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tnias23 commented on Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone   blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
starchild3001 · 7 months ago
I use all top of the line models everyday. Not for coding, but for general "cognitive" tasks like research, thinking, analysis, writing etc. What Google calls Gemini Pro 2.0 has been my most favorite model for the past couple of months. I think o1/4o come pretty close. Those are kinda equals, with a slight preference for Gemini. Claude has fallen behind, clearly. DeepSeek is intriguing. It excels occassionally where others won't. For consistency's sake, Gemini Pro 2.0 is amazing.

I highly recommend using it via https://aistudio.google.com/. Gemini app has some additional bells and whistles, but for some reason quality isn't always on par with aistudio. Also Gemini app seems to have more filters -- it seems more shy answering controversial topics. Just some general impressions.

tnias23 · 7 months ago
do you mean "Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental 02-05"? too many similarly named models
tnias23 commented on CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised   insidemedicine.substack.c... · Posted by u/KittenInABox
card_zero · 7 months ago
That's a matter of context, and raises the question of whether they're in a civil society or a war (or both at once). In principle in a civil society nobody should be punching anybody in the face and mitigating circumstances like the other person being a nazi are only details. But see Sartre's feelings about living alongside nazis in occupied France: the were very polite and pleasant, and the whole situation was tense and awkward because you're unsure of your duty in that situation - is it war or not?
tnias23 · 7 months ago
Is this a quote from Sartre, or just an interpretation? I looked for it and couldn’t find it, beyond maybe representing his “Paris under the occupation”
tnias23 commented on Merry Christmas Everyone    · Posted by u/joshagilend
cricalix · 8 months ago
YouTube's creator AI assistance leaking across universes? (If you haven't seen it, LGR did a video about the AI reply-to-comments stuff that YT is pushing - https://youtu.be/26QHXElgrl8)
tnias23 · 8 months ago
I’ve never really been anxious about dead internet theory until watching this video. I guess I just never had knowing exposure to it. Surreal dystopia.
tnias23 commented on ChatGPT Pro   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
adamtaylor_13 · 9 months ago
Except Anthropic actually has the ability to deliver $200/month in value whereas OpenAI lost the script a long time ago.

Not a single one of OpenAI’s models can compete with the Claude series, it’s embarrassing.

tnias23 · 9 months ago
Even o1?
tnias23 commented on The deterioration of Google   baldurbjarnason.com/2024/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
michaelt · 9 months ago
As I recall, the timeline was:

2017, seven Google employees invent the transformer architecture and publish a paper. Google's investing heavily into ML, with their own custom 'TPU' chips and their 'Tensorflow' ML framework.

2019ish, Google has an internal chatbot they decide to do absolutely nothing with. Some idiot tells the press it's sentient, and they fire him.

2022, ChatGPT launches. It proves really powerful, a product loads of individuals and businesses are ready to pay for, and the value of the company skyrockets.

2023, none of the seven Transformer paper authors are at Google any more. Google rushes out Bard. Turns out they don't have a sentient super-intelligence after all. In fact it's badly received enough they end up needing to rebrand it a few months later.

Classic tortoise-and-hare situation - Google spent 5 years napping, then had to sprint flat out just to take third place.

tnias23 · 9 months ago
Except tortoise is supposed to win. Maybe we just haven’t given it enough time?

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tnias23 commented on The Varieties of Mystical Experience   bookforum.com/print/3102/... · Posted by u/drdee
buildsjets · 10 months ago
It is TOTALLY psuedo-scientific new agey talk. That doesn't necessarily negate it's validity. What determines it's it's validity is whether it is a testable and repeatable method to accomplish a result, and whether it can be learned, then communicated / taught to others.

Aleister Crowley said in Magick in Theory and Practice:

"In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them."

So, have you studied and received training and tried your own personal practice in pushing up your cerebrospinal fluid / manipulating your kundalini energy / grounding your root chakra / whatever new-agey terms your chosen method uses? Or are you dismissing the validity of these methods without firsthand experimentation because of how other people in your society have trained you think and because you do not like the terminology that they use?

tnias23 · 10 months ago
Assuming that this suggestion of “pushing up” CSF is possible, if taken literally, it would increase intracranial pressure (ICP). The normal ICP range is around 7-15 mmHg, and pressures outside this range can reduce cerebral perfusion, with increases potentially causing cerebral ischemia and brain herniation. Therefore, maintaining normal ICP is crucial for brain health. Let’s assume this supposed technique alters ICP minimally enough to stay within the normal range. I am not aware of any evidence suggesting that ICP at the higher end of normal (or anywhere within normal) is associated with health benefits.
tnias23 commented on Reddit banned me for developing Geddit   buzl.uk/2024/08/24/reddit... · Posted by u/kaangiray26
hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago
Well, reddit became worse than that ~10 years ago because of the inconsistent, absurd, immature unreasonableness of a sizable fraction of mods who added suck and subtracted cool from the world. Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media platforms where community mods skew towards being drama-oriented, elitist, and/or crazy because no one else wants the job and so, like policing, it attracts certain personality disorder-like individuals.
tnias23 · a year ago
I can see the function of mods being taken over by ai at some point. Pros might outweigh cons.
tnias23 commented on Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller   thehustle.co/news/why-toi... · Posted by u/Anon84
stavros · a year ago
I'm having a hard time believing this. I use three squares of TP after the bidet, to dry myself. In places without a bidet, I'll use a ton of paper to get everything.
tnias23 · a year ago
How can you dry off with only a couple squares? Does your bidet have a drying fan too??
tnias23 commented on Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller   thehustle.co/news/why-toi... · Posted by u/Anon84
wkat4242 · a year ago
There are ones that are flushable. I use them at home. It specially says flushable.
tnias23 · a year ago
Even the ones that say flushable aren’t. It’s just a marketing ploy.

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