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by woopwoop 7d ago
What do you think the word virulence means?
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by woopwoop 7d ago
The author seems to be arguing that it is biologically impossible or something to have a virus with the same transmission properties as COVID but higher virulence. I don't understand what principle he is invoking to make this claim.
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by woopwoop 2mo ago
I'm like the Japanese soldier who kept fighting into the 1970s on this, but actually signalling is about taking costly action. When people call something virtue signalling what they usually mean is that it's cheap talk, but this i
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by woopwoop 3mo ago
I have a graduate degree in mathematics. AI models can absolutely help you do research math in 2026. I recently asked chatGPT to prove a result which I know to have been published in Advances in Mathematics (a pretty good, but not top tier,
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by woopwoop 4mo ago
I got my mortgage at 2.5% interest. The mortgage was about equal to all of the cash I had before buying, and I'm pretty sure I could (and should) have gotten a much larger mortgage before buying. Mortgages are essentially the only way
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by woopwoop 5mo ago
That's not a nit. There's not much left of the articles point once you take this on board.
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by woopwoop 6mo ago
Rigor is not the whole point of math. Understanding is. Rigor is a tool for producing understanding. For a further articulation of this point, see https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236
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by woopwoop 6mo ago
But Houston Street is older than Sam Houston, and was always pronounced that way.
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by woopwoop 6mo ago
Machine generated text.
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by woopwoop 7mo ago
I actually have worked in this space and it, uh, has not shaken my belief that powerpoint talks are bad.
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by woopwoop 7mo ago
I like the idea that various communications media have implicit social contracts that can be broken. In my opinion, power point presentations break an implicit social contract that is held in handwritten talks: if it's worth you displa
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by woopwoop 8mo ago
Last time I flew Delta they no longer had this bot, which made me sad. One of my favorite parts of flying was getting absolutely crushed into a tiny cube by the airplane seat's easy chess bot, and then again by the airplane seat itself
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by woopwoop 9mo ago
Good negative feedback is a public service, a gift from the critic to you, and a severely undersupplied one in this world we live in.
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by woopwoop 9mo ago
Do you think that the average person can get a gold on the IMO?
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by woopwoop 9mo ago
In 2019, NPR's planet money did a segment on the Hong Kong protests that heavily featured Jimmy Lai. This segment from the end has always stuck with me. GOLDSTEIN: China has not allowed more freedom of speech. Publications can still be
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by woopwoop 9mo ago
Yes, Malthusian society was very boring, that's my point.
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by woopwoop 9mo ago
But in this world the distribution of social backgrounds in the population had very low entropy. Over 90% of people were just working the land.
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by woopwoop 9mo ago
If the Canterbury Tales had been actually representative of the time in which they were written, it would not have been the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, etc. It would have been the Subsistence Farmer&#x
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by woopwoop 10mo ago
Maybe? But you could have written this same thing in 1999 with OpenAI and Google replaced by Google and Yahoo, respectively.
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by woopwoop 10mo ago
Matrix multiplication is not ugly, but matrices themselves are ugly, mainly because they encode the arbitrary operation of choosing a basis. There's nothing especially nice about the pixel basis for images, or about the token basis for
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by woopwoop 10mo ago
https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/math-mag/63-2/f... "How often should you beat your kids?", by Don Zagier. > This note is a follow-up to the note "How to beat your kids at t
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by woopwoop 10mo ago
The qwen clocks are art.
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by woopwoop 11mo ago
Are you saying that a non-aphantasic person can recall the eye color of everyone in their office?
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by woopwoop 1y ago
I do not, and have never, understood why absolute R&D investment is compared to relative growth rate in this literature. It would make sense to compare R&D spending as a percentage of GDP to relative growth, or to compare absolute R
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by woopwoop 1y ago
Agree, but I think there is another, more important factor. They are a highly visible part of the internet, and their existence is mainly internet-based. This means that the people assessing them are mainly on the internet, and as we all kn
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by woopwoop 1y ago
I think this point is less forceful than it seems due to the high dimensional nature of knowledge. I just don't know that much more than I did when I was younger; there are too many directions to set out in from any given point. I lear
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by woopwoop 1y ago
Do you hate anyone who doesn't recycle? If so, I think you should set a higher bar for the sins necessary to earn your hatred.
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by woopwoop 1y ago
Most people don't think hard or carefully about politics, and their political views are a very tiny fraction of what they give to the world (this is true even for most people who do think hard and carefully about politics, by the way).
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by woopwoop 1y ago
I don't agree with your first sentence, but I agree with the rest of this post.
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by woopwoop 1y ago
In what sense is "Attention is all you need" a pun?

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