Sudowrite takes some getting used to but the tools are extremely powerful.

I actually use Expand much more than Write. Write produces a couple potential outputs that both cost words, but Expand just builds off what you previously wrote, and you can cue it with (). And it's finetuned for the (), so it actually works how you'd reasonably expect.

Blog.sudowrite.com has some good advice, and they do live webinars. I wasn't super impressed at first, but after returning to it and getting some practice with the tools it's blowing me away. I cannot imagine how good it will be when they can connect GPT4 to it.

FYI, using both Claude and GPT4 in this manner is violating the ToS of those providers (Anthropic's here).

Not that I have a tear to shed for the authors of those content policies, but it's worth noting that once their no-no detection algorithms are sufficiently improved they may choose to ban users like yourself. I am honestly surprised you aren't banned from GPT already.

NovelAI and Sudowrite are two platforms that expressly permit any content short of CSAM and flagrantly illegal content.

NovelAI's models are finetuned on a wide corpus of content including sexually explicit content, and iirc one of their image models was trained on a website oriented for sexual content. They also support custom finetuning modules that can be trained on just about anything. The NAI models are also available in API form at goose.ai.

Previously/currently their models are all based on open-sourced models and are really showing their obsolescence compared to GPT3.5/4, but they just announced they've acquired some of Nvidia's fancy new AI hardware and are training their own models, about on par with GPT3.5.

Sudowrite is not a chat bot, but it does have a very flexible content policy.

Our CTO and I tried getting it to write some relatively challenging Swift as a benchmark example and it just repeatedly botched it. It would produce something close to working code, but kept insisting on using libraries that didn't have support for what it was trying to do with them, which was also an issue with 3.5.

>Preliminary assessments of GPT-4’s abilities, conducted with no task-specific finetuning, found it ineffective at autonomously replicating, acquiring resources, and avoiding being shut down “in the wild.”

>ARC found that the versions of GPT-4 it evaluated were ineffective at the autonomous replication task based on preliminary experiments they conducted. These experiments were conducted on a model without any additional task-specific fine-tuning, and fine-tuning for task-specific behavior could lead to a difference in performance. As a next step, ARC will need to conduct experiments that (a) involve the final version of the deployed model (b) involve ARC doing its own fine-tuning, before a reliable judgement of the risky emergent capabilities of GPT-4-launch can be made

So, don't start collecting canned food yet.

And parodied in Fallout New Vegas, where the Primm casino has a car belonging to an amusingly less criminally violent duo.

Pulling that out next time I need to email legal, thx

I spent a week in the Turks and Caicos once during the summer, which is the off season, and I remember the only drinkable beer available on tap was Foreign Extra.

So when I remember my sweltering tropical Caribbean beach vacation the flavor I associate with that memory is a dark Irish beer.

True, although worth noting that the only justification for the airport’s construction was the expected demand for supersonic intercontinental flights which looked promising at the time but never materialized. It would have been the biggest airport in the world - like six JFKs.

It’s crazy, they were going to pave the Everglades into six JFKs worth of airport!

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And despite their promises to "Not Fu it Up", they did, and it's terrible.

I couldn't include this in the title since it wasn't in the same article, but his last album released in 1998 "had 19 tracks, that Vibe said 'all straddle the line between mediocre and unlistenable'."

Do you host your portfolio anywhere else where we could view this in full resolution? Reddit and imgur both compress images a lot more on top of the compression coming out of photoshop. Incredible work as always! I recognized it had to be yours immediately!

As much as carob is chocolate

> is supposedly made up of the sound of (among other things)

100% a dunce. Go get your pointy hat.

But how did he squint enough to count all the atoms??

I actually just picked up my first Cornwell book, the first book in the Harlequin series! I'm pretty sure I'll be reading them all now, thanks for the rec.

It's the one I read first, and I picked up the plantagenets after. That sent me on quite a kick, so here's a few others I'd recommend that remind me of Dan Jones' style of telling history:

• Ian Mortimer's biographies on Edward III and Henry V are great. Edward III's life story sounds like an unbelievable movie and Mortimer really brings the knights of his household to life.
• The Three Edwards by Thomas Costain is so good I really enjoyed it even after having read an individual biography of each Edward
• The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris is fantastic and I'd put it on the level with Hollow Crown. I really appreciate how he points out where the Bayeaux Tapestry records the events and does a good job of describing the contemporary sources and their potential biases and how we can interpret from them. His books Castle and A Great and Terrible King, about Edward I, are both also excellent.
• The Greatest Knight by Thomas Asbridge is the biography of William Marshall and one of my favorites. His life story is unbelievable and as a book it's a good overview of the life and social hierarchy of a medieval knighthood as well as the courts of the many kings he served under. It'll add more to what you already know about that time in history.

Anyway, Dan Jones turned me into a medieval history nerd so there's my bibliography for ya. If you have any recommendations I'd love to hear em! I would really like to find some good books about the French side of the Hundred Years' War.

Fantastic book! His book The Hollow Crown, about the war of the roses, is also excellent and similarly filled with unbelievable exploits from history retold very well.

Netflix has a show about castles hosted by him right now that’s great too.