numbers_guy

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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
I can assure you that anyone who touches numerical simulations of any kind (physicists, engineers, chemists, biophysicts...etc) has tried their hand at ML based surrogate models in the last 5 years, so it's not like they aren't be
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
No shit. If you want a tax cut to have an economic impact, cut taxes for the poorest, the ones with the least disposable income. EDIT: Seems like the article is suggesting that giving more disposable income to the rich, results in them usin
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
Why are they scared shitless of wind power? What's the deal? I don't get it. Like, they seem to be more determined to stop wind power than solar power. Why?
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
Exactly what I was thinking. In Europe (e.g. UK or Germany) people often complain when chip shops or other fried food establishments open below them, because of the constant smells.
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
I don't remember when I first found out, but it blew my mind that sausages in the US are typically beef. Like, what? Sausages are like quintessentially pork products. Like the whole point is that you have a lot of off cuts of a cheap m
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
All economic activity is a key driver to climate change. Why single out one thing? You're clearly imposing a self-serving moral judgement on other people.
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
I eat a lot of rice, but I don't come from any Asian tradition. I find parboiled to be the easiest to cook and is very versatile unless you need glutinous (sticky) properties, and often also the cheapest on the shelf (in non-Asian stor
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
No, social democracies are subservient to capital. The whole modern democratic socialist movement as I understand it is primarily to fix exactly that issue.
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
I don't want to start another thread but this separate news story is also alarming: Germany Thwarts Russian Plot to Assassinate Executive of Donaustahl, Drone Supplier to Ukraine https://militarnyi.com/en/news&#x2F
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Explosive drone at German airport raises new danger, minister says(reuters.com)
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
You can use simulators. However the problem is that if you're for example running material science experiments, those simulations will consume a lot of compute and take weeks, so spamming different approaches in the way an agent tends
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
When they say experiments, do they mean using physics simulators?
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
Not really. These same techniques fall flat on their face when applied to most physics and chemistry problems. All of academia has already been doing ML4Science for the last 8 years. God knows how many billions have been spent. The only two
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
I'd group the Dutch with the Scandinavians as the "other Germanic branches", possibly also including the UK. As a taxonomy it makes far more sense to me. Western Europe is too broad. You have the French and the Portugese and
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by numbers_guy 1mo ago
I worked with a many short men, some of them bald. I mean, STEM, tech, hello, tends to be a big chunk of the demographic. They consistently underperformed when it came to charming women. Tall nerds tended to swoop up the few women on campus
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by numbers_guy 6mo ago
FreeCAD has a Python API that you can use to too. It's their "macro" functionality.
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by numbers_guy 6mo ago
I guess I have the opposite experience. I have a post-graduate level of mathematical education and I am dismayed at how little there is to be gained from it, when it comes to AI/ML. Diffusion Models and Geometric Deep Learning are the
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by numbers_guy 6mo ago
Unfortunate. The Grok team built a phenomenal model. I use it all the time and it very often out performs GPT and Claude, on coding and STEM research related tasks. I was part of the beta for a while Grok 4.2 Beta with multi-agents and it w
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
The less they tax corporations the more the burden will fall on income tax. These big multinationals have been defrauding countries worldwide for decades. The issue is at the core of the political turmoil we are experiencing. I'd like
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
Back in 2011 I remember a lot of people talking about how the Chinese oligarchs were using it to evade currency controls and funnel their wealth out of China.
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
They mean free as in a poem that can be recited by anyone who has listened to it previously.
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
You mean during the Napoleonic wars? Science was already fully embraced by then. Or do you think the Austrians and the French were casting spells against each other instead of firing cannon?
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
... what if these AGI entities start demanding a salary in exhange for their work? Also at some point, if they become intelligent enough, they might legally gain personhood.
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
A question that has been bugging me for a while is what will NVIDIA do with its HPC business? By HPC I mean clusters intended for non-AI related workloads. Are they going to cater to them separetely, or are they going to tell them to just e
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
Also in this world of accelerator programming, people are writing very specialized codes that target a specific architecture, datatype, and even input shape. So with that in mind, how useful is it to have a generic kernel? You still need to
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by numbers_guy 7mo ago
Conservatism is a set of political principles and values, which somebody like Trump overtly does not possess, and never did. The whole Republican party feels like a country wide gaslighting operation at this point. They claim to be conserva
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by numbers_guy 9mo ago
I'm confused about ARC-AGI. I thought the point of it was that you train a foundational model. Then you test it against ARC-AGI to figure out how well it reasons. Here and in some of the other reasoning papers, they are training on ARC
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by numbers_guy 9mo ago
It's the classic breakup story, one party is just done and want to cut contact, but the other party is still hopeful and wants to find a way to restore the relationship. The EU is not independent minded in the same way that China and R
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
Yep, I thought they might have some secret sauce in terms of training techniques, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
You're purposefully ignoring all the nuance. There is nothing more to say.

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