mobeets

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by mobeets 18d ago
This is really impressive! One thing I’ve often wanted is a way to listen to an ebook (say, while cooking), and then later be able to sit down and read from where I left off. This essentially requires the same functionality that Storyteller
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by mobeets 20d ago
I genuinely could not tell if this was a parody/satire or not, I think because the aesthetic reminds me of how a product like this would be presented in a horror movie or something
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by mobeets 1mo ago
Agreed. Also it seems like, if the actual test scores and perceived test scores were both sampled iid, the “perceived” line should just be flat, with everyone being at 50th percentile. The fact that the displayed graph deviates from 50 in a
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by mobeets 3mo ago
Por que no los dos? Scientific review times are up, it’s harder to find reviewers, and many reviews are AI generated anyway. Auto-generated research publications will arguably make the replication crisis worse, because there will be more sl
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by mobeets 3mo ago
Thank you for writing a much more thoughtful reply to this comment than I was drafting
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by mobeets 5mo ago
Good point, this is probably the author assuming a little more context on the reader’s part. The cases where you can record from neurons in humans are very rare (basically only in treatment resistant epilepsy), and most of the work on hippo
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by mobeets 7mo ago
This approach implies the probability doesn’t depend on N. It only happens to be 1/2 for N=4 (the article goes into this). The trick is that you don’t know beforehand which semicircle all the points can land in, but your unwrapping ste
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by mobeets 9mo ago
Matlab is annoying for many reasons. But to me the main advantage of using Matlab over Python is the plotting. Plotting in Python is still a pain. Notebooks help, but they still don’t let you add to a plot piece-by-piece; and 3D plots are p
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by mobeets 10mo ago
One surprise of reading this thread was learning that Terry Tao is an active user of Math Overflow!
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by mobeets 1y ago
I was confused also. My guess was that maybe a “sequence” has to be 4 or more pebbles?
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by mobeets 1y ago
I totally agree but unfortunately it really is one of the fundamental laws of wikipedia. To me this becomes especially silly when editing math wiki articles, where you might be tempted to connect mathematical concepts (eg with a few lines o
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by mobeets 1y ago
I’m with you—-I think you did a good job of summarizing all the places that LLMs are super practical/useful, but agreed that for prose (as someone who considers themselves a proficient writer), it just never seems to contribute anythin
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by mobeets 1y ago
I was surprised to see the author claim that citations in the Introduction are a bad thing. I do think ML papers are generally pretty bad at acknowledging other relevant literature, but this makes me think it’s an active decision somehow
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by mobeets 1y ago
I have no idea (but wish I knew). I’m embarrassed to admit it took me years to even notice that it wasn’t being updated anymore
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by mobeets 1y ago
Scihub hasn’t been updated since 2020! But anyway arxiv has a lot of important features specifically for academic papers (eg quality control, categories, browsing, issuing dois, etc)
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by mobeets 2y ago
without paywall: https://archive.is/eu8te
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The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started(theatlantic.com)
6 points by mobeets 2y ago|1 comments
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by mobeets 2y ago
Wowwww I had no idea this was a thing. Thank you for sharing, this is perfect
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by mobeets 2y ago
This is amazing and super inspiring. I love how such a professional looking enclosure is actually a repurposed Ikea flowerpot—-brilliant. Does anyone know how one would print the black text on the flowerpot? I have an acrylic enclosure from
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by mobeets 2y ago
The fact that Pando is a single organism is so confusing to me. I’m guessing there are more forests like Pando that are also a single organism? Is this something unique to this particular species?
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by mobeets 2y ago
Probably this (awesome) paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/hash/e98741479a7b9...
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by mobeets 2y ago
This paper was published in this year’s issue of sigbovik, the best satirical academic journal you (may) have never heard of: https://sigbovik.org/2024/
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by mobeets 3y ago
Can anyone explain how this works? I made this app that converts video to emojis ( https://gifmoji.github.io/ ) and would love to know if I could somehow do a similar thing over ssh (so with emojis rather than ascii art)
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Tropes related to falling and/or landing(tvtropes.org)
1 points by mobeets 3y ago|0 comments
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by mobeets 3y ago
There is a big effort to do that actually, called Project CETI: https://www.projectceti.org/