" significantly, what changed is that it's getting less dangerous to 1. realize that you are not straight 2. not be straight 3. tell people (including polls) that you are not straight...

scotu commented on Netflix’s big power clash and rivalries behind the crash hollywoodreporter.com/bus... · Posted by u/gmays

solarhoma · 3 years ago

Is it truth or is it being force fed down children’s throats? How can the Western world go from a ~2% homosexuality rate to 20% in two generations? It appears we both have a different perspective on how we got here.

scotu · 3 years ago

By having homosexuality violently oppressed, ostracized and ridiculed in the past, and slowly reversing that attitude towards it? People were literally criminals for loving people of the same sex...

scotu commented on Testing New Tools for Horizon Worlds Creators to Earn Money about.fb.com/news/2022/04... · Posted by u/cglong

Arrath · 3 years ago

It seems vanishingly unlikely for a company like Meta to operate something without a profit motive.

scotu · 3 years ago

I suppose I was thinking the original comment referred to the concept of metaverse, not FB's product. Then my question was: do companies have to colonize something that doesn't have scarcity and fake it so that they can profit?

scotu commented on Testing New Tools for Horizon Worlds Creators to Earn Money about.fb.com/news/2022/04... · Posted by u/cglong

drewcoo · 3 years ago

How can there be profit without scarcity?

scotu · 3 years ago

why does there need to be profit where there is no natural scarcity?

scotu commented on If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? abhinavsharma.com/blog/go... · Posted by u/abhinavsharma

mountainriver · 3 years ago

The “google search sucks” rhetoric is getting a bit old. It works really really well and is free. I rarely ever have issues with it.

I think it’s just getting trendy to dog on

scotu · 3 years ago

google "sucks" because ads. It might have other problems, but when you can buy your competitor name as a keyword ad and on mobile you need to scroll 1+1/2 screens to get to maybe the 1st organic result and the ad is barely different from the organic, you end up with a sucky search engine, no matter the algorithm.

The competitor website is not a slightly suboptimal result for the query: it's literally the wrong result if I'm not adding "alternative" to the search query. I'm sorry.

scotu commented on Removing cookie consent requests from Firefox iOS rchaves.app/firefox-ios-w... · Posted by u/rchaves

wintermutestwin · 4 years ago

I don't understand the advantage to using Firefox over Safari on iOS. No uBlock Origin = what's the point = I have zero interest in an iPad.

scotu · 4 years ago

aside from the fact that as others have pointed out there is more to firefox than the engine (though I wish I could have that too) such as firefox sync and a UI that better suits my taste, it also signals interest in using a different browser which hopefully will push apple to allow full 3rd party web browsers at some point.

scotu commented on Examining the covidtests.gov architecture adhoc.team/2022/01/18/cov... · Posted by u/earthboundkid

technothrasher · 4 years ago

It may be stable, but there are certainly issues. I cannot get mail delivered to my home address, and it told me I can only use a residential address, so no tests for me. I am far from the only person with this situation. This is a major fail when the website boldly advertises, "Every home in the U.S. is eligible". They even specifically refuse to send it general delivery to my local post office, which is the usual solution when people refuse to ship to anywhere but my home address.

scotu · 4 years ago

one would assume usps would have the best data regarding residential addresses, so I assume "where you live" is not a residential address. Part of the reason they are delivering to residential addresses (and no "to the local post office") is to limit the orders by household, and avoid scalpers reselling those tests.

Obviously ideally they should be limiting the orders by person, but without national id and with scalpers ready to make a penny wherever they can we cannot have nice things.