syphia

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by syphia 1mo ago
As someone who just converted a bicycle to ebike (via hub motor kit installation), it's not really that hard to do a traditional conversion. The worst part was filing down the metal brake assembly so it didn't rub the hub motor on
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by syphia 1mo ago
Verification is sometimes less conceptually difficult than solving. I'd say for most well-defined problems, verifying is simpler. E.g. finding a general solution for a cubic polynomial is difficult. Proving that a solution is correct
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by syphia 5mo ago
Do you have any objective data for this? In my experience, most subjective claims about men vs. women are unresolvable as either true or false. At best, the discussion degenerates into a Jung-like discussion of anima and animus.
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by syphia 5mo ago
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal Translations vary slightly.
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by syphia 5mo ago
AlphaStar (2019) refined through self-play but was initially trained on human data. I don't know of any other high-level Starcraft AI, but if you do let me know.
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by syphia 6mo ago
LLMs read and write human-code because humans have been reading and writing human-code. The sample size of assembly problems is, in my estimate, too small for LLMs to efficiently read and write it for common use cases. I liken it to the pro
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by syphia 6mo ago
> Can you sit down with an unfamiliar domain and develop enough genuine curiosity to get good at it, without a syllabus or a credential dangling in front of you? Do I have faith that I'll be compensated according to my developed abi
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by syphia 7mo ago
I've known many people who met through games. They offer something similar, in the sense that you can meet new people and learn about them. The synchronous nature of multiplayer games leaves most of this expression implicit rather than
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by syphia 8mo ago
A case study of myself as an overeager math student: I used to focus so much on finding "elegant" proofs of things, especially geometric proofs. I'd construct elaborate diagrams to find an intuitive explanation, sometimes dis
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by syphia 8mo ago
Agreed. I think the divide is between code-as-thinking and code-as-implementation. Trivial assignments and toy projects and geeking out over implementation details are necessary to learn what code is, and what can be done with it. Otherwise
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by syphia 9mo ago
Writing may not be produced for the prestiege of its result, but written words still serve an essential purpose for communication. I think that, as with any essential art, e.g. cooking, people will experiment with it to fit their needs. Wri
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by syphia 9mo ago
I prefer a more direct formulation of what mathematics is, rather than what it is about. In that case, mathematics is a demonstration of what is apparent, up to but not including what is directly observable. This separates it from historica
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by syphia 1y ago
I think that humans can find new frontiers to struggle on and develop mental faculties for, even if the prior frontiers are solved. "Problem-solving" might be dead, but people today seem more skilled in categorizing and comparing
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by syphia 1y ago
I have to agree with you. It seems that most measures to make school harder or more rigorous turn it into an aptitude test or boot camp, because so little development can occur in that environment. It breaks down individuals or, at best, fi
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by syphia 1y ago
Cheating might break tournament or social rules, but it doesn't break the game. So yes. And any online game can be "cheated" by having someone better play in your place, or abusing the ranking system, but again that is breaki
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by syphia 1y ago
> If a game is good, it’s going to attract cheaters. I have started to consider that games should be inherently cheat-resistant, not protected by anti-cheats. Chess and Go are less affected by cheats by their design. It's not nearly
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by syphia 1y ago
I'm not sure if concerete seeing/doing is the only, or even most effective, way to learn. I've often learned by recalling the concepts from a lecture, reasoning about the material, and imagining what some of the problems woul
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by syphia 1y ago
> The Framework Desktop with 64GB RAM + 2TB NVMe is $1,876 And it's ~$1000 to build a PC with a similar CPU, somewhat larger form factor, and fans. Unless the AI processor is actually useful for AI, and you need that, this is silly.
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by syphia 1y ago
In my experience as a math/physics TA, either a student cares enough about the material to reduce the resources they rely on, or they aim to pass the class with minimum effort and will take whatever shortcuts are available. I can only