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by zero-sharp 2y ago
>But it is; there’s no way to know whether how I see green is how green looks to you. The consciousness conversation comes up pretty often here. I kinda disagree with the idea that there's no way to communicate experience directly.
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Are bootcamps still having success getting people employed in tech?
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Math isn't a completely formalized system. For example, a lot of work was done with real numbers before they were formalized, and I believe that happened relatively recently (late 1800s, early 1900s). It just would not have been possib
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Why are these kinds of products being released when the underlying technology just doesn't work?
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
No clue what you're saying. "X begins with Y" nearly always means the same thing as "the word X begin with Y", or possibly "the name X begins with Y" (in absence of other clarifying language or context). O
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
There's a guy on youtube who makes videos about these sorts of things: https://www.youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult/videos (radiation, medical, and industrial disasters)
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Kinda. Career success isn't strictly based on merit or "smarts." But I was responding to the claim that a bachelor's in math can get you "any kind of job." That just isn't true. You will always have to com
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyytPboqvE
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Looks like they were released in early May? Maybe we should wait for other mathematicians to validate the work?
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
A big part of the ScarJo conversation is that OpenAI attempted to hire her on more than one occasion. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it has more to do with the context rather than the fact that it sounds like her. I listened
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Here is the best motivation I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2jYk37Rlg&t=464s (Starts at 7:44 and ends at 14:23.) It seems like the choice of notes is due to wanting a certain amount of (mathematical) c
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Seems like a great way to build extremism.
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
People talk about focusing excessively on negatives in general. But if something isn't working, wouldn't you want to hear about it to make it better? Isn't clear communication about expectations the right thing to do? Isn&#x2
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Pretty soon all of my typos will be proper nouns.
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
I disagree. Maybe if you went to a top five school and are good at networking. Otherwise most careers will still require that you show specialization (domain specific knowledge, certifications, etc).
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Maybe this is more related to modern culture than to feminism, but what I notice nowadays is that there's a lot of asymmetry in the conversation about sex. Everybody understands toxic masculinity, but is it acceptable to discuss toxic
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
I think I just experienced how much self-deception there is about the world. So it's not really an axiom. There's no shortage of metaphysical ideas from the past, from well-intentioned people who thought they could intuit the worl
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
There are lots of statements we can form that "make sense" on a linguistic level. It's easy to convince yourself of something when the only standard is "linguistic plausibility." Consciousness is presumably a physic
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
I'm sorry, but this makes me cringe. When we learn science, there's always some level of rigor with the ideas. Maybe there's some kind of justification with math, or some kind of experiment we can perform to remove doubt. The
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Or maybe they'll understand that it's intertwined with history, culture, etc. Aliens being super intelligent and all.
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
1+1 can also equal 0, in modular arithmetic. But I don't teach students that. At least not until they understand the context. Yep, you can redefine concepts in math. It's not really a debate. The video was just a blunder. But I th
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
What's the context? Is the content intended to represent truth? Is the content intended to be creative? Can it cite its sources when there is a need to do so? Can it actually do what it's being advertised to do? If it delivers bad
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
It's true that some of the commentary is specific to the full body MRI itself (such as misdiagnosis due to an imaging artifact), however many of the claims in the video are very general. And the scientific study they referenced at 6:30
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
They specifically talk about using the fully body MRI for the purpose of detecting cancers. I'm not sure how you missed that. You literally had to watch 10 seconds of the clip. It's interesting because they explicitly talk about f
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
https://youtu.be/FzFT-KuE4BQ?si=7-EXbRz1TD4a5leL&t=56 The video makes the case that the early detection of cancers isn't always a good thing. See 6:30 and 7:00 for specific references to scientific studies. Some ca
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Well I don't know the full content of sparknotes. As far as I can remember, it provided summaries and analyses of literature. Those summaries obviously made reference to the original work. And those analyses were most likely not origin
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
There's plenty of instances where the content produced by chatbots isn't factual and is also based off of content that somebody else worked to produce.
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by zero-sharp 2y ago
Yes it can.

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