IsTom

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by IsTom 10mo ago
There were surprising results in computational complexity before. We can't prove that P /= PSPACE which should be much easier to prove and yet people are stuck on trying to prove P /= NP. Personally I don't think that
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by IsTom 10mo ago
I feel there is more than one type of mental fatigue. Some of them can be forced through (e.g. the emotional kind that happens when you have to do something you don't want to do) and some can't (e.g. not having enough sleep for pr
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by IsTom 10mo ago
Ah the famous AI efficiency and productivity boost.
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by IsTom 10mo ago
So why don't AMD and Valve release ICan'tBeliveit'sNotHDMI2.1 drivers?
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by IsTom 11mo ago
> It works via model building and next token prediction, which is not interpolative. I'm not particularly well-versed in LLMs, but isn't there a step in there somewhere (latent space?) where you effectively interpolate in some
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by IsTom 11mo ago
That kind of sounds like they should be put in jail to stop this.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
> Try talking about biological operations without invoking “function”. If you had a strong vendetta against mistaking map for territory, you could very well talk in terms of past survival and statistics. It's just not necessary for
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by IsTom 11mo ago
> What's the motivation or goal? And why that goal is pursued? What is the force behind seeking of that goal? There's no force and there's no goal. These things happen because every moment is a direct consequence of the pr
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by IsTom 11mo ago
Before 7th harmonic all you have is octaves, fifths and major thirds. If you want to stick to making other pitches out of stacked fifths and major thirds you'll end up with other compromises.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
7/4 ratio should be simple, but it'll sound out of tune (over 30 cents) in a normal context. Many BP intervals are just as simple and they'll sound very out of tune to people unused to them.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
Seventh and eleventh harmonics are way off. If ratios were the fundamental thing Bohlen–Pierce would be about as pleasant as 12TET to people.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
> allowing multiple keys to be played without retuning the instrument That's another simplification, real pianos are not tuned to 12TET, but use stretch tuning (which can be over 30cents off in the lower range). I'd rather argu
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by IsTom 11mo ago
Typical person on the internet will be really used to 12 tone equal temperament, for just tuning most intervals are 10+ cents off even if you allow pretty large ratios: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperamen
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by IsTom 11mo ago
Many just intonation chords (where ratios are actually integers, not approximations of them) will sound out of tune to most people.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
> Humans everywhere seem wired to favour simple integer-ratio rhythms That's what people write in the sheet music, but reality is more complicated than that. Notably in swung rhythms ratios are blurry (and dependent on BPM) and spec
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by IsTom 11mo ago
> As someone who has lived in several countries, I do not believe every developed nation achieves better healthcare outcomes than the United States. Is that true for a median-wage earning person?
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by IsTom 11mo ago
I think OP means that it has come a long way from the simple mental model of µops being a direct execution of operations and with all the register renamings and so on
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by IsTom 11mo ago
I'd hypothesise that people doing small web kind of blogs just don't find GenAI interesting. They're doing things instead of trying to make LLMs do things.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
If you can create enough AM to last a space voyage you certainly know how to build big enough particle accelerators.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
That's the point, evaporation turns matter into energy. You can tune power by chosing mass of the black hole and then feed it regular matter at a steady rate.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
If you can electromagnetically trap enough antimatter to use it as fuel you could as well trap a miniature charged black hole that can be fed regular matter to produce power, which skips the whole inefficient part of making antimatter.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
That's a pretty cool paper, though it does get more elaborate as you're saying. In 20/20 hindsight lipschitz bounds do make sense.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
I wonder if it would help if you looked at gradient of the SDF as well – maybe you could walk further safely if you're not moving in the same direction as the gradient?
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by IsTom 11mo ago
One thing with chat control I don't get is why can't it be vetoed by a single member? That doesn't seem like part of regular trade policy competency of the EU
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by IsTom 11mo ago
Either a regular bot or a flesh bot, doesn't really matter at that point, does it?
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by IsTom 11mo ago
Isn't this about web hosting? That ship sailed long ago.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
I wish Esaki oscillator was mentioned. It's a funny bit of trickery.
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by IsTom 11mo ago
Sooo... are we factoring 21 without shortcuts yet?
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by IsTom 11mo ago
For n < 100 to be composite you need a factor < sqrt(100) = 10. Rules for 2, 3, 5 are easy to try quickly. That leaves 7, but up to 7*9 you should remember it from multiplication tables. 77 is quite obviously divisible by 11 too, and
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by IsTom 11mo ago
My favourite prime checking algorithm is that for n < 100 if it looks prime, it is prime.

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