macrolocal

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by macrolocal 11mo ago
Nb. This isn't about Lie theory.
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by macrolocal 1y ago
Say what you will about Peter Thiel, he does have a sense of humor.
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by macrolocal 1y ago
By analogy with stacks, my intuition is that Spec(N) still has a one-dimensional geometry, but with a (-1)-dimensional tier from quotienting out the prime points by a semiring action.
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by macrolocal 1y ago
Yep, you need category theory to express something as trivial as the definition of a monad.
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by macrolocal 1y ago
Upvoted. USAID has been misused plenty: political meddling in Bangladesh, Cuba's ZunZuneo op, boomerang aid in Haiti, Afghan contractor enrichment, etc. I could go on. But understand: the soft power isn't going away, just the doct
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by macrolocal 1y ago
To be fair, if we're living in a simulation, Jesus does feel a bit like a Chekhov's gun.
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by macrolocal 1y ago
Imagine chess played on a board with opposite sides identified, like in the video game Asteroids. Does white have a winning strategy?
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by macrolocal 2y ago
In the right dynamical framework, I bet I'm a strange autoregressor.
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by macrolocal 2y ago
Lieven Le Bruyn is just in the habit of cataloguing how algebraic geometry culture shows up in unexpected places, eg. http://www.neverendingbooks.org/what-about-simone-weil/ . Surprising to see on Hacker News.
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by macrolocal 2y ago
FWIW, Achenbrenner discusses some of OpenAI's motivations here: https://youtu.be/zdbVtZIn9IM?si=F7evv4xfSjsS-Gob
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by macrolocal 3y ago
It looks like we've hit a reply depth limit, which is maybe for the best, because I don't think we're making any progress here. > You did use tautologies... You seem to think calling something a tautology is a way to dismi
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by macrolocal 3y ago
You said I was using tautologies as straw men, which is incoherent and suggests you’re not arguing in good faith. Anyhow, of course entropy correlates to music quality; maximum entropy music is white noise! I’ve even had luck finding intere
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by macrolocal 3y ago
Tautologies don't make for good strawmen, and network entropy doesn't need to identify the quality level of music on its own to be useful.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
Of course network entropy provides useful information—- just maybe not the particular kind of depth you seem to be looking for. I’m also curious why you’re arguing with my tautologies!
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by macrolocal 3y ago
Sorry for the cliché, but "the most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'" --Asimov
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by macrolocal 3y ago
My point is just that proving known facts can be useful and interesting. As for the paper, network entropy and node heterogeneity seem to be perfectly sensible statistical concepts, and encode useful information. They also dovetail convenie
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by macrolocal 3y ago
You might be missing my point somewhat. :) First, the methods of the paper don’t have to be a Mendelssohn replacement to be useful. Second, if you don’t like that potential application, consider all the other predictive models that could be
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by macrolocal 3y ago
You might be missing the point somewhat. With these methods, you could eg. test the vast swaths of potentially overlooked composers to see if any of them merit closer listening.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
A killer app for me would be proper Blender integration, say with VR viewports.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
Also, error bars qua statistics can indicate problems with the underlying data and model, eg. if they're unrealistically narrow, symmetric etc.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
Nb. Plato claims Solon found written records of 'Atlantis' on a visit to Egypt, around 600 BC. That seems consistent with the Santorini hypothesis and Egyptian historians.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
FWIW, that one line is the parallel postulate.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
This is a legit topos.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
For most of this era, I find it helpful to think in terms of the Angevin empire, not England.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
For automorphic forms, absolutely.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
Right, that's 1823, about the time of Frederick William III. Beethoven might have dedicated a symphony to you.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
All they need to do is slightly bias their recommendation engine, maybe in different ways for different users. Not too hard using Monolith.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
> And if that happens, the audience moves on. For what it's worth, this idea that propaganda is noticeable is itself propaganda.
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by macrolocal 3y ago
I’m enjoying “Uproar!” by Alice Loxton. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/james-gillray-tim-clayton...
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by macrolocal 3y ago
1.4T according to Michael Douglas [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/B3Az2EONCHE

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