Could we also agree that bilingual (or more) people exist? I hate playing whack-a-mole with YouTube captions: Apparently me turning them off on English videos means I only speak English, so the next time I watch a German video, I'll have to turn off captions again, which apparently means I forgot English and only understand German.
I mean, doesn't Google have employees from multiple countries? Shouldn't diversity fix this in the sense that some bilingual person there notices this?
Maybe because it's not about the code, it's about the compiled software?
Also, I like AI art; I made a Lego model and then fed it into an image generator to kinda generate a "reverse" reference image. So it looks like the Lego model tries to look like the reference pictures, even though its look is more dictated by the very constraint parts list (it's an alt build of an existing model): https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-218657/RedNifre/31124-battl...
I could not have drawn these artworks myself and the use is so silly that I would not spend any money for paying for them: Without AI, these would not exist.
Right, just how back in the day, people who loved writing assembly hated high level languages and people who found assembly too tedious loved compilers.
Picasso explicitly wanted his designs (for cutlery, plates, household items he designed) to be mass-produced, so your question is not as straightforward as you make it to be.
What is the connection to machine generated code? He designed the items manually and mass produced them.
No one objects to a human writing code and selling copies.
Apart from that, this is the commercial Picasso who loved money. His early pre-expressionist paintings are godlike in execution, even if someone else has painted a Pierrot before him.
I very much understand the result of code that it writes. But I have never gotten paid to code. I get paid to use my knowledge of computers and the industry to save the company money or to make the company money.
Do you feel the same way when you delegate assignments to more junior developers and they come back with code?
I would describe that as a method or implementation, not as an application.
Almost all knowledge work can be described as "generating a useful sequence of words or word like tokens", but I wouldn't hire a screen writer to do the job of a lawyer or a copy editor to do the job of a concierge or an HR director to do the job of an advertising consultant.
So then the challenge is valid but you just can’t think of any ways to satisfy it. You said yourself that chat is just the interface.
That means you should be able to find many popular applications that leverage LLM APIs that are a lot different than the interface of ChatGPT.
But in reality, they’re all just moving the chat window somewhere else and streamlining the data input/output process (e.g., exactly what Cursor is doing).
I can even think of one product that is a decent example of LLMs in action without a chat window. Someone on HN posted a little demo website they made that takes SEC filings and summarizes them to make automatic investor analysis of public companies.
But it’s kind of surprising to me how that little project seems to be in the minority of LLM applications and I can’t think of two more decent examples especially when it comes to big successful products.
Isn't a pixel clearly specified as a picture element? Isn't the usage as a length unit just as colloquial as "It's five cars long", which is just a simplified way of saying "It is as long as the length of a car times five", where "car" and "length of car" are very clearly completely separate things?
> The other awkward approach is to insist that the pixel is a unit of length
Please don't. If you want a unit of length that works well with pixels, you can use Android's "dp" concept instead, which are "density independent pixels" (kinda a bad name if you think about it) and are indeed a unit of length, namely 1dp = 158.75 micro meter, so that you have 160 dp to the inch. Then you can say "It's 10dp by 5dp, so 50 square dp in area.".
Yeah, this isn't really that complicated. It's just colloquial usage, not rigorous dimensional analysis. Roughly no one is actually confused by either usage ("1920 by 1080" or "12 megapixels").
It's nearly identical to North American usage of "block" (as in "city block"). Merriam Webster lists these two definitions (among many others):
> 6 a (1): a usually rectangular space (as in a city) enclosed by streets and occupied by or intended for buildings
> 6 a (2): the distance along one of the sides of such a block
Another colloquial saying to back this up is that "Oh, that house is five acres down the road" or, for a non-standard unit, "The store is three blocks away". We often use area measurements for length if it's convenient.
The pixel is a unit of area - we just occasionally use units of area to measure length.
> Another colloquial saying to back this up is that "Oh, that house is five acres down the road" or, for a non-standard unit, "The store is three blocks away". We often use area measurements for length if it's convenient.
I have never heard someone use the first instance, and I wouldn't understand what it meant. I mean, I could buy that it meant that there is a five-acre plot between that house and where we are now, but it wouldn't give me any useful idea of how far the house is other than "not too close." Perhaps you have in mind that, since the "width" of an acre is a furlong, a house 5 acres away is 5 furlongs away?
I think your final sentence would be a more specific/more correct to say "five acres away", but in reality I don't think I've ever heard anyone use a furlong as a serious unit in conversation.
I have heard sentences like "the property line is two acres into the woods" and it was understood that he was using acre like you might use "block" in a city - "the property line is two acre widths into the woods". As you say, that's just a furlong, but I doubt either of us knew that at the time.
This used to exist in 2008 and it was perfect. It was called Joost and worked like this:
- P2P streaming
- You get a big menu of channel logos
- You click on a channel and it would start the first episode of a randomly chosen series from that channel, or it would continue from where you left off
- There might have been a "zap" function? I'm not sure
- The GUI was so nice and large that if you connected a Wii Remote to your PC, you had the best TV experience from your couch, ever: Just press a button to bring up the menu, aim at the channel you want to switch to, done.
Such a shame that it failed, nothing after it ever came close.
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