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by igiveup 1mo ago
And I consider that a great achievement, not being on the HN front page when I have nothing to say.
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by igiveup 1mo ago
This stuff should have some warning tag: rando's musings about LLMs. Lately, whenever I think I found an interesting article it turns out to be this.
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by igiveup 9mo ago
22ns might be about 100 processor instructions. Somehow I doubt that any programming language can parse 50 strings in 100 instructions, let alone with naive code.
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by igiveup 1y ago
"Blessing of dimensionality"?
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by igiveup 1y ago
Oh, the OP pretty much told me that they didn't like taking notes. I am trying to understand why, what is the mechanism? Is it like burning out? Can it happen to me and my notes when I start doing something wrong? Why is "just do
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by igiveup 1y ago
I don't get this. I have a megabyte or two of plain-text notes, and going through them and maintaining them and extending them is fun (apologize to the person who doesn't like threes). There are notes for a novel, ideas for future
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by igiveup 1y ago
The point is minimizing curvature, not maximizing length. Curved path makes the accelerated particles lose energy through radiation.
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by igiveup 2y ago
Impossible with just the basic inductive principle of tokamaks, yes. Some years back I learned that you can keep the current going with microwaves, not sure about recent progress. You can also approximate steady state by reversing polarity
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by igiveup 2y ago
While temperature may be in the stellar ballpark, pressure should be much lower. That is fine because we are not trying to do proton-proton fusion (that one is very slow even in a star) but a much easier deuterium-tritium fusion.
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by igiveup 2y ago
Ability to perceive your own thoughts. Access to your own debug logs. I think this is distinct from "ability to perceive green, which doesn't exist". A neural network trained to distinguish green in the output of a spectrosco
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by igiveup 3y ago
What is an optimum in a two-objective (time, space) problem? Also, how exactly does time help to save space? Is this about some sophisticated hash functions? Handling collisions?
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by igiveup 3y ago
Is that wrong? I don't know the logic of the game, but a 20:10 battle can very well have different odds than a 2:1 one.
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by igiveup 3y ago
To me, it sounds more like you're saying the same thing as me: It is not a law of nature, it is text on paper, a human fiction. Yet, somehow you manage to disagree with me. How did that happen?
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by igiveup 3y ago
Human laws do not follow laws of nature, or laws of logic. Trying to rationalize why something is or isn't owning or stealing is a misunderstanding. "It is not missing anywhere, so it isn't stealing" does not apply. What
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by igiveup 3y ago
It is not just typing in multiple places, but executing a vim command in multiple places. Which means, you can replace the insides of a parenthesis with something, then proceed to do the same action on a different-length parenthesis, withou
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by igiveup 3y ago
> sure you can if you're comparing with Notepad++. But modern editors have multiple cursors Notepad++ has multiple cursors. Vim has "repeat last command", which is better.
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by igiveup 3y ago
I see. Physicists face this problem with the Large Hadron Collider, and many possible hypotheses explaining its results. Yet, I think many many nurses are needed to beat the 342 million.
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by igiveup 3y ago
I believe Pr[evidence | innocence] is p-value (or maybe one minus p-value, not sure). Statisticians use this routinely to test "innocence". It does not mean probability of innocence, but it means something.
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by igiveup 3y ago
Isn't this just hypothesis testing? [1] Zero hypothesis: N deaths happen by chance, given a known probability distribution of patient deaths. Alternative: There was a different probability distribution in play (apparently facilitated b
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by igiveup 3y ago
> all the money that previously went to a lot of workers instead goes to a small number of people who own these companies, and the workers will be destitute All the money the rich make by selling their robot products to who? Each other?
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by igiveup 3y ago
Thanks, clear. Though, I think my example was misunderstood. I meant, why is it a problem that there is no set meeting Russell's definition, but not a problem that there is no number meeting my definition. The example would violate a
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by igiveup 3y ago
Maybe this is in the article which I could not read, but - why is this a paradox? What I see is that Russell tried to define a set, then found out that there is no set which would fulfill his definition. "Let igiveup's number be a
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by igiveup 3y ago
You can be wrong about your level of confidence just as you can be wrong about the rest of the world. Either is just a prediction made by your neural network.
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by igiveup 3y ago
> Elon Musk had 44 billion dollars and he didn't decide to share it with the world, he decided to buy Twitter with it. That kind of is sharing his money with the world. > "How will people be motivated to work," the Re
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by igiveup 3y ago
Fail
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by igiveup 3y ago
You could say the same about a manager becoming an engineer
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by igiveup 4y ago
I admit I don't understand it fully either. If you want to read about it from more famous people than me, it is called "self-sampling argument". I'll try explain what I think I know. Why some group is not empty is differ
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by igiveup 4y ago
Now look at it from the other side. If it really was quadrillion times more probable to be born (hatched?) as a plankton, why exactly weren't you? Either tremendous luck, or something wrong with the assumption.
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by igiveup 4y ago
Makes sense to me. If every living being has 50 % chance of survival, so does every living human being, no matter what minority we are. Not sure about the rest of Thanos's logic, of course...
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by igiveup 4y ago
Other humans != human species. Let alone specific other humans, like my family. I know what happens to each individual human: They will die. I don't like that very much, but making human species survive doesn't seem to help. I don

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