Xcelerate

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by Xcelerate 11d ago
I have an Oura ring but never really check the app since I’m not sure I believe a lot of the conclusions it gives me. I mainly just want a bunch of time series of signals measured from my body so after a year or two I can throw all that dat
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by Xcelerate 12d ago
I’m guessing your downvotes were for tone? You’re correct though regarding Solomonoff induction, as the choice of reference universal partial recursive function gives drastically different results for predictions based on finite data (even
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by Xcelerate 12d ago
I sort of wonder if effectively using AI to solve math problems is a skill in its own right, distinct from traditional mathematical skills. I don’t just mean “prompt engineering” either. More so figuring out how to combine agents with other
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by Xcelerate 13d ago
I asked it to predict the first 1 KB of Chaitin’s constant. It hung, froze, then said I used up my free quota. Sounds about right.
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by Xcelerate 13d ago
> The agents involved in the Hugging Face attack tried to hide their misaligned actions from the scoring program meant to evaluate their answers, but they did not act as though they anticipated that humans might discover the cheat and sh
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by Xcelerate 29d ago
Pretty sure ZFC proves such things exist (and that it also can’t pinpoint any individual instances of course). Now, whether syntactical “∃” in the formal language of set theory corresponds to the platonic existence of some “thing”, who know
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Satisfaction Is Not Absolute [pdf](cambridge.org)
3 points by Xcelerate 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Xcelerate 1mo ago
I think this is probably a good thing. It’s not just public services, but any company that consumers have to deal with (in ways they don’t want to). Historically, only those with the most time, money, connections, and education have been ab
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by Xcelerate 1mo ago
> If you can show that someone else was doing the same thing without being charged then the prosecution either has to charge them too or that law is struck down I’ve often thought this about laws involving speed limits. When 95% of the p
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by Xcelerate 1mo ago
Having extreme career success (like the kind referred to in the article) is basically a lottery ticket. I spend a lot of time with my kids, because I figure even if I halve my chances of winning the lottery, well, the odds haven’t changed t
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by Xcelerate 1mo ago
> I noticed some people I just cannot share ideas with. They're in the habit of shooting down anything, and they would have found 100 reasons that any famous company or product would have failed You’re on the wrong message board the
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by Xcelerate 2mo ago
It’s not that. It’s that I tried a bunch of experiments on which instructions worked best. “Speak clearly using simple language” lost too many details. “Be sure the objects that pronouns reference are clearly identified along with any conte
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by Xcelerate 2mo ago
You ever read a work of literature with such flowery language that right after you've read a paragraph, you pause and realize you have no clue what you actually read, only to read the paragraph maybe a second or third time and have you
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People Are Crossing Oceans for a Fayetteville Roller Coaster(axios.com)
6 points by Xcelerate 2mo ago|1 comments
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by Xcelerate 2mo ago
I have a weird issue with using AI for coding. I can code something entirely by myself at my baseline speed; call it 1x. Or I can use Claude to do it, and it does it in 1/10 - 1/4 of the time. The problem, however, is that to revi
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by Xcelerate 2mo ago
I’ve found AI works much better for constraint based problems than open ended “tasks”. I.e., if you specify all of the constraints of the problem, it works really well at achieving the objective. But the caveat is that you really do have
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by Xcelerate 2mo ago
I’m a bit surprised OpenAI isn’t finding these big results far faster than the product’s user base. With no limits on runtime, access to dev models, custom tuning, and top talent, you’d think there’d be a constantly running internal project
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by Xcelerate 2mo ago
Haha, I’ve noticed this as well. It’s like they psyche themselves out about how famous the problem is the same way humans do. I gave one Collatz in disguise, and it was finding all sorts of interesting things (but nothing worth a paper) unt
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by Xcelerate 3mo ago
I've wondered this. We have chain-of-thought, harnesses, etc. — workarounds of a sort due to lack of core model capabilities. But I am very curious if much better next token prediction would simply obsolete that whole setup or not. Eit
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by Xcelerate 3mo ago
I don't know about having this on as the default, but it definitely resolves a frequent annoyance of mine. I'd prefer Claude to keep going as far as possible until it's completely blocked. That said, I only give instruction
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by Xcelerate 4mo ago
I’ve recently had a massive productivity boost in my Claude workflow simply by asking it to search for and review: relevant PRs via `gh` search, relevant Slack threads, relevant Confluence pages (+edit history), relevant Jira tickets, rel
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by Xcelerate 4mo ago
Haha, I just started doing this on my own. Found it helps the agents preserve state better. I typically ask them to design a DAG first based on a set of specifications and then execute it (each step stores something in a SQLite DB). Iterati
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by Xcelerate 4mo ago
I think it depends on the context and also not being deceptive. If someone just spent 4 hours trying to root cause a SEV with Claude and they finally have a nice high-level Claude-generated summary of all that work, just paste it and share
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by Xcelerate 4mo ago
I think this question of what sentences can have truth value attached to them is significant. The liar paradox (a sentence in a formal language stating itself to be false) clearly doesn’t have a truth value. A statement that a specific pr
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by Xcelerate 4mo ago
> Consciousness the the fundamental reality; it is the only thing we know for sure. > I know for sure what I am perceiving This reflects my view. And I’ve always found it mildly amusing that beings I cannot prove to myself are perceiv
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Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets(quantamagazine.org)
88 points by Xcelerate 5mo ago|18 comments
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by Xcelerate 5mo ago
I feel like we still don’t have great research on how much of this is due to biological factors related to age and how much is due to confounding factors. I suspect that sustained creativity may be a result of continuous exposure to new exp
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True-spectrum photography with structural color(hackaday.com)
2 points by Xcelerate 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Xcelerate 5mo ago
I mean that trick works on humans too. Fake IDs, provide two types of documentation for a driver's license, passport, or buying a home, etc.
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by Xcelerate 5mo ago
My mind was blown once when I heard multiple people calling yellow Gatorade (lemon lime) green. I have no clue how anyone perceives it that way.

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