troymc

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by troymc 3mo ago
Is that the same thing as "The Singularity"? If so, why the name change? The name "singularity" is useful, at least, because of the analogy to a break in the model after which prediction becomes impossible.
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by troymc 3mo ago
In my opinion, the coolest thing in NotebookLM is the podcast-episode-generator. Each one sounds like two people having a conversation. It's fun to listen to a podcast episode about some niche topic (e.g. nuclear isomers, or the Weyl c
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by troymc 4mo ago
Fuchsia ended up in some Google products, such as Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max, and Google's smart speakers, thermostats and displays. But Fuchsia won't be in the Googlebook because there's no Chrome browser for Fuchsia. (In early
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by troymc 4mo ago
On second thought, I think it's not for K12 after all.
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by troymc 4mo ago
Yes, you are probably right.
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by troymc 4mo ago
Now that I look closer at the Googlebook, I think you are right.
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by troymc 4mo ago
I think it's a successor to the Chromebook. In the vast majority of modern K-12 public schools, the school district owns the hardware, not the students.
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by troymc 4mo ago
I guess it will be running Google's new operating system (a "modern OS designed for Intelligence") that combines elements of Android and ChromeOS. Edit: Probably Android at the core, and then a desktop-grade Chrome browser on
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by troymc 5mo ago
Aw, c'mon man, they're just doin their job, ya know? Chill out.
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by troymc 5mo ago
I can relate because my dad is 84 and he really struggles with simple things like entering a password to sign in to Gmail. He forgets what he did last time and so I'm back to explaining how moving his mouse causes the pointy-arrow thin
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by troymc 5mo ago
Even the article in Science is based, mostly, on an article by Branch et al. published in the journal Earth System Dynamics : https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-109-2024
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by troymc 5mo ago
Maybe bring a (printed) book, brochure, flyer, or treatise on the nocturnal behaviours of silkworms?
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by troymc 6mo ago
"OpenCode Go" (a subscription) lets you use lots of hosted open-weights frontier AI models, such as GLM-5 (currently right up there in the frontier model leaderboards) for $10 per month.
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by troymc 6mo ago
And no doubt on next week's episode of everyone's favorite podcast-within-a-podcast...
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by troymc 6mo ago
I've used it to create little one-off tools that I needed for some specific tasks, without any care whether it's "of substance" or "investable." In the past, I might have Googled around to see if there was an e
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by troymc 6mo ago
The plaid trim on the official uniform definitely gives it a Scottish aesthetic.
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by troymc 7mo ago
For me in Canada today, Kagi is showing nanoclaw.wrongtld as the third text link, after two different GitHub repos (why two? I didn't have time to sort that out). I clicked the thing to block the link to the site with the wrong TLD; ho
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by troymc 7mo ago
Wow, very cool video... and from 2015!
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by troymc 7mo ago
You wouldn't use an LLM to solve a big Linear Programming problem, because it would cost way more than using the Simplex Method, and you'd be worried that it might be wrong.
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by troymc 7mo ago
Is it named Coolwulf? The home page doesn't say its name anywhere.
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by troymc 7mo ago
Apparently the formal specification of OpenNHP was submitted as an IETF Internet-Draft in January: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-opennhp-saag-nhp/
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by troymc 7mo ago
The number of snacks in the basket is a random variable with a Poisson distribution.
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by troymc 7mo ago
I think it's now part of their training though, thanks to Simon constantly testing every new model against it, and sharing his results publicly. There's a specific term for this in education and applied linguistics: the washback e
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by troymc 7mo ago
One reason is that you can get sued for libel or defamation. Another reason is privacy laws (weak to non-existent in the USA, but strong in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere).
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by troymc 7mo ago
For most cars driving through air, at sea level, on planet Earth, at normal speed, the drag force F is proportional to the square of the speed (v^2). That's not exponential because the speed (v) is not in the exponent. In fact, it&#x27
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by troymc 8mo ago
Tip: If you're in dark mode, flip to light mode so that you can see the graphics. There's a toggle in top right corner of the site.
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by troymc 8mo ago
Human teenagers somehow manage to learn to drive with less.
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by troymc 9mo ago
One of my favourite reads from this past year was Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz. It's a wonderful review of the history of calculus, including intuitive explanations of the basic
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by troymc 9mo ago
And have a great rest of your day!
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by troymc 9mo ago
Yep, and for syntax highlighting, I used the minted package [1]. Internally, minted uses the Pygments library [2]. [1] https://ctan.org/pkg/minted [2] https://pygments.org/

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