IanKerr

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by IanKerr 2y ago
Yep, exactly. I glossed over that detail a bit because explaining how a meagre set has a truly zero probability of being picked, while technically still being a possible result of a random process, is a bit messy to wrap your head around co
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by IanKerr 2y ago
>Are irrational numbers even on a number line? Yes, e is between 2 and 3 and Pi is between 3 and 4. There are geometrical lengths corresponding to each number. >Isn’t it definitionally impossible to pick it as a “point along the line”
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by IanKerr 2y ago
We are so, so far beyond that point already. The complexity of the world economy is beyond any one mind to fully comprehend. The microcosm of building black-box LLMs that perform feats we don't understand is yet another instance of us
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by IanKerr 2y ago
This is the beginning of the end of the public internet, imo. Websites that aren't able to manage the bandwidth consumption of AI scrapers and the endless spam that will take over from LLMs writing comments on forums are going to go un
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by IanKerr 2y ago
Now account for the amount of mental overhead required for the average person to calculate change or coinage of a random amount in base two coins, as opposed to multiples of 5 or 10, and see if your 3.19 coins per transaction really saves y
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by IanKerr 2y ago
For anyone curious: it tastes like a bowl of salt. Source: I was an adventurous 5 year old.
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by IanKerr 2y ago
For an interesting exploration of how even the simple physics of two blocks hitting one another can lead to surprising conclusions, I'd highly recommend this 3Blue1Brown video called "Why do colliding blocks compute pi?": ht
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by IanKerr 2y ago
It's been pretty incredible watching these companies siphon up everything under the sun under the guise of "training data" with impunity. These same companies will then turn around and sic their AIs on places like Youtube and
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by IanKerr 2y ago
She was excellent at whatever she was in. An absolute icon of cinema. RIP Maggie Smith.
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by IanKerr 2y ago
It's always very impressive to me seeing our ability to detect such obscure objects in advance getting better and better. We'll soon have such good detection capabilities that we may start to take these kinds of predictions for gr
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by IanKerr 2y ago
I've had this thought about payment cards for a long time now. Corporations are pulling a reverse Superman III on us and keeping our pennies and dollars on these gift cards and payment cards that can never quite be zeroed out. If you a
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by IanKerr 2y ago
To an extent that's the fundamental issue driving these changes. It becomes increasingly difficult to monetize old material for lack of demand. Should lack of attention from society be enough reason to throw old media into the trash pe
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by IanKerr 2y ago
We're going to lose so much more cultural history to corporate greed in the next century. Preservation of music, media, games are all being attacked in the name of profits. Future generations will not be able to enjoy the vast wealth w
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by IanKerr 2y ago
I'm imagining this happening to someone on a highly metered connection and blowing through gigs of their limited monthly upload budget before realizing their OS has just gone rogue on them. Treating everyone like they have an unlimited
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by IanKerr 2y ago
Pretty interesting to me that we're starting to go from humans programming computers to computers programming humans.
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Absolutely loved everything Dragon Ball growing up. I still get excited hearing about new Dragon Ball movies and series. He'll be sorely missed and his influence on anime will last generations. Far too soon, RIP Akira.
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by IanKerr 3y ago
And that complex higher order being came from where?
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Fair enough. There still seems to be a disconnect though, as the cost of various goods, such as housing, have far exceeded inflation. Are there any charts that try to track wages against a basket of goods?
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Those charts show wages growing at an annualized rate of 1.5% at best. Any years with inflation greater than 1.5% were effectively years of wage LOSS, rather than growth. Most of those years had inflation greater than 1.5%. Edit: this math
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Thanks!
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Sorry if it's too much to ask, but would you mind posting a list of your common sources? I'm familiar with everything you've posted, I'm always looking for new sites.
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Right, they're not identical, but they're generally paired up so neatly via Noether's theorem that they're treated as the same thing. In seems like physicists are finding more general conserved quantities associated with
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Think of a symmetry as "something that remains the same" when you do something to a system. Imagine a pair of denim pants, one could say it has the property of being made of denim, and when you bend the pants or move them around t
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by IanKerr 3y ago
Here's a link to the full resolution images: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/117/01G...
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by IanKerr 4y ago
Feels similar to me as well. Everything is a reboot of a reboot, nostalgia for the sake of a cash grab, very few big studios are taking chances on new franchises anymore.
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by IanKerr 4y ago
I've tried to grapple with questions like this by imagining having woken up with total amnesia. Without any memories or understanding of who I am, or what I've done, I would have absolutely no connection to the person I am today,
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by IanKerr 4y ago
OpenAI won't be the ones to kill their golden goose. The point is that this kind of tech will become "easy enough" to replicate for other companies or highly motivated individuals and they will be the ones to release it. Open
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by IanKerr 4y ago
These are still relatively early days when it comes to the capabilities of these models. ChatGPT will be considered a toy in a few years and will likely spawn many comparable models that can be run on consumer level hardware.
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by IanKerr 5y ago
In a world where employees and employers have equal bargaining power and knowledge what you're saying makes sense. Given the opportunity though, businesses will do their best to hire workers that they can pay as little as possible and
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John Lin's Sandbox(twitter.com)
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