The writing style of this article is interested, on one hand, it's packed full of details and information like a well-researched, human-written article.
On the other, there are many ChatGPTisms, it's not this, it's that, groups of 3 terms, em-dashes, etc.
My thinking is that there was a thorough draft written by a human that then was passed through an LLM and heavily modified. Not that there's a problem with that.
I created a video on the free tier, the shareable link didn't work (404), I upgraded to be able to download it, and it seems to have disappeared? It says "Still generating" in my Library.
The video UUID starts with "f5fbd6c7", hopefully that's sufficient to identify me!
Sorry about that! I found your video. Should I link it here or DM it to you (can you do DM in Hacker News?) ? You could also email me at shreyas2@stanford.edu, and I can send it there
> Third, despite having been provided with a clear definition
of AI companions, some respondents may have conflated
general AI use (such as ChatGPT for homework help) with
AI companion interactions, potentially inflating usage
statistics.
I think the viability of this entire study hinges on how clear they were that they are not talking about ChatGPT, even if they use ChatGPT for things like getting advice.
I recently migrated to Linkwarden [0] from Pocket, and have been fairly happy with the decision. I haven't tried Wallabag, which is mentioned in the article.
Linkwarden is open source and self-hostable.
I wrote a python package [1] to ease the migration of Pocket exports to Linkwarden.
Just as they were getting really popular on Twitter and X - it's such a shame. I like the idea of these alternative platforms, I'm saddened that this will likely make any kind of grassroots developer efforts DOA
Don't see why moving from the closed source Microsoft Github to free/open source codeberg would turn away any grassroots developer. It's like two extra characters to type and live coders can usually type quite fast.
Chess-related software is certainly booming as well. My favorite recent addition is OpeningTree[0], a platform that lets you input anyone's Lichess or chess.com username and load a tree of their opening moves. I play in the Lichess4545[1] league and its an incredible tool.
My contributions to the chess community are much smaller. I wrote u/relevant_post_bot[2] for /r/anarchychess and stylochess[3] in an attempt to solve the identity of mysterious super grandmasters[4].
My own contributions are modest. I wrote the shitty little Chess program that Apple gave away on their early Apple II demo game cassette tape and a few years later wrote and sold a Go playing program for the Apple II.
I am going to check out the Twitch Chess ‘show’ mentioned in the article, looks very cool. I enjoy Go webcasts supported by the American Go Association.
I use a very strong Go playing program for practice. I have it rate all of my game moves and for each move show the best alternative. It really helps, and has replaced expensive lessons from a South Korean Go professional I took a few years ago.
I need to find something similar for Chess. I played in the US Chess Open in 1978, and have not played very many serious games since then.
That's just sad. I really feel for this author.