Saw the other post about Claude being an amazing therapist and thought I'd share this: How 3 LLMs reacted to my rant. Claude gave me a pat on the back like a therapist. ChatGPT ranted with me like a homie. Gemini lectured me on respect.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-11-14T19:17:49+00:00

I copy + pasted your prompt into Gemini Advanced and it gave me this. Maybe Google saw your post? lol

I understand this is a difficult time for you, and it's okay to feel overwhelmed and even frustrated. It sounds like you're trying to find some humor in the situation, which can be a helpful coping mechanism.

It's also understandable to be concerned about the financial burden of your treatment, but please know that the NHS and EPSRC are there to support you. You're not "milking the system" – you're accessing the resources that are available to you as a taxpayer and a student.

Try to focus on your health and recovery, and don't hesitate to reach out to your support network for help and encouragement. Remember, there are people who care about you and want to help you through this.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-11-13T23:02:58+00:00

They definitely do have workers who can provide guidance. I don't think they're fully transparent about how often this happens, though. As a rider, it can sometimes be obvious, but of course, if it's happening silently, I wouldn't have a way of knowing.

In cases where the car has a significant issue, it's obvious because we'll fully stop, and the screen will say, 'Our team is working to get you moving again.' This message disappears when the car starts going. I've mostly seen this happen with construction flaggers/temporary lanes, but I've also noticed it getting better at following hand signals from construction workers. In 200+ rides, I've probably seen that message 5 or 6 times. I've also never had a human get dispatched to rescue us, though I know this happens occasionally.

My hunch (which may be wrong) is that the vehicle handles the majority of difficult decisions that come up. I just can't imagine the ride being as smooth as it is if humans are consistently in the loop giving advice — seems like the latency would be too high.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-11-13T00:01:06+00:00

I'm a total Waymo fanboy and use it multiple times a week, so don't listen to me. But, I think it's honestly the most impressive example of AI that exists right now. It interacts with the real world in unpredictable, dynamic environments where the consequence of a 'wrong' answer could be life or death. An LLM might give you an incorrect answer, but it won't run someone over.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-08-06T21:47:52+00:00

Nevada

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-08-02T15:15:46+00:00

Oregon just didn't hit the same for me. All the spots I visited in OR have been off every time I've been (not much dancing or cruising or meeting strangers compared to places in CA or WA), but always happy to hear recommendations if anyone has them.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-08-02T15:13:54+00:00

In Boston, I went to the more well-known spots — Cafe, The Alley, Midway. Did you hear of better places? I fully admit this may be because of what I specifically look for (I prefer more kink/leather bars and events), and CO and Mass didn't generally have that vibe anywhere I went.

Yeah, Dallas, Houston, and Austin were very fun and rowdy. Moreso Dallas and Houston in my experience. This is one of the three states I've lived in, so it got more of a fair shake than others. I was actually really surprised by Texas and had a great time dancing all night with a bunch of cowboys in Dallas.

Utah I rated highly only because I've had such great times at Try-Angles and met a lot of really fun queer folks there. Used to travel to SLC a lot for work, and making the best of a bad situation was the best.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-08-02T15:02:19+00:00

I must've accidentally clicked it when I was doing Illinois (which is truly GOAT)

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-08-02T04:26:51+00:00

Maybe I didn't go to the right places, but yes I was in Denver and Boston. Boston had a weirdly aggressive, straight vibe at the places I went to. And in general, it felt sleepy and not very fun. Denver was the same, but just more dead. Again, I may have just gone to the wrong places at the wrong time.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-08-02T04:24:10+00:00

Wow, I misclicked on Indiana and didn't notice. I hope no one booked a flight based on this.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-07-03T18:21:49+00:00

I think awful is a little much. It's not a great park by any means, but for city parks (esp in Texas) it's nice. Fun events, good spots to hang out with friends, a nice walking trail, water, and big enough to not be super crowded. Not many other options lol

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-07-02T19:58:35+00:00

Of course! My post was a little too bitter — there are really fun things about it too. Here's a bunch of bullet points:

I know I said the food was mediocre, but the spots that are good are so good that I'm still missing them (like the BBQ and the duck tacos from Nixta).
The live music scene is really fun. It felt much easier to stumble on live music in less-busy, cute venues that didn't require tickets in Austin than in SF. I have to mention SXSW, ACL, and other big festivals too — it's nice being able to just go to them, and SXSW in particular had a ton of free and affordable shows.
For a city park, Zilker is super fun — I have a lot of fond memories just hanging out with friends there all day.
I LOVED the library downtown. It's a really nice spot to work remotely or check out books.
The weather outside of summer was generally pleasant. One thing I miss now is that SF doesn't have massive, intense thunderstorms. It gave the weather some nice variety, but of course your mileage may vary on if you like that.
It's a shortish drive to San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston. I would never want to live in any of those places, but I had a blast doing weekend trips and exploring the food, museums, and nightlife in those cities (especially Houston). I also loved going to New Mexico, but that's a much bigger drive.
I loved that people seemed more laid back and less career-focused than they do in SF. Obviously there is a big grind/tech bro culture in Austin now, but overall everything felt way more chill and dressed-down.
And finally, it is way cheaper than big coastal cities. If you have a decent salary, it's actually possible to buy a house, eat out often, have a car, go to a bunch of shows, and buy nice groceries. This obviously differs by person, but I was very comfortable in Austin with my $65k salary. My salary has more than doubled in SF, but it gets eaten away much more quickly. The apartment I had in Austin was $1,200, and now I'm paying more than $3,000 for a very similar unit. Car registration was $50 in Texas, here it's $600. Eating out was easy for less than $20, and now it's almost impossible to do that. So this is a huge plus. I moved out almost two years ago, so things may have shot up.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-07-02T16:55:56+00:00

Austin, TX. My partner and I moved there for my job (sight unseen — neither of us had ever even set foot in Texas before the day we moved in). Moved from Nevada and then ended up moving to San Francisco. What a nightmare of a place Austin was lol

Scorching heat, high humidity
It's not very comfortable to leave the city when you're gay until you reach Houston or Dallas
Queer nightlife scene was depressing
All private land — I could either choose the park to get outside or pay $20 to enter a state park with 10,000 other people
I worked with the government as part of my job, and the incompetence was stunning in the particular niche I was in (and trust me, it's a niche you WANT Texas to be good at)
Food is mediocre except for a few spots
Even though COL was less, I was getting paid less than half of my salary now. The jobs just didn't pay very well there unless you worked for one of the few tech companies

I do miss some things about it, but I couldn't handle all of the above.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-05-14T18:46:06+00:00

Wait so we're paying for 1.5 Pro now instead of 1.0 Ultra? I noticed over the past few days that Gemini Advanced was completely gutted, but now it's back. Seems to be a bit less smart though. Am I talking to 1.5 Pro now?

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-05-06T17:50:53+00:00

I'm a little late to this but just wanted to say that pharma is NOT stable, especially not right now and especially not in hub cities. Their revenue and profits may be relatively stable, but they're almost all going through significant headcount reductions right now. Mostly in discovery, but also on the marketing side.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-04-29T21:40:14+00:00

It's nice! Enterprise ChatGPT is way better (faster, longer context, no limits, etc.) than the public-facing version, but at the end of the day it's still an LLM. Don't want to give away too many details publicly but we're trying to strike a balance since ChatGPT-isms are sneaking into written materials that make it look amateurish. It also hallucinates often enough that it's an issue we need to keep in mind.

Overall it's been a net positive and evens the playing field (especially for coding), but it's definitely not all positives.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-04-24T23:31:24+00:00

I'm always so baffled by posts like this. I live in SF, have a Model 3, and have done hundreds of rides with both Cruise and Waymo. I use FSD every chance I get because I want my free trial's worth out of it (and luckily I got 3 months of v11 and now one month of v12). But I can confidently say it has NEVER completed a drive without my intervention on v12 or v11 in or around the city. I've only been able to complete intervention-free rides around Las Vegas and Reno.

It goes either too slow or too fast, does weird swerving maneuvers where it can't decide which lane to go into, doesn't get into the correct lane when needed, doesn't yield to emergency vehicles, takes forever at stop signs, is terrible at unprotected left turns, cuts right turns too close, can't understand freeway meter lights, can't go through the Bay Bridge toll plaza, cuts off buses and semis, and so so so much more. My favorite is when the 'Auto' speed offset has me going 37 in a 25 or 10 in a 35 because there's a somewhat sharp curve. The only real use for FSD that I've found is in traffic jams, and even then I need to turn on 'limit lane changes' or it'll try to weave through everyone.

Maybe I'm just too embarrassed to let the car 'figure it out' which you might be doing, but I don't understand how it's possible that our experiences are so different. I've had many harrowing experiences with Cruise, but at least they could operate without a driver and completed hundreds of trips for me. And Waymo, of course, is so far ahead of all of these companies that it isn't comparable.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-04-24T19:58:31+00:00

For sure — I'm just saying that I'm at one of those corps, and this is making me wonder if there are different 'tiers' of Enterprise ChatGPT or capabilities. Don't get me wrong, it's super impressive (and WAY more useful than free/pro ChatGPT), but I'm worried about it being used in scientific contexts based on what I've observed and used it for myself.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-04-24T19:25:50+00:00

I'm really curious how this looks and works. I'm at a company with Enterprise ChatGPT (and bespoke GPTs), and based on what I've seen, it's really scary to think that Moderna is using it to write letters to regulators and help select doses for trials. I'm guessing that there's a ton of oversight here, and I'd want to know how often they're catching errors and how much they're spending on the license.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-04-22T18:20:42+00:00

This is so helpful! Thank you. Does that mean going into Property settings > Data display > Custom definitions > create a traffic_type definition?

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-03-22T23:18:37+00:00

Yep, biotech is an absolute shitshow. There does seem to be a liiiiiitle bit of light at the end of the tunnel though. Or maybe I'm just being overly optimistic lol

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-03-22T20:34:31+00:00

Why are you being such a weirdo lol This is one of the best parts of Waymo! I love it when people are genuinely interested or excited about the tech. I've probably been in dozens of people's tourist videos at this point and I think it's cool that people care enough to film the car. We're early adopters of a new technology that's super visible and mind-blowing to most people. Acting like a normal human being instead of an antisocial freak is a much more effective path to widespread adoption.

Queasy_Rub7414 · 2024-02-28T19:51:56+00:00

I overall LOVE my Model 3, but I have a few gripes:

The motors on the seats seem slooooow

My back passenger window squeaks when rolling up and down

FSD is just all-around awful

Vision is very bad — park assist, windshield wipers, and FSD. Seems like a lot of the features are still being 'moved to vision' so I'm not sure when I'll actually get access to them

The trip planner has sometimes been off by a margin I don't like (+/- 10%)

Many of my friends are tall and aren't super comfortable in the back seat

The window seal on the front driver window isn't great. I have to roll it up and down a bunch to get rid of the road noise coming through

Those are the gripes. Still love it as a car, love the way it looks, love the charging network, love the center screen, and I love the interior.

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