chermi

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by chermi 6d ago
Why would I want AI to write diary entries for me? Maybe the other stuff is valuable, but this seems like an inversion. I would prefer it help me write an entry by giving me a useful view and context with extremely low friction entry. Mayb
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by chermi 6d ago
Poor people in the US strongly disagree. https://www.urban.org/research/publication/driving-opportuni...
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by chermi 7d ago
I think you stopped at the wrong time with the wrong perspective. Why can't that info accumulation part also be made more self-contained? I guess I'm having trouble unraveling your experience and personal usage vs. what you'r
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by chermi 7d ago
Almost but not quite I think. You can throw money at parts of problems. I think it's helpful to think it kind of like supercomputer MD/MC or electronic structure calculations. A tool that can get you valuable answers but not nece
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by chermi 7d ago
I think a lot of people don't understand, with respect to a mathematical theory, the relation between a carefully stated conjecture requiring formal proof vs. using the objects in the theory effectively. Could better understanding of
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by chermi 8d ago
Take a breath. Read what I said.
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by chermi 8d ago
What does any of that have to do with what I said? I agree with you but I guess not with enough zeal.
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by chermi 8d ago
I'm basically on your side here, but there were plenty of models predicting catastrophe by now.
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by chermi 9d ago
Fair my bad
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by chermi 9d ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you meant in your original comment? "This seems to fall under the whole “promote the general welfare” part of the Preamble of the Constitution, though perhaps the court is unaware of it." The OP
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by chermi 9d ago
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Still sounds like negative framing to me. And when those implicit non-declared rights are judge
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by chermi 9d ago
If you allow justifying government power according to some ambiguous notion of general welfare, then all you need to say is that something promotes general welfare. There is more to the structure of the US system than the preamble to the co
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by chermi 9d ago
Because productivity is increasing due more to capital than labor.
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by chermi 9d ago
If that was taken as valid justification for government intervention, why not just elect a king that promises to be do "good" things?
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by chermi 9d ago
Yes? Why would there be? This is a nation built on negative rights. If you pay taxes/fees to some institution for a service and the the institution fails to provide it, that's already covered by some contract law, no? I know thi
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by chermi 9d ago
Warning: ramble ahead. I am not a statistician. This is based on my experience as a physicist-by-training exploring the more theoretical side of ML/AI. Statistics is big. It's hard to answer without knowing what you plan on coveri
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by chermi 12d ago
My understanding is that its just straight up deterioration? A wishful view might be something like a pressure toward generalization(wisdom?) allowing for partial overwriting/grouping of specifics. Like a coarser but more predictive
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by chermi 12d ago
Generalization is surely more than coverage? At least to me generalization is unveiling a principle or unifying lens that yields extended coverage, the principle being the meat. The coverage is the result of the unifying lens that makes pre
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by chermi 12d ago
He hadn't even considered whether capacity was well defined in a distributed system. He has a brand spanking new theory that allows him to jump straight past abstractions and simplifications and "ancient 1980s views"[1] and &
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by chermi 12d ago
So basically like diesal-electric trains? My understanding that's almost certainly outdated was that the issue with electric planes was weight due to batteries, so added mass from a generator sounds bad.
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by chermi 12d ago
Off topic but... I had a friend who's main takeaway (tongue-in-check) from harvard mini-mba while he is in a SEAS program was that all you had to do to look smart around VC/tech-oriented business people was to ask this question. T
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by chermi 12d ago
"I understand the sentiment, but in a world where these kinds of problems (And problems at work) that can trivially be solved by LLMs; what kind of value can I provide?" This is sad conclusion. Maybe you're more right than wr
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by chermi 12d ago
"Given that this is HN, and a non-trivial number of us have ADHD, creativity is positively correlated with ADHD." Is this a statement of fact? As someone with ADHD and pretty confident in my creativity, I still believe this is muc
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by chermi 12d ago
Aspirational. This is how I want to spend my available time.
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by chermi 13d ago
Kind of done with the other guy, but reading this reminded me of a paper I saw a while ago but admit I haven't read yet. https://journals.aps.org/prx/pdf/10.1103/6shh-9h5m It's more about computatio
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by chermi 13d ago
Great if true! Uber helped drive down costs for you.
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by chermi 13d ago
I mean with respect to your other thread too, where you seem to argue/believe academia has no idea about your brand new dynamical distributed view. I pointed to a really old paper with a self-admitted extremely simple model to point ou
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by chermi 14d ago
Does no one have any memory of what taxis were like and how much they cost? The taxis are gone because they weren't competitive.
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by chermi 14d ago
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.79.8.2554 in a very precise sense going back a long time. I don't really know who you're arguing against or refuting? You seem to be touching on some pre
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by chermi 14d ago
None of that changes whether there is a physical capacity, which I think was the larger point? There is no reason to believe distributed memory doesn't suffer from the capacity component of the bottleneck. In fact iirc there was som

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