contravariant

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by contravariant 6d ago
In a way that works just as well but the incentives are messed up. And that's before we get into the whole 'salt the earth' way they ended up solving it. For a short period of time it may well have been the least valuable p
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by contravariant 8d ago
Any one of the arguments you make here is already stronger than the original one. The problems with appeals to authority isn't that they are always false, it's that they are not a good argument. And you say his "expertise is
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by contravariant 8d ago
I mean mathematics has enough history that something can both have been false for centuries of mathematics research and true for centuries. Sometimes in different places simultaneously. Terrence Tao can do his job perfectly well without bei
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by contravariant 9d ago
Bit of a weird world where we don't have self-driving cars but we did manage to automate the writing of articles lamenting that fact.
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by contravariant 15d ago
Hmm, so basically Sweden has a surplus of goods (electricity), but the EU commissions is trying to pay for it with coupons that look like money but can't be used to buy everything, and now Sweden is saying "no, tak".
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by contravariant 15d ago
So congestion revenues are essentially arbitrage? Is that something that really requires that much more regulation? If there's one thing markets tend to be good at solving it's arbitrage.
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by contravariant 20d ago
If only. Accepting failure likely wouldn't have resulted in so many mediocre movies. Huge losses on movies are rare I think, but being risk averse comes at a cost.
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by contravariant 21d ago
No need, it's like emacs, it has a stable cult following that keeps the whole thing going even as alternatives come and go.
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by contravariant 21d ago
If the local population saw more of the economic benefits, was taken more seriously when they complained about earth quake risk, and was compensated more readily when the earth quakes resulted in actual damage, then maybe they would have
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by contravariant 23d ago
Requiring a 2/3 majority from the European Parliament seems a bit like a theoretical option more than anything. Even if it did (almost) happen once.
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by contravariant 23d ago
The main reason I'm not particularly pro EU is the following. How would we even sack the leadership?
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by contravariant 23d ago
So lobbyists did do it then?
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by contravariant 26d ago
One of the main reasons safety standards are written in blood.
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by contravariant 2mo ago
I mean I get why my cups need frequent java updates, but still.
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by contravariant 2mo ago
There are a couple of references, most on some obscure detail. The ones that might be worth a try for an introduction are: - Walters, P., An Introduction to Ergodic Theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 79. Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin
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by contravariant 2mo ago
Not sure, I'm basing most of this on lecture notes I got at university.
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by contravariant 2mo ago
I think looking into ergodic theory would help fill in the gap between completely random and completely rule based. In ergodic theory you have some kind of 'state' and a function way to 'advance' the state, if you partit
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by contravariant 2mo ago
I think the explanation of entropy's blind spot is a bit off. It's not actually a problem for entropy if something is generated by a rule, you can calculate entropy for things like the continuous fractions for instance, with an ea
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by contravariant 3mo ago
If compliance was the main issue we wouldn't have had to invent ways for computers to do something other than exactly what they were asked.
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by contravariant 3mo ago
You'll recognise the good engineers as the ones that remove code.
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by contravariant 3mo ago
Even that is overselling the effort. Last time I checked you could find IDs with a simple image search.
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by contravariant 4mo ago
I just want them to tell me if they don't know. It's the one question that AIs seem unable to answer correctly.
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by contravariant 4mo ago
If you feel the need to hide how you got the answer then you know something is wrong.
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by contravariant 4mo ago
To minimise the KL you just calculate the surprisal. The integral can be approximated by sampling over your training data. It's a direct expression of the information loss between your real data and your fitted probability distribution
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by contravariant 4mo ago
I wonder if using a hilbert curve (or perhaps the simpler z-curve) access order would help things. If ought to work well regardless of cache size. Actually I think I recall some GPUs storing textures that way, but I'm not entirely sure
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by contravariant 4mo ago
I was expecting more like a minimal usage that makes sense for a butchery or something, not get rid of the people using email .
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by contravariant 4mo ago
What's the LLM equivalent to email and a basic webpage?
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by contravariant 4mo ago
That's just a baseless assumption. To use AI well you should do the things that allow you to use stuff well . You shouldn't just use it any way you can because you assume that 'not using it at all' is not the best optio
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by contravariant 4mo ago
You've somehow confused using AI well with using it extensively. Sometimes using something well involves not using it at all.
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by contravariant 5mo ago
I'm also pretty sure 14 points font is a bit outdated at this point, 16 should probably be a minimum with current screens. It's not as if screens aren't wide enough to fit bigger text.

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