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by Symmetry 2y ago
I think we're far away from analog circuits being practically useful, but one place that where we might embrace the tolerance for imprecision is in noisy digital circuits. Accepting that one in a million, say, bits in an output will b
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by Symmetry 2y ago
It's easy to overstate, but shouldn't be understated either with, as an example, solving problems with learning in AI providing insights into how dopamine works in brains. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020&#x2F
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by Symmetry 2y ago
In general the problem with analog is that every sequential operation introduces noise. If you're just doing a couple of multiplications to frequency shift a signal up and down that's fine. But if you've got hundreds of ste
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by Symmetry 2y ago
That's Spanish, but wouldn't it be better to use the more common lanugage, Tagalog, to render it "hukuman ng Pilipinas"? If one were to insist in talking about foreign courts in foreign languages, rather than the langua
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by Symmetry 2y ago
The context heads of a LLM are more analogous to the sort of processing that goes on in, e.g., Brocca's Area of your brain as opposed to working memory. You can't have anything analogous to working memory as long as LLMs are op
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by Symmetry 2y ago
How much of it was ideological and how much of it was just that Gosplan didn't want computers taking their power, and so Gosplan cut funding to computer development?
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by Symmetry 2y ago
That's true, but its also true that some connections might be reasonably said to be key for sensory information to find its way into working memory so I wouldn't dismiss the title.
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by Symmetry 2y ago
This sort of thing does require a certain tolerance for ambiguity if you want to look at the raw results yourself rather than having a doctor do it for you.
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by Symmetry 2y ago
Right, and not qualia either. I'ts a bit more complicated than just awakeness, though. If you flash an image on a screen for a very short period of time, you won't ever be able to remember what it said or be able to tell someone
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by Symmetry 2y ago
You're right that my numbers are off. I'd bee thinking of the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment 3.8e9 years go, but there's some suggestive evidence there was liquid was on Earth's surface 4.4e9 years ago. And the earl
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by Symmetry 2y ago
Life arose on Earth really fast after the surface stopped being magma. Since Mars cooled down faster the idea is that it could have spent 100 million of year developing bacteria which were then seeded the Earth as soon as there was liqui
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by Symmetry 2y ago
For half the history of life on Earth there were no multicellular animals at all[1]. Given how quickly life on Earth arrived I wouldn't be surprised if there were bacteria on Mars. But given how long it took Earth life to develop Euk
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by Symmetry 2y ago
I dunno, not having to move your fingers from their positions seems like a big advantage even if you can't get the full X00 wpm an expert can get in regular text.
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by Symmetry 2y ago
Interesting, but I think if I were to re-learn touch typing I'd go all the way and move to a chording keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
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by Symmetry 2y ago
Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.
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by Symmetry 2y ago
I'll be trying to get PyTorch working on Docker with 24.04 and an AMD card. Lets see how that works out.
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by Symmetry 2y ago
Any rogue AI, if it proves to be a danger, will still need to maintain its servers somehow. So to be a danger it either needs to get humans to do what it wants, in which case it can bomb things just as well with manned fighters, or develop
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by Symmetry 2y ago
Worth pointing out square/cube factors here. You can't have an ant the size of an elephant because while an animals strength goes up as its length squared its weight goes up with its length cubed. And a piece of rock the size of
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by Symmetry 2y ago
Nice article, but if I were writing it[1] I'd list having subjects, topics, and objects as first class nouns in sentences rather than just subjects and objects of sentences as a big fascinating difference from what I was used to[2]. A
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by Symmetry 2y ago
It's the biggest solid piece of shell in English. Like the stuff over a crabs pincers is still shell but only the stuff that surrounds the main body is the carapace. Often used as an analogy for other sorts of armor, like a knights b
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by Symmetry 2y ago
LLMs also have a wider range of targets than you'd expect. QNTAL is known for putting medieval poetry to modern beats and when I put the old Galician lyrics to Vedes Amigo into Google translate it chokes since it isn't trained
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by Symmetry 2y ago
I believe those spent stages never made it to space, certainly they didn't make it to orbit. And because only the people living downrange of that particular launch facility have to worry it's covered by "depending on where y
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Are there? I think that all animal suffering is bad. And I think that in general more living creates is a moral good. But I'd argue the right to remain alive once alive only really kicks for animals that can make plans about the fut
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I'm sure the OP has already read his Skolnik given his comment but for those following along that's usually the best place to start. https://www.amazon.com/Radar-Handbook-Third-Merrill-Skolnik/...
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Relatedly, I used to be a happy Google Music user getting pretty fed up with YouTube Music. Are there any good services letting you upload a collection of music files and then play them from your phone or browser. Preferably also letting
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by Symmetry 3y ago
My understanding is that the codebase was partially shared with Google+, which was a corporate priority. But having to check changes against both reduced velocity so the easiest thing was to just kill Google Reader which didn't have
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I've been going through Wikiepdia's list of countries by GDP and trying to think about what the poorest country is that could pull it off in the normal course of business, and the poorest country that could pull this off if the le
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I'm assuming GP runs Windows and you run Linux. NVidia's proprietary drivers are known to be a lot more stable than AMD's. But on the other hand the open source driver and software stack for AMD (partially shared with Intel
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by Symmetry 3y ago
That and I like the changes Ubuntu makes to Gnome. I'm still sad about Unity going away.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
My desktop is currently on EndeavorOS as an experiment until Ubuntu 24.06 comes out. Originally I went with Arch and I'm glad I went through the process of getting a working installation, but there were a lot of little DE tuning thing

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