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by outlace 7mo ago
Highly recommend looking at Jacob Barandes’ formulation of quantum mechanics as non-Markovian stochastic processes. It was the first introduction to quantum mechanics I could actually follow. https://www.jacobbarandes.com/
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by outlace 7mo ago
I never said LLMs will not be able to do X. I gave my summary of the article and my anecdotal experiences with LLMs. I have no LLM ideology. We will see what tomorrow brings.
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by outlace 7mo ago
For example, ever since the first GPT 4 I’ve tried to get LLM’s to build me a specific type of heart simulation that to my knowledge does not exist anywhere on the public internet (otherwise I wouldn’t try to build it myself) and even up to
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by outlace 7mo ago
The headline may make it seem like AI just discovered some new result in physics all on its own, but reading the post, humans started off trying to solve some problem, it got complex, GPT simplified it and found a solution with the simpler
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by outlace 1y ago
Well one could make the argument that Musk is a short or medium term problem and that in 4 years when Trump is gone everyone will forget about hating on Tesla and it will be a great car company again. Musk is in his 50s and won’t be CEO for
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by outlace 1y ago
That's not how it works for Tesla. Totally different buying experience. You order online, get a notification some days or weeks later that it's ready, go to the store sign a couple of documents and drive off with the car. Maybe 10
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by outlace 2y ago
The president can’t just unilaterally cancel a piece of legislation already signed into law. But maybe he gets the new congress to repeal it.
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by outlace 2y ago
“America’s ethos of “school achievement above all else” is part of the problem, says Stephen Hinshaw of the University of California at Berkeley” This may be the ethos in elite circles but I don’t think it’s the case in general.
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by outlace 2y ago
All American car companies would be
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by outlace 2y ago
Yeah I tried it too on HuggingFace and was not impressed.
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by outlace 2y ago
I would argue that the main benefit of democracy is not electing "the right people" by a free and fair election, but by having a mechanism to remove bad leaders without violence. So a propaganda machine influencing elections is no
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by outlace 2y ago
It's varied. Taking as little as 1mg per day with 1 day off worked well. But so does spot treating with 4mg every week or so when symptoms flare.
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by outlace 2y ago
This is not medical advice, but I have used rapamycin for an as of yet undiagnosed autoimmune condition (likely psoriatic arthritis vs rheumatoid arthritis) and it almost completely cures the condition while taking it, at the cost of mild-m
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by outlace 2y ago
Summary of article: A single NPR link got automatically flagged by X to display a warning after NPR changed the URL for an unknown reason. It was reported to X who said it was a false positive and corrected it.
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by outlace 2y ago
It looks like the gel “learns” to get better at the game because if it correctly positions the Pong paddle over time then the dynamics of stimulation become predictable rather than random. since the system tries to naturally minimize its fr
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by outlace 2y ago
Highly relevant book: Modeling Life by Alan Garfinkel. Assumes only knowledge of algebra and teaches the foundational skills of differential equation modeling. Best book I bought this year.
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by outlace 2y ago
This is only talking about a launch in China.
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by outlace 2y ago
But Amazon also contracted with SpaceX: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/01/amazon-buys-spacex-rocke...
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SpaceX Starship 3rd test flight considered a success(twitter.com)
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by outlace 3y ago
Which deck?
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by outlace 3y ago
I would guess most single family home owners have two or more cars. This is a total guess based on my own situation and those of people I know who own EV’s but most EV owners with a single family home will also own a gas car. So an EV is mo
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by outlace 3y ago
EV’s currently make the most sense for people who own a single family home or otherwise live in a community with readily available near-home chargers, where EV’s are on average more convenient than gas cars. People who rely on street parkin
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by outlace 3y ago
Nothing is owned with unrestricted rights. I “own” my house but if I don’t do what the HOA says they can sue me. If I don’t pay my property taxes it can get taken away. Ownership is really just a specification of rights. So you’re paying fo
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by outlace 3y ago
MD here. I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, obviously there's a bit of defensiveness since I went through 12 years of school and training to be an independent physician (4 years college, 4 years medical school, 4 years
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by outlace 3y ago
But OpenAI appears to have some sort of data moat. I doubt their model is the best in the world, but more/better data generally beats better model, and GPT-4 definitely beats Claude, Bard, Bernie and the rest probably because they cura
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by outlace 3y ago
It looks like this is just a reporting requirement and no quotas are mandated. I imagine the intent is to indirectly push companies to improve diversity through embarrassment by public numbers. However, these are private individuals funding
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by outlace 3y ago
The following paragraph clarifies: " “Kia does not and has never collected ‘sex life or sexual orientation’ information from vehicles or consumers in the context of providing the Kia Connect Services,” says Kia spokesperson James Bell.
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by outlace 3y ago
If you're interested in algebraic topology to do topological data analysis, I wrote a series of blog posts about it that I believe is quite accessible even to those with limited math backgrounds: http://outlace.com/TDAp
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by outlace 3y ago
Maybe if the battery is critically low on power it should show how to manually exit the vehicle on the screen for people who never read the manual.
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by outlace 3y ago
Yeah but there’s big a difference between mental health issues in China being driven by intense academic competition and pressure and, as the Haidt article claims, lack of enough unstructured playtime.

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