empath-nirvana

15 ms·

1.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
I actually was put off by the know-it-all nature of the whole thing as if nasa scientists had totally not considered any of this.
2.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
I don't understand what I'm supposed to be doing here.
3.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
If you don't know the length of the stream in advance, you can just calculate the margin of error when you're done, no?
4.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
You actually don't need to do that part in the algorithm. If you don't know the length of the list, you can just choose a threshold that seems reasonable and calculate the margin of error after you're done processing. (or i
5.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
the list is small so the cost of deletions should be small.
6.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
It makes a lot of sense because obviously having a river there makes the transport of materials a lot easier, but i do wonder how nobody noticed this before.
7.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Higher dimensions in general? An n-dimensional space is just a collection of points, each defined uniquely by a set of n-numbers. The semantic meaning of those numbers doesn't really matter. It might be like actual physical space, bu
8.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
The letters you're referring to were written in 1753 and 1755, and has he got older, his views on race softened to the point that he was an outright abolitionist by the end of his life. In 1763 he wrote the following in a letter: This
9.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
This is just a consequence of the inflation countermeasures working. During the inflationary period, people were flush with cash, demand increased, there were shortages, everyone raised prices, profits surged, companies hired workers for hi
10.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
I read an article about the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" that it was basically the result of a drunk looking for his keys under a lamp post because that's where the light is. We know how to use math to model p
11.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
If have an oracle that can predict the outcome of experiments does it _matter_ if you understand why?
12.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
> Yes, absolutely. The US does not trust Tiktok because it is Chinese owned, or is it because of privacy concerns, or is it both? Does it matter what the reason is? It's a foreign government owned media company operating in the US.
13.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
by the time the rosetta stone was written, the literary language had drifted pretty far from spoken egyptian anyway, which was well on the way to becoming Coptic.
14.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
In a practical sense, how you define big O depends on what you consider to be the inputs to the function. If the runtime doesn't change depending on the size of the inputs that you care about, it's O(1). Like, you might have a fu
15.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
The reason it can't do that is that, for example, "twenty" and "20" are nearly identical in the vector embedding space and it can't really distinguish them that well in most contexts. That's true for gene
16.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Union members bled and died to get those regulatory protections in the US.
17.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
If management was all it takes, why can't they fire all the workers and work the warehouse floor themselves?
18.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
If tens of thousands (or really, even a handful) of people were dying from car crashes caused by, for example, brakes failing, then people would absolutely be attacking the manufacturer of the car. If you sell a feature that _does not work
19.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
> “What that means is not only that they learn what it means to be a dog or a cat, …“ I think he's referring to the famous paper: "What is it like to be a bat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_
20.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Probably the "it" is whatever one model has that other models don't have. When everyone is using the same architecture, then the data makes the difference. If everyone has the same data, then the architecture makes the diff
21.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
> Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin and neighboring countries—as “a fictional language.” Thi
22.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
> This make me wonder on the connection between 2, 3 and 4 dimensions, and Hamilton found out the hard that you need 4 numbering system or quaternion, in order to properly represent 3 dimensions [1]. Sort of. Quarternions have some nic
23.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
At the time any of those myths would have originated, nobody really had any concept of a "global" anything. If the local river flooded, that was your _entire world_. Lots of local flood stories, then once the bronze age got goin
24.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
The results are actually shockingly bad, considering that I think this should be _easier_ than producing a realistic image from scratch, which ai does quite well. I don't have more than a fuzzy idea of how to implement this, but it see
25.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
I would love if I could blacklist quora from search results. I have no idea why it's ranked so highly. It's a garbage site with worthless answers.
26.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
The reddit front page has been an absolute dumpster fire of repetitive, ai-generated (or at least content farm generated) rage bait posts since the mod revolt a while back. I wish there were a way to quantify it, but basically all the &quo
27.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
It's because the people who run the site tolerate it and ban/warn people for making comments like yours.
28.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Just because of the pace of innovation and scaling, right now, it seems pretty natural that any new model is going to be better than the previous comparable models.
29.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Weight is a measure of a force on an object due to gravity or acceleration. Mass is a measure of a object's inertia -- it's resistance to change in velocity due to an outside force. Rest mass is a fixed quantity inherent to the o
30.
by empath-nirvana 2y ago
He has multiple links to his own blog posts that explain it also in detail.

More ›