QuesnayJr

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by QuesnayJr 4mo ago
FWIW, I liked the way you expressed it through a dichotomy.
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by QuesnayJr 4mo ago
Isn't that a straightforward argument for preserving the status quo as much as possible in learning? We know how to get people to learn without AI, so we should keep doing it until someone figures out how to use AI effectively.
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by QuesnayJr 4mo ago
Dude, just use it to learn something. It's obviously true. Everyone uses AI all the time now. People's impressions are not mediated by marketing.
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by QuesnayJr 4mo ago
This is not at all what happened. They did deliver, in the form of the "Attention Is All You Need" paper, which Google made public. They took nothing from Google that wasn't already public. Unless you think that employees a
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by QuesnayJr 4mo ago
Switzerland has nuclear reactors. They just stopped building new ones.
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by QuesnayJr 4mo ago
Semiclassical gravity is the best we can currently do for a theory of gravity without invoking speculative ideas that are currently untestable. If the paper holds up (I haven't read it), then there are several possibilities: 1. Maybe
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by QuesnayJr 4mo ago
Half the countries in Europe has their own Trump-equivalent politician heading one of the largest parties, and yet Europeans are imagining it's something happening "in the US" while they sleepwalk into disaster.
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by QuesnayJr 5mo ago
Lisp had a package for that, DWIM, in the late 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM .
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by QuesnayJr 5mo ago
You're not understanding my point. The scientific evidence is that birds are descended from dinosaurs. Scientific evidence can't make birds be dinosaurs, because it's up to us to define "bird" and "dinosaur
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by QuesnayJr 5mo ago
We don't "know" that, because that's not a category of thing we can know or not know. It's a matter of semantics of whether we consider birds dinosaurs, just like it's a matter of semantics of whether we consi
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by QuesnayJr 5mo ago
The idea that birds are descended from dinosaurs is nearly as old as evolution itself, first being proposed by Thomas Huxley in 1868 (Origin of the Species dates from 1859). The only reason there was a competing evolutionary theory is becau
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by QuesnayJr 6mo ago
"the" is connected to "stack", not "LangChain". "LangChain" is a adjective that modifies stack. Cutting it off at "the LangChain" is like if I took the first sentence of your edit and said
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by QuesnayJr 6mo ago
AI tends towards regurgitating conventional wisdom. I suspect if it was written using AI it required some bullying to get it to go alone.
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by QuesnayJr 7mo ago
Just shutting it down seems like the worst way to keep the customers. They'd be better off rebranding it as Salesforce Clockwise and then slowly transitioning them. I suspect it's more of an acquihire.
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by QuesnayJr 7mo ago
It's striking how cybernetics has gone from dated to timely.
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by QuesnayJr 7mo ago
The level of AI use you're describing isn't what people are complaining about (and probably don't even notice). Fixing grammar and occasional word order change isn't going to make your entire article sound like insincer
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by QuesnayJr 7mo ago
I would genuinely rather read this than read an AI-generated piece. AI-generated articles read like they are trying to sell me on their scam crypto meme coin.
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by QuesnayJr 7mo ago
What's most impressive about it is that it uses a system, Megaladon, which is pretty obscure. There isn't that much documentation or examples, but it can still formalize an advanced undergraduate textbook.
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
I read it the other way. Here's the quote from the article: On December 7, 1873, he wrote to Dedekind that he thought he’d finally succeeded: “But if I should be deceiving myself, I should certainly find no more indulgent judge than y
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
From the article it's hard to tell if Cantor really did plagiarize (though it seems Dedekind thought he did). According to the article, Cantor proved the theorem first and sent it to Dedekind. Dedekind suggested a simplification of th
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
Are you citing your own book?
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
Because the Church didn't even have a good theological reason for siding against Galileo. It was a fit of pique. But people have so completely internalized the idea that truth must bow to power that they think the fact that the Church
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
Galileo is a noble scientist going against a Pope who had his fee-fees hurt, which then banned the truth. It doesn't make the Church any less backward.
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
It amazes me that people think this version of events makes the Church sound better, when it makes it sound worse.
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
I was wondering what this meant, so I googled '"rho type" concatenative', and the only hit was this thread.
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by QuesnayJr 8mo ago
I asked on LM Arena. I got two models I never heard of, and they split on whether I should walk or drive. Ernie 5.0 said I should walk, and then trash talked me for thinking about driving. Octopodus pointed out I had to drive to get my c
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by QuesnayJr 9mo ago
Erdos was an incredibly prolific mathematician, and one of his quirks is that he liked to collect open problems and state new open problems as a challenge to the field. Many of the problems he attached bounties to, from $5 to $10,000. The
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by QuesnayJr 9mo ago
I don't know how Polymarket works. Were people betting against Polymarket, or was Polymarket just making book and someone else is on the other side of the bets.
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by QuesnayJr 9mo ago
It's hard to explain, but immediately clear to enough people that it explains why so many people aren't sad to see SO fall on hard times. I get that there have to be some rules, but it comes across like you derive some sort of sat
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by QuesnayJr 9mo ago
The tone of this answer explains everything why people fled SO as soon as they possibly could.

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