ak_111

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by ak_111 4d ago
Devil's advocate: OpenAI not being able to use compute is highly correlated to many other AI companies not being able to find a meaningful use of this compute. Failure to take into consideration those kind of correlations ("If my
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by ak_111 5d ago
Do you realise that the only reason the average US taxpayer keeps getting wrecked into one pointless forever war after the other no matter who is in power is because the elites are never held accountable for their mad self-enriching adventu
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by ak_111 5d ago
This war started as a regime change operation in Iran, one of the shakiest regimes in the world pre-war, but ironically the war might end up with most of the nations who supported the war (either vocally or quietly) "regime changed&quo
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by ak_111 7d ago
Is it possible that they claim they used a "new internal model" to provide an excuse for "training" on new user data, knowing full well this new user data will include Buckmaster's chat? So the entire "new inte
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by ak_111 1mo ago
This is indeed a good concise description of how to connect the two, but even making peace with this, there is something still magical in how the permutations in the sum cancel neatly (in an inclusion-exclusion kind of a way) to get the vol
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by ak_111 1mo ago
But if you see the geometric view then the permutation sum, for certain obsessive learners they want to see why they are equivalent and thats the hard part.
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by ak_111 1mo ago
Determinants are easy to use but very hardly to grasp intuitively, this is not a minority point of view. See countless of StackOverflow questions begging for a conceptual exposition of determinants. The easiest conceptual handle is geometri
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by ak_111 1mo ago
ah i thought so, interesting. I think the challenge is to do 2 while still keeping it realistic, which actually gets very close to synthetic data generation.
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by ak_111 1mo ago
if the data is not synthetic, how do you ensure that the LLM hasn't learnt about this data for example from training on the Financial Times.
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by ak_111 2mo ago
This is not new, most famous conjectures are believed to be true mainly because an already enormous brute force search was conducted finding no counter-example.
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by ak_111 2mo ago
lol honest this wasn’t AI, I guess I need to work on my style
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by ak_111 2mo ago
Hmm this sounds like an incumbent missing a paradigm shift because they didn't want it to disrupt their core (usually enterprise) business, although riding the shift would have ultimately delivered an order magnitude larger business. C
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by ak_111 2mo ago
Well you can see from the original poster's timeline, that 10 years from now will be effectively 16 years into Apple's ARM journey, so you can add two more cycles. And also from the timeline you can see that the average Apple hard
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by ak_111 2mo ago
ten years is a very long time in technology, RISC-V ecosystem could be so vibrant and advanced that it might prove more cost effective for Apple just to feed off it (assuming Apple is still relevant by then). It's almost like trying to
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by ak_111 2mo ago
clever tricks has value for sure. But the main way progress is done in mathematics is by building new theory, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is much more important because of the math it created to solve the problem, rather than ac
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by ak_111 2mo ago
Unlike the unit distance problem, the impressive thing here is that it is a proof rather than a counter-example. However, it seems the proof is extremely concise so it seems that it is exploiting a clever trick that somehow all the experts
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by ak_111 3mo ago
Open any technical textbook in an area slightly outside your domain and you will quickly disabuse yourself of the notion that majority of words are obscure. Most complex words are just technical/jargon not archaic or forgotten.
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by ak_111 3mo ago
Just top of my head (and I don't even follow his takes that closely), just check his takes on Magic Leap which he consistently promoted using quite dramatic langauge (along with the entire AR space) and check how it panned out.
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by ak_111 5mo ago
I am also not sure about Finney, but Hal saw his death coming so it is plausible he handed the reins to one more person he deeply trusted, and asked him to tie some knots but not to keep the show going.
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by ak_111 5mo ago
Anyone tried to run some stylometry to identify if satoshi-like comments appeared in any of the early post on hacker news discussing BTC? I would say there is a very significant chance he might have added to the discussion in say the first
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by ak_111 5mo ago
This very interesting hypothesis and solves multiple issues at once, has anyone attempted debunking it?
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by ak_111 5mo ago
It is getting to the point where all the top (living) credibly accused Satoshis are incurring all the cost of being outed as Satoshi without getting any of the upside. In other words it is almost irrational to deny it is you (if it is reall
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by ak_111 6mo ago
Wait it seems like doing unscalable things - like face-to-face teaching/examination - is exactly the sort of things that humanity can afford to do as it benefits from the surplus free time generated by AI efficiently doing the scalable
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by ak_111 6mo ago
can you elaborate more, also isn't this necessary for a Lab that wants to compete with highly funded entities (like OpenAI, Anthropic)?
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by ak_111 8mo ago
Concorde?
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by ak_111 8mo ago
What are they top 3 languages that you have used that can be used as Go alternatives ranked by fun in your opinion (I am guessing Clojure and Rust are two of them)?
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by ak_111 10mo ago
It’s a combination of the problem appearing to be low-hanging fruit in hindsight and the fact that almost nobody actually seemed to have checked whether it was low-hanging in the first place . We know it’s the latter because the problem wa
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by ak_111 11mo ago
You can do a lot of money in swindles and bubbles if you time your exit well. There is a fair bit of opportunistic investors who did well in the NFT craze, who speculated knowing fully well that NFT is a craze that will go to zero.
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by ak_111 11mo ago
Yes I should point out that I am a noob in this area, so you might be right in calling me out. My understanding is that CT was invented in part to provide a robust foundation for algebraic geometry, so it is quite ironic that people are now
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by ak_111 11mo ago
This title is a bit ironic when you consider the fact that one of the motivations of inventing category theory is to provide a foundation for many branches of mathematics

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