LeonardoTolstoy

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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Robot You might be thinking of Let's Get Together? There is a list there of the few short stories in which the robots act against the three laws. That being said the Robo
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
Coca cola was still a sports thing in the 90s to the point where I remember being told (maybe apocryphal) that one of the reasons Sampras threw up during the coretja match was he was drinking coke instead of Gatorade or water.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
Prior to like the 70s it was widely believed that drinking water during marathons (and maybe exercise in general?) was bad. Some of the best American marathon runners would do crazy stuff like run in deep summer wearing sweaters and drinkin
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
Factual info specifically looking for a link of something obscure where lots of similar (but incorrect) links exist. E.g. "what is the IMDb link for the film Ghost Fever?" Throwing that in Chatbot Arena will usually result in a ra
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
The Complete Robot has a lot of stuff about this and it is interesting. The person above I would argue is flat wrong about the three laws. Asimov wrote his robot short stories in which the three laws played a primary role at a time when rob
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
Ah there we go. At the very least I was only considering the subspace where the polynomial's derivative has only real roots? Think of a simple quadratic. The reflection is across the min(f(x)) axis. But for higher order polynomials tha
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
I assume this is one of these things where it is just like ... Oh I don't know this kind of math. Because in my mind I take a "random" polynomial and only consider the largest two roots. Then I consider doing two reflections:
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
I do hope we get there. In the short stories it was made clear that robots couldn't lie, and that they could prove it was impossible for the robots to circumvent the three laws (although they are on occasion incentive on how they inter
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I was trying to find the right words to kindly point this out as a CS guy working in this space, thank you for just cutting to the chase and being blunt. The proposed solution is also not really a solution in that it still allows for one of
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I asked my brother a similar thing about most AI (as he is heavily invested in that area at the moment). People talk about LLMs potentially replacing search but, I guess the question is: are most people going to eventually pay for search, o
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I suppose coincidentally I just got my old IIc from my dad. Pretty fun. Just kind of working out how best to backup the disks I got, so the journey is just beginning. Maybe eventually I'll get around to making a game or doing something
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I find it somewhat interesting that a good number of the articles about this don't seem to go into details about eye strain. I don't think I'm mistaken in thinking that even if it doesn't seem like it your eyes are going
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
High achievers / high earners moving into lower achieving / low earning schools seems like a good thing regardless.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I'm skeptical someone would risk giving their child a significantly worse education in the off chance it might give them a marginally better chance to get into a top university. Regardless high income families moving to low income area
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I think a lot of breakthroughs are significant in understanding but can end up being untenable are treatment or it takes a very long time. But to answer the last question: my brother works in cancer research and it goes both ways. E.g. I wo
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
If you are in the UK Deepmind seemed to be that way to me when I applied. A lot of research groups doing hard research in a wide array of fields, cutting edge AI stuff, a core team of SEs developing in house programs for researchers, and re
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
> Lack of familiarity with common data structures and algorithms This part I 100% agree with. I adapt a lot of scientific code as my day-to-day and most of the issues in them tend to be making things 100x slower than they need to be and
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
This probably highlights why so many software engineers in scientific R&D are "bad" in the strictest sense: they often don't understand that business value doesn't come from production-perfect solutions, but instead
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
>Neither does a scientist have to build proper software, nor does a developer have to do cutting-edge research. Sounds like the mission of Research Software Engineers ( https://society-rse.org/ ). I work as a software engi
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
As a small counterpoint early on I do remember people trying and failing to use LLMs which prompted some of the speculation about the competition being made LLM-proof. As early as I think day 2 there was a big discussion about how no matter
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Yup. This is a rare pen and paper solution for me. I ran simulations to confirm the first two cycles and that I was reading the binary right, but I got the solution directly from the input by hand. It is my favorite problem of AoC as well t
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
My brother worked in protein folding (although his statement about specifically AlphaFold was years after he left that field) but I showed him the AlphaFold results from like 5 years ago and his reaction was "oh ... Yeah they solved pr
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I should maybe preface this by saying that I probably agree that this is the way this will shake out ultimately. But I also would say multiple odd post processing stuff (obviously completely obscured for security reasons) bolted onto a gian
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
The first is maybe a good example of where an LLM integrated search engine makes sense. Because "compare two movies" has flickchart as the third option for me. But it is nowhere to be seen for "compare two movie posters"
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Do libraries in Canada loan DVDs and/or Blu-rays (and I suppose do you have something to play those, a PS5 for example)? Just checked my local library system and there are 7 available copies of Heavenly Creatures, I could get it and wa
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
What about if we are converging instead on Asimov's robots? I would imagine "like a human" wouldn't at all be what we are working towards but instead a superhuman which the robots of his short stories often were. The two
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
No comment on the substance of the post, but from what I can tell it is actually the complete opposite of the three laws (at least how they operated pre-robot series, in Asimov's short stories). Perhaps that is what you meant? Regardle
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I'm going off what I was told when I expressed surprise that such a good engineer would go for government work. Looking online it looks like they pay about median for a software engineer in London. And yeah, relatively here is basicall
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I moved there from the US (and since then I've moved back). The main surprise was learning that working for the government is relatively high paying and considered a very nice and challenging job that great programmers coveted. At leas
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
The first three are surprisingly good, especially the 2nd and 3rd, and especially if you like those old style Sierra. Oddly charming, and Larry really is just looking for love (and often finding it), he's just a bit of a hapless loser.

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