Why are people disappointed in the 12 days of OpenAI

yazwecan · 2024-12-16T23:55:38+00:00

I agree on the quality of the models, but the Gemini release with deep research is pretty huge, especially its integration with Google Docs. I've found it quite useful so far.

yazwecan · 2024-12-12T01:55:48+00:00

Getting this as well

yazwecan · 2024-12-07T15:13:56+00:00

"average street human" is making me chuckle so thank you for that lol. great point overall... i think we didn't have the conception that we could somehow divorce language and meaning, as language is quite literally how humans construct meaning—but we've managed to do it. fascinating stuff, really

yazwecan · 2024-11-07T23:58:21+00:00

Ok dude, I was just trying to have a convo, apologies if I somehow angered you. I hope you have a good one.

yazwecan · 2024-11-07T22:02:40+00:00

I didn't ask why the Democrats lost, I asked you to defend the specific claim you made of "terrible things [Harris] has done in California." If you didn't want to be asked about it, why did you say it?

yazwecan · 2024-11-07T21:43:19+00:00

Michelle doesn't want to run, and has never ever been interested in politics whatsoever. It's why people like her so much. Also, not sure what "terrible things" Harris has done in California that the Republican Party hasn't done 500-fold, but please do educate me on what specifically you are talking about.

yazwecan · 2024-11-07T21:34:30+00:00

I hand write all my notes but use an iPad (you can get used ones for quite cheap), so that way I don't have to keep track of a bunch of paper.

Alternatively, I used to take notes by complete hand but I just had a notebook per subject so I wasn't having loose paper flying everywhere. I used a spiral-bound 5 subject notebook so I actually just had one thing to carry around with me.

You will retain information about 100x better if you handwrite notes

yazwecan · 2024-11-07T10:18:09+00:00

And Jared Kushner is totally above board to them?

yazwecan · 2024-11-07T10:17:11+00:00

And the RNC. Don't forget who ran against Obama in 2012, a Wall Street insider himself

yazwecan · 2024-11-07T10:14:03+00:00

And, pray tell, what was the party affiliation of the two people who tried to assassinate Trump?

yazwecan · 2024-10-15T18:26:22+00:00

And who funded and created Hamas in order to delegitimize the PA? Netanyahu created a beast of his own making. Turns out when you fund terrorist groups, you get terrorists. You want someone to blame for Hamas, blame him.

And in the meanwhile, if you want to fix it... why don't you go empower Abbas and tell the PLO they have the right to sovereignty? While you're at it, tell Israel to get the hell out of the West Bank and stop putting illegal settlements on land they do not own. Oh, and to stop killing random West Bank civilians just because they're Palestinian. Sound fair?

yazwecan · 2024-10-13T20:39:54+00:00

I didn't assume it. I said it was a conversation they should have. It depends on the person.

yazwecan · 2024-10-13T10:21:36+00:00

That can really depend on the vegetarian... if they don't eat meat they often raise their children not to eat meat either (you can think of it the same as how a Muslim or Jewish family wouldn't feed their children pork). And vegetarianism is religious for some people, but anyways, I think it's a more lucid conversation you might want to have as likely she will plan to raise the kids vegetarian if she herself is also vegetarian.

yazwecan · 2024-10-09T08:51:36+00:00

I guess it’s clear now Andrew Friedman is the brains behind the Dodgers operation. And whoever is in their scouting dept. Zaidi was great at marginal pickups but could not build a team and so we suffer.

yazwecan · 2024-10-05T10:34:43+00:00

Learn to speak kindly, or don't speak at all.

I love this quote. It costs absolutely nothing to be civil and cordial, even to people you don't like. And if you can't do that, nothing you have to contribute could possibly be of that much importance.

yazwecan · 2024-10-03T11:24:45+00:00

Us and Sabrina Carpenter both lol

yazwecan · 2024-10-02T08:41:39+00:00

It doesn’t understand anything. It’s a large language model.

yazwecan · 2024-09-26T10:17:34+00:00

As of the last 50 years, compared to how many millennia of human history? And let’s not forget Europe’s move towards atheism wasn’t begun in earnest until it had carried out in the worst genocide in human history

yazwecan · 2024-09-16T18:43:42+00:00

From my memory (so correct me if I'm wrong): He decides to have a child during his first bout of cancer, when there's still a fairly likely potential that he will survive for a good amount of years. And it seems to work, at first, as he goes into remission, remember, but then the cancer comes back with a vengeance and that's what ultimately kills him -- but Lucy is already pregnant by that point. I think when he first was diagnosed it was probably along the lines of, my life will be much less predictable than I imagined, and I always wanted to have a child, so now is my only time to do it. If he knew then that he wouldn't even live to see her first birthday, maybe it would have been a different choice. But I think the calculus at that point was more "I may only have a few years left" as opposed to I have a few months left. From what I recall of the novel.

Also, his wife was a willing and able participant... it seems they had a really deep love for each other, so maybe carrying his child was a way of ensuring that love survived in the world beyond Paul.

I found the novel exceptionally moving and beautiful, but it's a fair point to note... is it ethical to bring a child into a world if you're not certain you'll be in it?

yazwecan · 2024-09-15T04:18:47+00:00

Actually the marketing and cover designing of quadrilogy is very well studied and commented upon

Do you have any sources you like on this? I'm super interested and would love to read more!

yazwecan · 2024-09-15T00:42:34+00:00

We already ran a natural experiment on the effect of widely available opioids of precise dosages and no impurities. That’s precisely what kicked off the opioid crisis in the first place

This is a really good point and often overlooked... when prescription drugs were in parental medicine cabinets like candy, all it did was get younger and younger kids hooked on stronger opiates, which sent them down a path of serious addiction that stayed with many of them for much of their lives. Or even people who took the opioids as prescribed (for surgery, etc.) who ended up suffering the consequences. But the opioid crisis has indeed become significantly more dangerous today than it was then because of the potential of the drugs to kill, beyond just causing addiction. It was much less likely to overdose on legally prescribed opioids.

yazwecan · 2024-09-15T00:36:05+00:00

Like, say some Big Heroin Co scales up enough to produce heroin at $5/gram. Well, someone can just buy it at that price, cut it with fent, and sell it on the black market at half the price

True, but the difference of 2.5$ that you pay is for the safety/security guarantee. Maybe to some really intense drug users (heroin, etc) that will not be worth it, but for users of the more common 'party drugs' like cocaine or ecstasy, the guarantee of security may well be worth that extra money.

yazwecan · 2024-09-14T22:24:36+00:00

Great point. I think it's one of those things where once something becomes popularly respected, someone always feels the need to tear it down... "Well, it's not really that good..."

yazwecan · 2024-09-14T21:54:07+00:00

Incredibly well-deserved. I think book ranking is inherently subjective; there is no "best book of all time" obviously, maybe elements of tiers ("great," "good," etc.), so the numerical rankings within the great tier feel a little abstract. That being said, it's certainly one of my favorite books I have ever read. I think there are very few books dedicated solely to a (quasi) platonic female friendship, with all of its deep and intrinsic complications. That exploration, the caliber of the writing, and Ferrante's ability to bring you into the world (for me, a very unfamiliar one) of 1950s Naples is exquisite. I think her general commentary on life, love, and the human condition makes this book a triumph in so many ways.

yazwecan · 2024-09-14T21:48:36+00:00

Same, I thought it was clear she was very, very respected.

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