Gangway0829

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by Gangway0829 15d ago
We're talking about people that unironically think eugenics based on IQ is a good thing. I think it's very effective altruism to socially ostracize such individuals.
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by Gangway0829 15d ago
You're so offended at the idea that your experiences are not generalizable that you're failing to read the thread. The OP that started this said "We all use the same Internet. I would find it strange for anyone who's ser
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by Gangway0829 15d ago
You didn't claim hpmor isn't niche in the fanfic community, you claimed it isn't niche on /the Internet/, and implied that basically anyone in a technical role would have heard of it. I'm sorry that you're
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by Gangway0829 16d ago
My view - there are a few outcomes 1. AI is never fully realized, but domain expertise is derated and society stagnates (bad ending for everyone, I think unlikely) 2. AI is never fully realized, but empowers people with domain expertise (G
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by Gangway0829 16d ago
Literally over half the Earth's population doesn't read English. You need to touch grass. I work with extremely technical people in physics and AI and none of them have read any fanfic of any kind. Most of them have never seen a m
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by Gangway0829 16d ago
My extremely uncharitable view of of these kinds of people, who now infest the American AI scene, is that they got cyber bullied by domain experts for saying the most ridiculous crap on repeat, and have therefore decided to spend their life
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by Gangway0829 16d ago
You have to be quite unaware of your bubble if you think knowing about a niche Harry Potter fanfic is "standard" for people on the Internet.
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by Gangway0829 17d ago
There's complex politics around hyperscaler data centers, and I'm sympathetic to the complaints against (though in full disclosure I am biased towards building anything, having seen my country held back for years by people opposed
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by Gangway0829 17d ago
Given that we have an embodied intelligence that is capable of being reasonably good at physics, it would be foolish to state categorically that AI can't do physics. I am however skeptical that LLMs can do physics. My experience is tha
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by Gangway0829 18d ago
Can you elaborate on why you think the OP is incorrect? The hit piece on the Ypstilanti data center is quite an embarrassment for any honest news reporter.
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by Gangway0829 1mo ago
Freedom from League of legends AND Facebook? Linux Torvalds just can't stop winning
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by Gangway0829 1mo ago
Indeed that is true, which is the point of both OP(or at least my takeaway). Attaching a moral value to trade deficits or surpluses, as the current administration seems to be in favor of doing, is fairly nonsensical.
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by Gangway0829 1mo ago
You wouldn't need 8 billion dollars to set up an NPP if not for hysteria driven regulation in all countries not called France.
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by Gangway0829 2mo ago
0. It's not about "looking pretty", it's about being nigh impossible to understand or reason about. There is a 1000 LoC subroutine that I'm convinced was ported from FORTRAN 1 unchanged that cannot be understood by
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by Gangway0829 2mo ago
Have you seen the average physicist code? I've crawled around in the muck of Fortran codes written in 1970 with unreadable 8 character variable names (the first of which encodes the type), with implicit typing, zero comments, computed
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by Gangway0829 2mo ago
I can't speak for that guy, but I'm a physicist and work in clean energy... So it's not too hard! That said, I usually am closer to 10M on days I do heavy coding, so not nearly that bad.
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by Gangway0829 2mo ago
I think it says more about the person reading it as an implicit insult than it does OP. I am, I think, a fairly competent scientist, and know many great scientists. I know very few great scientific communicators.
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by Gangway0829 2mo ago
If 90+% of whatever society you are from was killed off by disease, and the people who came across the survivors treated them as little better than cattle and systematically destroyed any remaining trace of your society, how literate would
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by Gangway0829 2mo ago
I mean, not really? Most Jax code is only marginally more restrictive than numpy, and most of the annoyances I have with Jax are shared with numpy. And having spent too much of my life writing some extremely high performance physics code, 9
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by Gangway0829 2mo ago
Is this surprising? My experience with compilers from the old days of Fortran is that they care about correctness first, performance second. I used to spend plenty of time rewriting algorithms so they ended up in a form the compiler would l
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by Gangway0829 3mo ago
Why not just self host this? Especially if you're serious about having a way to tackle corruption, you probably want to own your stack.
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by Gangway0829 3mo ago
Not that it necessarily justifies the difficulty in making it work (which I just learned about, thanks OP!), but I absolutely adore the silly animations that play after you bowl. It's seriously make or break for me. I can live without
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by Gangway0829 3mo ago
Very interesting stuff. How would I get GPU offload working? I have a rather complex scientific code I'm working on with JAX. Most of it can be expressed well with JAX's programming model, but the last 10% really sucks. It's