I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump regime collects the names of people who used the free service, and then charges them a "fine" to repay for the costs incurred.
This resonated with me based on my recent experience using Claude to help me code. I almost gave up, but re-phrased the initial request (after 7-10 failed tries) and it finally nailed it.
> 3. Performance improves with multiple attempts
Allowing the o1 model 7 attempts instead of 1 nearly tripled its success rate, going from 16.5% to 46.5%. This hints that current models may have the knowledge to solve many more problems but struggle with execution on the first try.
I haven't really messed with Claude or other programming AIs much, but when using chatgpt for random stuff, it seems like the safety rails end up blocking a lot of stuff and rephrasing to get around them is necessary. I wonder if some of these programming AIs would be more useful if it some of the context that causes them to produce invalid results was more obvious to the users.
curious if you had any examples. i'm fairly meh on llm coding myself but have a pet theory on safety rails. i've certainly hit plenty myself but not with coding with llm's.
With chatgpt, for noncoding things, it has rails to avoid things like copyrighted art, violence, adult topics, etc. For coding LLMs, I suspect they have things like preferences for certain data structures, avoiding directly returning training data (even if that training data might be the only feasible way to do something), preferences for certain languages and APIs, etc.
If you knew what some of those preferences and rails were ahead of time, it'd be easier to design your request and also know why it making some odd or unworkable suggestions.
> Republicans in Washington in late 2023 suspended a $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine. The knock-on effect was quickly felt despite Europe’s efforts to make up shortfalls. By April 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told PBS in an interview that for every Ukrainian shell, Russia was firing 10 back. An increasing portion of those were North Korean.
> On Friday, at the site of one mine near Longnan, a diesel generator was humming and liquids were gurgling through plastic pipes, indicating that at least some mining operations had probably resumed. Heavy rare earths are mined by dumping strong chemicals into holes dug in the top of a hillside. The chemicals dissolve the ore and dribble out of the base of the hill, where they can be pumped to nearby pits for initial processing.
Romans used to do similar things when mining silver. Either dam up a lot of water and flood away an entire hillside or do this and direct channels into the surface and collect all the runoff for processing.
Yes. Your spending is a far more powerful vote than any democratic process. Your society is what it spends on. A society addicted to cheap trash is going to be precisely that.
These 'dollar stores' are wealth extraction centres, which don't really provide anything to society other than enriching a dropshipping middle class and foreign exploitative factory owner class. There's very little value being created.
I'd far rather support places where purchases have numerous positive externalities, whether it be from labour conditions to promoting curiosity, or from environmental impacts, to building local communities.
Society was doing quite ok until the greedy middleman classes decided to render the domestic working classes irrelevant for a little short-term profit, just so we can buy new LED lights, or change our t-shirt collection every week.
The dollar store moves into neighborhoods that are impoverished as part of their strategy, and push out family owned businesses and would be competition through extreme saturation.
> You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.
Hilary was only wrong about two things: It's not half of his supporters it's 100% and they're not "deplorables", they're monsters.
Exactly. It's a new administration who has done some, shall we say, questionable things to the economy. That is going to have an impact on people. Which means they're going to spend less money in stores, especially those who have a more uncertain income.
What is more likely? That people care about some rather obscure policies or that they care if they are able to keep their job?
You can compare it to other companies in the sector that didn't so publicly come out trashing their DEI programs to know if that's an additional factor and when you do you see Target has fallen farther than the rest in most metrics.
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