Is a 1988 quarter worth anything

I’m beyond heartbroken. I have cried every single time I have thought about you. I was the one who blocked you and initiated no contact and I was the one who made sure to say just the right things to make sure you would never come back. I told you to leave me alone but what I really wanted was for you to not want to. And all that’s left is nothing.
I do not think you understand. I have withdrawn from everyone. I don’t talk to anyone anymore. I’ve been suffering in silence. I don’t even post to FB anymore and you know how often I used to love to shitpost.
I don’t understand what this is. I don’t know the name for what I am feeling because it makes no logical sense. Not in any kind of way. I shouldn’t be mourning you as if you are dead. But considering we never met… and I’ll never hear from you again.. you might as well be. Not that I want that! It’s just… kind of feels similar.
Idk what that says about me tbh. This hurts almost more than anything I have ever experienced and it doesn’t make logical sense. It’s like you have evaded every waking thought and I can’t go even an hour without feeling physical pain. It hurts. I wish I was just being dramatic.
I have tried to think of a million ways to explain why like this is effecting you the way it is effecting me. Like you even care. I can’t imagine you do. I’m so easily disposable.
I don’t want anything with anybody. I just give up. I want to stop feeling whatever this is tho. Jesus fuck, I’m crying while typing this.
I feel so pathetic. How did I let myself get so lonely that some guy across the country who put little effort into messaging me or showing genuine interest effect me like this? How? It makes zero fucking sense.
I am mad. I’m mad that I let you in. I’m mad that I miss you and I’m mad that I let you become that important to me. Last night one of my daughters came in my room and I was sobbing into my pillow. She started comforting me. But she also knew what was wrong. Because unlike how you never really wanted anyone to know I existed, my kids knew about you. She wanted your number to angry text you. Imagine that? Getting a text from a child you never met. Ha. This whole fucking situation is so ridiculous.
Why? Why did I allow empty hollow words do this to me?
I never will get close to another man. I mean it: I’m done. Even online friendships are not safe. I just don’t have it in me to try anymore. I’ve just been to letdown. Hurt. Used. Fucked and discarded.
You tho? Whatever fucking stupid connection I thought we had? The worst.
I actually love you. Go figure. I don’t know how to unlove youuuu. I keep hoping that with each passing day it will get better but it’s been almost a month now and it’s been getting worse.
Some days I wish I never added your friend request years ago. You literally have no fucking clue just how much you have unintentionally hurt me with silence over the years…. But this time was the most painful.
Goodbye forever I guess.

Hi all- I’m enjoying this subreddit quite a bit. I love learning from all of you and seeing different paths from like-minded folks.
My husband and I live in a HCOL area across the country from family and are expecting our first child. The plan was always to move back east, buy a house in a MCOL or LCOL area and be close to family. Unfortunately my husband’s job is not flexible for the next 2-3 years so we’re staying out west a little longer than planned. We currently live in good size 2 bedroom condo (1200 sqft) and are lucky enough to have a large private patio (800 sqft) that can be used year-round.
We both work hybrid schedules: 2 days in the office, 3 days from home. The second bedroom has served us well the last several years as an office/guest room, but now that baby is coming, an office/guest room/nursery just doesn’t seem realistic any longer.
We are on a few waitlists for infant daycare with no realistic chance of getting in, so we have decided to go with a nanny for at least the first year. Given this, we know it’s going to be next to impossible for both of us to WFH effectively with baby and nanny around, let alone have overnight guests.
We are both very close to my parents who live on the east coast and want them to come visit as much as possible. They are entering retirement so they have a lot of time/flexibility and live comfortably, but they are not wealthy by any means. We love sharing experiences with them and want them to be as involved as they can be with their first grandchild. We don’t want them to shell out $$$ for a hotel every time they come, and we also don’t want cost to hinder them from visiting.
Homes in our area (even to rent) are exorbitantly expensive. Even if we rented a 3 bedroom house or townhouse in our area, it would certainly be less than 2,000 sqft (likely close to 1,500) and close to 10k/month in rent. Here’s where my (potentially crazy) scheme comes in. We’re thinking of renting a 2 bedroom apartment for my parents in a nice community that’s a 5 minute drive from our place. It’s in a very family-friendly planned community that’s walkable with shops, restaurants, Whole Foods, movie theater, fitness centers, playgrounds etc. While my parents would use it when they come to visit, my husband and I would also use it as our office space when we WFH 3 days a week. This would give us the flexibility of basically no commutes for the 3 days we don’t go to the office which translates to ~12 hours/week combined. Additionally, since it is so family friendly, it’d be a great place to take our son to the parks/playgrounds etc as he gets older. It would also be great for other family/out of town visitors to use.
The rent is $3,000/month. Even combined with our mortgage/HOA/taxes/insurance payment of $3,300/month, $6,300/month (plus internet/utilities) is significantly cheaper than renting a larger home in our area. I know it’s quite unconventional, but this seems like a good way to give my parents their own space, and a way for us to enjoy the benefits of working remotely while allowing our son and nanny to be comfortable at home. Is this idea totally nuts? Anything I’m not thinking of that we should be considering? Has anyone done something similar? Or if you’re in a similar situation living far from family, how are you handling things? Appreciate any feedback or thoughts!
Background stats: Age: mid 30s Location: LA HHI: $550k (recently hit this number) Career: both in finance Debt: $500k in mortgage at 2.6% (~$300k equity), no other debt Net worth: ~$1.75M 401(k)s: $550k, fully max every year 529 for unborn kid: $75k, saving max tax-free gift amount past 2 years Brokerage: 750k (liquid) Cash/emergency fund: $75k

Ruby has got a bunch of nerfs and changes but is she still worth Buying?

The following are five simple things you can do to help increase your chances of success in whatever it is you are pursuing in life. We have Purposely kept them short to ensure you can quickly read them!
Here you go!
HABIT #1 : Being Addicted To Learning
''The evolution of oneself can only occur when we become more than what we currently are. Learning helps us manifest our minds goals into real life by equipping us with the knowledge for change!''
HABIT #2 : Taking Accountability For Your Life
''When you take ownership of your life, something beautiful happens. You begin to understand that your actions predict your future and are able to manipulate your them for your benefit.''
HABIT #3 : Having Genuine Curiosity
''When you ask questions, you not only open yourself up to a realm of infinite possibilities, but your curiosity can also put you on a journey to find yourself and what it is you want in life.''
HABIT #4 : Creating Directed Consistency
''Focusing on the particular steps needed to reach your objective allows you to question your choices and life direction, which speeds up your development.''
HABIT #5 : Demanding More From Yourself
''Growth only occurs when you push yourself outside your comfort zone. Demanding more from yourself in every situation provides this stimulus, allowing you to become the best version of yourself!''
Doing these things does not guarantee your success, as anything in life but it does give increase your chances, so keep pushing guys!
Reformli

Hi all, just wondering if anyone leases a vehicle for their delivery work and if so is it worth it? What jobs do you do on top of amazon to cover the costs?

Hi all,
i have a MBP 15" 2017 model, in the past it had died when the battery drained and would no longer charge. It was when we had our little one and was to busy to use it so it sat for maybe three weeks without being used! anyway the apple store replaced the battery alongside the keyboard and it was all OK again.
about two years ago work finally got me a MBP (i was using my own one during lock down) and since then my one has mostly sat unused, i check on it every now and again and top up the battery but forgot to do it for awhile and its drained again.
Its back on now after sitting plugged in for a few hours but its got me a bit worried about it, is there anything i can do to help ensure its long term health while not being used? I want to hang onto it because its not worth enough to sell vs keeping as a backup should i need it but am worried it will die while not being used. In the back of my mind its worth hanging onto should something happen at work and i need to freelance.
Also, is there a way of using it without the battery? at the moment when the battery is flat it wont turn on which is a pain as the older MBP would work just from power cable.
I guess i am just after some thoughts/tips on what to do.

There is a common misunderstanding here that the Hard Problem is, somehow, scientific...it's just that we haven't yet figured out how to solve it. Another misunderstanding is that the problem concerns consciousness itself – that there is “no way to explain it” or “it just doesn't make sense”.
The truth is that hard problem is purely conceptual. It arises purely from a contradiction between two different concepts, represented by words, and the reason it is “hard” is because it is impossible to resolve the contradiction without breaking the concepts. So it is the same sort of problem as “How is it possible for a triangle to have four sides?” This isn't just hard; it is impossible. When Chalmers called it “hard”, he was contrasting it to “easy” – it might have been better to call them the “impossible problem” and contrast it with “possible problems”.
The two concepts which mutually contradict are materialism and consciousness, and they arise directly from the only reasonable definitions of the words that refer to them.
“Consciousness” refers to experiences – both ours and those of any other conscious entities, which presumably includes most animals.
“Materialism” means “the belief that reality is made only of material entities, and nothing else” (which obviously includes what they are doing). This concept in its modern form is directly connected to science, but it goes all the way back to two pre-Socratic philosophers (Ancient Atomism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)). The concept of a material world is derived from the material world we directly experience, but that isn't the material world of materialism. It can't be, because that “material world” is dependent on our senses and our brain. The real Sun – the Sun of materialism – isn't the one we experience shining down on us. It is necessarily entirely independent of anything we experience, and would exist even if life on Earth had never evolved.
Once we have established that these are two valid concepts, and that the words in question do indeed refer to those concepts, then the hard problem is unavoidable and impossible to solve. If we try to define the word “consciousness” to mean anything other than subjective experiences then it doesn't make the actual thing disappear. That's just an empty word game, and forces people to define something like “qualia” to explicitly prevent any further word games. It doesn't solve the problem. So the only option left is to try to change the definition of “materialism”. But how could we possibly do that? The material world of mainstream science really is completely independent of any consciousness – it is an inherent part of that concept that it would exist even if the cosmos contained no life or no conscious animals. So materialists are left with two options of how to try to escape from the contradiction. The first is to deny that there is any such thing as consciousness – either that “it is an illusion”, or that it simply doesn't exist (which is eliminative materialism). Neither of these approaches works. If it is an illusion then you still have to explain how the illusion is possible, which just leads straight back to the hard problem, and claiming it doesn't exist convinces almost nobody, for very obvious reasons. The second is to accept that exists, and then try to find a way to eliminate the contradiction, which is impossible, because the contradiction has arisen from mutually contradictory concepts. Materialism logically entails that consciousness doesn't exist.
The reason materialists can't get their heads around this is that the belief that science is true – or the closest thing to truth that we can ever get – forms the foundation of their belief system. Everything else they believe is built on top of this foundation, which they believe to be unassailable. Therefore, when presented with the above contradiction they have a choice between:
(a) Denying the contradiction, even though they have no idea how to back up the denial with a rational argument.
(b) Accepting that the foundation of their belief system is fundamentally broken, which means they are going to have to go back to square one and rethink everything they believe.
The reason this argument won't go away is that there will always be materialists who choose they easy option of denying logic instead of the much harder option of accepting the logic and rethinking their belief system. The irony is that the very same people are usually very scathing of other people who refuse to rethink their belief system when some scientific or logical problem in its foundation is exposed.
Accepting materialism is false may seem like it shatters the whole of science, but this is not actually the case. Some specific areas of science may need a rethink – especially the evolution of consciousness and some aspects of cosmology – but the overwhelming majority of science is left untouched. The only other area of science that is directly relevant is quantum mechanics (which is why I said "mainstream science" above). QM throws serious doubt on the question about whether the material world really is independent of our experiences of it. This is another materialistic taboo – one is not even allowed to consider that consciousness might have something to do with quantum mechanics, even though the act of observation – what a “measurement” means in QM – is causing as much conceptual confusion as the hard problem. In fact, these two problems are directly related, and it is only because of the ongoing prevalence of materialism that people refuse to consider that it is possible they are related. In both cases, what is missing is a Participating Observer.

OK, so, this isn't a true mod question. But I don't know where I could ask this.
So a little while back I bought a GameCube from a flea market. Risky, yes, but it was worth it for 50 bucks. The system worked just fine. I didn't immediately see any issues. Not till I had to slowly cross a small space and kept falling.
I set the controller down and saw that their was some drift. I thought it might have been an issue with the controller. Old hardware and all that. But no. I tried multiple controllers, in all the different ports. All the same issue. The ports are causing drift.
My question is, is there a way to fix this? I'd hate to have to buy another GameCube at a higher price just to relive my childhood.

I played maybe 20+ years ago but never to completion. Been wanting to give it a go. However, I wanted to ask if you guys think I should use any mods, and if so, which ones? Im not looking to play it heavily modded, but if you have any "must-have" mods (mayne mods that fix anything broken?), I would love to hear them. Any other non-spoil advice is welcome, too.
Anyway, I hope youre having a great day, and thanks for taking the time to read and comment.

Imagine spending $365 million on pizza. Sounds insane, right? Well, that’s what one guy did in 2010, when he bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. At the time, bitcoin was worth less than a penny, so it seemed like a fair deal. But today, those bitcoins would be worth a fortune.
You might expect him to be filled with regret and remorse. But he’s not. He says he doesn’t think about it much and he’s happy with his life. He says he was hungry and wanted some pizza, and that’s what he got. He also says he helped create history by making the first real-world transaction with bitcoin.
He’s not lying. His purchase is now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day every year on May 22nd, when people around the world order pizza with bitcoin to honor his legacy.
He’s not bitter. He’s not angry. He’s not sad. He’s just a guy who loves pizza and bitcoin#BitcoinPizzaDay

3-Apr-2023

• Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser? (https://simonwillison.net/2023/Ma17/beat-chatgpt-in-a-browse )
• HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580)
• Make loading weights 10-100x faster (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613)
• AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects (https://simonwillison.net/2023/Ma27/ai-enhanced-development/)
• Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT (https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-bans-chatgpt/)
• Vocode–an open source library for building LLM applications you can talk to. (https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python)
• Join the Responsible AI Challenge (https://future.mozilla.org/builders-challenge/)
• Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHub (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641876892302073875)
• Docker and Hugging Face Partner to Democratize AI (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-and-hugging-face-partner-to-democratize-ai/)
• GPT-4 saves doggo’s life (https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-saves-doggos-life/)
• 'He Would Still Be Here': Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says)
• Interact ChatGPT via phone call (https://callsam.ai/)

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4-Apr-2023

• 30B model now needs only 5.8GB of RAM? How? (https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1642726595436883969)
• SudoLang: A Powerful Pseudocode Programming Language for LLMs (https://medium.com/javascript-scene/sudolang-a-powerful-pseudocode-programming-language-for-llms-d64d42aa719b)
• Adobe Firefly vs. MidJourney AI image generation (https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1642921475849203712)
• State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights (https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1642968294998306816)
• Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks
• Models guide (https://github.com/Crataco/ai-guide/blob/main/guide/models.md)
• Marvin: a batteries-included library for building AI-powered software. Marvin's job is to integrate AI directly into your codebase by making it look and feel like any other function (https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin)

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5-Apr-2023

• Stanford just released a MASSIVE 386-page report on the state of AI. (https://twitter.com/nonmayorpete/status/1643012248720523264)
• Large Language Model Observability (https://monitoring2.substack.com/p/large-language-model-observability)
• Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/03/31/goldman-sachs-predicts-300-million-jobs-will-be-lost-or-degraded-by-artificial-intelligence/?sh=a8d292b782b4)
• Believe Your Assignment is AI-Immune? Let's Put it to the Test (https://automated.beehiiv.com/p/believe-assignment-aiimmune-lets-put-test)
• Growth of AI Through a Cloud Lens (https://mitchellh.com/writing/ai-through-a-cloud-lens)
• Someone Added ChatGPT to a Furby (https://twitter.com/jessicard/status/1642671752319758336)
• you can greatly increase GPT-4's effective context size by asking it to compress your prompts using its own abbreviations. (https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1642909851947810817)
• Microsoft Semantic Kernel Enables LLM Integration with Conventional Programs (https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/03/microsoft-semantic-kernel/)
• Open-source IDE powered by AI agents that do the work for you (https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b)
• Converse with ChatGPT inside VS Code (BYO OpenAI API Key) (https://github.com/yagil/ChatIDE)
• Promptr is a CLI tool for operating on your codebase using GPT. (https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr)

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6-Apr-2023

• CAMEL: Communicative Agents for “Mind” Exploration of Large Scale Language Model Society (https://github.com/lightaime/camel)
• Improving Large Language Models with External Knowledge and Automated Feedback (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/deep-learning-group/articles/check-your-facts-and-try-again-improving-large-language-models-with-external-knowledge-and-automated-feedback/)
• AI is entering an era of corporate control (https://www.theverge.com/23667752/ai-progress-2023-report-stanford-corporate-control)
• Simulating an FTP server at ftp.disney.com with ChatGPT4 (https://www.filestash.app/2023/04/01/chat-gpt-acting-as-a-ftp-serve)
• OpenAI's approach to AI safety (https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-ai-safety)
• Segment Anything: model from facebook (https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/)
• Chinese Gaming Firm Appoints AI Robot As CEO, Sees 10 Percent Growth In Share Price (https://news.abplive.com/technology/chinese-gaming-firm-netdragon-websoft-appoints-ai-robot-as-ceo-sees-10-percent-growth-in-share-price-1589029)
• The Language Wars Are Over: ChatGPT Won (https://bourgoin.dev/posts/programming-languages/)
• JARVIS, a system to connect LLMs with ML community (https://github.com/microsoft/JARVIS)
• I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients (https://inflecthealth.medium.com/im-an-er-doctor-here-s-what-i-found-when-i-asked-chatgpt-to-diagnose-my-patients-7829c375a9da)

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10-Apr-2023

• The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT (https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental)
• Stanford benchmarks and compares numerous Large Language Models (https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/latest/?group=core\_scenarios)
• Fine-tuning with LoRA: create your own avatars & styles! (https://www.kix.in/2023/04/07/sd-lora-finetuning/)
• Thinking companion, companion for thinking (https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/thinking-companion-companion-for)
• How ChatGPT is changing the job hiring process, from the HR department to coders (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/08/chatgpt-is-being-used-for-coding-and-to-write-job-descriptions.html)
• Harness the power of ChatGPT inside the GDB debugger! (https://github.com/pgosaChatGDB)
• DoctorGPT diagnoses your software's failures (https://github.com/ingyamilmolinadoctorgpt)
• Self-hosted AI coding assistant (https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby)

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11-Apr-2023

• GPT-5 arriving by end of 2023 (https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/12gkt3z/gpt5_arriving_by_end_of_2023/)
• 5 Lessons Learned from Adding ChatGPT to a Mature Product (https://blog.trymito.io/5-lessons-learned-from-adding-chatgpt-to-a-mature-product/)
• ChatGPT with long-term memory (https://the-decoder.com/memorygpt-is-like-chatgpt-with-long-term-memory/)
• GitHub Copilot stealing other people's copyright comment blocks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516887)
• Lost big client because of ChatGPT (https://www.reddit.com/freelanceWriters/comments/12ff5mw/it\_happened\_to\_me\_today/)
• LLMs won't eat the world-they will just homogenize it (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23674696/chatgpt-ai-creativity-originality-homogenization)
• Edit Anything by Segment-Anything (https://github.com/sail-sg/EditAnything)
• A curated list of awesome ChatGPT resources, including libraries, SDKs, APIs, and more (https://github.com/eon01/awesome-chatgpt)
• TurboPilot: self-hosted copilot clone which uses the library behind llama.cpp to run the 6 Billion Parameter Salesforce Codegen model in 4GiB of RAM. (https://github.com/ravenscroftj/turbopilot)
• Multi-task Language Understanding on MMLU (https://paperswithcode.com/sota/multi-task-language-understanding-on-mmlu)
• Telegram ChatGPT Concierge Bot (+ Voice!) (https://github.com/RafalWilinski/telegram-chatgpt-concierge-bot)

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12-Apr-2023

• Jailbreaking AI Chatbots Is Tech’s New Pastime (https://tech.hindustantimes.com/amp/tech/news/jailbreaking-ai-chatbots-is-tech-s-new-pastime-71680974957609.html)
• OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program (https://openai.com/blog/bug-bounty-program)
• GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500,000 and 20,000 hours (https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-crowdworkers-saving-researchers-usd500-000-and-20)
• GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam! (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7209)
• GPT-4 is highly susceptible to prompt injections and will leak its system prompt with very little effort applied (https://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1645909635692630018)
• Chinese tech giant Alibaba to release ChatGPT rival (https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-tech-giant-releases-chatgpt-rival/a-65275609)
• Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development (https://github.blog/2023-04-11-generative-ai-enabled-compliance-for-software-development/)
• Chunking Strategies for LLM Applications (https://www.pinecone.io/learn/chunking-strategies/)
• Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering (https://www.ruxu.dev/articles/ai/maximizing-the-potential-of-llms/)
• Summary Of Adapter Based Performance Efficient Fine Tuning (PEFT) Techniques For Large Language Models (https://smashinggradient.com/2023/04/11/summary-of-adapter-based-performance-efficient-fine-tuning-peft-techniques-for-large-language-models/)
• GPT–LLM native macOS app with time travel, versioning, search (https://thellm.app/)
• Microsoft Kiota: CLI for generating an API client to call OpenAPI-described API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openapi/kiota/overview) (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/you-can-now-use-microsoft-kiota-within-visual-studio-code/)
• DeepSpeed Chat: Easy, Fast and Affordable RLHF Training of ChatGPT-like Models at All Scales (https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/tree/masteblogs/deepspeed-chat)
• Distributed² Machine Learning notebooks with Elixir and Livebook (https://news.livebook.dev/distributed2-machine-learning-notebooks-with-elixir-and-livebook---launch-week-1---day-2-1aIlaw)
• Large language model evaluation and workflow framework from Phase AI. (https://github.com/wgryc/phasellm)

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13-Apr-2023

• Dolly 2.0: Open Instruction-Tuned LLM (https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm)
• Building LLM applications for production (https://huyenchip.com/2023/04/11/llm-engineering.html)
• AI search engine for developers (https://www.phind.com/)
• Midjourney AI Guide (https://enchanting-trader-463.notion.site/Midjourney-AI-Guide-41eca43809dd4d8fa676e648436fc29c)
• Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05128)
• Decreasing cold boot time in serverless GPUs(https://www.banana.dev/blog/turboboot)
• Use ChatGPT from WhatsApp (https://brightbot.chat/en/home)
• Yet another cache, but for ChatGPT (https://zilliz.com/blog/Yet-another-cache-but-for-ChatGPT)
• Excited by hype, CEO tells staff to use ChatGPT to build database of diseases (https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/04/chatgpt-hallucination-enterprise-use.html)
• I'm dating a chatbot trained on old conversations between me and my ex (https://www.reddit.com/OpenAI/comments/12696oq/im_dating_a_chatbot_trained_on_old_conversations/)
• Scaffolded LLMs as natural language computers (https://www.beren.io/2023-04-11-Scaffolded-LLMs-natural-language-computers/)
• Robot powered by GPT4 (https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1642558575502405637)
• ChatGPT – Who Owns the Content Created? (https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/chatgpt-who-owns-the-content-generated-2891692/) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206)
• Collection of LLM resources that can be used to build products (https://github.com/imaureawesome-decentralized-llm)
• OpenAI releases Consistency Model for one-step generation (https://github.com/openai/consistency_models)
• GPT4 gets a 0 on Steven Landsbrug's undergrad econ exam (https://twitter.com/ATabarrok/status/1646185259866939394)
• emergent abilities of large language models (https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence)
• Praetor, a lightweight finetuning data and prompt management tool (https://github.com/gkamer8/praetor-data)
• Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages (https://www.izzy.co/blogs/robo-boys.html)

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17-Apr-2023

• ​​OpenAssistant released the best open-source Chat AI (https://medium.com/@sann3/open-source-conversational-ai-takes-a-big-leap-forward-e2ccc68dfb1d)
• I replaced my assistant by a bot powered by AI to do her job (https://twitter.com/nico_jeannen/status/1647396475989811201)
• UC Berkeley's open-source Vicuna LLM chatbot released new improved model weights (https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v1.1)
• You Can’t Regulate What You Don’t Understand (https://www.oreilly.com/content/you-cant-regulate-what-you-dont-understand-2/)
• 91% of ML Models Degrade in Time (https://www.nannyml.com/blog/91-of-ml-perfomance-degrade-in-time)
• An open source AI tool to animate children's drawings (https://github.com/facebookresearch/AnimatedDrawings)
• Sam Altman: OpenAI is not training GPT-5 and "won't for some time" (https://twitter.com/smokeawayyy/status/1646670920214536193)
• Companies like Uber and Amazon use AI to pay people different wages for the same work, a new study finds (https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/companies-like-uber-and-amazon-use-ai-to-pay-people-different-wages-for-the-same-work-a-new-study-finds/articleshow/99471054.cms)
• AWS announced New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-new-tools-for-building-with-generative-ai-on-aws/)
• Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, is Now Generally Available (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-codewhisperer-free-for-individual-use-is-now-generally-available/)
• Current Best Practices for Training LLMs from Scratch (https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5ac6b7f2924c656f2b13a88c/6435aabdc0a041194b243eef_Current%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Training%20LLMs%20from%20Scratch%20-%20Final.pdf)
• AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx)
• BharatGPT: The Made in India AI Language Model (https://bharatgpt.live/bharatgpt-the-made-in-india-ai-language-model/)
• What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work? (https://txt.cohere.ai/what-are-transformer-models/)
• GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities (https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploration-of-gpt-4s-image-generation-capabilities)

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18-Apr-2023

• RedPajama, a project to create leading open-source models, starts by reproducing LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens (https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama)
• ChatGPT Is Consuming a Staggering Amount of Water (https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-ai-water-consumption)
• Google & UC Berkeley’s ‘Self-Debugging’ Framework Teaches LLMs to Debug Their Own Code (https://syncedreview.com/2023/04/17/google-uc-berkeleys-self-debugging-framework-teaches-llms-to-debug-their-own-code/)
• Stability AI makes its Stable Diffusion models available on Amazon’s new Bedrock service (https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-makes-its-stable-diffusion-models-available-on-amazons-new-bedrock-service)
• DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/8/23629095/duckduckgo-ai-answers-browser-app-extension-search)
• Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award (https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vxy/sony-world-photography-awards-ai-generated)
• Community is the future of AI (https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/04/17/community-is-the-future-of-ai/)
• Soundini: Sound-Guided Diffusion for Natural Video Editing (https://kuai-lab.github.io/soundini-gallery/)
• how do we overcome 4096 token limit in OpenAI GPT requests? (https://twitter.com/wooing0306/status/1645092115914063872)
• DINOv2: A Self-supervised Vision Transformer Model (https://dinov2.metademolab.com/)
• Analyze cloud resources using GPT (https://github.com/selefra/selefra)
• GPTest VS Code Extension (https://github.com/JRB-y/gptest)
• AI-agents that automatically generate and use Langchain Tools and ChatGPT plugins (https://github.com/hey-pal/toolkit-ai)
• Drag & drop UI to build your customized LLM flow using LangchainJS (https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise)

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19-Apr-2023

• Microsoft reportedly working on its own AI chips that may rival Nvidia’s (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23687912/microsoft-athena-ai-chips-nvidia)
• Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/23/nvidias-a100-is-the-10000-chip-powering-the-race-for-ai-.html)
• Kent Beck on ChatGPT (https://twitter.com/kentbeck/status/1648413998025707520)
• Can open-source LLMs detect bugs in C++ code? (https://twitter.com/MrCatid/status/1647155706548695040)
• GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15331)
• Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682)
• AI Playground (https://play.vercel.ai/)
• Live Conversations with AI using ChatGPT and WebRTC (https://blog.livekit.io/meet-kitt/)
• T-cell vaccine for COVID-19 may last longer than current vaccines (https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/t-cell-vaccine-covid-19-may-last-longer-current-vaccines/)
• If there's one thing AI has done for us, it's killed Zuck's metaverse (https://www.pcgamer.com/if-theres-one-thing-ai-has-done-for-us-its-killed-zucks-metaverse/)
• An example of LLM prompting for programming (https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-chatgpt-xu-hao.html)
• Chinchilla data-optimal scaling laws (https://lifearchitect.ai/chinchilla/)
• Jevons Paradox and LLMs (https://matt-rickard.com/jevons-paradox-and-llms)
• A Google AI model developed a skill it wasn't expected to have (https://qz.com/google-ai-skills-sundar-pichai-bard-hallucinations-1850342984)
• 4 Million Accounts Compromised by Fake ChatGPT App (https://www.artisana.ai/articles/4-million-accounts-compromised-by-fake-chatgpt-app)
• LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant (https://llava-vl.github.io/)
• An open, billion-scale corpus of images interleaved with text. (https://github.com/allenai/mmc4)
• Connect to Google Colab VM locally from VSCode (https://github.com/amitness/colab-tunnel)
• OP Vault ChatGPT: Give ChatGPT long-term memory using the OP Stack (https://github.com/pashpashpash/vault-ai)

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20-Apr-2023

• Stability AI Launches the First of its StableLM Suite of Language Models (https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-launches-the-first-of-its-stablelm-suite-of-language-models)
• Exclusive: AI startup LangChain taps Sequoia to lead funding round at a valuation of at least $200 million
• “Langchain is Overrated”, and other strategies I use to deal with the GPT Hype (https://medium.com/@aplaceofmind/langchain-is-overrated-and-other-strategies-i-use-to-deal-with-the-gpt-hype-af06aa1a6be1)
• Autonomous Agents & Agent Simulations (https://blog.langchain.dev/agents-round/)
• GPT-3 Creative Fiction (https://gwern.net/gpt-3)
• Could ChatGPT become an architect? (https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/could-chatgpt-become-an-architect)
• How to train your own Large Language Models (https://blog.replit.com/llm-training)
• Why universities should return to oral exams in the AI and ChatGPT era (https://theconversation.com/why-universities-should-return-to-oral-exams-in-the-ai-and-chatgpt-era-203429)
• Ideas to Professional Presentations in Seconds (https://www.magicslides.app/)
• How physics advanced Generative AI (https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-physics-advanced-generative-ai/)
• Google employees label AI chatbot Bard ‘worse than useless’ and ‘a pathological liar’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689554/google-ai-chatbot-bard-employees-criticism-pathological-liar)
• The Anatomy of Autonomy: Why Agents are the next AI Killer App after ChatGPT (https://www.latent.space/p/agents)
• Teach GPTs to read API documentation using LLaMA, LoRA, and Langchain (https://github.com/danielgross/LlamaAcademy)
• web-llm: Bringing large-language models and chat to web browsers. (https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm)
• llama.go is like llama.cpp in pure Golang (https://github.com/gotzmann/llama.go)
• Leverage locally-hosted Large Language Models to write software + unit tests (https://github.com/catid/supercharger)

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21-Apr-2023

• Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo on Poe becoming the web browser for AI (https://www.semafor.com/article/04/19/2023/quora-ceo-adam-dangelo-on-poe-becoming-the-web-browser-for-ai)
• Snapchat making AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT available to every user (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/ap19/snapchat-making-ai-chatbot-similar-to-chatgpt-available-to-every-user)
• Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data (https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/)
• This new technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-technology-could-blow-away-gpt-4-and-everything-like-it/)
• How to run your own LLM (GPT) (https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programming/How_to_run_your_own_LLM_GPT.html)
• The ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Chatbot: How Well Does It Answer Accounting Assessment Questions? (https://publications.aaahq.org/iae/article/doi/10.2308/ISSUES-2023-013/10903/The-ChatGPT-Artificial-Intelligence-Chatbot-How)
• Introducing WebGPT (https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/1649147091573432321?s=20)
• Some Glimpse AGI in ChatGPT. Others Call It a Mirage (https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-agi-intelligence/)
• Google Looks to Turbocharge AI Efforts With Combined Brain, DeepMind Unit (https://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabets-google-combines-ai-research-units-brain-and-deepmind-620f4f7d)
• Experience CozoDB: The Hybrid Relational-Graph-Vector Database - The Hippocampus for LLMs (https://docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/releases/v0.6.html)
• The Embedding Archives: Millions of Wikipedia Article Embeddings in Many Languages (https://txt.cohere.com/embedding-archives-wikipedia/)
• Building A ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL (https://isthisit.nz/posts/2023/building-a-chat-gpt-enhanced-python-repl/)
• Large Language Models: Scaling Laws and Emergent Properties (https://cthiriet.com/articles/scaling-laws)
• San Francisco GPT and CensusGPT — natural language interfaces to public data (https://github.com/caesarhq/textSQL)
• Text-prompted Generative Audio Model (https://github.com/suno-ai/bark)
• One step Baby AGI (https://github.com/Methexis-Inc/OneStepBabyAGI)
• Retrieve data from databases using natural language commands (https://github.com/logunify/dsensei)
• Runs a sharable ChatGPT docker container, allowing you to share a ChatGPT session with friends via a web browser. (https://github.com/BLuFeNiX/PlayGPT)
• Run Large Language Model "Agents" in Salesforce apex (https://github.com/callawaycloud/llm-apex-agents)

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24-Apr-2023

• Bard now helps you code (https://blog.google/technology/ai/code-with-bard/)
• ChatGPT could cost over $700,000 per day to operate. Microsoft is reportedly trying to make it cheaper (https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/chatgpt-could-cost-over-700000-per-day-to-operate-microsoft-is-reportedly-trying-to-make-it-cheaper-/articleshow/99637548.cms)
• SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues (https://www.giskard.ai/safegpt)
• ChatGPT finds hundreds of vulnerabilities every day in NPM (https://twitter.com/feross/status/1648055850060374016)
• The inside story of ChatGPT's astonishing potential (https://www.ted.com/talks/greg\_brockman\_the\_inside\_story\_of\_chatgpt\_s\_astonishing\_potential/no-comments)
• A snapshot of today's open-source LLMs space (https://twitter.com/theaievangelist/status/1645809824314298368)
• Yokosuka becomes Japan's first city to use ChatGPT for administrative tasks (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/04/20/national/chatgpt-yokosuka-trial/)
• Google Colab no longer allows remote UI (https://twitter.com/artificialguybstatus/1649178893020979201)
• ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to. (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/04/18/chatgpt4-writes-stan-code-so-i-dont-have-to/)
• We all contribute to AI – should we get paid for that? (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/as-ai-eliminates-jobs-a-way-to-keep-people-afloat-financially-thats-not-ubi/)
• ChatGPT creates mostly insecure code, but won't tell you unless you ask (https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/21/chatgpt\_insecure\_code/)
• ProfileGPT: What does ChatGPT know about you ? (https://sahbichaieb.com/profilegpt/)
• Training open-source LLMs on ChatGPT output is a really bad idea (https://gist.github.com/mlaprise/bf4745655194162babfc2d158162e2e0)
• Human creativity in an AI saturated future (https://metastable.org/everything.html)
• Chart-GPT (https://twitter.com/whoiskatrin/status/1650245885127806976)
• WasmGPT ChatGPT-like chatbot in the browser(https://github.com/lxe/wasm-gpt/tree/wasm-demo)

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25-Apr-2023

• OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692476)
• openai Brand guidelines (https://openai.com/brand)
• Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI (https://www.forbes.com/sites/martineparis/2023/04/24/grimes-tells-fans-to-deepfake-drake-her-welcomes-collaboration-with-ai/)
• Large language models could improve their performance by outsourcing tasks to specialist AIs (https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-models)
• Bard vs GPT — Math, Logic and Problem Solving BATTLE (https://medium.com/nice-math-problems/bard-vs-gpt-math-logic-and-problem-solving-battle-%EF%B8%8F-ec8915fbd7e2)
• GCP: Supercharging security with generative AI (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/rsa-google-cloud-security-ai-workbench-generative-ai)
• ChatGPT now has a new Russian rival called GigaChat (https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/chatgpt-now-has-a-new-russian-rival-called-gigachat-378618-2023-04-24)
• RedPajama training progress at 440 billion tokens (https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama-training-progress)
• Transcribing Audio on AWS with Whisper: Cost Comparison AWS vs OpenAI (https://www.paulruales.com/blog/whiser-aws-guide)
• H2O LLM Studio - a framework and no-code GUI for fine-tuning LLMs (https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-llmstudio)
• LoopGPT Modular Auto-GPT Framework (https://github.com/farizrahman4u/loopgpt)
• Low-code LLM (https://github.com/microsoft/TaskMatrix/tree/main/LowCodeLLM)
• A GPT-empowered penetration testing tool (https://github.com/GreyDGL/PentestGPT)

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26-Apr-2023

• Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT(https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/hugging-face-releases-its-own-version-of-chatgpt/)
• ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history, allowing you to choose which conversations can be used to train our models (https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt)
• The UK will spend £100 million to develop its own 'sovereign' AI (https://www.engadget.com/the-uk-is-creating-a-100-million-ai-taskforce-143507868.html)
• Google’s search business is feeling the heat (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23698087/alphabet-google-earnings-q1-2023)
• An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic (https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic)
• Amazon CodeWhisperer is out of beta. We tried it. Spoiler: it isn’t good (https://codeium.com/blog/amazon-codewhisperer-review)
• Web LLM (https://mlc.ai/web-llm/)
• Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes (https://github.com/HazyResearch/evaporate)
• Layered, depth-first reading—start with summaries, tap to explore details, and gain clarity on complex topics (https://github.com/1rgs/clarity-reader)

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27-Apr-2023

• Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/26/23699633/mark-zuckerberg-meta-generative-ai-chatbots-instagram-facebook-whatsapp)
• Yellow AI launches dynamic automation platform powered by generative AI for enterprises (https://venturebeat.com/ai/yellow-ai-launches-dynamic-automation-platform-powered-by-generative-ai-for-enterprises/)
• Google Researchers Unleash AI Performance Breakthrough for Mobile Devices (https://www.artisana.ai/articles/google-researchers-unleash-ai-performance-breakthrough-for-mobile-devices)
• Microsoft Releases SynapseMl v0.11 with support for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Causal Learning, and More (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-synapse-analytics-blog/what-s-new-in-synapseml-v0-11/ba-p/3804919)
• Transformers from Scratch (https://e2eml.school/transformers.html)
• Store Embeddings in redis (https://release.com/blog/training-chatgpt-with-custom-libraries-using-extensions)
• FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine (https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt)
• DeepDoctection: Document extraction and analysis using deep learning models (https://github.com/deepdoctection/deepdoctection)
• DeepFloyd IF: open-source text-to-image model (https://github.com/deep-floyd/IF)

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28-Apr-2023

• ChatGPT Grows in Popularity as Bing and Bard Flatline (https://www.artisana.ai/articles/chatgpt-grows-in-popularity-as-bing-and-bard-flatline)
• ChatGPT is finally ready to leave 2021. It can browse the internet now.
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• ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers (https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/)
• Europe to ChatGPT: Disclose Your Sources (https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-to-chatgpt-disclose-your-sources-863ef330)
• NVIDIA Announces NeMo Guardrails: An Open-Source Tool Designed to Improve the Performance and Safety of AI-Powered Chatbots like ChatGPT (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/26/nvidia-announces-nemo-guardrails-an-open-source-tool-designed-to-improve-the-performance-and-safety-of-ai-powered-chatbots-like-chatgpt/)
• China Expert Gives Startling Reason Why CCP Is Requiring AI to ‘Reflect Socialist Values’ (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/catherine-salgado/2023/04/27/exclusive-china-expert-gives-startling-reason-why)
• Unleashing Infinite-Length Input Capacity for Large-scale Language Models with Self-Controlled Memory System (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13343)
• LLM+P: Empowering Large Language Models with Optimal Planning Proficiency (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11477)
• Knowledge Retrieval Architecture for LLM’s (https://mattboegner.com/knowledge-retrieval-architecture-for-llms)

Found out a month or two ago that over the phone, my dad and my voices are damn near indistinguishable.
It's so funny because even if I call on my phone, they still think it's my dad, because he often uses my phone to scroll Facebook marketplace- since he doesn't have Facebook.
But. I cannot tell you how absolutely hilarious it is, to create inside jokes, and stories, and facts (occasionally fake facts for fun cause I'm mean and theyre harmless facts) and tell them to my family members over call. I get to watch my dad's face as they try to talk to him about it, thinking he said it. He thinks it's hilarious (I have his permission to do it, as long as I don't say anything rude or inappropriate to anyone)
But my favorite? Is prank calling them, but with cheezy phone pranks from "unknown" numbers. Since they all know my dad's voice, right after I hang up, I hear my dad's phone ring and when he answers I just hear "Goddamnit Daniel!" Always accompanied by his laughing coming from across the house.

Sorry, I would like to know a little about how Mouse guard releases and releases work. I state that I'm Italian, and here the Mouse Guard comics arrive months late, and it's not even easy to gather information.
I read the first "trilogy" of mouse guard, then I found out about the mouse guard trilogy legends of the guard, but from what I understand it is not written by the same author, and also I also read reviews that are not exactly positive, so I decided to skip it. I later found out about the release of Mouse Guard: The Owlhen Caregiver... but it's only 48 pages, and the description says it contains 3 stories... 3 stories in 48 pages when for example mouse guard: black ax has 216 pages . how does it work?
I don't understand why so few comics in the series come out, and most aren't even written by the original author.
This is not to imply anything, it's pure and simple curiosity. I love the mouse guard trilogy and would like to know more about the world, so I'm a little confused when I find out that a comic has only 48 pages and has to tell 3 stories from scratch.
p.s. on the english amazon it says that there are only 36 pages... how? haha

I have had pretty debilitating anxiety for a number of years now. Mainly manifests in a feeling of constant dizziness/unsteadiness and constant hypochondriac like thoughts. It seems to get a lot worse during periods of particularly high stress, but is always present to a degree.
Recently found myself really desperate and finally accepted a prescription for Lexapro (escitalopram) from my doctor. This is after being off Fluvoxamine for approximately 9 months, after taking it for about 10 years or so. I found Fluvoxamine to have no measurable difference to my anxiety and mood, especially once ceasing taking it.
I am also accutely aware of the nocebo effect, and am worried I have already subconsciously planted the seed for horrible side effects if I start taking the Lexapro. I can't continue living like this, it's simply a miserable existence not worth suffering through, but I am still absolutely paralysed with fear when it comes to starting this medication.
I have been prescribed 10mg (I'm a fairly large male) but am considering starting with either a half or perhaps a quarter of a pill.
I guess I'm just looking for reassurance and encouragement.

Is there anything to help with this? I'm pretty sure it's a mild withdrawl symptom because I do have tremors and sweaty hands and feet

Hey guys,
Reddit has been helpful for me for many occasions. I am looking for a good dash-cam realising how important that is on daily drive. I am driving an okayish car. So not looking for anything fancy but something that has good reputation and bang for your buck.
Please shoot your suggestions.
Thank you!

What am I looking for? Well mostly for someone to speak to on a consistent basis who I gel well and get along with well.
As for myself I am a blunt and honest person so if you ask me something and want a straight answer I'm your guy for giving an honest assessment even if you don't like it. That being said I am kind and caring and will ask about your day and life and anything going on I can help with I will offer.
In terms of my hobbies or interests I am a massive animal lover, this can be confirming by my 9 cats at home! A snake and 2 doggos! All of whom live in perfect harmony and who I never want to turn into tea cosy's for meowing at 4am...
I am also a gamer, I play my pc mostly which is my main source of entertainment however I also have access to my switch and my ps4 in case the mood takes me! Music is also something I love, very into my rock music and a lot of the old west coast rap music right now.
Tattoos! Several pieces of art on my body including a Bowser and a Pokémon tattoos, yes I display my nerdiness proudly!
If you fancy a chat about anything above or anything in general come and say Hi!

I’m writing this mostly to vent, but advice is heavily appreciated
I’ve known her for around 2 years at this point. When we first started talking, we instantly clicked, most of our interests aligned and we were able to just casually talk about anything. Soon after that, we became friends
So around a month back, she started to reconnect with this guy who was pretty much a fucking ass. Around the same time, he introduced her to a guy who would soon become her boyfriend. Our other friends and I thought that the guy seemed sketchy, he seemed too good to be true, too perfect and too nice to be hanging out with people who were problematic. I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt however and encouraged her to try and get to know him
Well as it turns out, we were right! According to my friend, the guy was talking shit about me behind my back to his friends. Apparently, whenever he sees me with her, he calls me ugly and insults my appearance. Did my friend do anything to defend me? Barely! She told me that she screamed at him and left and all she did was go up to me to cry about it, only to start speaking to him about their date plans not even an hour later. I’ve never felt so fucking betrayed. When I heard that they went on the date, I felt more anger and discomfort
To add salt onto injury, she asks me to hang out with him and his friend group. I used to try and find excuses not to, but I got fed up and told her my boundaries, to which she either fucking ignores or doesn’t seem to understand why I even set them in the first place. It’s like she forgot what this guy says about me behind my back. Doesn’t help that the guy is playing innocently too:
“Why does your friend stare at me like she hates me?”
God, hearing her say what he said just made my blood boil further
She also started to hang out more with the guy’s friend group, sometimes dragging me along with one of them who’s in the same class as us. Most of the time, she ends up just straight up leaving me
For the entire week, I’ve been very keen on avoiding her, I don’t try to talk to her as much cause I feel miserable each time I think of even doing so. The only times I only ever talk to her were for our group work due TODAY, with me following up each day, however she couldn’t even send me her parts. And when I last saw her active, her boyfriend happened to be active around the same time. So fuck! I ultimately have to do the work with barely 3 hours of sleep like I’ve been doing for EACH OF OUR PROJECTS

29m
180lbs
184cm
non smoker
white
I went to see my GP yesterday for some ongoing lower abdominal pain I have. Sometimes it feels like the bladder, sometimes it feels more in the lower abdomen (directly below the belly button).
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She examined my stomach and bladder area. Didn't say anything really. Then checked my prostate (wasn't expecting it) said all was fine. She then said she is going to request a stool sample and send me for an ultrasound scan on three different areas. (US abdomen, urinary tract and pelvis). She said she was putting it as a routine priority as its not more urgent than that. Now at the time I didn't think too much of it, but since I've got home I've read the form and it mentions mass in abdomen. This has obviously freaked me out a bit. I can't feel anything myself and I've been checking all over, and I'm just more surprised because it wasn't mentioned during the examination at all.
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So i guess my questions are

1. would there be a reason for not telling the patient this?
2. What could it be, if the scan is on routine priority?

I'm trying to rationalise this in my mind and not let the anxiety run wild, telling myself that its routine and not an urgent referral so hopefully its nothing but I'm just so confused that it wasn't mentioned.

Man why can't I find any Indians in here, i would love to talk to people from other countries too but YK since there is a time gap the conversation isn't continuous, love to talk about anything but I think the conversation would be more interesting if it is about gym Whoever is reading this hope you a great day ahead or a great night ig

lately all of this feels so hopeless. i feel unloved, I feel stupid, I feel like my life is of no value. I am aware this is unproductive thinking and it’s leading me to no better kind of place. But I’m so tired of these stupid therapy tactics and mental exercises. When i say I don’t have the energy for anything I really mean anything. There is not a bone in my body that can get me to think positively in the moments I spiral and i really need those positive thoughts It’s already been a rough day, i’m stressed and my effort feels so pointless. But I got into a minor argument with my partner and I feel like that was todays breaking point. I feel like my efforts don’t matter in any aspect of my life. My parents are not emotionally supportive and I can’t communicate with them. I am not strong academically and I’ve ruined my chances of getting into a good college. I cant even love the person I love the most the way I want to. I’ve only struggled with soo-side-all (not sure if i can say that on here?) thoughts for a period in my life once, with little bits sprinkled here and there. I feel like it’s gotten so bad recently though. I don’t want to dye (again idk if i can say that), but trying doesn’t feel like something I can do anymore. It just doesn’t feel like i’m going to get anywhere. I feel so stuck and worthless and not worth being understood and cared about. I feel so alone and I don’t know what I need. I don’t wanna feel this way but I want to escape this hell that is my mind right now.
I guess I just needed to rant this out, or get some advice for anyone that would care. Take care.