luc4sdreyer

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by luc4sdreyer 9mo ago
> Time doesn’t exist. Do the people writing this garbage live in a vacuum? Is it AI slop? Maybe don't dismiss an idea as garbage before trying to understand it. One of the ideas here is that time is an emergent phenomenon, like how
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by luc4sdreyer 1y ago
> the high velocities of steam locomotives might kill you This obviously seems silly in hindsight. Warnings about radium watches or asbestos sound less silly, or even wise. But neither had any solid scientific studies showing clear haza
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by luc4sdreyer 1y ago
Animals eat their disabled children. Humans should also do it then, since it's normal or natural. Around 100k people die from age-related disease every day. I'd be careful to dismiss that as not a problem.
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by luc4sdreyer 2y ago
That is assuming the accelerating AI stays under human control. We're racing up a hill at an ever-increasing speed, and we don't know what's on the other side. Maybe 80% chance that it's either nothing or "simply&q
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by luc4sdreyer 2y ago
Yes, that's one of the tricks.
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by luc4sdreyer 2y ago
The youngest was born in 2019, the same year he was incarcerated (April 2019). Pregnancy lasts 9 months, so even if the child were born in early 2020, there would be no reason to assume infidelity.
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by luc4sdreyer 2y ago
I'm a bit worried that most of the links on https://www.datomic.com/ are broken.
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by luc4sdreyer 2y ago
He admitted to lying about it? Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find anything.
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by luc4sdreyer 2y ago
> "Debunking the Myth of the Young Entrepreneur" There might be others, but this one is clear and to the point: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45 https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-th
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by luc4sdreyer 2y ago
> He is critical of string theory on the grounds that it lacks testable predictions and is promoted with public money despite its failures so far,[1] and has authored both scientific papers and popular polemics on this topic. His writing
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
> Jenson and Lisa Su being literally cousins I know the word literally doesn't mean anything anymore, but Jenson and Lisa Su are first cousins once removed. Jensen's grandfather and Lisa's great-grandfather are the same pe
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
> but it will require paradigm shift, so there will be a lot of resistance before revolution. I think the main point of resistance is the incompatibility with observations. All Tired light models have been falsified: https://e
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
>from one point in space - We have multiple observatories on and around the planet - The Earth is moving around the Sun - The Sun is moving around the centre of the galaxy - The galaxy is moving towards the great attractor, etc The Coper
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
> Nobody had a clue In the 3rd century BC, Aristarchus calculated that the Sun was between 18 and 20 times farther away from the Earth than the Moon, and proposed the Heliocentric model as a result. The true value is instead approximate
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
>If known programs cannot run on this new OS then it is defective. I understand the problem is that, like String Theory, this framework has a practically unlimited supply of variables that can simply be tuned to fit existing experiments,
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
This is from four years ago, and there are some comments on the article by Matt Kelly that show that the "interference pattern" is just an artefact. The author did not respond despite several requests to do so.
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Does something like madsim / Deterministic Simulation Testing exist for Java applications?
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Agreed. I'm actually interested in a discussion about his mental health. A change in behaviour towards irrational aggression could be due to extreme stress, lack of sleep, drugs, a brain tumour, bipolar disorder, etc. My questions: 1.
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
DIY health is all fun and games until something goes wrong, and then suddenly the experts are important again. For some reason the experts apparently don't really understand the "simple" things that can be attempted at home.
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
The term became very popular during Ethan Couch's trial, because the judge bought it. > Couch was indicted on four counts of intoxication manslaughter for recklessly driving under the influence. In December 2013, Judge Jean Hudson B
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
I'm not aware of anything concrete by OpenAI, but others have offered possible explanations. One idea is that the cause is batched inference in sparse MoE (mixture of experts) models. https://152334h.github.io/blog&#x2F
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Do you mean the one you go to in the mission where you get the jetpack? https://www.ign.com/wikis/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/Black...
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Adding up to "1 exaFLOPS" (sparse FP8). For reference, the fastest FP64 supercomputer is the AMD-based Frontier supercomputer, at 1.1 exaFLOPS.
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
They claim 1.1x to 7x, depending on what you're doing. The 10% to 50% is for the ~10k GPU LLM training, where the main bottleneck tends to be networking: > DGX GH200 enables more efficient parallel mapping and alleviates the network
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Here's a simple example from r/wallstreetbets: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ihu7rh/auti... I think any from these communities (4chan, crypto, etc.) already feel marginalize
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
> Scientific research typically has been founded on high ethical standards established by researchers in academia and health care research institutions. Scientific fraud, an act of deception or misrepresentation of one's own work, v
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
They can still open a case against you and put out a warrant for your arrest, in the UK. Then you need to ensure that you never have a flight routed through there. Though I doubt that they would go to all this trouble for a small fry.
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Which table? The referenced table (9) only says "strong" (relative to what?) and gives a calorie count, which for beer is not very useful as an ABV estimate.
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
I don't want to support this idea because it goes against my worldview as an atheist from a very conservative society. I grew up on Hitchens and Dawkins. But the YouGov poll [1] that the WaPo article is based seems to support this idea
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
I've experienced similar things many times. Maybe in the future I should propose a $10 bet, where they get three guesses.

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