WTF-Beta

Cry

Finder

Boot

Odyssey

Ground

That’s great!

Whole

@wtg said:
I was like WTF?

@CHAS oh dear, that must have been terrifying! I'm glad you're both ok!

@wtg wow!! That’s a lot of drama, and a lot of noise, to then still be able to have that morning coffee. I’m not confident we would have the same positive experience here!

Acorn

I have read about tokens before, and one of the problems is that the definition of a token is pretty fluid (as far as I can tell) and not only is it inconsistent across platforms, it’s inconsistent within the same platform. So it’s not like character count or word count, where the user could monitor their token use with 100% accuracy.

From @axtremus ’s article:

Tokens represent a unit of output, either in text or image, from an LLM. For the Ask Sage tool, a single token equates to about 3.7 characters, according to documents viewed by WIRED

From OpenAI (https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them)

Spaces, punctuation, and partial words all contribute to token counts. This is how the API internally segments your text before generating a response.

One thing that makes it particularly hard to monitor token usage is that the same amount of text could be interpreted as different amounts of tokens, depending on how it’s entered. At least, that’s according to what I’ve read, and the OpenAi article recommends to “break large text into smaller chunks” if you exceed your token limit.

So what does a “chunk” mean? Does that mean that the same prompt content would be interpreted as fewer tokens if you entered it little by little, rather than all at once? It would seem so, but that doesn’t make sense to me.

innocence

Either way, I hope he’s ok.

Fried

Embargo

One of my concerns with our current phones, and with replacing the batteries (which, granted, we can carry battery packs) is that we (me and MR SK) both travel, and he will be in Japan in the fall for awhile (and presumably, I'll be there for a big chunk next summer). Being overseas and having a major problem with the phone would be a huge hassle.

So I tend to think I'd prefer to get a new phone (or at least a refurbished one) rather than pay for a new battery for these phones...

I dunno, I need to think about it more,but I think I want to decide what to do, and then do it, before the fall semester starts and I get busy again....

@rontuner oops, I missed your second post.

Also,

@Rontuner said:

more recently used back market

I read that as black market and was a little bit "clutching my pearls" shocked!

@Rontuner said:

I've had good luck buying refurbished - always staying a couple of years behind.

I'm not opposed to this idea, although I would worry about the battery life. Where do you buy refurbished phones from? (I wonder if we have less options locally...)

I can't figure out how we got from Unagi to Lumbago, but it's cracking me up!