just_a_quack

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by just_a_quack 2y ago
A lot of (probably valid) criticism in these comments. Personally I find the comparison between strange attractors and hermeneutics really fun. I imagine the self-similarity in interpretations could be attributed to something akin to the &q
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
The comparison to luxury goods is not really accurate here IMO. When you purchase a luxury watch you get something tangible in return. These apps purposely prey on psychological weaknesses to get people addicted - a better comparison would
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
Everyone saw this coming. Still, it's disappointing to see. I will be taking my valuable 0.12$ elsewhere thank you very much.
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of Karl Friston's work! A seemingly simple idea (viewing cognition as effectively Bayesian) with many interesting implications. Really hope we'll see more energy based models after LLM hype dies out.( Not that
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
The Lutheran reformation was a political movement. And the spread of this movement was dependent on things like population density, economic potential and proximity to catholic institutions and influence. Conditions based on the above lead
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
I doubt the average peasant was into schelling or fichte. Göethe had and continues to influence literature, poetry, etc. But shifting culture to be more self-oriented? Please. The largest social impact he had was the surge in suicides by te
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
https://archive.is/lxwIt
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
I remember when scigen successfully published one or two papers in a journal.
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
There's not. The positional encodings are generated using sines and cosines such that any offset in position can be described as a linear function on the original position. Using the DFT here would not make sense as the positional enco
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
I think it's because ext2 and ext4 both use block allocation in favor of paging thru bio and uses buffer tricks to write data in a way that reduces fragmentation
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
There has been research into common factors on the biomedical front. For example, the shank3 gene has been implicated in both ASD and Schizophrenia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28371232/ I'm not qualified to
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
I don't really agree with the opening paragraph here. We have seen numerous examples of GPT4 "reasoning" by what is essentially dumb metacognition. For example, when querying wolfram-alpha using the new plugin. GPT4 will corr
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by just_a_quack 3y ago
One cool application of the discrete laplace operator is that we can use it to calculate the number of spanning trees of the graph by considering the determinants of the submatrices we get my removing 1 row and 1 column from the matrix! ht
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by just_a_quack 4y ago
Nothing pisses me off more than journals charging thousands for access. None of the money reaches the actual researchers and it only serves to reinforce public distrust in research
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by just_a_quack 4y ago
As far as I can discern, the Carter administration, much like its predecessor, was responsible for providing the most of the arms used during the East Timor genocide. However I don't believe that Carter supported Latin American dictato