Kotlopou

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by Kotlopou 2mo ago
I've seen this "everything is a remix" idea thrown around a lot, and always want to ask... so how did anything get started? What was the first cave-dwelling carver of a bone flute remixing? What was Alan Turing remixing to co
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by Kotlopou 2mo ago
I recently read a blogpost from a human neuroscience student who came across this question ( https://ccli.substack.com/p/the-biggest-mystery-in-neuroscie... ), and she looked up the study behind this number ( https:&#x2F
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by Kotlopou 3mo ago
I was curious what fruit fly brain simulation you meant, and after fifteen minutes of looking around I ended up at a LessWrong writeup by an author from something called the Brain Preservation Foundation -- which presumably has an optimisti
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by Kotlopou 3mo ago
Indeed a classic (upvoted!), but it presupposes that there is a theory of everything that can be used to perfectly simulate the universe, and I'd like to remind everybody that we still don't know whether such a thing exists. Nor d
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Anecdotes Everywhere, Evidence Almost Nowhere (The State of AI in Mid-2026)(secondthoughts.ai)
2 points by Kotlopou 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Kotlopou 3mo ago
I swear I've seen this exact UI in several other submissions recently. Is it the default produced by Claude if you don't specify anything?
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by Kotlopou 3mo ago
Just dropping in to say it's nice to see somebody actually try to work through the proof, and it gives one confidence that the proof at least isn't complete nonsense (which is helpful given the few details provided about the proce
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (2015)(karpathy.github.io)
2 points by Kotlopou 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Kotlopou 3mo ago
I thought this is a cool premonition of the eventual success of language models. One can nicely see a microcosm of everything with generative AI (text generated in a domain you don't understand looks fine at first glance), already a me
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Notes: Principles of Neural Design(act65com.wordpress.com)
1 points by Kotlopou 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Kotlopou 4mo ago
Hi, thanks, and very cool work (assuming it eventually holds up in peer review)! A few things that confused me while trying to read the paper: - There's two different methods of cell division mentioned -- mechanical extrusion and the a
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by Kotlopou 4mo ago
With these confident comments I would appreciate some kind of origin of the information. Not even necessarily a source accessible to me, just: are you in any wealth management offices? Or are you reporting other people's opinions? Or d
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by Kotlopou 4mo ago
I don't think this changes anything important, but my understanding is that the lowering is the scan -- you go through the ring, which captures data about the slice currently inside it. That gets you down to ~80s, which rounds to a m
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by Kotlopou 4mo ago
Sigh... LIGO detects length changes of 10^-18 m, or attometers, not femtometers, which are a thousand times longer. ( https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/facts ) But this does not matter at all, because this is not resolut
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by Kotlopou 4mo ago
There's an explanation here: https://explainxkcd.com/1190 Originally, the frame at the xkcd link changed once per 30 minutes, now if you click the comic you can read it as an archive.
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by Kotlopou 4mo ago
Oh my god, 1/0 is an absolutely brilliant piece of art and I recommend everyone here to check it out. It starts out unassuming, but that's part of the point -- it ended up becoming about the author's growth through talking to
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by Kotlopou 5mo ago
Here's a research mathematician replying to pretty much exactly this question, and I think it's worth reading: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-phd-student It's also relevant for non-AI rea
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Can Go AIs be adversarially robust?(arxiv.org)
1 points by Kotlopou 5mo ago|0 comments
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How to Beat Superhuman AIs [at Go] [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Kotlopou 5mo ago|0 comments
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Can AI solve this Bongard problem?(imgur.com)
2 points by Kotlopou 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Kotlopou 5mo ago
I have a personal benchmark for measuring AI problems in the form of hand-drawn Bongard problems ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongard_problem ). The idea is that there are two sets of six images that differ based on s
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by Kotlopou 5mo ago
I tested Claude on "best hot-dog-eating tech journalists?" and it, fascinatingly enough, recognised the trap, but then reported this as factual: https://medium.com/@usailuigi/when-tech-journalism-meets-com...
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by Kotlopou 5mo ago
Thanks for responding this way! This had flame-war potential that didn't get realised. I'll try and reply in a similar spirit. I still find it curious how few holes there are (took a while to find one!), and finally figured out wh
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by Kotlopou 5mo ago
I'm sorry, but... this is why I'm unhappy about AI-generated projects. The parent post asked a more-or-less specific question about how this works and offered their working hypothesis (that it works by taking the rectangular per
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by Kotlopou 7mo ago
I use RSS to get updates from a ll the stuff I read online at once, and thought this would be nice for those websites that don't already have an RSS feed, but... Perhaps I'm stupid, but I can't actually find the RSS output? A
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by Kotlopou 8mo ago
Actually, the search here is chemical -- you make a bunch of random small RNA sequences, then chemically replicate those that do what you want, and after a few cycles of this you find just a few sequences dominating the population. The pool
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Things to change if the apocalypse comes(beatingthehydra.substack.com)
2 points by Kotlopou 8mo ago|0 comments
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One Funeral at a Time(md-a.co)
1 points by Kotlopou 8mo ago|0 comments
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by Kotlopou 9mo ago
The percentage of users quoted seems insane: are 10-20% of Americans really on GLP-1?? I found this source: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4153-1.html The numbers across age categories do not corres
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Why can nobody build an algorithm that works like a worm?(ccli.substack.com)
3 points by Kotlopou 9mo ago|2 comments

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