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by whalee 22d ago
"No good choice" in the 2020 election was a universal and sane opinion to have. The 2024 election was the thinnest electoral margins in recent history. You don't know something everyone else doesn't, and these inflammato
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Learning from experience instead of curated datasets(oaklab.ai)
2 points by whalee 2mo ago|0 comments
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by whalee 3mo ago
We lack robust frameworks for 'forward engineering' stochastic thermodynamic computation over molecular free-energy landscapes (which is basically what a "chemical soup" is doing) like we do for analog/optical/
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Top AI CEOs Call for Law Protecting Against Biological Weapons(wsj.com)
5 points by whalee 4mo ago|0 comments
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Home-Made Shock Diamond(physics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by whalee 6mo ago|0 comments
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by whalee 8mo ago
I think counter to the assumption of myself (and many), for long form agent coding tasks, models are not as easily hot swappable as I thought. I have developed decent intuition on what kinds of problems Codex, Claude, Cursor(& sub-varia
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by whalee 8mo ago
This was a common argument against LLMs, that the space of possible next tokens is so vast that eventually a long enough sequence will necessarily decay into nonsense, or at least that compounding error will have the same effect. Problem is
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by whalee 10mo ago
People could trivially switch their search engine to Bing or Yahoo, but they don't. If ads are so overpriced, how big is your short position on google? Also ads are extremely inefficient in terms of conversion. Ads rendered by an intel
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by whalee 1y ago
Not at all. Vanishingly few things during the development process of a novel thing have truly objective measures. The world is far too complex. We all act and exist primarily in a probabilistic environment. A subjective evaluation is not so
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by whalee 1y ago
I don't think the concern is whether a user can compile git from source on said platform, but rather whether the rust standard lib is well supported on said platform, which is required for cross compiling.
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by whalee 1y ago
See this page [1], particularly the 'Tier 3' platforms. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html
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by whalee 1y ago
> LLMs are a dead end in achieving "intelligence" There is no evidence to indicate this is the case. To the contrary, all evidence we have points to these models, over time, being able to perform a wider range of tasks at a hig
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by whalee 1y ago
This question becomes difficult whenever a system becomes sufficiently complex. Take any chaotic system, like a double pendulum, and press play at step 100,000. You ask 'what is it doing'? Well, it's just applying it's r
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by whalee 1y ago
Cool idea! I would note there are some known health hazards in handling thermal-paper receipts(BPA/BPS)[1] with your bare hands if you do so often. I don't know much beyond this, I would look into it. [1] https://www.pc
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Native visionOS platform support(github.com)
374 points by whalee 1y ago|332 comments
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by whalee 2y ago
imo it's a mistake to interpret the marginal increases in the upper echelons of benchmarks as materially marginal gains. Chess is an example. ELO narrows heavily at the top, but each ELO point carries more relative weight. This is a bi
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by whalee 2y ago
The complaint about his ego is warranted, but he also earned it. Wolfram earned his PhD in particle physics from cal tech at 21 years old. Feynman was on his thesis committee. He spent time at the IAS. When he speaks about something, no mat
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by whalee 2y ago
I am deeply disturbed they decided to go off-device for these services to work. This is a terrible precedent, seemingly inconsistent with their previous philosophies and likely a pressured decision. I don't care if they put the word &q
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by whalee 2y ago
The near 8x increase in compute capacity since March 2023 is the eyebrow raiser for me. My belief is that the vast majority of speculative value in Tesla has almost nothing to do with their hardware and everything to do with the potential o
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Orion: iPad as an external HDMI display for video game consoles(lux.camera)
54 points by whalee 3y ago|13 comments
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by whalee 3y ago
The main energy export of Texas is natural gas, which is responsible for a significant portion of the decrease in greenhouse emissions in the US[1]. Furthermore, Texas has led the nation for 17 years in production of wind energy, and accoun
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by whalee 4y ago
The arms race between generators and detectors has just begun.
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by whalee 4y ago
> Weight is an outcome that has many factors outside of diet Thermodynamics disagrees with this assertion.
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by whalee 4y ago
Building organs in microgravity, a potentially crucial ingredient to make the process work. From what I've seen this is the most realistic near future application. "When you're 3D-printing a tissue culture on the ground, ther