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New comment by koboll in "Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram"

koboll — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:48:18 +0000

"The party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month."

Oh no! Fifteen thousand dollars?! I'm sure Facebook is shaking and crying and will reverse their decision immediately.

New comment by koboll in "Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)"

koboll — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:06:31 +0000

I think you commented on the wrong link

New comment by koboll in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

koboll — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:11:21 +0000

Here's what Amazon.com looked like in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/20060522143937/http://www.amazon...

New comment by koboll in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

koboll — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 05:09:45 +0000

Honestly it probably has more to do with the decision to basically shut down API access without exorbitant fees than it has to do with AI startups or whatever.

Surely there are some colossal archives of all tweets before whatever date floating around that those startups are using instead.

New comment by koboll in "Higher- than-recommended doses of Vitamin D reduced risk of atrial fibrillation"

koboll — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:44:05 +0000

Will results from Finland, which sits at a rather extreme latitude, generalize to the rest of the world?

New comment by koboll in "OpenOrca: open source dataset and instruct-tuned LLMs"

koboll — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:20:12 +0000

I think that might evoke something... undesirable

New comment by koboll in "Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads"

koboll — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:03:38 +0000

This has been a problem for years. It's completely overrun a lot of terms' search results.

Honestly, given that ChatGPT produces higher quality output, the next generation of spam blogs will (sadly) probably be an improvement over the sea of crap we have now.

New comment by koboll in "Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation"

koboll — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:18:24 +0000

"corporate and conservative propaganda"

Most center-left economists are pretty dismissive of the idea that inflation is a corporate-profits-driven phenomenon too.

New comment by koboll in "Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road"

koboll — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 04:22:00 +0000

Also true about every single consulting firm

New comment by koboll in "Benzene Exposure Alters Endocrine Activity"

koboll — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:28:08 +0000

Not just the spray stuff https://www.valisure.com/valisure-newsroom/valisure-detects-...

New comment by koboll in "ChatGPT: Fear Litany"

koboll — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:37:30 +0000

Interestingly, if you prompt it a little, it will recite it in fits and starts:

```

User

I must not fear. Fear is the

ChatGPT

"mind-killer." This is a quote from the Litany Against Fear in the science fiction novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert. The full quote is:

"I must not fear. Fear

User

is the mind-killer. Fear

ChatGPT

is the little-death that brings

User

total

ChatGPT

obliteration. I will face my fear.

User

I will

ChatGPT

permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." This completes the Litany Against Fear from "Dune". ```

New comment by koboll in "People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)"

koboll — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:55:23 +0000

Pretty illuminating that the origin story of the technique is it eliciting what was later revealed as a false confession that sentenced an innocent man to life in prison.

New comment by koboll in "Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews"

koboll — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:55:48 +0000

>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness?

The company is bleeding cash. There's a good case to be made that this is the only way to make it stop bleeding cash. So either this needs to work, or the company will die anyway.

New comment by koboll in "Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely"

koboll — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:55:36 +0000

A single glance at your first link and it becomes blindingly obvious that this will never, ever gain mass adoption in its current form.

This type of design, jargon, style, is just anathema to a non-technical audience.

They don't wanted federated whatever, they just want reddit without the problems.

New comment by koboll in "Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs – comparing available capacity at GPU cloud providers"

koboll — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 05:31:17 +0000

so did Wilhelm II

New comment by koboll in "Native JSON Output from GPT-4"

koboll — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:00:01 +0000

`Although, I fear the vendor lock-in intensifies here, also given how restrictive and specific the Chat API.`

Eh, would be pretty easy to write a wrapper that takes a functions-like JSON Schema object and interpolates it into a traditional "You MUST return ONLY JSON in the following format:" prompt snippet.

New comment by koboll in "Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity"

koboll — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:57:12 +0000

Serotonin is related to social interaction in vertebrates.

Guess what we're doing a lot less of in person in the age of streaming TV and the internet?

New comment by koboll in "Archive your Reddit data before it's too late"

koboll — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:57:34 +0000

"before it's too late"? Is GDPR being repealed or something? Kind of a FUD title.

New comment by koboll in "Child Labor Is on the Rise"

koboll — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:53:33 +0000

A little misleading, perhaps, that at the top of the article is an illustration of a kid working at McDonald's.

New comment by koboll in "World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days"

koboll — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:22:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean

Also, this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-strangelove...

"Sepúlveda's team was able to tell that the carbon in these post-impact sediments could only have been assembled into these hydrocarbons (and other compounds) in a functioning open ocean ecosystem with plenty of algae photosynthesizing away at a pretty good clip. Since these sediments were deposited right after the impact, the "Strangelove" ocean theory, with a vast lifeless sea, is highly unlikely."