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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>What types of things do humans not do with text prediction? Anything that doesn't involve the language processing parts of the brain, at least. Let's separate out the robotics problem from the consciousness problem. Sure the b
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm surprised there's no simple recursive way to find optimal (or at least good) answers. I would naturally assume the optimal way to pack n squares is to split them into groups of m and then pack each of those groups into k squar
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
If you ever do psychedelics, try out a tone generator while on the trip. https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ In particular the 20-100 hz range. There's a simple explanation for all of this. The sound wave
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Building a robot arm does help understand how muscles work. By having a robot arm to play with, you can pinpoint exactly the abilities which aren't accounted for by your current understanding. Boston Dynamics built that robot dog thing
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Here's a theory. Thoughts exist on certain time scales. Everything about perception exists on certain time scales. The brain wave frequencies we use to represent things is directly related to the time scale of the thing it represents.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Notice I didn't say anything about chatGPT. chatGPT is at least something that's been built. Disagree with the theory that we are overgrown text prediction all you want, but you can't deny that it is an "understanding&qu
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
There's a lot of answers here, but as Feynman said "that which I can't build I don't understand." If you can't make something that writes for you, you don't really understand how you write. That feels impo
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
For the most part yes. Post below me named some exceptions, but in general the US has done a better job than Europe at standardizing rail gauges everywhere. New York runs at standard gauge, and that alone accounts for about 1/3 of all
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
That's what they said about the previous war.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Most of my time as a consultant was asking low-level employees very obvious questions: What are you wasting your time on? What's the bottleneck on X? What could you be doing that made the company more money? Come all ye good workme
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
That's a different, orthogonal issue. Look it up there's a bunch of tedious FRA rules about crash-worthiness which Europe doesn't have. It makes the trains which can legally run needlessly expensive and they wear out the trac
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Other apathetic here. There's a certain amount of background cosmic dice rolls and related instances of suffering all the time. Plane crashes, house fires, robberies, lottery winners etc. Its all just noise. Like a log of lightening st
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
IIRC there's a few articles on 538 that do some crude-but-objective analysis like this.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The rail industry is regulated. In certain ways over and in certain ways under. Eg, there's very little sense to the requirements a passenger train needs to reach to run on the same rails as freight, and Europe does it safely all the t
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Well by this reasoning your parents own your copyrights.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I was expecting physical routes, as in a program that takes a geographical configuration and makes it look like the London Tube map. Oh well.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'd like to take a shot at sharpening the line. The AI has agency when instead of being motivated by whatever you tell it to do, it is motivated by a need to make money to pay for its own cloud services bill and thus continue existing.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I've generally been disappointed by my prompts for optical illusions. I thought it would be better at it. An optical illusion is basically what happens when you relax the constraints on a graphical depiction, allowing objects to be con
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Why though? Barring some huge technical advance that makes upgrading worth it, wouldn't we want to get the longest possible useful life out of our public expenditures? What problem is solved by replacing them more often?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
That has to do with FRA rules. In short, mainline passenger railcars are held to a certain standard of crash-worthiness with freight trains. An excessive standard many will say but none the less its a rule. Subways and metro trains, provide
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I think Colin hasn't quite put his finger on what's not compelling about the output. He's interpreting it as a lack of "intuition", and claims that's what separates us from the machine, but that may just be wha
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
What are you on about. American cities and states do keep their fleets up to date. Its a bit of a bell curve, but replacement after a median of 40 years is fairly typical. Just the other day in the news. https://www.youtube.com&#
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm sure when they were all private railroads, every company had a consistent standard for width of tunnel. Unify all those independently designed systems together, lose some important documentation along the way, and you're left
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Semi related darkly humorous daydream: what are the odds of two unrelated school shooters at the same school on the same day?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Approximate approximation theory practice.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
My first guess is it is the centroid. My second guess is because the example isn't a simple convex shape, the brain sees it as two shapes glued together and you want the barrycenter of those.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Or, the craziest option, he's writing out of sheer expression of his interests and doesn't care to "build a personal brand" or "gain a following".
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I disagree with your disagreement. The brain has a strong preference for simple patterns. The more it can compress information down into assumed symmetries and extrapolations, the more "pleasing" it feels. There's always a ma
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Nope sorry. Now that I look at this chart for a bit I realize its the radio equiv of the Vignelli map of NY subway. It looks nice, it feels like good design, but its actually unusable. The Y axis within each spectrum isn't used for any
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm currently going through a bit of a transit map obsession, and these frequency allocation charts just feel like they tickle the same feeling. The way it codes information densely, into simple colors, in easily understood ways. Even

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