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by jstanley 414 days ago
For sure programming with AI is a game-changer, and o3 in particular is really quite good at maths.

I've tried getting ChatGPT to write blog posts for me as well, but it seems to struggle with knowing which things are important and which things aren't. You need to apply a lot of editorial control.

For example:

> We swapped 3 × 3 windows for 5 × 5, removed global gains then re-introduced per-occurrence magnitudes, and replaced hard clamping with bilinear interpolation so gradients would flow

What does this stuff mean? Why mention these very specific details in the middle of a very high-level overview?

Obviously ChatGPT said this because there was a part in your conversation where you decided to make these changes, but without any of the context behind that it is meaningless to readers.

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> Obviously ChatGPT said this because there was a part in your conversation where you decided to make these changes, but without any of the context behind that it is meaningless to readers.

Have you considered you might not be the target audience the author wrote this for?

Do AI commentators only expect to be read by AI fans?
I am an AI fan, I just thought the random specific irrelevant details sprinkled in the middle were out of place in such a high level overview.

One technique I use is to paste a draft into a new conversation and let ChatGPT work on it some more without the context from your earlier chat. You can do this several times.

You're right, your comment is valid. I will make better blog posts in the future :)
I thought that the full details might not be interesting for people, since the algorithm is just a mock up of the idea, but which already works! If I wrote the whole post about all the details, it would be very long. I can see how it's a bit out of context, because other parts of the algorithm are not described. But at least I uploaded it to github :)