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The Ethics of Scaling Compute(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 5d ago|1 comments
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by nicholast 5d ago
Looking for Peer Review.
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Show HN: ChatFlavors, agentic nudges prompt injection template(github.com)
2 points by nicholast 8mo ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 8mo ago
I am less concerned about addiction than i am about introducing micro targeted foreign agendas into our nation’s cultural landscape.
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by nicholast 10mo ago
Frederick Brooks in his essay "No Silver Bullet" (included in the collection Mythical Man Month) talked about the conventions of software development and I recall had called for taking an iterative approach to software development
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by nicholast 11mo ago
A few comments: - It has long been known in other settings that a small number of points can impact performance of different conventions, this could perhaps be considered a validation of relevance towards the largest scales - I wonder if th
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From the Diaries of John Henry, Book 7 – Inevitable(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 1y ago|1 comments
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by nicholast 1y ago
I hereby present Book 7 of the essay series from the Diaries of John Henry, "Inevitable". I used to publish these every year, took a little more time on this book featuring a self-authored collection of essays published over last
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by nicholast 1y ago
The best way to learn a subject is to teach it.
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by nicholast 1y ago
The only tech that scales cheaper than drones are digital interventions. This is a better way to intercept.
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Quantum computing full page ad in WSJ(twitter.com)
1 points by nicholast 2y ago|3 comments
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by nicholast 2y ago
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a full page ad directed to any remaining skeptics of quantum computing from the CEO of D-Wave Quantum.
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by nicholast 2y ago
Part of the problem of this form of benchmarking is that in some domains we wouldn't only be interested in the percent of times that an error channel is successfully mitigated, we would also be interested in the distribution of types o
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by nicholast 2y ago
Thank God someone other than Scott Aaronson is publishing this kind of content. Shetl Optimized is too much of a vanity project to serve as a mainstream resource.
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by nicholast 4y ago
Joplin really laid the stage for the emergence of jazz music. The ragtime conventions are deceptively simple, they carry a kind of counter balance between the cleffs almost resembling polka at times, but the rhythmic styles often are more s
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by nicholast 4y ago
The book is not just about the ideas, it is about the tapestry of how it was presented. It was a new form of literature. The whole document was its own strange loop.
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The Fundamentals of Rust(medium.com)
2 points by nicholast 4y ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 4y ago
Hi there, author here, this collection marks the sixth year of writing essays on themes like machine learning, entrepreneurship, and quantum computing. Through the project we've published a python library, had workshop papers at resear
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Book 6 of “From the Diaries of John Henry”(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 4y ago|1 comments
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by nicholast 4y ago
You can't evaluate rationality in context of small number of samples of a fat tailed distribution with wide uncertainty bands. Besides, startups can be a kind of success even in failure based on opportunities that arise as a result.
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by nicholast 4y ago
The funny thing is that entrepreneurship doesn't even have to require dropping out of school. A three month summer break is easily enough time to start digging into a niche and validating the market. It probably won't get to susta
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Feature Encodings for Gradient Boosting with Automunge(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 5y ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 5y ago
They cited some of LeCun's solo work from the 80's on related matters, note that he also collaborated with Geoffrey Hinton on a related paper from NIPS 89 in which they used random perturbations to derive a gradient signal. One of
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by nicholast 5y ago
The root enabling factor was not only the reinforcement learning, it was the simulation. Put differently, any environment that you can simulate within sufficient accuracy, you can derive robust and efficient control by reinforcement learnin
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by nicholast 5y ago
The cool thing about math applications is just how easy it would be to generate synthetic data. That these large language models haven't attempted to supplement their gigabytes+ scale data sets with such is an oversight.
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by nicholast 5y ago
This article highlights a few fundamental flaws: - design certification treated as "just another 737" which ignored fundamental deviations in hardware and software, complicated by safety certification by manufacturer instead of pu
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by nicholast 5y ago
Based on wikipedia it appears the original definition of perceptron was associated with the specific case of a neuron with a heavy-side step function activation output (which maps aggregated weights to either 0 or 1). I've generally ad
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by nicholast 5y ago
The biggest asset of Facebook for now is the facebook platform, perhaps a more durable asset will be the social graph sourced by the facebook platform. What would it mean for a durable social graph commercialization model? I'm not sure
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by nicholast 5y ago
BS
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by nicholast 5y ago
He was also a jazz musician (the clarinet), a somewhat accomplished juggler, a devoted unicycle enthusiast, and left behind a basement full of contraptions he was building in various states of finish - like the electronic mouse navigating a

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