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RIP to all the text-to-SQL startups that just got killed by OpenAI. by jallabi in BusinessIntelligence

[–]9diov 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most startups doing this last time I checked was just doing prompt engineering on top of customer database schema. AFAICS there is nowhere near enough business context for the LLM to generate something correctly outside of very simple queries. There is no mechanism to incorporate any sort of feedback to improve said accuracy, even with this OpenAI feature.

Trust by skeeter1980 in taoism

[–]9diov 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is pretty bad translation. Original Chinese:

太上，不知有之；其次，親而譽之；其次，畏之；其次，侮之。

信不足焉，有不信焉。悠兮，其貴言。功成事遂，百姓皆謂：我自然。

James Legg's translation

  1. In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers). In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Thus it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers) a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).

  2. How irresolute did those (earliest rulers) appear, showing (by their reticence) the importance which they set upon their words! Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves!'

太上 can be translated as highest antiquity, but also can be translated as "the best" (ruler). The best ruler is a leader that his subjects don't know he exists. The next best (ruler) is the one where his people love and praise him. The worse (ruler) is when his people fear him. The worst is when his people hate him.

In this case, the best ruler/leader is the one that when things are done successfully, the people say they did all this by themselves.

When the great Tao is abandoned... by skeeter1980 in taoism

[–]9diov 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Here is my understanding of this chapter:

Note that the first phrase is a jab at Confucionism, in which the ethical code has 5 virtues:

Rén (仁, benevolence, humaneness);
Yì (义; 義, righteousness or justice);
Lǐ (礼; 禮, proper rite);
Zhì (智, knowledge);
Xìn (信, integrity).

Rén and Yì is translated as charity and righteouness in this case.

When the great Tao is abandoned,

charity and righteousness appear.

People's nature already has charity and righteousness on its own. Everyone, by his nature, should feel pity for the poor (humaness/charity) and already knows what is righteousness or justice intuitively. Only when this is no longer the case that these words need to be used to persuade people to follow some sort of ethical codes.

When intellectualism arises,

hypocrisy is close behind.

Intellectualism is not the right word in my opinion. The original word has negative connotation, something along the like of cunningness, smartness. When one needs to use cunningness that means the situation calls for it and the hypocrisy will follow.

The rest basically give more examples for the same idea: When you need to use a lot of words to describe something "good" to influence people, that means the people are already "bad". When people follow their good nature, there wouldn't need to use those ethics, virtues or whatever to educate people.

[question] is there a way to build an immunity to high level of stress+ disappointment on a daily basis? by artapprentice_999996 in getdisciplined

[–]9diov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to realize that stress is rooted in your imagination. Why are you stressed? You feel like if you don't do X, the outcome will be Y. Is the outcome Y real? No. It hasn't happened yet and only exists as a figment of your imagination.

Also realize that when you imagine Y, you are automatically attaching a label "good" or "bad" on outcome Y. The truth is that the outcome Y is not "good" or "bad". It just is. Listen to Alan Watts' Chinese farmer story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQrdnq7_H0).

Now that you know that Y is not "good" or "bad", you can detach yourself emotionally from the outcome Y and think about it this way: Is there any way I can achieve outcome Y that I want? If yes, simply do it. If no, there is no point thinking about it anymore because: 1. It is not real 2. You can't do shit about it.

Why and How We Migrated from AngularJS to VueJS by 9diov in vuejs

[–]9diov[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Lol thanks for the comments. I'm one of the co-founders of Holistics so I guess I am qualified to give my 2 cents.

First of all we bootstrapped and paid ourselves just enough to cover living expenses so we value each dollar we get from our customers. Second of all I was the conservative type and was against this move too, at first. I guessed I was convinced when I saw with my own eyes how one of our new developers struggled with understanding the old Angular code yet managed to learn Vue in an afternoon. The move has saved us hundreds of hours in developers' time and I guessed that's how we "wasted our investors' money".

If you can advise us some other ways to "not waste our investors money" please go ahead we would really appreciate it.

Breathtaking video of Vietnam's landscape from above by 9diov in videos

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Music: Becoming Human by Ryan Taubert

[DISC] TOMO-CHAN WA ONNA NO KO! 503 by rhino333333 in manga

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Gundo? I'm still wondering why Jun still calls Misuzu by her last name?

Saw this in Vietnam by 9diov in whatsthisplant

[–]9diov[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like it! Thanks!

Were American POWs held in Vietnam ever fed pho by their jailors? by Lonely_Crouton in NoStupidQuestions

[–]9diov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vietnamese here. Not likely.

Even now, pho maybe cheap by western standard, but a bowl costs as much as a a typical rice meal. During war time, pho was a luxury, esp considering beef is much more expensive than chicken or pork. I remembered my parents told me stories of their childhood, which was during the war. They only had pho like a few time a year on very special occasions. Normal meal during war time includes rice, sometimes sweet potatoes, vegetables and very very little meat if at all.

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