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Legends of the Hadza people so old they could refer to extinct hominid ancestors

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What do you know about the Stag Bus Building?

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Great British Railways

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alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
On the other hand, is shows that pedestrians and cyclists have the same rate of fatalities per mile traveled.

So better to not walk or cycle and just stick to your car /s
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
To quickly do the calculations:

Walking: 5 km/h * 70kg = 97 kgm/s

e-bike: 20 km/h * 90 kg = 500 kgm/s

car: 50 km/h * 2000kg = 28,000 kgm/s
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> the safety risk just becomes too high to stomach

Check out chart 2:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Reference is the s-bahn ring:

https://oxyi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/map-of-berlin-co...
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
People sometimes die due to collisions pedestrians.

Should it be illegal for people to walk around drunk as well?
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Completely agree for a push bike, but with an e-bike it's a different ball game.

Also in the US the max ebike power is 850W! More than enough to carry you up the steepest hills.
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Some numbers from 2021 in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...

> Chart 4 shows that, again, in terms of absolute numbers, cars are the vehicle type most often involved in fatal collisions when others are killed, followed by HGVs and Light Goods Vehicles (LGVs). Very few other road users are killed in collisions with pedal cyclists or pedestrians (5 and 6 respectively in 2021).
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> - weather might make the ride unpleasant;

As the Dutch like to say: there is no such thing as bad cycling weather, only bad cycling clothes.

I would strongly recommond a pair of water/wind proof trousers to go over your regular trousers, if you don't already have some. This has lead to a much more pleasant riding experience, especially in winter. They aren't very practical on a regular bike as they make you uncomfortably hot, but on an e-bike, it's much less of a worry.
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You can do multi-shot, which reduces the need for a good prompt upfont.
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This is similar to my process.

However, I also use ChatGPT to make the updates for me, adding additional information and context, which I then ask to be integrated into the document (e.g. update the introduction to include...)
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Why are you assuming that it will make writing worse not better?

Just because it can be used by non-experts to create crappy written work, it can also be used by people who work with it to augment and improve their existing writen work.

To my mind AI is a general purpose technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_technology

I guess using this mental model, what you are worried about is the equivilent to pollution?

Did the printing press also increase the amount of crap in circulation?
alkjsdlkjasd
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Article about it here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...

> Profits emerging from the LP in excess of the 100x multiplier go to the nonprofit, which will use it to run educational programs and advocacy work.

> The board [of the non-profit] is limited to a minority of financially interested parties, and only non-interested members can vote on “decisions where the interests of limited partners and OpenAI Nonprofit’s mission may conflict”
alkjsdlkjasd
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's just good at writing, it's contextual understanding is bad (at first).

But give it context and it flies. Ask it to write a cover letter for an engineering role, it will turn out mediocre crap.

Give it the actual role and your CV in the prompts, you're pretty much good to go. It's unique, you still control the narrative (please highlight my ability to work under pressure) and it's done in 10 secs.

I really don't see what isn't to love about that.

Also it usually writes better if you tell to write well.
alkjsdlkjasd
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
But just give it context about what you want it to write and it will write about it. Obviously this is much easier if you have an existing body of work but you can still write to ChatGPT clumsily and it will often turn what you are trying to say into better prose.

My analogy is that it is to writing what the spell checker is to spelling. Very few people in the world have to be good at spelling anymore. Yeah everyone is okay, but it's not as valued a skill as it used to be. ChatGPT is doing the same for writing. Yes you need to be able to write to an okay level but you don't need to be able to write well, ChatGPT does that.
alkjsdlkjasd
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Maybe let's wait until people get good at using it?

It's been like a 1.5 months since it was released.

For me I am doing a lot my writing with it becuase my writing is worse than mediocre.

As long as you don't expect it to know things off the bat, it has a decent memory, though seems to be unaware of what it knows e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34370057)

So you can just feed it the good info, get it to update things with more context and it will spit out pretty decent prose (though you have to ask to for it to be well written).
alkjsdlkjasd
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
They seem to be re-nationalising the railways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Railways

Maybe not: "The Transport Secretary announced on 19 October 2022 that the Transport Bill which would have set up GBR would not go ahead in the current parliamentary session."