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Yeah attack the country churning out military drones by the thousands. Of course they’re going to deplete air defences.

I’ve seen similar in Vietnam and Thailand too (this year). So I’m guessing it’s common across South East Asia.

Or use sudo?

Really well. Temp turned down all the way, and Gemini has this new feature to run and execute code… Not function calling… It can write a small python script, run it and return the output.

So our prompt explains the excel spreadsheet, then tell it exactly the format we need it in, and then tell it to use python and pandas to read in the CSV, clean it up and reshape it the way we need it to match what we expect and voila.

So hallucinations are not really and issue with the data as it’s simply writing code which then deterministically processes and returns the data.

Edit to add more info: basically Gemini can create and run a lambda function on the fly. And if you’re a coder you can really guide the prompt. Eg "load this into pandas. Then remove all the empty columns. Also remove the total rows. Now unpivot the data so the months are not columns but in separate rows with a column called month.

You get the idea.

Strangely enough we actually solved this problem with AI a few months back. We upload the excel file to Gemini and have a prompt to extract the data we need in a specific json format. And it works surprisingly well.

Could be a VIC-20?

I think a big part of this is just knowing what is possible. Not having to “chance upon” things for the first time.

But if you knew what you knew now you could do a lot. Just knowing that you can bake mud to make clay. Getting running water to where you live could be a game changer. It’s the key to agriculture, sanitation, etc.

Weapons are the same. Knowing something like the bow and arrow is possible will put you way ahead of sharp sticks and rocks.

They probably think people telling them to piss off when they post something stupid is a threat.

Luxury hack: just add money /s

Hey Janelle, what’s wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is he all right?

Look I don’t doubt you’ve met these people but it’s not everywhere. Here in Australia the kids still learn this at school.

My daughter is in primary school and they’ve learned to use a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software etc.

So they can all use a keyboard and mouse and she’s done some school projects as PowerPoint slideshows.

They’re functionally the same.

5 digit here too: 56k something. I think there are many. It feels a bit like those days and I’ve noticed a lot of GenX people here.

Holy Slashdot batman!

They probably do dance-offs.

And you know what? I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. Lots of posts and comments to keep me busy for hours.

I don’t know the latest value but in 2023 Apple had like $162 billion in cash reserves on hand. Burning a billion a year is nothing especially as you say they’re just ‘art banking’ it for the future.

20+ years on and I still have some unresolved Clearcase trauma.

No shit.