tmule

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by tmule 2mo ago
I worked at Meta for roughly a decade, and have very little faith left in its leadership. I’m waiting for someone to play the child in The Emperor’s New Clothes and finally say the obvious out loud … to Emperor Zuck himself.
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by tmule 2mo ago
Suffered for a decade till I discovered this. I’d reached a point where I was actively skeptical about anything working, till this worked out. Good luck!
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by tmule 2mo ago
Observational studies can have synthetic controls. The term, as such, doesn’t mean precisely what you think it means.
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by tmule 2mo ago
Those invoking Dunning-Kruger are, with high probability, an instance of just that :) (also, see the comment below that touches upon the many gaps in the original paper, which is at this point just garbage invoked by midwits). Finally, ther
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by tmule 2mo ago
Magnesium Glycinate has been a game changer. My legs used to be tense to the point of cramping at night, and they’re now relaxed, enabling better sleep. I also use L-theanine as an additional supplement for a long duration deep sleep, and
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by tmule 2mo ago
The same folks who informed him about how awesome Behemoth was?
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by tmule 3mo ago
Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit; personally have a preference for pigs since they’re benign and good-natured creatures.
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by tmule 3mo ago
Huh? I was addressing a specific claim - not even sure what you’re trying to refute.
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by tmule 3mo ago
I don’t know what definition of intelligence you’re using, but scoring extremely well on math tests qualifying him for that study is fully aligned with the psychometric POV.
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by tmule 3mo ago
Hope so (ex-Meta, and hold a couple of million dollars of their stock, but quite dislike the company).
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by tmule 3mo ago
Your impression about his intelligence is way off. Mark was part of the study for mathematically precocious youth, which has a math cutoff at the 1/10K rarity. He also has ambition at the same level. What’s probably missing, of late, i
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by tmule 3mo ago
“ getting a 2100/1500+ on the SAT” Typo? 2100/2400 << 1500/1600 in terms of rarity.
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by tmule 3mo ago
Common term for about 75% of democrats under 50, who must be Jew-haters, of course. Sorry, ethnonationalism just isn’t a popular ideology, and the word is, in practice, just a shorthand for an instance of that. You’ve lapped up hasbarist p
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by tmule 3mo ago
Hypocrisy is an individual quality, not a collective quality, Zio!
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by tmule 3mo ago
What brute force? Any citations?
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by tmule 3mo ago
Illogical collectivist blather suggesting that therefore, Muslims should be treated as a collective, and deprived of rights in Israel? Also, what’s with the “happily”?
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by tmule 3mo ago
Don’t wrestle with pigs or argue with Zionists about Israel (though the former will at least avoid accusing you of things you’re not).
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by tmule 3mo ago
Nope, but it’s not particularly unknown either. It shouldn’t be a surprise; he had remarkable research contributions before and after (separately, he was also an IMO gold medalist).
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by tmule 3mo ago
Thanks - wanted to point to this, and indeed should have worded my claim more precisely. And yes, am aware of prior work on attention. (I need to look it up, but I recall Noam saying publicly that he wouldn’t have agreed to random ordering
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by tmule 3mo ago
Love the choice of words by Noam- exceptional team for OpenAI, amazing team for GDM.
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by tmule 3mo ago
This understates his criticality. The author list was randomized, but the critical idea was truly his. Wonder what this says about GDM …
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by tmule 4mo ago
Are video lectures available online?
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by tmule 5mo ago
Estimates for the Maurya and Gupta periods are significantly more speculative than Mughal estimates. We have reasonably good tax and mint records for the Mughals, whereas Maurya/Gupta figures rely heavily on back-calculating from popul
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by tmule 5mo ago
That’s a terribly low bar for evidence - it’s deciding to pick whatever self-reported data confirms your priors. Far more than 3 individuals believed that Ivermectin cured them of COVID - I, however, chose to not believe them and get vacci
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by tmule 7mo ago
Oppenheimer? Really? Quoting a review of an Oppenheimer biography: “Oppenheimer was clearly an enormously charming man, but also a manipulative man and one who made enemies he need not have made. The really horrible things Oppenheimer did a
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by tmule 8mo ago
Your comments history suggests you’re rather bitter about “nerds” who are likely a few standard deviations smarter than you (Anthropic OG team, Jeff Dean, proof nerds, Linus, …)
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by tmule 9mo ago
It is highly unusual for someone to stay put after their net worth increases tenfold. Normally, you would expect an individual to seek out more elite social circles and embrace a significantly more opulent lifestyle. Not having that isn’t a
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by tmule 10mo ago
My objective function isn’t to maximize the originality of presentation - it’s to preserve the originality of thought and maximize interpretability. Prompting well can solve for that.
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by tmule 10mo ago
Why? I often feed an entire document I hastily wrote into an AI and prompt it to restructure and rewrite it. I think that’s a common pattern.
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by tmule 10mo ago
China’s breakneck development is difficult for many in the US to grasp (root causes - baselining on sluggish domestic growth, and possessing a condescending view of China). This article offers a far more accurate picture than of how China i

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