jawarner

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by jawarner 2mo ago
Noting the theory papers on Kolmorogov complexity. For those not familiar, Ilya argues that the reason why neural networks generalize -- why they work at all -- is because they are effectively finding a simple description of their traini
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by jawarner 3mo ago
For those who don't know -- while Zachtronics is no longer making games, Zach Barth is still active now under the company Coincidence Games. They just game out with a spacecraft engineering puzzle game: https://store.steampo
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by jawarner 6mo ago
Looks like this may have received the HN Hug of Death. I'm getting "Too Many Requests" error trying to load the images.
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by jawarner 6mo ago
Is this AI? You've copied the best comment and put into AI-speak.
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by jawarner 1y ago
Mawson et al. 2017 (two papers) – internet survey of homeschoolers recruited from anti-vaccine groups; non-random, self-reported, unverified health outcomes. Retracted by the publisher after criticism. Hooker & Miller 2020/2021 – a
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by jawarner 1y ago
Take a look at the next sentence from your linked article. “I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” he said, using the jail’s internal messaging system. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future
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by jawarner 1y ago
I think for this to be interesting to an outside observer, it should at least address the bulk of the debate around the topic. If the GP is right and it's missing the key points of the anti-abudance critique, then I'm afraid it&#x
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by jawarner 2y ago
Insofar as "the problem" is sifting through pages and pages of documentation to find the relevant information for an answer, I think that current-day LLMs are actually quite capable at this.
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by jawarner 2y ago
You can measure the sharpness of the position, as in this paper section 2.3 "Complexity of a position". They find their metric correlates with human performance. https://en.chessbase.com/news/2006/world_c
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by jawarner 3y ago
Real world systems are complicated. In theory, you could do belief propagation to update your beliefs through the whole network, if your brain worked something like a Bayesian network.
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by jawarner 3y ago
Isn't that Edwin T. Jaynes example just p-hacking? If only 1 out of 100 experiments produces a statistically significant result, and you only report the one, I would intuitively consider that evidence to be worth less. Can someone more
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by jawarner 3y ago
Yes, the possible programs are enumerable, and you can start searching with the least complex programs and work your way up in complexity. Once you find a program that explains the available data, you cannot guarantee it will continue to ex
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by jawarner 4y ago
I don’t know if it’s fair to say that revolutionary wealth redistribution movements, like Occupy, are failing because everybody is distracted with social justice movements. The Left is a coalition for social justice and also for wealth redi
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by jawarner 4y ago
If you're just saying that rainbow capitalism is in alignment with capitalists' interests, and anti-capitalism movements are not, then that makes sense.
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by jawarner 4y ago
Isn’t that because of the BLM movement? I’m not seeing how any of these events are connected.
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by jawarner 4y ago
No, the text is AI too. It is crazy.
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by jawarner 4y ago
Just for the sake of argument, I can name some an entire field of science that was invalidated in light of genetic & neuroscience evidence: phrenology. At the time, it was the newest advancement in the gleaming era of scientific Enlight
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by jawarner 4y ago
Are those two events connected? They both happened in the same decade and received some press. That's all I can come up with. And both things you mention -- LGBT rights and class consciousness -- have been around for a while.
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by jawarner 4y ago
Yeah but your enemy is also moving forward because they’re trailing you.
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by jawarner 4y ago
If you think about it, those lives actually were saved. People either didn't play the video game, or they spent a moment in the loading screen in quiet contemplation.
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by jawarner 4y ago
The tweet is in response to a preliminary paper [1] [2] studying text found in images generated by, e.g., "Two whales talking about food, with subtitles." DALL-E doesn't generate meaningful text strings in the images, but if
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by jawarner 4y ago
The reaction diffusion / NCA models have been applied to videos recently — check it out: https://wandb.ai/johnowhitaker/nca/reports/Fun-with-Neural-C...
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by jawarner 4y ago
Not a language model, but there was this classifier mapping pig squeals to contextual information about the animal [1]. For human language models there are obvious practical uses and we can intuitively evaluate the quality of the models. Fo
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by jawarner 4y ago
There are physiological adaptations as well. People in hotter climates are still going to get good sleep. It’s just when there are hotter temperatures than people are used to that sleep is impaired, and also that adaptive mechanism only wor
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by jawarner 4y ago
The fact that heat stress affects different populations with such different impacts is super important to climate policy and diplomacy and geopolitics. The authors in this case identified a concrete, statistically sound demonstration of dis
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by jawarner 4y ago
If you don’t mind I made a clarifying post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470654
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by jawarner 4y ago
Their angle was health equity in the context of global warming and how it impacts different populations to various degrees. That’s a common trend in global warming related issues. Their argument is fair enough. My issue with the paper was s
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by jawarner 4y ago
The gist: On hotter nights people get less sleep, this being especially the case for people who are poor (limited access to AC?) and who already live in hot climates (100->110 deg is more noticeable than 70->80). It’s nice data. They
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by jawarner 4y ago
You ever toss and turn at night because it’s just too hot to sleep? Someone moving from the North to California would likely experience that. I know I did when I moved to Texas and my air conditioning unit broke down. The authors say there
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by jawarner 4y ago
Yeah, the "and then" implies you first move and then move the duck. At least that's how it makes sense to me. That way you're blocking your opponent's move with the duck.

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