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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
Weird thought: someone born in the 1800s was (most likely) alive when the first transformer model ran. Emma Morano died April 15, 2017, the NIPS submission deadline for "Attention Is All You Need" was May 19, and a Wired article i
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
I wonder how much of the programming language problem is due to churn of the user base. Looking over many comments in this thread, I see “Oh, back when I did HPC...” I used Titan for my own work back in 2012. But after my PhD, I never touch
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
Is there not some concept that utilizes cryptography in a way such that information about people is accessible, but if it's accessed, then the access request is added to a ledger (akin to blockchain) such that who made the access, when
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
> they all have an obvious and immediate majesty to them. "Grandeur" is not the only criteria for nice national parks. I'm from the east coast, and while all of the breathtaking views in California were amazing, after a fe
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
Would be interesting to think about what works are currently out there, published, yet will not be recognized as great intellectual achievements until much later after the fact for some reason.
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
I’ve heard that bitterness affects children more intensely. So I wonder how much of it is an acquired taste vs bitterness just becoming “milder” over time.
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
It depends what I'm working on. If it's a bunch of interdependent systems that involve a large amount of data, a giant monitor is better. If the giant monitor is being used to make visible more application surfaces (Slack, email,
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
22AWG Cat6A is actually what I used (cheap it was not however).
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by Xcelerate 6mo ago
I set up my own home network with a Vertiv Liebert Li-ion UPS a few years ago and was thinking about how inefficient the whole process is regarding power. The current goes from AC to DC back to AC back to DC. Straight from the UPS as DC wou
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by Xcelerate 7mo ago
I’ve always wanted kids, ever since I was a kid myself, but I was never really sure what it would be like to be a parent. Turns out it’s quite strange, because my kids bring me more joy than anything else. I’ll sit there for hours watchin
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by Xcelerate 7mo ago
I've been using ChatGPT to teach myself all sorts of interesting fields of mathematics that I've wanted to learn but never had the time previously. I use the Pro version to pull up as many actual literature references as I can. I
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by Xcelerate 7mo ago
I’ve always thought the issue was a bit less “Find the interesting research problem” and more “Find the resources, network, or skills that get you into the position of being able to work on the interesting research problem.” If you asked a
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by Xcelerate 8mo ago
“You’re not [X]—you’re [Y]” is the one that drives me nuts. [X] is typically some negative characterization that, without RLHF, the model would likely just state directly. I get enough politics/subtext from humans. I’d rather the LLM j
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by Xcelerate 9mo ago
It’s kind of intriguing that predicting the future state of any quantum system becomes almost trivial—assuming you can diagonalize the Hamiltonian. But good luck with that in general. (In other words, a “simple” reference frame always exist
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by Xcelerate 9mo ago
“Live next to your relatives because if they get in a car accident and you live across the country you won’t be there to tell them goodbye.” ^Another one I’ve never understood. Like geez, hopefully my daughter doesn’t give up her life dream
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by Xcelerate 9mo ago
Interesting. I agree with most items on this page as overrated, but with an L5-S1 disc herniation, the Aeron is about the only chair I can sit in for an extended period of time without hurting. Then again, I haven't tried dozens of off
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by Xcelerate 9mo ago
Yep. I have an Ecobee currently and have had a Nest previously. Am totally perplexed why people like these things. Just opened the Ecobee app and literally at the top is an ad saying "The Holiday sale is here. Shop now." Irritates
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by Xcelerate 10mo ago
> If spacetime had a discrete character at scales like the inverse of the universe scale we would see dispersion of light as it traveled cosmological distances and we do not observe this. It is technically possible that the discreteness
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Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence(arxiv.org)
129 points by Xcelerate 10mo ago|45 comments
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by Xcelerate 11mo ago
As a non-mathematician, I’m confused why so many people think the conjecture (whether true or false) is provable within PA. To me, it seems like something that would be very nicely just right outside the boundary of PA’s capability, sort of
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by Xcelerate 11mo ago
> Eliminate redundant matrix operations (like two transposes next to each other) In 2016, I was trying to construct orthogonal irreducible matrix representations of various groups (“irreps”). The problem was that most of the papers descr
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by Xcelerate 11mo ago
Hmm... I agree with parts of this and disagree with other parts. In my experience "cross-functional collaboration" splits into two distinct components: leadership and information. Anecdotal, but when leadership is split into too m
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
Haha, I like to joke that we were on track for the singularity in 2024, but it stalled because the research time gap between "profitable" and "recursive self-improvement" was just a bit too long that we're now str
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
From the abstract: > This aligns with number theory conjectures suggesting that at higher orders of magnitude we should see diminishing noise in prime number distributions, with averages (density, AP equidistribution) coming to dominate,
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
> a computation is a process that maps symbols (or strings of symbols) to other symbols, obeying certain simple rules[1] There are quite a number of people who believe this is the universe. Namely, that the universe is the manifestatio
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
Would love to read a HN-tailored blog post of your work or an overview of the binary lambda calculus if you ever have the time btw
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
There are a few concepts at play here. First you have to consider what can be proven given a particular theory of mathematics (presumably a consistent, recursively axiomatizable one). For any such theory, there is some finite N for which th
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
Homemade cake mixes rarely win blind taste tests against box mix. I baked two cakes with and without glycerol monostearate—it really does make a difference.
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
Everyone likes to debate the philosophy of whether the reals are “real”, but for me there is a much more practical question at hand: does the existence of something within a mathematical theory (i.e., derivability of a “∃ [...]” sentence) r
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by Xcelerate 1y ago
Lately I’ve been thinking I might have better odds making a straight shot for ASI on my own over practicing and rehearsing the material that needs to be presented almost perfectly in the AI interviews. I’ve worked at FANG in ML / appl

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