Hey it’s that time of year when people start arguing about whether so-and-so should have gone for 2 in such-and-such situation and I post the answer:
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Though tbh it's not a very good imitation. I have spent zero hours trying to find the right key word to turn on the lights. ChatGPT is way too good at understanding your commands to be authentic.
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Afaik there's only one game from the year of my birth that I ever played. But it was a good one:
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date yourself by posting a game that was released the year you were born
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Either “Bard” isn’t quite ready for prime time or it’s the world’s most advanced AI troll:
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OK I finally know enough about chess to understand chess memes and lol
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If I'd said this was made by my 8yo daughter, it would have gotten 100 likes, I'm sure.
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If you ask a chatbot how it feels, it isn’t going to answer with what it feels (nothing), it’s going to answer with what it thinks will satisfy your expectation of what a chatbot would say about how it feels—based on internet writing on the subject (all kinds of weird).
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Are there any science fiction stories out there about how training LLMs on all the science fiction stories about AIs might make those LLMs complete prompts in a way that makes them sound like AIs from science fiction stories?
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Are there any science fiction stories out there about how training LLMs on all the science fiction stories about AIs might make those LLMs complete prompts in a way that makes them sound like AIs from science fiction stories?
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Yes, it’s white to move. Yes, it was designed by an 8yo, but I verified there is one unique solution.
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FYE: I asked ChatGPT to translate the prologue of Canterbury Tales into Python:
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This was basically just Argentina vs France all over again, but in chess form.
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And the most exciting matchup of the day hasn’t even started yet:
Magnus vs Hikaru in the Speed Chess Championship finals.
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Well that was an amazing World Cup! And now for something a little more hype, can we have some energy for CHESS?!? Starting in 25 minutes on twitch.tv/gmhikaru. Good luck to @MagnusCarlsen and I hope no one breaks an ankle! #speedchess
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OK, here's a 5 minute treatment. On production at least, Haaland/Mbappe are clearly in Messi/Ronaldo territory, except starting even younger:
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I just want to see charts updated to include Mbappe
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Oh yeah, my Haaland vs. Mbappe article for the 2030 World Cup is going to blow up bigtime.
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I just want to see charts updated to include Mbappe
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Though I would say this follow-up from the following year was fun to write and ties up some loose ends: fivethirtyeight.com/features/lione
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People keep asking me if I'm going to update this. Unfortunately, no plans to. But, fortunately, very little has changed:
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Next MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT from Trump will be a special deal he can get you on Melaleuca products.
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I put all of Hamlet's Act 3 soliloquy through the art AI and it *really* takes "And makes us rather bear those ills we have" extremely literally.
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When Messi took that shot I was like “aw, he’s trying too hard” but then it went in. 🐐
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Apparently there are more >18yo female gamers than <18yo male gamers.
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According to Wikipedia almost 30% of american gamers are 45 or older.
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Victory is a State of Mind. @Cristiano and #LionelMessi captured by @annieleibovitz for @LouisVuitton. In addition to a long tradition of crafting trunks for the world’s most coveted sporting trophies, the Maison celebrates two of the most talented football players today.
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Right now the smart play is to predict that Twitter won't fail, b/c if it doesn't you'll look like a genius, and if it does no-one will know.
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I don’t really understand how Mastadon works, but I think I’m @skepticalsports@hachyderm.io over there or something. Just in case.
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Oh man I have so many fire opinions about the 2009 World Series of Poker lined up and ready to go…
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are we publishing drafts on the way out
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Let it be known that in the dying days of Twitter, John Cena randomly followed me:
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A good article from an author you respect pops up in your feed, you read it and comment about a couple things, your friends see your comments and respond, meanwhile you see their positive comments on another author’s article, so you subscribe to that author’s site…. LOL WAKE UP
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Madness is contemplating all the ways the world would be a better place if Google Reader had somehow won.
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So if Twitter dies, will that mean all the cancelled people are uncanceled? Or will it just mean that everybody is canceled?
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The idea here was to visualize the questions/responses in a way to make how they do or don’t work more understandable to my child than the textual explanations Smullyan gives. (Can probably do better.)
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