ivansavz

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by ivansavz 9d ago
For degrees of freedom specifically, check out these videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtbsGjqSdcbF261LACoV... It's still complicated but the visualizations help a lot!
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by ivansavz 10d ago
The style you refer to is the "container" of the writing. The medium. Like the specific encoding of the message. What @arctic-true was talking about was the "content" of the writing, which is bounded from above[1] by the
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by ivansavz 16d ago
Okay, let's start a new game where we try to guess the prompt that produced this text. My guess would be "Write a 2000 words blog post based on the analogy between the difficulty of understanding the laws of physics and minified s
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by ivansavz 19d ago
The relevant book is The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs by Mark Horowitz and David Taylor (2024). This book is for medical professionals, but if you find your doctor doesn&#x
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by ivansavz 21d ago
Does anyone have experience using SMLs for RAG (either as query rewriter or as generator for the final answer)? I'd like to work with a corpus offline (internal university research data) and I'm hoping I can get everything done wi
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by ivansavz 28d ago
Absolutely. I feel I gain at least 10 IQ points when reading something on paper. This is also the strategy I use for editing drafts of my books. I bring a printed draft to someplace nice (e.g. coffee shop or park) and read it all carefully,
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by ivansavz 1mo ago
Yes, concept maps are the bee's knees. I remember from my tutoring days how useful they were to organize the different concepts covered in each lesson: I would start with a blank sheet and make the student add concepts to it as the les
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by ivansavz 1mo ago
I got halfway though the exercises with the help of a reading group. They were very hard, bit thought provoking, so I would definitely recommend. Don't feel discouraged if you get stuck and try not to look at the solutions right away.
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by ivansavz 1mo ago
If anyone is interested, check out the PDF preview here https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSLA_v2_preview.... and the printable concept maps here: https://minireference.com/static/co
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by ivansavz 1mo ago
You can choose English -> English in the UI for explanations in English.
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by ivansavz 2mo ago
This connects with something I've always wanted to have as a "metadata" signal provided with any text. I'm thinking of some low-key information channel like text background color that would communicate how much time it t
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by ivansavz 3mo ago
Thanks! I'd like to take the credit for the design, but it's just the LaTeX defaults of the IEEEtran document class.
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by ivansavz 3mo ago
If anyone needs a quick tutorial on linear algebra, you can check out this printabale four pager that I wrote: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/linear_algebra_in... I also have some notebooks with SymPy
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by ivansavz 4mo ago
I've been thinking a lot about your point b) over the years. I'm conceptualizing a piece of knowledge as an interface that can be `implemented` but with different classes (explanations renderings for different audiences). For exam
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by ivansavz 5mo ago
This textbook looks really good! Is this finally going to be the year when I learn thermo? All the problems come with answers provided, so I have no excuse! I found this article[1] by the author[2] that explain their motivation for the book
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by ivansavz 5mo ago
A nice video explainer about this dispute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YRfSe-f1FE
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by ivansavz 5mo ago
Thx for the plug @Delphiza For anyone interested in checking out the book, there is a PDF preview here[1] and printable concept maps[2], which should be useful no matter which book you're reading. [1] https://minireference.c
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by ivansavz 5mo ago
Yeah the textbook cartel is outrageous. I started a textbook publishing company to fight this! I was working on web copy describing how crazy the mainstream textbook prices are, and used the price C$300 for the calculus book, trying to be f
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Fraud and the false optimism of AI for science(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by ivansavz 5mo ago|0 comments
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Solving Physics Olympiad via reinforcement learning on physics simulators(sim2reason.github.io)
3 points by ivansavz 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ivansavz 6mo ago
The technical term for these tiny shortcuts is questionable research practices . They are difficult to study, because scientists are publicly shaming their peers when they use such practices, but in private they continue to use them. It al
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As AI keeps improving, mathematicians struggle to foretell their own future(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by ivansavz 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ivansavz 6mo ago
The link wasn't working for me; here is the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260314130229/http://silas.psfc...
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by ivansavz 7mo ago
> But how does one separate the good comments from the bad comments? One thing that works very well for me (in a different context) is to ask to return two lists: - Things that I must absolutely fix (bugs, typos, logic mistakes, etc.) -
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by ivansavz 7mo ago
I really like this essay and I managed to track down the original in French, for anyone who reads French: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_des_excitants_mod... The part about coffee is halfway down the page u
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The calculus tutorial just shipped(minireference.com)
2 points by ivansavz 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ivansavz 7mo ago
Direct link to PDF: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/calculus_tutorial... [2MB, 25pp]
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by ivansavz 7mo ago
There is a menu from the top bar to change the "Modern English."
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by ivansavz 8mo ago
Thanks for all the explanations. I always thought it was regular HTML, but now I know to watch out for the differences. Can you say a few more words about the library https://github.com/standardebooks/tools ? Can it g
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by ivansavz 9mo ago
I've been in Grayscale for some time now (almost a month), and it's great. I always wanted to have a phone with an eInk display, and this is pretty close feeling (aesthetically). Scrolling is no longer interesting, and food looks

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