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> But, all we’ve achieved at this point is making a glorified token predicting machine trained on existing data (made by humans), not really being able to be creative outside of deriving things humans have already made before. Granted, they‘re really good at doing that, but not much else.

Remove token, and that's what we humans do.

Like, you need to realize that neural networks came to be because someone had the idea to mimic our brains' functionality, and see where that lead to.

Many skeptics at the beginning like you discredited the inventor, but he was proved wrong. LLMs shown how much more than your limited description they can achieve.

We mimicked birds with airplanes, and we can outdo them. It's actually in my view very short sighted to say we can't just mimic brains and outdo them. We're there. ChatGPT is the initial little planes that flew close to the ground and barely stayed up


Except it really, actually, isn’t.

People don’t ‘think’ the same way, even if some part of how humans think seems to be somewhat similar some of the time.

That is an important distinction.

This is the hype cycle.


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With motivation, repetition, and those depend on how plastic your brain is, thus the age, yes!


The intensity you did it though matters. You probably didn't spend that many years on a specific sport for instance.

And when we're talking about sports, genetics matter as well (depending on each one)

When we're talking brains, while genetics also matter, assuming normal (whatever that is) brain, the plasticity changes a lot how it operates.

So, the 10 years thing is definitely a big if not the biggest part. In my opinion. Would love to see studies if any exist out there on this


I did spend years on a specific sport starting as a kid. I was average. There were people that first played the sport as teenagers and within a year were competitive nationally.

I was in the same math classes as some of my peers for a decade+. Some people were great, some were bad and most were somewhere in between. The kids who were exceptional at 9 were exceptional at 17.

Obviously time matters but genetics play a huge role as well. I have a family friend with 2 adopted kids and 2 biological kids. The adopted ones are average but the biological ones are very smart. Just like their parents.


They're not boasting about their current productivity, they're boasting about the one they achieved at FoundationDB when they implemented the testing, which gave them the idea to build antithesis


Would a USB bluetooth adapter to connect to wireless keyboards and mouses work with this??


I think it should. When you do the setup it asks you to unplug and replug the device, and choose it out of the list. So it should trigger the change.


Perhaps just give descriptive names and then change it when the scope changes??

"Problem" solved!

Afraid of losing stars/dlds on the repo/etc? Make it clear in the Readme where the new project is. Have warnings et al for NPM projects.

Ask npm/GitHub to allow name changes with redirects.

This proposed "solution" is just bad for many reasons:

You need to delve into the Readme to find out what it does. Imagine you're seeing a package.json and for each line you have to Google what's the project about

SEO is best if name matches.

These are enough *good* reasons why this advice is a bad idea


Renaming is work that doesn't improve the functionality.


Only is you see "functionality" as "code being run in production". A lot of things then don't improve "functionality" - design documents, comments, use cases, tests, documentation, tutorials, etc. Proper software project still does all of it.


Functionality isn't all that matters. Software has many other aspects.


Donated! Hope it helps


I use Google Cloud Tasks for at least some of the same purpose(s)

I wonder how this one stacks up given is centered for webhooks specifically


We take care of related webhooks channels. We touched on some of them on the landing page, but, in no particular order: Deliverability, monitoring, retries, security (signing), a nice UI for your users to debug, inspect and etc. :)


Hmm.. haven't coded in it for a while, but wouldn't typescript solve this?! Why are people still using vanilla JS?!


Perhaps you should read the article


Oops, definitely


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