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James Blackwell

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@jwblackwell
James Blackwell
2 years
OpenAI's new ChatGPT is mind-blowing. Asking it to explain a complicated regex with no context…
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@jwblackwell
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@DrProudman I think everyone is starting to realise multiculturalism isn’t all it was cracked up to be
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@ArmandDoma When you see bios with lots of flags in, just block immediately
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@jasonleowsg most widely used prod db in the world 😂
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@jwblackwell
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10 months
@eberlmat So 90% UK and Northern European cultures which we all know integrate just fine...
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@OwenJones84 What’s inaccurate about it?
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@HateNewbuild This is tragic. Planning is completely broken in the UK.
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@DKThomp Cheap labour and no safety standards will do that. Expect workers frequently die on site
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@kirkkorner @jhallwood @RicHolden TV licensing is a scam tax at this point
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@jwblackwell
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@mikegalsworthy Are you trying to suggest the U.K. has had a “far right” government the last decade?
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@c_k_lynch Persimmon: hold my beer
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@NoContextBrits The absolute state of new builds
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@afneil Total lack of any meaningful integration due to cultural differences. Parents and older generations still have medieval, fanatical beliefs. Just here to benefit from the prosperity a free country provides.
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@OwenJones84 @M_SE09 @PaulEmbery If you go to highly “diverse” areas in the U.K., you’ll find people mostly group together by ethnicity and hardly interact. Sure you can cite a few food and music examples, but it’s undeniably ruined many communities as well
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@SussexHenryVIII Maybe because she sold her privacy for $100M to Netflix after claiming she wanted privacy
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@levelsio The whole Gemini thing has damaged their brand so much already in just a few days. No way they’ll be able to move quick enough now to fix it, probably involves firing a bunch of people. Really feels like this could be the beginning of the end for Google.
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@jwblackwell
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@goenning Meanwhile Vercel out there charging people $100k for a few million server functions 🤣
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@jwblackwell
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@ArchRose90 Sadiq Khan was the worst thing to happen to London
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@jwblackwell
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2 years
@cory_eth @JeroenFrijters The original answer doesn’t look as elegant but I managed to understand what the code was doing instantly, whereas this took a few seconds
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@jwblackwell
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@DPJHodges How long until she connects the dots
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@HarleyShah I remember paying £512 a month for a room twice this size in Clapham, was around 2012
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@carbdiem I remember graduating in 2008, salaries for jobs like this were the same, if not higher
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@visegrad24 You can’t make it up.
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@kelvmackenzie Teachers and doctors I’d happily give a pay rise to. It’s the managers that need sacking. Cut the number in half and double the salaries.
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@levelsio This sounds like tinfoil hat stuff
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@NoContextBrits Drove past a school the other day and it’s crazy how many lads have got this exact cut
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@juhani @elonmusk @POTUS @CommunityNotes If you pay tax on unrealised gains then it’s only fair you get paid by the government on unrealised losses
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@LeverettVicky Mostly on the platform of a foreign war we have no stake in
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2 years
It's like having a programming tutor on hand 24/7. And this is just the out of the box, just released version. I'm sure it's very capable in many other domains.
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James Blackwell
2 years
Now asking for a simpler solution. ChatGPT fluently carries on the conversation and suggest a different, shorter technical approach, with explanation again.
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@EssexPR oh god I was hoping this nonsense would stay in the US
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6 months
@paulg I now use @perplexity_ai more than Google. It’s a nice mix of ChatGPT but with sources so it hallucinates less and you can verify info. Googles main advantage is maps and shopping now
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@jwblackwell
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@thmsmlr @vercel I’d personally not ever use one of these fancy hosting platforms. Always ends in these stories. Rent a VPS from OVH or Hetzner.
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@LBC @mrjamesob This guy is just a total troll
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2 years
Recipe suggestions from ChatGPT
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Anti-Israel protesters in London on Armistice Day: “Death to all the Jews” 🇬🇧🇮🇱 Via @EFischberger
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@Jamin2g Must be one of the worst deputy PMs ever
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2 years
No regex option:
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@justjoshinyou13 He’s completely right, the better strategy is to try and deprive China of talent by offering the brightest AI researchers visas and tax benefits
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@JoeyMannarinoUS There are thousands of clips of Ukraine eg on r/combatfootage
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@alexjarmitage Fundamentally the problem in the U.K. is lack of productivity. To fix we need more building and energy. The greens seem fundamentally anti both. Eg the greens should be pro nuclear but they’re not. Then layered on top there’s all this gender ideology rubbish.
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@Kamitsu_Jaffa @mikegalsworthy Truss was immediately rejected and then Rishi put taxes up to a 70 year high. There's no way you can call them far right at any point in the last decade unless you are a communist
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@CarbonCriminal I’m sick of all these activists who bring nothing to the table, no solutions at all. They just want to make peoples lives worse because they’ve nothing better to do
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@chrisratcliff No way. burgers were terrible pre brioche
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@staylorish @MerrynSW They’re getting voted out 100%
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@davemcgurk @kirkkorner @jhallwood @RicHolden Had this been her Netflix subscription, it would have simply automatically ended when the payment failed. Why should people be prosecuted for not paying their BBC subscription? Tell me why that is fair.
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2 years
ChatGPT also makes a great language tutor
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@jwblackwell
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@beyoncepress Rich people use to build properties like this. Now they build things that look like a four year old designed
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1 year
The best AI chatbot I’ve used is Fin by @intercom 90% of my tickets now get closed automatically.
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@KemiBadenoch To be fair this is mostly because the tories have put taxes up to a 70 year high while failing at basic tasks like fixing potholes
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@_Aesthetic_City If all new builds were projects like this, there wouldn’t be nearly as much NIMBYism
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@ArchRose90 Lots more extremists in the U.K. than we’d like to imagine
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@HeidiBachram @OMTorah Not at all surprising in Brighton
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@goenning I expect that $96k bill would have been handled easily by the €29 hetzner server, vercels pricing is absolutely insane
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@visegrad24 Too much tolerance. Now we have to deal with these intolerant people
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@DrJimFan Why do they need 9 months? They already have legal and technical access to the existing GPT-4. The model is on their servers and being served via Azure. Plus OpenAI API is just a front for Microsoft Azure anyway.
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@NickADobos @adamdangelo How did he manage to spend millions building Poe? There’s better apps maintained by one person
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@sophielouisecc They’ve also taken on a lot of beautiful old properties that would have fallen into disrepair.
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How does OpenAI survive this? I don't think it does. Sam Altman gets fired, seemingly due to concerns over AGI having been reached, or close. Huge outpouring of support from OpenAI team follows. They all threaten to quit. Many key employees will leave OpenAI and join Sam at
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We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett
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@jeremycorbyn Hamas simply needs to put down weapons and release hostages, agree to a two state solution. Unfortunately they will do none of the three
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2 years
GPT 3 / ChatGPT is great at turning unstructured data into structured data. Probably the most underrated use case. E.g. Entity extraction:
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@David1Mutai @SkyNews Hamas only want one thing, and that is for Israel to cease existing. That isn't going to happen, so the only remaining option for Israel is to end Hamas for good.
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@ArchRose90 @GaryLineker Easy way to find names to add to the terrorist watchlist, or ideally deportation list
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@morphiaz If only everyone who has been watching Hamas propaganda videos on TikTok for the last month should be forced to watch the videos of the massacre
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@Lowkey0nline I guess you don’t use a phone then
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@killerstorm @dvassallo Like what? Seems they are shipping more imo. Haven’t actually seen any issues
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The religion of peace and love in London.
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@OwenJones84 The next post in my feed
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@Austen Absolute cringe. Its like a new LinkedIn
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@Loknayn Something went very wrong in the time I was there, now out fortunately. It correlates exactly with when @SadiqKhan got into power as @MayorofLondon
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@tomhfh Almost enough for a years worth of migration
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@MerrynSW Meanwhile from LSE "second home ownership should be banned"
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@0928473_ This was my experience as well, has been this way for decades. They never turned up to any lecture then suddenly when the exams come round hundreds appear
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@MattNavarra That can’t be accurate, would be illegal
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@uk8qnzl The Tory migration policy was absolutely insane. You want talented young or rich people, instead we've got old unskilled migrants with multiple dependents from cultures that don't easily integrate. I suppose in time, dependents will reach working age, but that's a long time
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@AyeSeeAyeDo @FlyFifer10 You’re living in a fantasy land if you think anyone is going to bother to dig that up.
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@DanNeidle Seems like the CEO deserves some prison time.
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@beeinspired You’d fit right in in North Korea
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@jrawson lol do you think this is because of malnutrition?
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@MerrynSW @John_Stepek Most sensible thing I’ve seen in the Guardian for a long time
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@JamesIvings @levelsio Absolute joke, @Airbnb needs to remove stuff like this that clearly shouldn’t be a rental to begin with
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@Teknium1 Yep, it’s more effort to click the store and find a suitable GPT than it is just to write a slightly more detailed prompt
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@IncMonocle Sadiq Khan ruined London @MayorofLondon
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@levelsio Most designers would balk at the amount of text and lack of white space. Would be super interesting if you A/B tested the same style but with some more spacing
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James Blackwell
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I made an app to generate super realistic, stock photo style images of fictional people. Using AI, of course. No need to train a model, generate a random person in a click.
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@BenW123_ @SkyNews Would you say the same about owning a Lion?
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@pbteja1998 By the time any process works easily, it's too late. See the "Law of shitty click throughs" from @andrewchen If there is one "trick", it's that all the keyword tools are ~3-6 months behind most trends. So if you notice a term or topic doing well, related to your industry
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@KeyTryer @xlr8harder @OpenAI My gues is this is related to the clunky @auth0 login flow mixing up user ids somewhere in the program
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@embecmom2 @eberlmat Did you? Include Southern Europe and I think it maybe over 95% western culture
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1 year
@SCP_Hughes @RobertKwolek @createstreets Who actually comes up with this stuff?
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James Blackwell
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After all the drama, I've spent today searching for OpenAI alternatives and here's what I've found: GPT-3.5 LLaMA 70b chat has similar quality to GPT-3.5 and speed isn't too bad on @anyscalecompute . It actually works out slightly cheaper as well. It's the closest drop in
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@saeed_vz @dvassallo But it’s unlikely you have that much traffic and no budget for a nice server is it
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@ArchRose90 He really should have just stuck to football and crisps
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@moving_charlie You can see how the cascading effect here will smash prices down. Good chance she’ll have to sell some below purchase price. Going into winter, sales will be slow. It could take a year plus to sell 16 properties. Since she’s already bleeding money, massive cuts will be
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@justinbuist @cory_eth @JeroenFrijters You’re moving the goalposts
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@MartinSLewis If you ran this poll before the Farage incident, “No” would have been 90%
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@levelsio GA4 is such a mess. Absolute win for other analytics tools.
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