MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
>> a philosopher turned science journalist, > Interesting, I read it as the other way round. I cheated and looked at the author's bio. :)
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
This article is almost incoherent. The author (a philosopher turned science journalist, I gather) presents everything from a "which side are you on" perspective, as if physics was a branch of sociology. Little wonder they seem t
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Agreed. But too often it's treated as a golden ticket confirmation of veracity, giving the process more epistemological authority than it warrants.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
From what I can tell, they are very closely related (i.e. the shared representational structures would likely make good candidates for Platonic representations, or rather, representations of Platonic categories). In any case, it seems like
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." -- Ernest Hemingway
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Nvidia's (fiscal) Q3 2026 financial statements have been released, and are what this is all about. Fiscal years may be correlated with calendar years, but sometimes (as in this case) the correlation is rather elastic.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Poor wording on my part. I should have said "Peer review doesn't catch _all_ errors" or perhaps "Peer review doesn't eliminate errors". In other words, being "peer reviewed" is nowhere close to "
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
This is as much a failing of "peer review" as anything. Importantly, it is an intrinsic failure, which won't go away even if LLMs were to go away completely. Peer review doesn't catch errors. Acting as if it does, and t
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Various other viral (and even less commonly, microbial) challenges, though it's rare. HIV is special in this regard because it's the only example (so far as I know) that's transmissible.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
If you read the article _and_ agree with the author's conclusions. I did the former, but not the later.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
The dash cam, backup camera, or autonomy system of an adjacent car stopped in traffic would be roughly the same distance from the lidar as a person taking a closeup picture. Since these are lasers the attenuation with distance will be far
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Holly cow, we've found an exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines! Talk about burying the lede!
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Why would it not be? It's like the distinction between "a crocodile" and "being mauled" or "a credit card" and "crippling debt"; while they may frequently co-occur, either can exist without the
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
And their advice is...don't point your camera at their cars? What about traffic cameras? Or dash cams? Or other self driving cars that use cameras (exclusively, or in addition to their own lidar systems)? If you go around firing a l
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure Grant Sanderson capitalizes his first name.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Though if you fly economy it seems like they're bent on approaching it as a limit.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Shouldn't it be: ``` type lazy_bdd() = :top or :bottom or {type(), constrained :: lazy_bdd(), uncertain :: lazy_bdd(), dual :: lazy_bdd()} ``` (where the members are `lazy_bdd()` instead of `bdd()`?)
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Have we forgotten that COBOL was going to eliminate the need for programmers (even though FORTRAN and ALGOL had both somehow _increased_ the need (not to mention LISP, which for some reason mostly no one did at the time (though it still got
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
The image chosen to demonstrate this idea depicts twining vines; it isn't just a series of "independent" abstract blobs and ignoring that fact leads to some awkward / inelegant shapes.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
I see what you did there. :)
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Yep. And nearly impossible to get rid of.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Additionally, their distributions were different. People who read Dijkstra circa 1968 started using the phrase in their own publications within a decade, whereas people who read Viorst (or had it read to them) in 1972 and following years h
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Good point. Digging through the links (eight or nine deep) you eventually come to the actual directive: https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_AD_2025_0268_E.pdf/EAD_2... It looks like the fix it to replace the elev
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Bingo. I read through the whole comment thread looking for someone pointing this out.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Yes. Provided it works as well as they claim. Not only cheaper, but (since in this case money ≈ hardware-cost × time), faster. They claim that training time can even approach inference time: > EGGROLL's efficiency results in a hun
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Excellent point. I tend to enjoy "garden path" pedagogy, leading the students to surprising twists and having them explore -- but it's important to lead and not mislead. So yeah, multiplicative notation is probably better.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Interesting. I also noticed a huge difference before/after cataract surgery. :)
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Interesting how the older dioramas seem slightly yellowed/sepia-toned. I'd always that thought that was an artifact of older photographs (and I certainly remember the world being just as vividly colored back then), but if these a
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
I expected this to be a play on the old joke about Java being designed to appeal to people who were into SM/B&D.
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Nice presentation. I would probably have written it as an additive group (and then shown that the two strand braid was isomorphic with ℤ) as a further bidirectional intuition anchor (both "look, this new thing relates to something you

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