The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Awkward results from A/B testing Claude Opus and GPT-4.
Out of laziness, and because of only passing domain knowledge, I had them rank each other's responses and compare them to their own (blinded).
Claude claimed GPT-4 did a better job. GPT-4 claimed Claude did a better job.
Yay?
Here was the prompt for anyone bored enough to try:
We operate dozens of “gateway” servers around the world, whose sole purpose is to accept incoming WireGuard connections and connect them to the appropriate private networks. Any time you run flyctl and it needs to talk to a Fly Machine (to build a container, pop an SSH console, copy files, or proxy to a service you’re running), it spawns or connects to a background agent process. The first time it runs, the agent generates a new WireGuard peer configuration from our GraphQL API. WireGuard peer configurations are very simple: just a public key and an address to connect to. Our API in turn takes that peer configuration and sends it to the appropriate gateway (say, ord, if you’re near Chicago) via an RPC we send over the NATS messaging system. On the gateway, a service called wggwd accepts that configuration, saves it to a SQLite database, and adds it to the kernel using WireGuard’s Golang libraries. wggwd acknowledges the installation of the peer to the API. The API replies to your GraphQL request, with the configuration. Your flyctl connects to the WireGuard peer, which works, because you receiving the configuration means it’s installed on the gateway. //Break this down and explain it to me at a level of a beginner who only has a passing familiarity with these topics
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