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by lkm0 1mo ago
It's actually pretty funny to look for such synonym expressions https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22h... turns up a few more. If you want to read more, I believe those are called "to
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by lkm0 1mo ago
The point about conservationism being not a thing until 1950s seems a bit blunt/misleading to anyone who's heard about Viollet-le-Duc and co. Conserving ancient building was definitely a huge thing in 19th century Europe. See htt
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by lkm0 2mo ago
Immensely disappointed; I expected an actual cookbook.
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by lkm0 2mo ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1288/
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by lkm0 2mo ago
I've always wanted to do this! I've scraped Gutenberg and tried some clever ways to get the first line, but I always got so much noise. Perhaps it's a good time to try again!
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by lkm0 2mo ago
The article paraphrases a blog post: https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/bioshocking-ai-gaming-the-ai... probably because it justifies the sensationalized title, although the entire content can be summed up as "LLMs d
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by lkm0 3mo ago
> accumulated knowledge my experience is the opposite. Due to LaTeX's arcane scripting and the lack of interest people have in learning it beyond "it compiles on overleaf", I'm seeing a lot of accumulated superstition
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by lkm0 3mo ago
I'm a bit out of the loop, but do we have some grasp on the size of these closed models? Is the trick still adding an order of magnitude to weights and training data or has something changed?
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by lkm0 3mo ago
If you can read French, I recommend Saint-Simon as the quintessential counter-example. In English, I found "Why I Write" by Orwell very entertaining.
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by lkm0 3mo ago
I had no idea that LLMs (or the transformer architecture) were within reach of complexity theory. But if transformers "can be" exponentially more succinct than RNNs, doesn't that mean we're approaching optimality?
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by lkm0 3mo ago
It makes me wonder that despite the fast improvements in model capacity (and the claims) we're still using variations on a 9-year old architecture. How is it that we haven't been able to use LLMs to actually improve that?
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by lkm0 5mo ago
I am very surprised to see Japan in the 40%-60% self-sufficiency category for fish. Is simply cheaper to buy from elsewhere?
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by lkm0 5mo ago
Reminds me of the Barbegal mills, built in ancient Rome. The site produced 4.5 tons of flour per day, according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbegal_aqueduct_and_mills
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by lkm0 5mo ago
The article, to me, comes across as focused on art as a job, especially sentences like "greater creativity and success in creative careers". There's a ring of self-help/pop business that just strikes me as artless. >
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by lkm0 5mo ago
Certainly, I'm also aware of how difficult it is to implement open dialogue in practice. Perhaps my hope is that general education could help develop that sort of transversal insight that talented scientists use to naturally understand
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by lkm0 5mo ago
Yes, that's a failing of science. Reading the early volumes of Nature from the 19th century shows how much more of an open dialogue it was back then: https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes Though education was much
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by lkm0 5mo ago
I've always been wondering if the crime matters at all. A lot of people say that going through a trial, even as a victim, is a punishment; it's the process that counts (hence "der prozess"). Perhaps the lack of a stated
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by lkm0 5mo ago
This whole thing strikes me as coming from the wrong direction. Tying artistic and financial success, trying to apply some cargo cult "problem" engineering mentality to art. I feel like these articles illustrate quite well why the
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by lkm0 5mo ago
Kafka (who apparently had a great sense of humor) seems to really enjoy writing people who die from too much second guessing. In the trial, K. keep failing by attempting to outplay the system at every step, because he thinks that he can sta
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by lkm0 5mo ago
The blog post reads nothing like Hemingway. Here's a classic example: https://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/Hemingway/hemingway-... Hemingway writes simple sentences with a kind of detachment to make the em
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by lkm0 5mo ago
"dequantization" is a thing and it's a very legitimate part of quantum information research. It's useful to probe if something was truly quantum or just smokes and mirrors, because it helps us understand where the bounda
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by lkm0 5mo ago
A very simple addition that makes casual browsing much more fun is to add a menu with adjacent articles, as is done in this reconstruction of Littré's 19th century french dictionary: https://www.littre.org/ (see mots v
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by lkm0 5mo ago
Why put comté and gruyère in two different categories? I just realized that in France the categorization of cheeses is closer to how they are prepared: - fresh - soft - hard but not cooked - hard and cooked and it results in entirely differ
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by lkm0 5mo ago
We're this close to rediscovering pagerank
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by lkm0 5mo ago
These economic frameworks sure look like pareidolia to me
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by lkm0 5mo ago
A swiss architect did the same in the mid 19th century with Geneva, specifically to preserve an image of the city right before the entirety of the city walls were to be razed pics: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat
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by lkm0 5mo ago
There's actually a source tex file bundled with exercises with a custom setup.tex which makes me believe the whole thing is bespoke. Might be wrong though https://websites.umich.edu/~mejn/cp2/exercises.html B
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by lkm0 5mo ago
Takeaway from the comments is that "work hard" is ill-defined and there's no effort done to fix that
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by lkm0 5mo ago
The matplotlib chapter seems fairly barebones but I remain in awe at this gorgeous latex work
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by lkm0 6mo ago
To put this in context, we've had a streak of improvements to Shor's algorithm that have put the horizon much closer. In 2022, people from Microsoft estimated that it would take more than 10M (physical) qubits to implement factori

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