ValentinA23

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by ValentinA23 2y ago
>I suspect for the Japanese women who are putting in perspective the extreme conservatism on gender roles prevalent in their country, most Japanese fiction shouts at them about real life too. https://www.bbc.com/news&#x2F
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
I'm wondering if a language could optimize immutable data structures to use mutable, in place semantics instead of duplication or structural sharing when it is possible. When an immutable data structure only has one consumer (only has
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
>The scientists monitored the brains of fruit flies as they walked on tiny rotating foam balls in the dark, and recorded the activity of a network of cells responsible for keeping track of head direction. Meanwhile I chimp out when I hav
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
คุณ สมชาย This name, "คุณสมชาย" (Khun Somchai, a common Thai name), appears normal but has a Zero Width Space (U+200B) between "คุณ" (Khun, a title like Mr./Ms.) and "สมชาย" (Somchai, a given name). In scr
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Don't validate names, use transliteration to make them safe for postal services (or whatever). In SQL this is COLLATE, in the command line you can use uconv: >echo "'Lódź'" | uconv -f "UTF-8" -t "U
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Diffusion Illusions: Hiding Images in Plain Sight https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.03817
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
https://deferentialgeometry.org/papers/Doran,%20Lasenby%20-%... page 28, equation 2.36. Thanks a lot I'll take a dive into this Note: my inquiry was motivated by this: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.c
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
I've been trying to get an intuitive understanding of why multiplying by e^ix leads to a rotation in the complex plane, without going into Taylor series (too algebraic, not enough geometric). I tried to find a way to calculate the valu
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Edit: The parent either edited his comment or I replied to the wrong one. He was suggesting to use a second agent to detect if the player is cheating. Use it to correct the first LLM when it produces bad replies (allowing the player to chea
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
>Physics isn't unable to touch the problem "Why is there anything at all?" >Not quite. It was declared useless to think about precisely because physics can't answer the most fundamental question of "Why".
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
So false coincidences or false gratuity (+ the rare coincidences allowed by the probabilities of non-correlated variables). There seems to be a contradiction in terms in my approach: how could I conceive of gratuitous coincidences that are
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
I was surprised to see so many upvotes this morning and was disappointed when I realized it wasn't for another comment I made about the Anthropic Principle. My take is that in face of coincidences supporting the emergence of intelligen
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
I see, this was in fact what I had in mind. The maths I posted represent the horizon of my knowledge in probability and was surprised how well o1-preview was able to output correct numerical calculations. Having said that how would the odds
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Indeed ! https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/lithuania-sweden-... >Lithuania-Sweden subsea cable cut, was 10m from severed Finnish-German cable
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
A 1 in 36 million chance for three breaks in one day. https://mathb.in/80217
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
The anthropic principle in its weak form isn't really a hypothesis - it's more of a methodological principle that warns us against unnecessary theories. This is best illustrated by the historical debate between Dirac and Dicke (wh
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
>In Pcodec I now have 9 data types and 47 matches So 9 * 47 - 47 = 376 lines the author got rid of ? Which would imply that if he adds a tenth datatype, he doesn't have to update 47 match blocks sprinkled over the whole code base ?
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
>it seems to me the same argument about government conspiracies would apply: every single one of them would have to work very hard to hide any evidence of their existence - not just from our mobile phones, but our most advanced telescope
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
See my comment in another thread about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700416 In particular the lemon meringe pie. You separate whites and yolks to prepare the filling and the meringue separately before m
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
https://anonpaste.pw/v/bcf3a086-48d9-43be-8e4b-c1fe841d1093#... >Re: Comment on "Story Structure 101" about escaping Trump news via HackerNews, finding perfect description of escape's impossibility. T
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Folding clothes is a special task. Other prototypical tasks that are used in robot benchmark: - changing a bike chain - closing a jacket's zipper
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
It wouldn't cost 1M. The BOM[1] of Stanford's Mobile Aloha[2] (very similar to physical intelligence's robot) is around $30,000. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3yhWjodSNNYlpxkRCPIlvIA... [2
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
The opinion I formed during the first few months of GPT4 release was that the society of the mind hypothesis was being disproved by the "maximalist" approach some were undertaking in order to build a true AGI. Turned out composing
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Voting intention (%) for LGBT people in France during the 2022 presidential election +-------------------+-------------+-------+-------+------------+------------+ | Political Group | LGBT Voters | Cis | Trans | Non-Binary | Al
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
I don't think "mixture of experts" can be assimilated to a society of agents. It is just routing a prompt to the most performant model: the models do not communicate with each other, so how could they form a society ?
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
I haven't named the company nor indulged in excess in the way I expressed my views. What poses problem goes beyond the aftertaste the loaded and one-sided account of a conflict leaves in the mouth. There is something scandalous in what
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Why do you think it could be problematic ?
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
Maybe it's precisely wordplay that is at stake here. Heidegger is no less stranger to it than Derrida. In fact a lot of his philosophical complexes are grounded explicitly into etymology and new ways to hear old words. Concerning Heide
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
I think what bothers you is the poetical aspect of this text (in the sense of Jakobson's function of language, which boils down to, quoting wikipedia, focusing on "the message for its own sake"). This seems to fit what is sai
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by ValentinA23 2y ago
This happened to me. The result: - secret slack room to help me overcome my depression (wasn't invited of course, I just spotted it several times while looking at my colleagues' screens) - lowest paid member in the team, while als

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