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      Pivot to ChatGPT? BuzzFeed preps for AI-written content while CNET fumbles

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 27 January, 2023 - 18:10 · 1 minute

    An AI-generated image of a robot typewriter-journalist hard at work.

    Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot typewriter-journalist hard at work. (credit: Ars Technica)

    On Thursday, an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal revealed that BuzzFeed is planning to use ChatGPT -style text synthesis technology from OpenAI to create individualized quizzes and potentially other content in the future. After the news hit, BuzzFeed's stock rose 200 percent . On Friday, BuzzFeed formally announced the move in a post on its site.

    "In 2023, you'll see AI inspired content move from an R&D stage to part of our core business, enhancing the quiz experience, informing our brainstorming, and personalizing our content for our audience," BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in a memo to employees, according to Reuters. A similar statement appeared on the BuzzFeed site.

    The move comes as the buzz around OpenAI's ChatGPT language model reaches a fever pitch in the tech sector, inspiring more investment from Microsoft and reactive moves from Google. ChatGPT's underlying model, GPT-3 , uses its statistical "knowledge" of millions of books and articles to generate coherent text in numerous styles, with results that read very close to human writing, depending on the topic. GPT-3 works by attempting to predict the most likely next words in a sequence (called a "prompt") provided by the user.

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      Mathias Poujol-Rost ✅ · Sunday, 7 March, 2021 - 13:20

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    Dopée par la pandémie, la pratique du vélo n'est pas prête de s'arrêter, quitte à provoquer "une guerre" des stocks
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      Use ‘Ticker’ to Get Stock Info Without the Extra Crap

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / LifehackerAustralia · Thursday, 4 February, 2021 - 20:00 · 2 minutes

    Even though the popular subreddit is engulfed in chaos and dreams of GameStop “going the moon” are evaporating, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to the stock market. I wouldn’t recommend trading memes, but watching the general state of the stocks you care about is never a bad thing.

    I typically jump over to Yahoo Finance for this, but I confess, I hate having to fire up my browser just to look at stocks. That’s why I’m glad to have stumbled across Ticker , a handy command-line program that you can use to get just the prices and none of the extra crap. It takes a little configuration to get going, but it’s the perfect thing to leave running in the background while you go about your day.

    To get started, download the pre-compiled binary for your operating system (“windows-amd64″ for my 64-bit Windows PC). Unzip it wherever you want on your system, and then launch a command prompt (or terminal) to the program’s location.

    Simply type in ticker -w followed by comma-separated names of stocks you care about. So, if you’re big into the dying meme stocks, you might enter: ticker -w gme,koss,expr,amc,bb,doge-usd,xrp-usd

    That would give you an output that looks like this, by default:

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    You can also add extra flags to get more information about the stocks you’re chasing following. For example, typing in this…

    ticker -w gme,koss,expr,amc,bb,doge-usd,xrp-usd — show-fundamentals — show-separator — show-summary

    …gets you a much prettier (and more informative) layout:

    o0elrdjhvu4kauukreqj.png?auto=format&fit=fill&q=65&w=1280

    For the hyper-obsessed among us, you can also create a .YAML file — a simple configuration file that loads when the app loads — where you’ve set your configuration options, the stocks you care about, and the number of shares you might have purchased (and for what price). This makes Ticker even more useful, as you can actually track your portfolio straight from the command line.

    So, using the example on Ticker’s GitHub, I created a simple ticker.yaml text file within the same directory as the app. I then renamed it to .ticker.yaml and launched Ticker with no extra flags — just by typing “ticker” at my Command Prompt when I’m in the same directory as the app. That gave me this:

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    Lovely! My fake stocks are up! While Ticker takes a little configuration to make it work best for you, it takes all of a few minutes to get set up. And once you’ve done that, it’s a lot easier to just load up a tiny app than a browser (and all of your many tabs) to look at your stocks. Now, go get rich — with a reasonable investment in an index fund that you hold for 20 years.

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