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Why is anything related to Elon is so divisive. He is certainly a manifestation of the Trump phenomenon. Please someone build a Adblock filter that blocks anything related to musk and trump. I’d pay for it


This comment nails it: "Rich vindictive kids descend on Washington.."


Can someone explain to me how Musk is able to repeatedly turn gambles into gold?


even that is not far fetched. This is a typical supply chain attack.


I never said it was far fetched.


this is likely some sort of a supply chain attack. The videos I saw show serious explosions for radio pagers. Can lithium battery do this? Or the most likely explanation is that they were rigged with some explosives?


LinkedIn job search. I filter by contracts, part time, remote …etc and apply even if it’s not a perfect fit. In addition, specific tech job boards. I got a couple contract/freelance gigs this way that since 2018. The same clients keep giving me jobs in and off. I noticed it’s a bit harder now than it used to be but that’s probably across the tech market.


could you elaborate on that? i have never used linkedin job search. also which tech job boards? any recommendations?


Go to linkedin and search for jobs you like. There is an advanced search options where you can filter by remote, contract, part time or full time. What I meant by specific tech board is applying directly on a websites/boards/forums associated with a certain tech. For example elixir jobs .com if you are want something in that space.


Does it work for Arabic and hebrew? I am trying to teach myself how to fine tune a model and thought doing this with my own arabic notes could be a fun project. Not sure where to start though.

update: I tired it and it works to some degree and a lot better than chatgpt.


Congratulations on the launch! is there any write up on how it's different than other popular db management tools?


It's aimed as an SQL tool for Data Analysts not DBAs. e.g. It has 10+ charts builtin that can be generated directly from queries. It allows creating pivots using a UI. It does not allow DBA tasks like altering columns. It features a unique integration with DuckDB that let's you save any result from any database to a local duckdb instance.


curious how were you able to tell? as a non-native speaker, I too use LLM to improve my wordings/clarity but modify it to maintain my rough style


It's the writing style. Humans simply don't write like that, unless they are writing a research paper.


Even as a non-native speaker it really stood out: "This situation is exacerbated by the fact that", "In contrast", "Given the outlined".

I would call this style something like fluid enumeration of facts, typical for GPT generated texts.


It's too verbose and vauge, the information density is terrible. The only people I've seen who writes like that are those who need to reach a certain number of words while saying as little as possible.


A hacker news comment isn't a research paper. I scrolled past it after starting because of the AI tells. Organic communication will be hard soon.


When I listen to speech synthesis systems from the 80s, like the one from Stephen Hawking, I feel they are easy to understand but "robotic", they sound all the same in a "robotic" sense.

LLMs seem to suffer from that as well. The length of the answers has lower variance than the length from humans. The number of paragraphs, the length of each paragraph, the structure of the paragraphs... All that is kind of predictable, so when I read a text that does not have that structure I usually don't think it's written by an LLM. However if the text has that structure then I can suspect it may come from an LLM. I believe in some months we will all be used to the LLM style and we will get much better to identify it... And then chatbots will probably be changed to sound less robotic...


It's actually very easy to convince an LLM to output perfectly natural text, it's just that their default mode is that verbose corporate boilerplate speak.

You can request responses in some specific style by the name of a popular author, or just provide a bunch of examples for it to copy.

I like responses in the style of an "Encyclopaedia Dramatica article", which tends to be both hilarious and also a bit less guarded and hence more honest.


For me "eschewing unnecessary complexity" stands out as a phrase that I've heard in the context of joking (as it is itself an unnecessarily complex wording) but which didn't fit well here as it didn't seem any joking was intended.


it’s poorly written - overly discursive. stuff like “the fact that” which are filler phrases


account is back online https://github.com/JiaT75


Hopefully still locked just visible so people can find and alayze his contributions.


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