offnominal

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by offnominal 2mo ago
> falsifiable claims that are, well, false Oh, I didn't realize it was 2028 already!
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by offnominal 7mo ago
This is analogous to a situation where a passenger in a vehicle, for example, asks the driver to pull over or to drive to a given spot. I believe the passenger does not need to have a driving license to perform this task.
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by offnominal 7mo ago
> Wrong, as the questions were poses to commercial AI models and they can solve them. Why does this matter? As far as I can tell, because the solution is not known this only affects the time constant (i.e. the problems were known for lon
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by offnominal 8mo ago
Did they reduce thinking effort on Codex too? It seems to have become significantly worse in the past couple of days. It keeps making dumb mistakes (that it wouldn't earlier), so my chats are much longer to get it to fix them. That mig
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by offnominal 11mo ago
The key difference in your example and the comment you are replying to is that the commenter is not "defending the decision" via a logical implication. Obviously the implication can be voided by showing the assumption false.
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by offnominal 1y ago
> Any mathematicians who have actually called it "new interesting mathematics", or just an OpenAI employee? He is a mathematician. Unless you wanted to say "any other mathematicians..."
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by offnominal 1y ago
Not sure if you're trying to be provocative, but you could just click his name in the link you provided to find a lengthy list of arXiv preprints: https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Bubeck,+...
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by offnominal 1y ago
The OpenAI employee posting this is a well known theoretical computer scientist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Bubeck
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by offnominal 1y ago
I quite enjoyed it. You're in a different part of the world and only have access to lead level data from your local population. You spot an anomaly in a cultural subgroup. Then through extensive guesswork you pinpoint a cause to a spe
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by offnominal 1y ago
Are you a company? If not, then you probably don't have revenue -- you have income.
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by offnominal 1y ago
Salaries in general (not just of software developers) are tax deductible in many countries. This is desirable because we do not want companies to be paying taxes on revenue.
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by offnominal 2y ago
The survey was done across California -- not just SF and LA. Either way, wikipedia claims that 37.7% of SF residents were born in California which is slightly closer to 50% than the 25% figure you quoted ( https://en.wikipedia.org
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by offnominal 2y ago
It's unclear to me why this is isn't statistically possible. Could you please explain? But anyways, this article (paywalled) claims that 48% of California adults were born in the state as of 2022: https://www.sfchronicl