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  • New Technique Save AI Tokens

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 09, 2026 05:50:41
    Talk like caveman, forego grammatical niceties, maybe make heap big
    AI-usage cost savings <https://www.infoworld.com/article/4193775/talk-like-a-caveman-prompts-save-tokens-but-far-less-than-promised.html>.

    Or maybe not.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Bruce@3:633/10 to All on Friday, July 10, 2026 16:55:54
    On 09/07/2026 06:50, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
    Talk like caveman, forego grammatical niceties, maybe make heap big
    AI-usage cost savings <https://www.infoworld.com/article/4193775/talk-like-a-caveman-prompts-save-tokens-but-far-less-than-promised.html>.

    Or maybe not.

    "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart
    as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them half-way."
    - Bernard Avishai
    <https://www.azquotes.com/author/28859-Bernard_Avishai>

    --
    Bruce Horrocks
    Hampshire, England

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, July 11, 2026 00:41:33
    On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:55:54 +0100, Bruce wrote:

    "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as
    smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them
    half-way."
    - Bernard Avishai
    <https://www.azquotes.com/author/28859-Bernard_Avishai>

    We are a technology-using, technology-dependent species. We can no
    longer live without our machines and tools. Look at your hands --
    adapted to operate tools, no with the capacity for brute strength of
    our ape ancestors. Look at your digestive system -- no longer able to
    deal with raw meat. Without something as basic as fire, you would
    starve to death.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Scott Dorsey@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, July 11, 2026 10:52:30
    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    We are a technology-using, technology-dependent species. We can no
    longer live without our machines and tools. Look at your hands --
    adapted to operate tools, no with the capacity for brute strength of
    our ape ancestors. Look at your digestive system -- no longer able to
    deal with raw meat. Without something as basic as fire, you would
    starve to death.

    Fire is a dual-use technology with military applications! You could
    burn down someone else's hut with it! It should be restricted under
    ITAR and completely controlled by the military.
    --scott

    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)