pepinator

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by pepinator 8mo ago
I'm not saying humanity is impossible to describe (on the contrary!). your physics example is too different to what happens in social sciences, it's not a good analogy. you can largely control the conditions under which you throw
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by pepinator 8mo ago
no, but we're talking about Europe on general. and the initial claim is surely false in countries like Spain, France, Poland and Belgium
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by pepinator 8mo ago
I agree with what you say, but that doesn't make social sciences the same as astrology. their conclusions, even if qualitative, can be valid and useful.
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by pepinator 8mo ago
The problem is that there are no two equal situations in social sciences, so you won't ever have the same set of initial conditions. I don't know why they call them sciences, but the scientific method is intrinsically incompatible
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by pepinator 8mo ago
I agree that a lot of people speak two languages. But man, I've lived in several countries in Europe for many years, and even the average university student doesn't really speak English (and I work at the university so I interact
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by pepinator 8mo ago
> Your average European speaks at least three ok ok I get the point but let's not exaggerate
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by pepinator 8mo ago
how do you falsify a hypothesis in social sciences?
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by pepinator 8mo ago
saying that social science is astrology at best is quite extremist. serious people work in those fields
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by pepinator 8mo ago
it surprises me how many people simply don't get the point. they say "they make more money this way, so it's ok". no big picture at all.
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by pepinator 10mo ago
mmmh I don't think so. I've read several papers on cellular automata and I don't recognize the terms
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by pepinator 1y ago
That's an awfully simplistic way of seeing things. It always surprises me how disconnected from reality Americans are.
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by pepinator 1y ago
This is obviously not true. You don't have to do the math to realize: when you pay rent, every moth, an important part of your salary simply disappears, leaving nothing for the future. When you pay a mortgage, your paying the house you
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by pepinator 1y ago
Even if not all LLMs are equal, almost all of them are based on the same base model: transformers. So the general idea is always the same: predict the next token. It becomes more obvious when you try to use LLMs to solve things that you can
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by pepinator 1y ago
This is where one can notice that LLM are, after all, just stochastic parrots. If we don't have a reliable way to systematically test their outputs, I don't see many jobs being replaced by AI either.
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by pepinator 1y ago
We call it breakthrough. And it's just math and code. We've had many of those.
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by pepinator 1y ago
The notion of being uniformly distributed has a very specific meaning in mathematics [1]. If you don't believe me, maybe you believe Tao [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidistribution_theorem [2] https
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by pepinator 1y ago
Irrational rotations of a torus are uniformly distributed and closely resemble the image from the blog. The images you linked, on the other hand, are random sequences with positive entropy (which are also uniformly distributed). Confusing t
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by pepinator 1y ago
Peer review is important for checking the correctness of the results, among other things. It's not uncommon to find big errors; small mistakes are everywhere.
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by pepinator 2y ago
That's a highly biased opinion. The Newtonian conception of physics is trivial for us, and we can say that most people could come up with the ideas by their own, but that's because our world conception is based on those ideas; it&
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by pepinator 2y ago
Yes, exactly, what the guy above was saying is that they're just looking for excuses to keep people from using the Chinese thing.
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by pepinator 2y ago
Well, in the US you have millions of foreigners and blacks who live in utter poverty, and sustain the economy, just like the farmers in China.
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by pepinator 2y ago
That's how it works in most scientific fields. If you want more granularity, you check the order of the authors. Sometimes, they explaine in the paper who did what.
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by pepinator 2y ago
A more precise title would be better, so, yeah, it's harmful.
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by pepinator 2y ago
Switzerland has just 8 million people, which are divided into two big language groups. And most people speak (or at least understand) English. So, it's natural for the algorithm to converge to content in English.
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by pepinator 2y ago
It says that the underlying action is on the torus (R/Z)^2. If the entries of the matrix are not integers, do we have a well defined action on the torus? It seems to me that the answer is no because Z^2 would not be invariant by the ac
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by pepinator 2y ago
Has he gained interesting understanding of anything?
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by pepinator 2y ago
The perceptron is not such a deep concept.
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by pepinator 2y ago
In the case of Mandelbrot, there is a self similar renormalization process, so you can obtain such a formula. For the "fixed points" of the renormalization process, the formula is super simple; for other points, you might need mor
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by pepinator 2y ago
How is AI different from using a calculator? AI is just giving a new abstraction layer, in the same way that computers have done before AI. And these non-AI tools have allowed us to produce both deep research and beautiful theories. I'