MichaelDickens

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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
The title says "first shape found" but the article clarifies that it's really the first convex polyhedron . A sphere isn't a convex polyhedron, so it doesn't quality for the (now-disproven) conjecture.
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
> Yea, the issue is fewer and fewer people care about objective fact anymore. Is there any factual basis for this claim? I don't have any evidence, but I would speculate that if you got longitudinal data somehow, it would show that
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
Those things are trading high relative to basic goods like food and clothing, so you can't explain it away as inflation.
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
For me the biggest benefit of thumb keys isn't finger strength, it's the fact that the thumb is separated from the rest of the hand. It's really easy to hit a thumb key while hitting any other key on the "main" part
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
Have LLMs resulted in a democratization of law where anyone can now afford to hire a lawyer? As far as I know, the answer is no. Lawyers who use unreliable tools to generate fake citations are still charging just as much.
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
> - Important processes are undocumented. E.g. sharing the pass repository with another computer is not obvious: you need to copy more than the `.password-store/` directory... What do you mean? I copy my repo to new computers by jus
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
The reason I used to oppose nuclear energy is that its proponents would say nuclear waste isn't a problem, but they would never explain why it isn't a problem. I knew the half-life of uranium was 4 billion years; I didn't see
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
That explanation sounds fishy to me. If something doesn't work then there's no need to ban it.
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
My guess is the CNN was trained on highly abstracted stereotypical-fish-drawings, not on actual pictures or high-quality drawings of fish. I put in my best effort to draw a good-looking fish (although I'm no artist) and I got 35%. Then
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
It's known that BB(14) is bigger than Graham's number, but this new finding leads me to believe that BB(7) is probably bigger than Graham's number. Intuitively, the technology required to go from pentation to Graham's nu
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
I'm almost positive it's AI generated. Look at the chairs at the kitchen island in the background. No human would draw chairs that look like that. The picture at https://www.inventwood.com/superwood-facade also lo
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
This is one economic function of loans: borrow money to buy the more expensive boots, pay extra in interest, but save money in the long run. Assuming it is in fact cheaper to buy the more expensive item.
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
That reduces the runtime from 2.7 x 10^41 universe lifetimes to 1.35 x 10^41. I'm still not worried.
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
As I understand, the LLM version of "single pixel change" is a significant unsolved problem. I would be surprised if marketing companies were hiring the level of ML talent required to solve it.
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
Reminds me of the robot voice from The Incredibles[1]. It had an obviously-robotic cadence where it would pause between every word. Text-to-speech at the time already knew how to make words flow into each other, but I thought the voice from
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
> Citizens who elect politicians without respect for human rights and privacy don't really deserve anything nice anyway. Unfortunately things don't always work out that cleanly: - Sometimes you vote for the pro-freedom candidat
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
What would happen if you wrote the paper like a blog post and submitted it to journals? (With some structural changes to meet journal requirements, like having an abstract)
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by MichaelDickens 1y ago
It shouldn't matter how familiar you are with the question. If you're pretty familiar, give a narrow 90% credence interval. If you're unfamiliar, give a wide interval.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I think you are being selective. I looked at the top 10 top-level comments and by my judgment: 1. bullish 2. bullish 3. neutral 4. neutral 5. neutral 6. neutral 7. bullish 8. bearish 9. bearish 10. neutral Of the top top-level comments, you
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
> Despite the warnings, we're allowing companies to build killer robot and are running a large scale experiment to build a god. I am doing everything I can think of to stop AI companies from building a god (to borrow your words). La
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
IIRC the Virgo Supercluster is gravitationally bound. Pure speculation but my guess would be that galaxies are revolving around the center of the Virgo Supercluster and this creates the galaxy-level Coriolis effect.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
In that case, I guess I must be an AI—I use em-dashes all the time in casual text.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I'm not aware of any other species with a >10,000 word vocabulary, either.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Schwab used to have an 8 character maximum on passwords (although at least they changed that). They have never been a paragon of good security practices.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
The author had caffeine "90% of the time", see this comment: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/theanine/comment/98488776
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
OP took 200 mg. Tea contains 5–20 mg and people commonly report beneficial effects from tea. If 5 mg is enough for some people then surely 200 mg would be enough for anyone?
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
> It is strange to discuss L-theanine with vitamin D as one has nothing much to do with the other. That's the idea, vitamin D was used as a placebo. They bought vitamin D supplements rather than cellulose because the supplier sold b
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
How did you determine that they were trustworthy? Whatever process you used to evaluate their trustworthiness, use the same process on this article, and then decide whether you trust this article.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
If I did the math correctly, a positive-EV lottery is still guaranteed to make money for the state, because the total value of tickets purchased always exceeds the jackpot. The lottery is always negative-EV for the average ticket-buyer, b
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Economists mostly disagree with Piketty's thesis: https://www.kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/piketty-on-inequalit...

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