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Wearing this as an actual crown might leave one feeling light headed

I'll get my coat


Very cryptic; what are you actually saying here?

Poster is not from the US and has no interest in relocating due to the current political situation. This is a common sentiment among non-US but western professionals right now. Had the location been different, they probably would have been interested.

Sorry for being unclear. I just meant that I am always interested to hear about up-and-coming cloud providers, but I wouldn't touch one that's based out of the USA.

You shouldn't touch HN either. It's based out of the US. You would own fascists so hard by deleting your account.

> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Will you say "this doesn't look plausible" about the output?

I recently watched a demo from a data science guy about the impending proliferation of AI in just about all related fields, his position was highly sceptical but with a "let's make the most of it while we can"

The part that stood out to me which I have repeated to colleagues since, was a demo where the guy fed his tame robot a .csv of price trends for apples and bananas, and asked it to visualise this. Sure enough, out comes a nice looking graph with two jagged lines. Pack it ship it move on..

But then he reveals that, as he wrote the data himself, he knows that both lines should just be an upward trend. Expands the axis labels - the LLM has alphabetized the months but said nothing of it in any of the outputs.


Like every anecdote out there where an LLM makes a basic mistake, this one is worthless without knowing the model and prompt.


If choosing the "wrong" model, or not wording your prompt in just the right way, is sufficient to not just degrade your output but make it actively misleading and worse than useless, then what does that say about the narrative that all this sort of work is about to be replaced?


I don't recall the bot he was using, it was a rushed portion of the presentation to make the point that "yes these tools exist, but be mindful of the output - they're not a magic wand"


Always a good idea to spot check the labels and make sure you've got JFMAMJ..JASON Derulo


While we're on an Olivia Colman thread, I can't leave 'Green Wing' unmentioned


How disappointing. Been using premium for a decade now (got it in a 10p sale back in 2015! Those were the days)

Time to start scoping out replacements, this thread is a great start


Land of the f(r)ee


My wife and I have visited several European countries, and I just don't agree. Switzerland is the land of many fees, followed by Iceland and other nordic countries. Germany, France, and the UK are also expensive. The going "low" price in Iceland right now for petrol is $8.74 USD/gallon.

(Did you know that most of the public transport in the UK is owned by German and Dutch companies? They can rack up prices with little consequence.)

The US has gotten more expensive to be sure, but IMO most of our high-cost problems stem from consolidated industries with regulatory capture (healthcare, farming+food+pesticide, tax prep, etc.) and low wages for the bottom 50%, not fees.


This is the greatest comment I have seen in a very long time. Kudos.


I'm scrolling before coffee and initially took your acronym as India Pale Ale, which would certainly be a different cleaning experience...


That's a throwback! I remember being excited about the Optimus Maximus back around '06! Never heard of any actually making it out into the wild...


Managed to see them in London a few months back, can definitely echo the recommendation! (The warm up act could have done with a sound check but I was very impressed with his playing an OG GameBoy as a MIDI controller)



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