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by 0xBABAD00C 2y ago
Yes, Cyrillic was closer to Greek, that's why it stuck better. Just edited to make it clear.
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by 0xBABAD00C 2y ago
There are Byzantine Armenian dimensions to this story that I suspect not many people know. Cyrill and Methodius were taught by Leo the Philosopher and Photios, in the University established by Bardas, all Greek-Armenians who clearly knew th
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Oh he's "solving the problem efficiently", just not the problem he purports to be solving. It's all about misaligned incentives in large orgs: people act out of their own self interest, and if the incentive mechanisms ar
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
I use this (should be the baseline I think): https://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Also, when have people not followed "false narratives"? The entire human civilization sits on a stack of false narratives.
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
This looks great! What are some of the verticals you think this will be most immediately applicable in, and are you integrating with any? I am thinking a lot of ads/marketing work can be jump-started with these notebooks.
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Well, you can ask yourself what is "real value". In fact, more likely than not, it's just some imaginary stuff you ascribe value to, just like "prestige".
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
> what are the chances they already publish photos taken on devices that apply by default some form of AI-based generative/corrective algorithms 100%?
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
> In my experience with children, one of the easiest-to-grasp concepts of infinity is provided by the transfinite ordinals Things people say on HN :)
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
> The author is basically a crank Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics? He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with p
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Vanchurin is a physics professor, but ok https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en I actually think that interdisciplinary work like this can shed light into common structures across physics, biology, neuroscience, CS, etc. If
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Complex/imaginary numbers are just badly named for historical reasons, they represent an objectively central concept in math and physics, and can be derived from axioms of what we expect from a well-behaved number field. For reals, we
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
And not just a field, but the algebraic closure of real numbers.
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
There is research claiming the entire universe is a neural network: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/
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Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in Large Language Models(arxiv.org)
3 points by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago|0 comments
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Yeah I tend to agree it feels like a little bit of everything, but mostly B. To be honest, this community survived longer than many others I've seen.
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Ask HN: What's with the culture of suppression of dissenting views?
66 points by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago|95 comments
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
> Gradients Are Not All You Need Sometimes you need to peek at the Hessian. Seriously though, what is intelligence if not creative unrolling of the first few terms of the Taylor expansion?
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Arguing against AI's "existence" or its dangers is cheap/free: if the whole thing flops, you get minor cookie points, and if it doesn't, people will have bigger problems to worry about than you or your opinion. AI i
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
> able to generalize language, math, and positional reasoning and mix it with the older parts of the brain for reward and training mechanisms and it can do it in real time most brains I run into don't do that much at all, mostly jus
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
It's not a strong argument to say "what could it be other than X? therefore, X" > What could it be? Sense of community is gone. Trust is at an all-time low. Traditional social institutions and scaffolding that held society
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by 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
> dynamic programming only comes up when I'm studying for interviews I worked a SWE job years ago which was heavily reliant on dynamic programming and string search/alignment/etc. It really depends.
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
Human beings are not the top-level cognitive agents, there are egregores at higher levels of organization (related to memeplexes, meta-organisms, etc). It's just hard to define and talk about them concretely, our language is not well-s
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
Here's the analogy, per Sean Carroll [1]: - There seems to be a special direction "down", where things fall by default, because we live in the vicinity of an influential object in space, called Earth - There seems to be a spe
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
I don't think what you're saying contradicts what I'm saying. My baseline / reference point wasn't CNNs.
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
> scaling the model and having more data completely beats inductive bias The analogy in my mind is this: "burning natural oil/gas completely beats figuring out cleaner & more sustainable energy sources" My point is tha
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
+1 for probability via measure theory & functional analysis I would add the need for geometry and topology becoming more of a pre-requisite for picking up modern methods: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13478
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
> ChatGPT is more of an existential threat because it will propagate to infect other knowledge bases. Luke Wikipedia relies on "published" facts as an authority, but ChatGPT output is going to wind up as a source one way or ano
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
> Whales, dolphins, and orcas are damn smart, and I think there's evidence enough that we cannot conclude that they aren't more intelligent than us. Where's this evidence? What exactly does "more intelligent" mea
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
If your job is to attract an agent that is playing a careful balance between exploration and exploitation, while on tight computational budget, then you want to attract them with some initial hooks (e.g. bright colors) and appease their com

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