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Rahvin
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Message 469 of 684 (918303)
04-25-2024 3:16 PM
Reply to: Message 468 by Tangle
04-25-2024 3:04 PM


Copilot is nice if I write comments in my code about what specifically I want to do, including variable names and so on. Then I just start writing a function or whatever, and its suggestions are sometimes pretty good. The better me prework, the better it works, and it can see other libraries to include in the same working directory, so it knows code that isnt present in the currently active file.
It's not always right and the less context I give it the worse it gets, but I've found it handy.
But most LLMs are not amazing with logical reasoning, they hallucinate, they lose track of context after a few messages, etc. Absolutely not experts.

-->“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.” - Francis Bacon

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

“A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.” – Albert Camus

"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." - Barash, David 1995...

"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord Of the Rings

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
1 Corinthians 15:26King James Version (KJV)

-->Nihil supernum --> -->


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