MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I won't let me complete the final district (YRBY+" "s) in today's puzzle. (firefox/linux) If I try to do it earlier it auto includes unwanted cells.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
That would require making babies and not making mistakes. Humans are generally/historically better at the former, but these days both seem to be a challenge.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Did I touch a nerve?
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
If it is a bubble, shouldn't we _want_ it to burst, and the sooner the better? If the price for tulips had falling back to something reasonable in week two, or if the US markets had had a decent correction in '97, everyone but the
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Yeah, my bad. My eyes autocorrected it.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Oh, doh! I'd missed that. Yeah, that's...an unusual choice.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
> Alzheimer’s isn’t my field, but I got very interested in it, spent six months studying the literature, and came away believing the amyloid hypothesis was basically completely solid. If the accusation is "the field has been capture
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
This isn't quite what's going on. A better reading might be "which is a"; "Ǝx s.t. x∈ℕ" (there exists an x such that x is in the naturals) is just being shortened to "Ǝx∋ℕ" (there exists an x in the
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Most people don't create knowledge "of the grand sort" but that's moving the goal posts; they do create knowledge "of the mundane sort" constantly. LLMs with a suitable harness can simulate this (poorly) by pa
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
It either means man must adjust (themselves), or must adjust (the machine). So it's a somewhat arch joke than may not be apparent due to shifts in language usage. (Also, "man" in this context was short for "human"
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
> if the Chinese Room reliably delivers context-specific correct results in unique contexts, then what more do we require of intelligence? First, I'm not sure I grant the premise (esp. "reliably"), but even so the answer s
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Yes. A lot of what we're seeing is yet again due to the largest generation in US history (the "boomers", so called because they were a population boom) progressing through their lives. Everything from the summer of love (whe
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
> It's almost impossible to deny sometimes that actual intelligence is being expressed (and could not be regurgitated intelligence from some random internet page) But how is it impossible? Or rather, how is it possible to distingui
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Yeah. A survey of other people who like Cory (I haven't checked this, but it's almost certainly true) are _also_getting_older_. If the pollsters somehow stumbled on a pocket of people who don't age, this would be the most st
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
About half the people I discuss this with seem to think LLMs are great and don't see any problems with their output. The other half seem to get nothing but an endless stream of plausibly shaped rubbish. It doesn't seem to depend
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
So a Palestinian influence network (Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People, that owns imemc.org) is claiming to have exposed Israel's influence network? I wonder if they cleared it with China's influence network and
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Yeah, that seems like an odd factor to include. The whole message of fines is supposed to be "don't do these specific anti-social things" not "be sure to factor in the arbitrary charges you'll be hit with".
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
That still doesn't clarify: were they saying "many PRs→good" or "many PRs→bad" or "number of PRs is irrelevant" or...?
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
"[...] plastics had significantly accelerated due to the military’s need during WWII for lighter, more durable materials to create 3D topographical maps" What?! Citation needed. Lots of topomaps were printed on paper, but I&#x27
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I think that's supposed to be read as "or"? (I momentarily had the same confusion myself.)
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
That might be the theme. Or we could be looking at something like: -- Mythos -- Fable -- Fantasy -- Delusion -- Pareidolia -- Psychosis
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Right. 1,300 cameras for over 50,000 people in a hundred or so multi-story buildings spread over a couple of hundred acres...seems proportionate. It's maybe a dozen cameras per building on average? I'm not a fan of surveillance
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
This is untrue. https://theconversation.com/human-evolution-is-still-happeni...
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
No, they're put there to collect grainy images of the perpetrator to distribute after the shooting. It's sad/ineffectual, but still far less nefarious than TFA makes it sound.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Sounds like security cameras. I'll bet they installed smoke detectors and emergency lighting and all sorts of other things without telling students either.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Because its the only way the people who would like to be in power and can't manage to produce anything anyone else wants can see to get themselves put in charge: convince enough other people that despite their freedom, high standard of
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
tl;dr: Since the AI people have lost interest in the frame problem (because they think they can ignore it like the new wave folks, work around it like Fodor, or like Shanahan, think of it as solved) the philosophers would like it back plea
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
This is like saying "wood burns, even when the tree is dead" but much, much slower. The disequilibrium (sugars and free O₂) were produced by living organisms, and this is just the gradual drift back to a lower energy state. CO₂ i
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Apparently the truth hurts. I can't believe that the claim "python-style syntax is perfectly reasonable" deserves to be down-voted into the basement.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Then either n is a constant and it's really O(1), or k isn't a constant and its naming was in violation of the International Conventions on Naming Things to Avoid Silly Arguments, section 3, paragraph IV.7 & ff.

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