HuShifang

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by HuShifang 1y ago
I'd be cautious with Sapolsky claims. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/30/its-sapols...
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by HuShifang 2y ago
I think this is a great explanation. The "Ladder of Causation" proposed by Judea Pearl covers similar ground - "Rung 1” reasoning is the purely predictive work of ML models, "Rung 2" is the interactive optimization
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by HuShifang 2y ago
That you seem to consider yourself sufficiently expert and authoritative to declare the idea "overplayed" -- and that you consider this declaration something that will further readers' understanding (which I at least view as
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by HuShifang 2y ago
Of course, the hypothesis that they are sufficiently aware of everything -- existing and being nurtured solely to be slaughtered, having already seen many friends die, if female having had many children stolen from them -- to be traumatized
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by HuShifang 2y ago
I'd just add, these three can be obtained from veg-friendly supplements too.
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by HuShifang 2y ago
I'm not an expert in this, but... > BNNs bring the following advantages over GPs: First, training large GPs is computationally expensive, and traditional training algorithms scale as the cube of the number of data points in the time
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by HuShifang 2y ago
As an outsider to the "tech" scene, who did a PhD generals field on modern European intellectual history (which included a dollop of recent continental philosophy), it's endlessly fascinating to me how people in tech have fix
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by HuShifang 3y ago
I think one further bit of horror is, it has the potential to erode your memory of the lost person, piece by piece regressing your recollection of them to the mean (so to speak) of the model's training set. At some point, will the bere
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by HuShifang 3y ago
John Eliot Gardner's "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven" is a sort of musical biography featuring a (very) deep dive on the cantatas.
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by HuShifang 3y ago
As it happens, there's a PyMC implementation of the 1st and 2nd editions of Statistical Rethinking here: https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-resources (I think the author of the book discussed above, Osvaldo Martin,
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by HuShifang 3y ago
FWIW here's Aki Vehtari's approving share on his (and Gelman et al's) blog. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/02/08/bayesian-a... The author was also a lead author on a CRC red-serie
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by HuShifang 3y ago
Not an endorsement, but here's an argument that AGI is computationally intractable (edit: at least via ML). https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inev...
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by HuShifang 3y ago
There's also this in the Berkeley Hills. Smaller though. https://redwood-valley-railway.business.site/
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Ask HN: Degraded reliability in print newspaper deliveries?
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by HuShifang 3y ago
Yes, but as I said, I was talking about early Confucians.
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by HuShifang 3y ago
For context, he is reasonably well known -- probably the third most-prominent of the early Confucians (albeit a distant third, after Confucius and Mencius), with partial and complete English translations. But, he was often regarded by Con
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by HuShifang 3y ago
Here's a recent webinar from PyMC Labs' Max Kochurov (with some slides and code too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QllfKQH-yQ4
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by HuShifang 3y ago
That's what books were for (among other things): they were knowledge prosthetics. EDIT: And to be clear, yes, books were conveying information from other adults. But 1) the capital requirements of engaging or operating a printing press
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by HuShifang 3y ago
Personally I would vote "no" regardless of whether I had confidence the kid wouldn't be exposed to the dregs of the Internet, for two reasons: 1. LLMs are I think pretty inarguably bad at answering certain types of questions
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by HuShifang 3y ago
Why on earth would this be remotely noteworthy to Tyler Cowen, an economist ? Set aside the cultural stuff -- it's obviously just market dynamics at its core. Humanities degrees are -- rightly or wrongly -- not considered to benefit o
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by HuShifang 3y ago
Second the Beast Academy recommendation. I'd add, it's the younger version of Art of Problem Solving. The interactive games are extremely well designed from a pedagogical standpoint, the videos are fun and clear, the visuals are a
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by HuShifang 4y ago
I understand why the IP holders want to keep the revenue flowing by adapting the works to meet current market demands/expectations (while offering lofty talk of the "timelessness" of Dahl's art). Setting aside the questi
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by HuShifang 4y ago
No, you'd need to be chugging multiple jugs of soy milk a day for that to (maybe) matter. Better would be to lift, eat better, sleep, etc.
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by HuShifang 4y ago
There's a big literature on this in Chinese history -- many arguments concentrate on economics and labor specifically (to crudely sum it up, there was always lots of cheap labor available, and little incentive to invest the capital to
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by HuShifang 4y ago
I'd wait a few years on Chicago -- my impression is that they've been undergoing some pretty profound cultural shifts regarding admissions and grading, i.e. their rigor is getting more performative and less real (and it was always
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by HuShifang 4y ago
I went to Harvard (for grad school) and taught there as a TF; I also have lots of experience of other private and public schools. I don't think Harvard's lower tier students are as smart as the top tier students at an average scho
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by HuShifang 4y ago
You can always find examples of irrational behavior, but the difference is scale. Today a major state isn't spending inordinate resources to ensure that the cookies left for Santa are prepared using the finest ingredients (say, a few
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by HuShifang 4y ago
Yeah, that's why I hesitated to include it on the list, but I don't think such representations are very common in religious contexts today (and these statues do seem to have been religiously significant, e.g. all the Venus statues
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by HuShifang 4y ago
Well, I am a working professional historian of the premodern world, and this is certainly my impression from years of reading Chinese-language primary sources about China during the Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties. Spend some time wit
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by HuShifang 4y ago
On the flip side, let's also not forget that the earliest civilizations (so to speak) were also rather different from later ones in some striking ways. Put simply, they were a lot more literal-minded, and didn't engage in as much

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