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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Oh! Thanks for sharing. #4 is a winner!
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·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I'm still wondering why the emphasis on the blues scale. Wouldn't knowing the mixolydian (good for building dominant chord) and aeolian (good for natural minor) be more complementary to the current scales?
adamquek
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
John Cage 4'33"
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Alice in Wonderland - I read it once a year, just to remind me of how interesting imagination and paying attention in little things can be.

I'm also thinking of going back to The Plague by Albert Camus. It felt really surreal when I read it over the pandemic. Want to see how I would feel now that COVID has become an endemic disease.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's a pretty long read though. I wouldn't want to put myself through it again...
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I'm keeping my ChatGPT Plus and Coursera Plus subscription for next year. Will likely cancel most of the other subscription to art and video generative AI.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's starting to get more attention in the healthcare sector.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The good thing is, you will probably remember that one good one and forget about unsuccessful generations; just like how a gambler will only remember that one time he won something, and never talk about most of the time he lost.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
My 3 go-to app this year, after I give up a phone for a tablet, are MoonReader, Paperpile and Google Colab. MoonReader for book reading (lots of great textbooks this year on data science), Paperpile as reference manager (and pretty nifty way to share too), and Colab for coding on the go.

The other essential tools are a good fountain pen, a good notebook and a bottle of water.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Because of reinforcement learning. The reward model add more value for output that sounded formal and professional, and penalise those that are more casual or incomplete.

You can finetune it to change the behaviour somewhat. But ultimately, there will be that AI flavour that you can't get rid of because of the way the LLM is trained.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Seconded. There are a lot of great communities on Stack Exchange, beyond Stack Overflow. I pretty much ask a lot of "stupid" question on Cross-Validated all the time.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Meteor strike and end of the world. LOL. Kidding.

- 2024 will likely see a economic rebounding and more positive growth across most sectors. - Social media will be even more toxic and internet will get even more fragmented. Election year ain't gonna be a help in that department. - AI agents performing automated task to be more common. The biggest buzz this year was obviously Auto-GPT, and still kinda miff that it didn't blow up by the end of the year. Next year should see it going mainstream. - Generative video to be an actual thing. There are some progress on it this year, but is generally crap/unusable.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Insightful. Too bad the author apparently stopped writing for 10 years now.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I would love to see a list of all the websites you hate.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sounds similar to the popular question: why learn arithmetic when calculator exists?
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
So what does the code do?
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Interesting idea. However, wedding is a difficult business to get into, as you are not likely to get repeated customers for your system. The lack of customer retention means that the app/brand you build up will perpetually be on the difficult climb of getting new customers all the time.

Why not cast a wider web to services that have a bigger customer base? There are still need for other types of event organisation. Engage with clubs or professional event organisers, to understand what is their pain point and see if a solution can be made to solve them.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
As a SO user/contributor, the reduction of traffic is actually great news. The adoption of tools like ChatGPT and Github Co-Pilot did do is filter out repetitive questions and eliminating basic inquiries that have been answered countless times. This mean that the posts will more likely foster genuine discussions around unique, specific use cases that automated tools may not be able to address. This will help elevate the quality of content and promote intellectual conversations among our community members.

I don't see SO as just merely a repository. It's also a networking and collaborative channel, that may not be apparent to users who just drop by to get quick answers. The reduction of traffic would thus finally refocus SO back to this.
adamquek
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Interesting. How are you planning to cover the cost of running GPT and MJ on your site?
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sounds like this is the end of DeepMind as we know it. The move will only push the last remnants of DeepMind out of Google, as there are no leverage or incentive to stay.