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by jlev1 15d ago
> I hate the realization that comes after the struggle about how easy was the problem I tried to solve. You're far from the only one to feel this way, but I want to point out that this attitude is a choice, not an intrinsic feature
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The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control(nytimes.com)
7 points by jlev1 29d ago|1 comments
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by jlev1 29d ago
Ezra Klein interviews Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI/HuggingFace security incident. I'm curious to hear HN's thoughts, notably on this part: > [OpenAI] found out that for two months, many, many agents inside their inf
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by jlev1 2mo ago
There was an excellent Dance Your PhD video about representations of braid groups and faithfulness in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MASNukczu5A If you look closely, you can find a mention of the n=4 Burau representa
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by jlev1 2mo ago
Well, in all honesty, I’m sorry you had that experience (seriously). I hate feeling condescended to and I’ve also had that experience before, including from mathematicians. When it comes to the specific phrases you mentioned, though, that r
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by jlev1 2mo ago
Your emotion isn’t invalid, it’s merely bad, assholeish, brings shame upon you. But it is “valid” in the sense that the reader of your comment can see that you are, at least, sincere in your gloating at another person’s despair.
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by jlev1 2mo ago
“You shouldn’t find joy from things the way you said you do. Sounds like a you problem.”
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by jlev1 2mo ago
Yes, yes, maybe (see OP’s blog post). To my knowledge, none of the negative sentiment regarding AI has ever been directed at its medical applications. Maybe the AI companies should instead focus on those things.
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by jlev1 2mo ago
I agree.
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by jlev1 2mo ago
It’s not that surprising (to me) that it would recognize these features, in that the features it picks up on are intrinsic to the map. Once you have the map, which is generically of degree 3, there’s the locus where the map drops from degre
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by jlev1 2mo ago
My Claude found a similar description (it phrased it in terms of the natural map from "cubics with a choice of root" to "cubics"). The part that seems not at all simple or obvious is the fact that X is isomorphic to A^3.
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by jlev1 5mo ago
Wow! There was a little-known sequel to SimTower called Yoot Tower (named after Yoot Saito). It was a commercial flop, but I played it in the 2000s and again in the 2010s and very much enjoyed it! It had a lot of added customizability (more
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by jlev1 6mo ago
The correct description is “a smooth curve of genus at least 2”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltings%27_theorem The reason for the confusion is that a smooth, projective plane curve of degree d has genus (d-1)(d-2)&
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by jlev1 7mo ago
A couple more I could decode from your question marks: - rauenes: ravens - “all that heard him were adrade”: I’m guessing it means “were filled with dread”, maybe “were adread” - I think deme is actually a conjugation of the archaic verb “t
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by jlev1 7mo ago
What is different about how your app teaches language?
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by jlev1 10mo ago
I have moderate-to-profound hearing loss and have worn hearing aids since I was 4. I currently have Oticon Opn1’s and have had Oticons since 2017 (and got new ones in 2022) and they are fabulous. I find the sound quality in noisy environmen
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by jlev1 1y ago
Agreed, this is the real takeaway for those who think it’s unsurprising: they simply haven’t understood why it is surprising.
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by jlev1 1y ago
I have always found this response to the hungry judges study much more compelling than the study itself: http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-j... > […] I want to take a different approach
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by jlev1 1y ago
The phrasing “bias against AI” seems to beg the question here. The article takes it for granted that people are wrong to say they’re more interested in stories written by people than by AI, because they can’t tell the difference if they’re
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by jlev1 2y ago
No, in your analogy building a helicopter capable of going there is impressive. (Though I dispute the idea that it’s more impressive simply because helicopters were invented more recently than mountain climbing.) In any case, riding in a
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by jlev1 2y ago
If there were a single element that generated the whole group, the group would be abelian.
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by jlev1 2y ago
Obama was correct in observing that he looked different from past American presidents. As for “claims to admire”, the implication that Obama doesn’t really admire MLK (and that this speech proves it!) is just ludicrous. I’m going to go ou
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by jlev1 2y ago
Make up your mind, are you mad they pressured him to withdraw or mad they tried to keep him in the race? Given your voting record and the fact that you’ve just criticized the democrats for two opposite courses of action in back to back post
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by jlev1 2y ago
Yes, that was the point of the parent comment.
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by jlev1 3y ago
Tripled its housing supply since 1960 according to that article. Meanwhile Vancouver’s population went up by more than 4x. So it doesn’t seem surprising affordability would get worse! Edit: Patrick Condon (who wrote that biv.com article)
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by jlev1 3y ago
Relevant context: it’s very hard to learn from research-level math talks, because the material is almost absurdly complicated even when presented well. This advice is for grad students who are often totally at sea as to how to get anything
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by jlev1 5y ago
This seems very cool & deserving of more attention on HN!
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by jlev1 7y ago
I see, that makes sense. Though the phrasing of "how the world works" still makes it sound like you think it's shady and unethical, when I don't (necessarily) think it is.
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by jlev1 7y ago
This is just... not accurate. The closest I can agree with your description is that (a) getting help on specific questions about the class, is not highly differentiated from (b') having conversations about the class (or about your stud
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by jlev1 7y ago
The vehemence of this response surprises me. First, from the anecdote, there's no particular reason to think this student was the only one who was given a chance to take a make-up test. Second, re: the 'integrity of an education s

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