Jun8

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by Jun8 1mo ago
Thought-provoking article. When the cave painters were at work, they most probably didn’t see themselves as “artists” and of course not scientists, philosophers. That was an age where all those things were together at once, living in a reli
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by Jun8 1mo ago
Oh boy, this reminded me of The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone by Robin Lee Graham, which I randomly found and read in my school's library when I was 12 or 13. Still remember it 40+ yrs later.
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by Jun8 2mo ago
Similar to how Cypher puts it: I know this is “just” next token inference, matrix mult and just software, ie there’s no “intelligence” there BUT, looking at this convo … damn! The fascinating this is that the LLM is not acting as a tool her
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Scott Aaronson's Trevisan Award Acceptance Speech(scottaaronson.blog)
2 points by Jun8 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 4mo ago
I love this koan and what makes it even better is that is based on a true event: Minsky’s real answer was “It has them, you just k ow what they are yet”
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by Jun8 4mo ago
From the ruling ( https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/291-Me... ): >The second stage of the grant termination process began on March 12, 2025, when Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh – iden
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by Jun8 5mo ago
Fascinating game, looks trivial, almost a child’s game. Yet, play a few rounds against the computer here and be humbled: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Games/chomp.html First player should always win, yet a winnin
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The Game of Chomp(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Jun8 5mo ago|1 comments
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Hubris(theintrinsicperspective.com)
3 points by Jun8 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 7mo ago
Pretty cool but handling large numbers is pretty limited: chokes on 171! Or 5^5^5.
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by Jun8 7mo ago
I read this earlier today and was thinking: how many such mathematically gifted individuals exist I. The world at one time? Assuming there are probably 20-30 Tao-caliber people in the US and an adversarial multiplier of 0.1 (only 1 in 10 su
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by Jun8 7mo ago
Everyone’s entitled to their opinions and more than a few people have written similar ideas. However, I find this chain of thought both offensive to what being a slave meant and ignorant. If you think being a coder is the modern equivalent
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Camera that captures photos to cassette tape(hackaday.io)
34 points by Jun8 7mo ago|3 comments
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by Jun8 7mo ago
This was great as it went farther than Rayleigh scattering. On this topic you have to watch this fantastic undergrad physics lecture demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJG-rXBbmCc&t=1674s
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by Jun8 8mo ago
Related: Sorry, but as an AT fan I couldn't resist: https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enchiridion_(book)
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by Jun8 8mo ago
They cannot receive from federally funded Medicaid but some states have programs or state-funded Medicaid programs that allow non-citizens to benefit. CA and NY do for some categories. See this example for WI: https://www.dhs.wis
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by Jun8 8mo ago
Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci's book Twitter and Teargas explains why, for protest movements to be successful they should have charismatic leaders and decentralized mass protest movements have a much harder time succeeding: https:&#x2F
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by Jun8 8mo ago
Related: Rumi’s Mesnevî also opens with “bishnav”, “listen” in Persian.
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by Jun8 8mo ago
Note that English audiobooks are typically around 150-170 wpm and fast talkers speak around 200 wpm.
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Can you read 900 words per minute?(substack.com)
3 points by Jun8 8mo ago|6 comments
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by Jun8 8mo ago
Since I’m rushing to load it as fast as possible the packing is not as good as hers so some dishes are left out. Overall this leads to more loads.
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by Jun8 8mo ago
A signal cannot be both time and frequency band limited. Many years ago I was amazed when I read that this fact I learned in my undergraduate is equivalent to the Uncertainty Principle! On a more mundane note: my wife and I always argue who
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by Jun8 8mo ago
If you’ve hit the 500 tabs for a tab group limit on iPhone and opened another group you’re a real tab boarder like me! Why do I do it? To see all my tabs visually and quickly go back to a particular page. And also as a hard limit to start c
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The Lore of the World: Field Notes for a Child's Codex(theintrinsicperspective.com)
4 points by Jun8 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 9mo ago
Associated article: What baby names reveal about American and British society https://economist.com/interactive/culture/2025/03/20/what-is... from The Economist
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The Economist’s analysis of first names – data and scripts(github.com)
2 points by Jun8 9mo ago|1 comments
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Why there are no cracked biotechnologists?(partialagonism.substack.com)
11 points by Jun8 10mo ago|2 comments
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What's wrong with Social Science and how to fix it(fantasticanachronism.com)
3 points by Jun8 10mo ago|1 comments
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Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore(old.reddit.com)
57 points by Jun8 10mo ago|25 comments
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by Jun8 10mo ago
Whoa! I knew that CIA funded Abstract Expressionist Art ( https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-... ) to underline American individualism and mental superiority over Soviet Russia (some say tha

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