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by pontifier 4mo ago
Fantastic idea... Now I'm gonna start thinking about what dumping heat into a 4th dimension might mean realistically... We need the heat to leave without the chip getting in the way. If we can make chips that are transparent to IR, may
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by pontifier 5mo ago
Interesting... Exhaustive brute force prompting might expose previously unknown capabilities in existing models. Seems like a whole can of worms.
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by pontifier 5mo ago
Here's an actual simulation of the fusion reactor I'm working on: http://www.ddprofusion.com/simulation/
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by pontifier 5mo ago
When I worked on autonomous vehicles I realized that if I really wanted to figure out how to get the vehicle to end up where I wanted, I had to model the actual processes involved. It wasn't actually that difficult. I literally just ge
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by pontifier 6mo ago
The unstructured input attack surface problem is indeed troublesome. AI right now is a bit gullible, but as systems evolve they will become more robust. However, even humans are vulnerable to the input given to us. We might be speed running
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by pontifier 7mo ago
What an amazing and strange effect! I'm not even going to attempt to evaluate the reasons or causes because it's brand new to me. How wonderful to find something new like this!
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by pontifier 9mo ago
What if we just aren't doing enough, and we need to use GAN techniques with the LLMs. We're at the "lol, ai cant draw hands right" stage with these hallucinations, but wait a couple years.
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by pontifier 10mo ago
Yeah, what was I thinking?? I really need to slow down sometimes. This should contain every finite pattern, right?
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by pontifier 10mo ago
Since it's not provable with pi, then we'd have to do a more circuitous proof of every finite pattern occurring. Inspired by Champernowne's constant, I propose a Pontifier Pattern that is simple, inefficient, but provably con
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by pontifier 10mo ago
The thing that blows my mind is: say you start filling the plane with pi. Pi has been proven to contain every finite sequence. That means that somewhere in the plane is a full physics simulation of YOU in the room you are in right now. Does
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by pontifier 10mo ago
Always a fun read :) they turned it into a futurama episode
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by pontifier 11mo ago
My mother is currently dying in the hospital with breathing problems. I mentioned this to her earlier today... I thought this would have been much farther along than it is. Hurry up with the medical tech already!
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by pontifier 11mo ago
Here's a couple of sources that back up what I was talking about: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9200021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
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by pontifier 11mo ago
I remember reading somewhere that because Ternary computing is inherently reversible, that from an information theoretic point of view that ternary computations have a lower theoretical bound on energy usage, and as such could be a way to b
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by pontifier 1y ago
I recently saw another video about a high accuracy 3d positioning stage. The differences and similarities were very interesting. For instance, both used rigid rods with ball joints for accuracy, but wildly different encoders and testing met
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by pontifier 1y ago
I'm attempting to revive/create a streaming service to compete with Netflix et al. without any DRM. This would leverage physical media to eliminate requirements from copyright holders about how you might access something you actua
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by pontifier 1y ago
I did this by accident in bash scripts many years ago when I was just getting into linux. I'd be running a script, and editing the script at the same time. It caused some REALLY weird issues before I figured out what was happening. For
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by pontifier 1y ago
Consistency is key. I need it too. With 1000 things pulling me this way and that, I get the most done when I just open my IDE and do it. It's so hard though. I feel like an agoraphobic trying to leave the house. What's the big dea
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by pontifier 1y ago
I started thinking about Ven diagrams too and how that might be a useful flow control mechanism. It feels like there is a disconnect somewhere, and im not sure what it is.
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by pontifier 1y ago
I had an idea a few years ago that it might be useful to be able to detect if someone started flickering their lights in an S-O-S pattern. Sounds like this system might have been able to do that with the right software.
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by pontifier 1y ago
Imagine a being inside a turing machine wondering what came before it was turned on... implying the turing machine is even on and we're not just looking at the set of all possible rule sets on a similarly abstracted mathematical chart.
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by pontifier 1y ago
-Just watched the lecture again, and you wouldn't actually see the outside universe speed up.
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by pontifier 1y ago
Found the lecture. Here is a link to the appropriate part: https://youtu.be/BdYtfYkdGDk?si=iNHi7N68DHxT-52-&t=3182
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by pontifier 1y ago
At the event horizon of a large enough black hole, the tidal difference in gravity between your toes and head shouldn't be noticeable. There shouldn't actually be anything special about falling through the event horizon when looki
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by pontifier 1y ago
There was a youtube lecture I saw years ago that showed exactly what you'd see as you fell into a black hole and passed through the event horizon. You'd see EVERYTHING that EVER crossed the event horizon. But critically, you'
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by pontifier 1y ago
Garbage in, Garbage out... My experiment with vibe coding was quite nice, but it did require a collaborative back and forth, mostly because I didn't know exactly what I wanted. It was easiest to ask for something, then describe how wha
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by pontifier 1y ago
Thanks, I'll look into it Edit: Had a bad external route... Should be fixed now :)
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4 points by pontifier 1y ago|3 comments
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by pontifier 1y ago
This is definitely applicable in other areas as well. Think too hard about why you are unhappy and you'll find yourself entering politics like I did.
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by pontifier 2y ago
The solutions are simple, but the execution requires a radical change in the way we all see each other. You don't cut off your finger when you get a splinter, or tell your earlobe it needs to fend for itself because it just hangs there

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