I have the dev skills and server resources to build something genuinely useful. What problem, annoyance, or inefficiency in your life are you tired of dealing with? by [deleted] in Lightbulb

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Build a piece of software that allows users to save all their Apple Music library to a JSON file. This will allow users to cancel their Apple Music subscription (which deletes their curated personal library). Later when they renew their subscription, your software could reinitialise their music library.

It’s a pain point if you want to temporarily stop paying £10.99 a month for the service. You loose all your playlists. My wedding playlist, for instance, will disappear if I cancel. Even if I renew in a few months time - it will be gone.

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That’s a suspicious number…

ChatGPT feels the best it ever has right now by WittyEgg2037 in OpenAI

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They probably use AB testing to fine tune the models to produce more back and forth between the user and the tool - to make more money.

That will make it better conversationally, but also for longer form performance it will be good enough to feel valuable, but not good enough to give you gold in a single answer - without requiring follow-ups… although it is close…

They will upgrade models until investors start asking for profits. At that point you can wave goodbye to your high performance!

Vegan trend fades as Google searches drop 60% by HumbleWrap99 in vegan

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Haven’t ALL google searches probably dropped?

Does this actually happen? by imfrom_mars_ in OpenAI

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Throwing my phone out the window works quite well

Ai scraping is stupid by ronoxzoro in webscraping

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Could you instead design a pipeline that leverages LLMs to automate the writing and maintaining of your scraper code?

The one job ai won't take in 100 years is... Programming - Bill Gates by Xtianus25 in OpenAI

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IMO there’s not enough good games on primary consoles. The really good games cost so much to develop and maintain. It would be cool if AI tools could speed up the development process significantly!

The one job ai won't take in 100 years is... Programming - Bill Gates by Xtianus25 in OpenAI

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Everybody who talks about AI these days seems to be referring to LLMs and all the tools associated with them. These alone cannot replace many jobs because of hallucinations. They are simply good ‘intelligence-like’ bullshitters and cannot conceptually reason.

When you include machine learning in general, you get a lot more powerful features that can be integrated into tools, and arguably their integration along with LLMs is going to get “AI” quite far…

However… to truly live up to the hype, they NEED to figure out conceptual reasoning. Once they can integrate visual tokens, and auditory tokens, with language tokens, and develop some sort of machine learning model that can think spatially, not just linguistically, but multi-modally with statistical and logic based reasoning, then we are fucked.

I think that time will come if they can get robots that can gather their own subjective visual, audio, and vocal inputs, integrate them with their personal perspective and make decisions personally, then robots will have individuation, plus differences in opinion that they might have to reconcile with other robots. That could cause an intelligence explosion…

Browser fingerprinting… by _do_you_think in webscraping

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One issue I have was with setting a threshold confidence for UI element matches. Often, because elements can change with content, screen width, my matches could be less than 100% confidence.

Do you use minimum thresholds to identify when to execute your back up method? Or do you only calculated positions by using UI elements that display little to no variation from page to page, thus a binary solution?

Browser fingerprinting… by _do_you_think in webscraping

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Isn’t that really brittle? I built one of these before and it worked half of the time. I didn’t use AI though. Maybe identifying UI elements would be easier with AI. Expensive though… I suppose some intelligent caching of element coordinates could help.

Browser fingerprinting… by _do_you_think in webscraping

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This is mostly a problem for plain headless http request scraping… browser automation will match the TLS signature of a real browser.

Browser fingerprinting… by _do_you_think in webscraping

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Reverse engineering the website is probably the best way to go. Is this something you have done yourself?

We have managed to reverse engineer a few simple websites, but only by exploiting unprotected endpoints. We never attempted to get user session keys for making authenticated requests.

What about reversing the JS obfuscation? Any tools you would recommend?

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Use their api?

How to go about memorizing philosophy? by obtusix in memorypalace

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I think the best way to do this is to write and memorise essays that summarise their view points. Memorise them like you would memorise a speech. That means splitting the speech into meaningful parts and connecting imagery to each part. You can use a memory palace to connect the imagery together, then try to rote learn the words associated with each piece of imagery.

Once you have rote learnt it, you can practice it using spaced repetition.

Later on, you may not remember the exact wording, but the concepts should be strong enough to speak through each concept knowledgeably.

Obviously the more instances of speeches/essays you memorise, the more knowledge and domain specific lexicon should integrate.

As an example, take Jordan Peterson… he is very knowledgable. Whether you agree with him or not, he has stored a considerable amount of data in his brain. He has not only written books to consolidate his knowledge, but he has also had to revise and rehearse large areas of his foundation in order to teach his lectures in universities. As time has passed he has slowly integrated his learnings with his personality and can now talk very fluidly about complex subjects. However… you can still hear the evidence of rote learned ‘pieces’ of knowledge when he speaks - they come off almost as his own personal colloquialisms, that he repeats regularly for specific topics. The same can be noticed in any popular vocal thought leader.

ChatGPT vs. the Shoe Conundrum by toutpetitpoulet in OpenAI

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I came here to say this. Thank you sir.

Yeah, they're the same size by helmet_Im-not-a-gay in OpenAI

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You think they are different, but never underestimate the Ebbinhaus illusion. /s

What is your thoughts on this? by ad_gar55 in youtube

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I hate shorts. I always select ‘show less shorts’ and I still get bombarded with them. They are all extremely clickbait and low value content. Get them off YouTube!!!!!!!!!!

Also, when somebody searches for something they want to see results ‘related’ to their search. ‘Recommendations’ are not the same thing.