KvanteKat

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by KvanteKat 7mo ago
Given that you're citing Wikipedia on this, the issue of detecting and fighting auto-generated slop in articles is actually quite fascinating. There was a really interesting talk given by Mathias Shindler (long time editor of German Wi
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by KvanteKat 10mo ago
Deepseek is a private corporation funded by a hedge fund (High-Flyer). I doubt much public money was spent by the Chinese state on this. Like with LLMs in the US, the people paying for it so far are mainly investors who are betting on a ret
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by KvanteKat 11mo ago
Sure, but the alternative is not really any better: if the choice is between being the guy who got it wrong vs. being the guy who got it wrong _and_ being the guy who persisted in throwing good money after bad, surely the former is preferea
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by KvanteKat 1y ago
Correcting for inflation (I used this tool by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm ), 30M USD in nov. 1995 would have a purchasing power equivalent to roughly 62M USD in f
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by KvanteKat 2y ago
You can think of it like this: - The characteristic function of a random variable X is defined as the function that maps t --> ExpectedValue[ exp( i * t * X ) ] - Computing this expected value is the same as regarding t as a constant and
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by KvanteKat 2y ago
For those interested in looking slightly more into the characteristic function, it may be worth pointing out that the characteristic function is equal to the Fourier-transform (with the sign of the argument being reversed) of the probabilit
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by KvanteKat 2y ago
The variable n comes out of nowhere in theorem 3.3, and they do not refer to it in the proof itself as far as I can tell. Is this just an editing error (I think the formula 3.4 needs the variable n if f is multidimensional and we are integr
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
What exactly is the argument that corporations are incapable of unbounded exponential growth contra a possible future AI? Is there just something magic about computers, or am I missing something obvious?
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
How is "The circumferance of an idealized circle divided by its diameter" not a finite expression of π? Saying something cannot be expressed finitely in an integer-based numeral system, and saying that it admits no finite represen
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
Unrelated to the article in question, but using ℝ over 𝕽 for the reals is more of a modern development. If you read older articles and textbooks, many will use 𝕽 rather than the sleeker ℝ (most in my experience, but results will be heavily
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
Part of the issue is that after a while we tend to forget that the cases that turned out to be true were dismissed as conspiracy theories at the time. In recent memory for example, a lot of claims about the capabilities and application of t
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
I suspect OP may have been going for a variation on the old "Programmer returns with zero eggs and 12 gallons of milk after having been asked to get one gallon of milk and if they have eggs to buy a dozen"-joke, but it falls flat
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
Without knowing the exact approval history in the US, I doubt that it is a lax approval process as much as it is an absence of better alternatives. There are not really any known effective clinical interventions (be they in the form of medi
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
> The problem with treating depressed people is to get them to actually do the things that will help them. That can be incredibly difficult without medication. The problem with talking about doing "things that will help them" i
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
For anyone who wants to get really into the weeds, here are all the articles in the sequence of discussion papers: Main Paper (Jager and Leek): ttps://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt007 Response papers: - Yoav
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
For anyone who likes academic drama (or who is interested in the underlying methodological disagreements among academic statisticians), it is worth pointing out that Jager and Leek's 2014 paper was a discussion paper, and that Ionnidas
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
Given how common and wide-spread misattribution of code is on GitHub, I'd say there is a strong argument (moral rather than legal--I'm not an IP lawyer and will leave judgements regarding legal liability up to the professionals) t
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
As the linked article points out, practices can vary widely across fields (and in fields where preprints are available, maintaining authour anonymity in a double-blind setting furthermore relies on revieweres not having come across a prepri
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
Yes, but not by "growing the pie"; MBAs increase profits in the sense that they reduce the share of profits going to workers (at least according to this paper; I'm not familiar with the rest of the literature on this subject)
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
Aren't you just agreeing with the post you're replying to here, or am I missing something? Both of you make the central point that humans and servers are fundamentally different and that descisions that involve humans must invar
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
It doesn't involve cryptography, but mastodon has for at least a couple of years supported link-verification in profiles (it basically checks if a link back to your mastodon profile exists on a page linked on your profile), so a linkin
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
The fundamental asummetry at play here is that cheating is a lot easier than detecting cheaters in modern chess. As such, I'm not sure insisting on people shutting up unless they can provide ironclad evidence won't just lead to pr
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by KvanteKat 4y ago
Surely he means just that; i.e. Hans Niemann is known to have cheated in past games (these were online games and it must be noted that Niemann maintains that he has never cheated before or since the and never in an "over the board&quot
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by KvanteKat 5y ago
The issue at hand is that the UK government (or at least some people within it) seems to have been happy to use this as a pretext for awarding huge procurement contracts to personal friends and donors without any oversight or transparency a
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by KvanteKat 6y ago
Another useful (to Google) aspect of hiring an ethical AI team is also that is allows Google to shut down ethical concerns raised in other parts of its own organization by going "we agree that ethics is an important, but please focus o
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by KvanteKat 6y ago
While I share your hesitation here, I think two points are important to keep in mind: 1. There is quite a difference between compulsory auditing (what the post you reply to refers to) and the government directly controlling industry. 2. In
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by KvanteKat 6y ago
A big issue is also that power companies in much of Europe (don't know much about how things look in the US) do not have an infrastructure capable of handling the additional load if EV-charging starts replacing gas-stations. As such, m
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by KvanteKat 6y ago
Aren't you just describing an input-based theory of value in your first statement (as opposed to a Riccardian theory of value where price is determined by demand relative to supply)? I was under the impression that a labour theory of
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by KvanteKat 6y ago
I mean, isn't that (one of) the point(s) of the corporation as a legal entity: to allow people with capital assets and a joint enterprise in mind to coordinate their resources and act as a single entity for the purposes of pursuing tha
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by KvanteKat 6y ago
The article seems to take it as given that Bernankie was lying in 2007 rather than just mistaken. In case this is obviously true, what piece of evidence am I missing?

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