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by figure8 1y ago
You do realize that that's also likely true for all the thousands of Gods that've ever been imagined by humans? So I am gently nudging you to consider praying to them as well, just to be on the safe side. ;)
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by figure8 1y ago
Those are some awesome videos. You'll notice that by the end of the series, he's using advanced notation everywhere as well. And you'll notice the original PDF has lots of pictures too. The use of calculus notation is requir
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by figure8 2y ago
> But can anybody name a wrapper company as/more valuable than foundation model companies Ask the same question about databases. Then consider these wrapper companies: Salesforce, LinkedIn, AirBnB, Workday, ... The only database co
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by figure8 2y ago
I have a very naive question. Why is the ARC challenge difficult but coding problems are easy? The two examples they give for ARC (border width and square filling) are much simpler than pattern awareness I see simple models find in code ev
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by figure8 2y ago
I've always thought that using vertical space and indentation alone to organize code was a failure of imagination for IDE development. Why can't the IDE allow for and auto-format code in a horizontal line? For instance, I can ea
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by figure8 2y ago
Yes. I appreciate the article because it gets people to think about high dimensional geometry. But I think the right takeaway is that in high dimensions, cubes have huge volume compared to the enclosed sphere. So the sphere is not spikey a
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AI Generated Rom-Com(youtube.com)
1 points by figure8 2y ago|0 comments
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How Much Land Does a Man Need(online-literature.com)
3 points by figure8 3y ago|0 comments
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by figure8 3y ago
I subscribe to YouTube Premium and strongly recommend it. With my heavy usage, I'm happy to pay each month to avoid ads.
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by figure8 3y ago
Latest from their status page: Update - The underlying issue affecting a subset of our API customers (and ChatGPT by extension) is with an upstream part of our API authentication stack. We're simultaneously scaling up the underlying ca
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by figure8 3y ago
Try using a mobile browser, like Opera, that supports text rewrap on zoom. It is a revelation.
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by figure8 3y ago
This depends crucially on your definition of AGI. LLMs are more like a mathematical function than they are a conscious being. If, in your opinion, AGI could be realized as a input/output function with no changing internal state, like
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by figure8 3y ago
I agree. This is why I use Opera's mobile browser which defaults to zoom with dynamic text wrapping to fit the screen width.
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by figure8 4y ago
Amazing: "A healthy person at rest produces their body weight in adenosine triphosphate every day! At maximal exercise, this number can increase to 0.5 to 1.0 kg per minute."
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by figure8 4y ago
It seems to know that song lyrics have rhyme. > Please compose some song lyrics about loving someone else's dog. Verse 1: I never thought I'd fall in love again But then I met your furry friend With a wag of his tail and a bark
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by figure8 4y ago
Isn't the change in this yearly inflation number saying only that this July's inflation was less than last July's? So going up or down depends only on the monthly rate a year ago.
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by figure8 5y ago
Ergodicity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity
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by figure8 7y ago
Here's an interview with the company's founder: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Hagoromo-presiden...
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by figure8 8y ago
Gauge theory is the collection of techniques used to describe forces in quantum field theory (electro-magnetism, weak force, and strong force). In field theory you have many vector spaces (1-d, 2-d, ... n-d) defined for every point in spac
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by figure8 9y ago
This text reflow feature is key to my choosing a mobile browser. I use Opera mainly for this reason. Text reflow used to be standard. Does anyone know why Chrome and Firefox removed it?
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by figure8 9y ago
I use YouTube Red and love it. My YouTube usage has doubled because I don't see ads. And I feel good knowing I'm helping the video makers whether I skip ads or not.
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Distant Ringed Object Could Be ‘Saturn on Steroids’(nytimes.com)
2 points by figure8 10y ago|0 comments
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by figure8 10y ago
> Or, of course, what aspects of the world are we missing that would be obvious to a slightly more complex intelligence? Also, there are surely aspects of the world we miss which are probably clear to chimps or even insects.
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Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People(arxiv.org)
2 points by figure8 10y ago|0 comments
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by figure8 11y ago
I have a question. Given an u derstanding of special relativity plus Einstein's equivalence principle, can one derive the Ricci curvature formulation of GR? By that I mean, is the math of GR an inevitable consequence of those assumpt
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by figure8 11y ago
I really appreciate how he writes and draws the slides as he speaks. With math lectures, this always encourages me to think deeply about the details and implications of each line. I find it better than pre-written slides, now so easily cr
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by figure8 11y ago
In nutrition and medicine, why red meat causes cancer in humans: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/01/02/red-mea...
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by figure8 11y ago
They do have video commentaries which are generally great: http://video.newyorker.com/watch/commentary-the-universe-of-...
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by figure8 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the derivation of the black-body radiation energy distribution does not use special relativity at all, only statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. How can it be used to explain special relativity?
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by figure8 12y ago
Interesting research in this direction is making progress, helping to explain WHY red meat may be dangerous: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141229152226.ht...

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