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The Future of the Human Mathematician(anakedrhymejam.substack.com)
1 points by snewman 3d ago|0 comments
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by snewman 13d ago
(I'm the author of the blog post) My thinking here is that Waymo has logged hundreds of millions of miles at this point (and even more in sim), and there are a lot of nines in their safety record. So even the rare edge cases should hav
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by snewman 2mo ago
Writing a simulator requires understanding the game well enough to spec the simulator. Acquiring said understanding - within the action limits of the benchmark – seems like the heart of the challenge, so this doesn't strike me as &quot
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by snewman 3mo ago
Correct.
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by snewman 6mo ago
In essentially all cases where a Waymo and a human-driven car have collided, the human driver has clearly been at fault. This seems definitive and not susceptible to cherry picking.
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by snewman 8mo ago
Water on the moon is limited and difficult to collect, it wouldn't make sense to use it for industrial purposes. It's a very challenging thermal environment (baking during the day, freezing at night). But perhaps worst of all, eve
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by snewman 8mo ago
+1 to this. It's also visually confusing, the gate looks like it's covering two cells. Great game! Feature request: add a button that shows my submitted solution. I'd like to be able to compare it with the optimal solution (s
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by snewman 1y ago
No, because there are lots of things people can do that it still can't do.
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by snewman 1y ago
I presume you're referring to the recent METR study. One aspect of the study population, which seems like an important causal factor in the results, is that they were working in large, mature codebases with specific standards for code
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by snewman 1y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/3106/
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by snewman 1y ago
For people who prefer reading to watching videos, I wrote a detailed account of my process for solving one of last year's IMO problems, along with thoughts on how this relates to AI: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/sol
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by snewman 1y ago
A few questions / thoughts: 1. I didn't see it stated explicitly, but I presume the neural net is on the far end of a radio link somewhere, not running on hardware physically mounted on the drone? 2. After viewing the FPV video on
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by snewman 1y ago
The numbering jump is because there was "Claude 3.5" and then "Claude 3.5 (new)" and they decided to retroactively stop the madness and rename the later to 3.6 (which is what everyone was calling it anyway).
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AI 2027 Is a Bet Against Amdahl's Law(lesswrong.com)
4 points by snewman 1y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 2y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "dynamic text box" but it was just a contenteditable div. There have been at least two complete rewrites since I was involved, nowadays I believe it's a canvas with all of the editin
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by snewman 2y ago
This one line was like 90% of the original implementation of Writely (the startup that became Google Docs; source: I was one of the founders). The other 90% was all the backend code we had to write to properly synchronize edits across diffe
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by snewman 2y ago
The article clearly states that providing enough power to run the heaters was one of the challenges that led to the death of the probe. Satellites are rarely in the shade for an extended period.
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What I Wish I Knew About FrontierMath(lemmata.substack.com)
1 points by snewman 2y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 2y ago
Two different people I know with pro subscriptions report not having access yet.
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by snewman 2y ago
There isn't a uniform temperature across the entire exchanger. There's a smooth gradient extending from one end to the other. If the outside is hotter, then the inbound air gradually cools as it gives up heat to the outbound air w
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by snewman 2y ago
NDAs don't generally have an expiration date. (As opposed to non-competes and non-solicitation agreements, which generally do.) An NDA typically ends only if the information in question becomes public, and then only for that particular
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by snewman 2y ago
Note that very often, the solution process for a more difficult puzzle involves going through nontrivial logic to prove that a particular square must be water. It's important to be able to record non-obvious "must be water" s
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by snewman 2y ago
Often the connection between the load balancer and app backend also uses TLS. I've operated a large / complex service on AWS and all internal communications at each level were encrypted. Of course, in principle, a cloud provider c
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The Unreasonable Magic of Rolling a Tennis Ball Down a Sandcastle(amistrongeryet.substack.com)
2 points by snewman 2y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 2y ago
I'm saying they weren't solved until the problem composer (created and) solved them. They're not, in general, problems for which solutions have been lying around. So "these are problems that are already solved" isn&
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by snewman 2y ago
Why do you say these are problems that are already solved? Sure, they're often variations on existing themes, but the same is true for chess positions and, honestly, almost everything else in any field of human endeavor. Agreed that th
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by snewman 2y ago
Contestants get 4.5 hours for each of the two days of competition. They have to solve three problems in that time, so on average you can spend 1.5 hours per problem (if you're aiming to finish all three). That said, the gap from "
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by snewman 2y ago
When tackling IMO problems, the hard part is coming up with a good approach to the proof. Verifying your proof (and rejecting your false attempts) is much easier. You'll know which one to submit. (Source: I am a two-time IMO silver med
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by snewman 2y ago
In many ways it doesn't cancel out. On Mars, things weigh less but their mass is the same. So, for example, if you are walking on Mars at a normal Earth walking speed, and you bump your shin on something, the inertia of your leg as it
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by snewman 2y ago
> What Boeing really needs is a complete change in management culture, as that was the real root cause for the MAX disasters, but that is impossible to enforce, you can't even really verify that it has happened. Serious question: wh

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