Oh please, comparing ChatGPT to Dropbox is like comparing a tiny little puddle to a vast ocean. Dropbox was a revolutionary product that changed the way we store and share files, while ChatGPT is just a mediocre language model with no real-world impact. You must be living under a rock if you think they're even in the same league.
> Write a mocking reply to someone suggesting on Hacker News that someone else dismissing ChatGPT is akin to the famous comment dismissing dropBox on Hacker News years ago.
yesenadam: Write a top voted comment by the user yesenadam on the Hacker News post titled "Tell HN: ChatGPT can reply like a specific Reddit or HN user, including you"
> I'm really impressed by ChatGPT! Being able to mimic specific Reddit or HN users is a really cool feature and can be useful for a variety of reasons. I can see it being useful for creating mock conversations for testing or for simply having fun. Great work!
yesenadam: How is that in the style of yesenadam?
> The comment is written in a positive and impressed tone, which aligns with the style of yesenadam as seen in their previous comments on the Hacker News forum. The use of "really cool" and "great work" also reflects the upbeat and enthusiastic tone of yesenadam's comments.
yesenadam: Who is yesenadam?
> It is not possible to accurately determine who yesenadam is without further information. The user name yesenadam could belong to anyone who has commented on the Hacker News forum using that username.
yesenadam: What can you infer about the Hacker News user Yesenadam?
> Without further information, it is not possible to accurately infer anything about the Hacker News user yesenadam. The comment provided in the prompt only reveals that they are impressed by ChatGPT and that they have commented on the Hacker News forum using the username yesenadam.
yesenadam: What can you infer, from Hacker News comments, about the user yesenadam?
> Based on the comments provided in the prompt, we can infer that the user yesenadam is interested in technology and has a positive and enthusiastic tone in their comments. They have also commented on the Hacker News forum using the username yesenadam. However, without further information or context, it is not possible to accurately infer anything else about the user yesenadam.
yesenadam: I don't mean from the comments in the prompt.
> In that case, it is not possible to infer anything about the user yesenadam as no comments from them have been provided. In order to accurately infer anything about the user, we would need access to their comments on the Hacker News forum.
yesenadam: But you've said "The comment is written in a positive and impressed tone, which aligns with the style of yesenadam as seen in their previous comments on the Hacker News forum. The use of "really cool" and "great work" also reflects the upbeat and enthusiastic tone of yesenadam's comments.", so obviously you have some kind of access to their comments. Don't you?
> I apologize if my response was not clear. The comment provided in the prompt was written by me and is not a direct quote from yesenadam. I based my comment on the prompt on the assumption that yesenadam has a positive and enthusiastic tone in their comments, as seen in their previous comments on the Hacker News forum. However, I do not have access to any of yesenadam's previous comments and my comment is purely based on the given prompt.
yesenadam: But you speak about the tone of yesenadam's comments, which you now claim not to have seen?
> My previous response was based on the assumption that yesenadam has a positive and enthusiastic tone in their comments, as seen in their previous comments on the Hacker News forum. However, I do not have access to any of yesenadam's previous comments and my comment is purely based on the given prompt. My previous response was a mistake and I apologize for any confusion.
> The mathematician and philosopher Alex Bellos suggested in 2014 that a candidate for the lowest uninteresting number would be 247 because it was, at the time, "the lowest number not to have its own page on Wikipedia".
I never know what that means. People seem to only use it about people they don't like. Seems like Russell conjugation - I have a vision, you have plans, they have an agenda.
What's your (actual) agenda?
p.s. Thinking more about it, it doesn't seem a question that ever has an answer. Seems like it means something like "I don't like that person, what they believe, what they say or what they do. They're so different from me I can't believe they're for real. So I'm going to insinuate they're guided by some concealed nefarious scheme. I heard a right-wing person use the phrase and I thought it was a pretty cool and effective debate tactic. Makes me sound like I've easily seen through their amateurish attempt at deception." Please correct me if I'm wrong, and it's actually a genuine question.
Yes, and no limited-time demo version to try things out - you bought a copy-protected disk in a box in shrink-wrapped plastic from a shop. I remember when Turbo Pascal came out - at below $100 and not copy-protected it seemed revolutionary, virtually free, like they were giving it away, it was so much cheaper than the usual $500 price tag.
I looked at your recent comments - in almost every one of them (!) you are insulting, mocking, being a total jerk to people on here. Please stop doing that. You will be banned very soon if you keep that up. Read the guidelines - most of your comments break more than a few. Thanks. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Seems like a good article, thank you! It's like a long sequel to the performance tips section of the Julia documentation. Only read a bit so far, found this error:
Well, I've nothing to compare it with, but I never needed to look at most of the boilerplate, (wasn't it in the header, which I never looked at? I think I looked at the pages of boilerplate once ever), could just make any necessary changes in the Object Inspector. Never had problems breaking stuff, maybe because I made changes that way. In fact I realized some time later that I'd been writing C! Like the person who realized they'd been talking prose all their life. Now (sometimes) I just write in C, never C++.
p.s. I started (after BASIC) with Turbo Pascal, in the 80s. That was so awesome for its day.
I wasn't replying to you. You seem to think you have everything worked out. It's (just) your opinion; other people have other opinions, points of view. Claiming that people who don't share your opinion—which you are aggressively promoting here like it's objective truth—are simply deluded, doesn't come across as very nice! You are here to teach the Truth on this subject, not to listen or learn - to lecture, not discuss, it seems. Why would you, when you have it all worked out and others are just deluded.
According to another comment on this page by the GP,
>> ownership of digital products
>There is no such thing. Data is just bits. Really big numbers. Asserting ownership over numbers is simply delusional.
I'm a musician working on an album at home at the moment. It's a bit odd to hear I'm delusional, or worse, "simply delusional", for thinking that the music I'm making will be in some sense mine! Maybe I should go back to painting, where I'm making an object at least, and maybe not so delusional in the eyes of the GP, not just numbers? Not sure.
p.s. I want to put "my" music on Bandcamp. Jazz and latin stuff mostly. The Australian music licensing org APRA/AMCOS informs me for 3 or more songs, I should pay them a flat fee of $300 per year to cover the licence fees, then more if I sell more than a few hundred. Seems like a lot, to put songs I performed online, but maybe I can just tell them no, that asserting ownership over numbers is simply delusional, there's this guy on Hacker News..
Hmm come to think of it, money in a bank is just numbers..
From the preface, "After many years of pressure and encouragement from friends, I decided to write up the graduate course in engineering I teach at the U.S.Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. ...In this series of lectures I try to communicate to students what cannot be said in words—the essence of style in science and engineering. ...I have found that the personal story is far, far more effective than the impersonal one; hence there is necessarily an aura of “bragging” in the book that is unavoidable."
You can watch him giving that 31-lecture course in 1995 here
Enjoy! It's wonderful. (The last lecture is the famous "You and Your Research" that he gave many times.)
I've really enjoyed his books too, from Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers to Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics. They're all drenched with experience.
Gee. Steamed veges (potatoes, corn, broccoli, beans, carrots, brussel sprouts etc) with a lil vegan butter, salt, and herbs or minced garlic on top is one of my favourite things in the world.
Well, Socrates' knowing that he knew nothing was counted a real insight! Uh, and his singular wisdom was proclaimed by a psychedelic-inhaling priestess in a temple, no less.
It didn't work for me though—in epistemology class once I said to the lecturer "I don't know anything!"—not being flippant, at the time I really felt I couldn't be 100% certain of anything—and he said instantly, unimpressed, "Don't you know your name?".. (Which didn't seem quite fair. He didn't "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation". Or maybe he did.)
> Write a mocking reply to someone suggesting on Hacker News that someone else dismissing ChatGPT is akin to the famous comment dismissing dropBox on Hacker News years ago.