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by eapriv 27d ago
??? She’s 82.
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by eapriv 3mo ago
Are there any pages of French in “Crime and Punishment”?
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by eapriv 4mo ago
> Late last year I started writing a math blog and decided to use LLMs to polish/enhance my writing. Why would you do that in the first place? If you are just starting writing about math, I assume your goal would be to get better at
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by eapriv 4mo ago
Looks like AI slop in (some of) the thumbnail images. Why would anyone do that?
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by eapriv 4mo ago
The problem is the use of AI. It’s a reliable indicator that the author doesn’t actually care about the quality of the work, so I shouldn’t bother to read the text.
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by eapriv 7mo ago
Not sure what “your own” in the title is supposed to mean if you are running a model that you didn’t train using a framework that you didn’t write on a server that you don’t own.
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by eapriv 10mo ago
The problem is “to add two numbers”. The meta-problem is “to learn how computers work”.
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by eapriv 10mo ago
Removing layers usually improves stability.
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by eapriv 10mo ago
Sounds like most of these problems come from using Python.
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by eapriv 10mo ago
Spoiler: it’s about AI.
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by eapriv 11mo ago
No, it says nothing about LLM output being invertible.
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by eapriv 11mo ago
You are wrong. Prime numbers are fundamental to mathematics.
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by eapriv 1y ago
If I were to write such a text, it would have a lot more about building intuition for advanced mathematical concepts. This intuition is extremely valuable, but missing from almost all advanced-level texts. On the other hand, it’s very diffi
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by eapriv 1y ago
I submitted it, and the word “basic” is mine, because the author doesn’t really go deep into what I would consider “advanced” mathematics. It can be a good prerequisite for advanced things, though.
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Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project(web.evanchen.cc)
245 points by eapriv 1y ago|73 comments
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by eapriv 1y ago
If you have a third-party dependency that survived for 20 years. But what if you are trying to choose what to rely on today, and to decide if it will even exist in 20 years? Certainly none of the fashionable JavaScript frameworks will.
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by eapriv 1y ago
Isn’t this the whole shtick of Mr Martin, author of “Clean Code”?
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Jonathan Blow – Jai Demo and Design Explanation(youtube.com)
12 points by eapriv 1y ago|1 comments
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by eapriv 1y ago
You can’t, because a Fourier series is not a linear combination.
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by eapriv 1y ago
It’s not “an uncomputable number”.
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by eapriv 1y ago
Spoiler: it’s not about how GPUs work, it’s about how to use them for machine learning computations.
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by eapriv 1y ago
um, “Earth’s”?
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by eapriv 1y ago
> It wouldn't really be interesting Andrej Karpathy did exactly that, and I think it’s quite interesting.
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by eapriv 1y ago
I find it hilarious that “from scratch” now somehow means “in PyTorch”.
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by eapriv 1y ago
This is true almost by definition, and doesn’t tell us anything interesting about black holes.
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by eapriv 1y ago
What does it have to do with using LLVM?
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by eapriv 1y ago
Why is it not commutative?
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by eapriv 1y ago
How does it make it less horrible?
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by eapriv 1y ago
Performance of any given CPU instruction is negligible, yet somehow they accumulate to noticeable values.
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by eapriv 1y ago
Great, we can spend crazy amount of computational resources and hand-holding in order to (maybe) reproduce three lines of code.

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