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by xamuel 17d ago
I did something similar in my paper "Meno II: A self-referential Socratic dialogue about memory and computer programming" [1] (published in The Reasoner). Every length-200 block of text is carefully chosen so as to steganographica
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by xamuel 19d ago
I don't know if it's OSX itself or one of the common GUI engines implementations on OSX, but I notice a lot of apps (including Firefox when you try to save a file which would overwrite another file) will have popup modals with mul
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by xamuel 2mo ago
The Beatles absolutely still exist! They published a new single in 2023 ("Now and Then") and they surgically injected slices from archive footage into new footage for the music video to make it look like young Lennon and Harrison
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by xamuel 2mo ago
And you can subvocalize (that is, think them in your mind) two different voices at once if you deliberately try to, and it's a skill that gets easier with practice. Though, no matter how much I practiced it, I was never able to get to
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by xamuel 4mo ago
The drug is called AD109, but the title seems misleading as the drug is apparently still under trial, though it has shown good results there so far
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by xamuel 4mo ago
Before birth. ...Hey, don't point that pitchfork at me, point it at Socrates. In his defense, that kind of does describe when LLMs acquired their knowledge (if we consider "birth" to be the moment when the already-trained wei
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by xamuel 4mo ago
Long before Erdös, we had Plato and Socrates develop the theory of anamnesis, that there is no such thing as learning, but rather, whatever we supposedly learn, we actually remember (we knew it already and had forgotten it). Presumably th
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by xamuel 4mo ago
Before the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus, enormous ingenuity and whole careers were spent doing calculations which the fundamental theorem trivialized. To be clear, I'm not just saying that the people involved were d
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by xamuel 4mo ago
Mathematics is a bridge to what Neoplatonists call the intelligible world. Currently, mathematicians navigate that world on foot. It's exciting to think that soon we might have cars and trains in that world so we don't have to pai
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by xamuel 5mo ago
I find that I don't necessarily mind when a book repeats itself, and a good helping of anecdotes can help a point get across. Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I
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by xamuel 5mo ago
It happens specifically when I wander out of network coverage. If I stay in my airbnb where I have coverage, then 0 spam
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by xamuel 5mo ago
Agree. I do a lot of travel and in 3rd-world countries it is quite common to get 2g spam, it's really unacceptable that Apple doesn't offer a way to turn off 2g short of lockdown mode.
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by xamuel 6mo ago
One place where the big i and small L look almost identical, and a pretty funny/annoying place for them to do so, is when you're typing a WiFi password in OSX (if you toggle "Show password"), at least as of MacOS Montere
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by xamuel 6mo ago
All-uppercase distorts the shapes, making them unfamiliar to ESL readers who have less practice. You must know that famous meme about how you can read English perfectly fine if the letters (besides first and last) of each word are scrambled
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by xamuel 6mo ago
I didn't read the OP but one pet peeve of mine is the uppercase I vs. lowercase L in sans-serif. Especially in contexts like randomly-generated passwords which you have to manually copy for whatever reason. Does the article address thi
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by xamuel 6mo ago
Smallcaps hyperlinks is even worse than it might initially sound: many ESL speakers have difficulty with text written in all-caps, and it totally makes sense why, if you think about it.
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by xamuel 6mo ago
On rare occasions where the other methods don't yield anything, I have friends in academia who have access and who are happy to help out. But yeah, it's totally medieval that this knowledge isn't freely available to the world
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by xamuel 6mo ago
I'm working on arranging talks and poster presentations at various conferences/seminars to spread knowledge of my latest academic paper, "Specieslike clusters based on identical ancestor points". In the paper, among othe
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by xamuel 6mo ago
Sorry for not seeing your message until now. Journals, at least in mathematics, generally don't require you to have a university affiliation, so as long as the paper is good on its merits, you can get it in, though I don't know to
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by xamuel 7mo ago
This is a common misconception. People without academic affiliation (based on their email address) require someone to vouch for them before they can submit to arxiv. And papers submitted to arxiv (with or without affiliation) are reviewed,
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by xamuel 7mo ago
>Peer review has never really been blind and I suspect PIs will reject papers from "outsiders" even if they are higher quality. I'm a complete outsider (not even in academia at all) and just got a paper accepted in the top
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by xamuel 7mo ago
J.S. Mill's autobiography is a fascinating read. He spends quite a lot of it discussing his early childhood, explaining that in his opinion he was not particularly special, rather, it was his father who pushed him to all those accompli
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Specieslike clusters based on identical ancestor points(arxiv.org)
1 points by xamuel 7mo ago|1 comments
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by xamuel 7mo ago
"The main axiom we introduce [...] states that for any organism in any species, either the species contains at most finitely many descendants of that organism, or else the species contains at most finitely many non-descendants of that
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by xamuel 9mo ago
That argument would apply to sets too, and yet frozenset is builtin.
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by xamuel 9mo ago
This subject always seems to get bogged down in discussions about ordered vs. unordered keys, which to me seems totally irrelevant. No-one seems to mention the glaring shortcoming which is that, since dictionary keys are required to be ha
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by xamuel 10mo ago
>I have zero idea how to make small talk with people I haven't known for years. Here's a trick, it sounds stupid but it works like magic. Just talk about mundane things that are physically present. Mention the color of the wall
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by xamuel 10mo ago
>Imagine manipulating a romantic interest in to liking you, or vice versa. That’s not a very nice thing to do. It never ends well. Someone better tell the makeup and fashion industries...
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Meno II: A self-referential Socratic dialogue about memory and programming [pdf](philpapers.org)
2 points by xamuel 11mo ago|0 comments
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by xamuel 2y ago
To me, the fact that a blog post would be used to train AI is a good thing. Hell yes I want my writing to inform the future zeitgeist! I guess it helps that the things I want to write about are novel things no-one has ever written about.

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