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by abecedarius 2y ago
Reminds me of the O’Whielacronxes! Though I'd be surprised if that was ever their legal name.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
There was a 70s science fiction future where customarily both parents adopted a new last name when they married. Seemed the obvious sensible policy for women's lib without a 2^N name-length scaling with the generations. I only know o
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I guess a very shallow angle of impact was part of it: > brushed by the mountain summits of Malapert and Mouton
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Similarly, 70s Steve Wozniak was supposed to be kinda chubby, but people this millennium seeing those old photos are like "what? he's totally average?"
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Yeah, similar experiences on both counts in early 2000s. The hotel's refusal to honor a reservation even with cash in advance was part of the new "not the country I grew up in" feeling, those years.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
The U.S. used to take pride in freedom of movement. In fiction, demands for papers were a classic sign of a government gone over the line. Now you need ID even for a Greyhound or Amtrak. I guess you can still walk or ride a bicycle.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
We know how they're trained . We know the architecture in broad strokes (amounting to a few bits out of billions, albeit important bits). Some researchers try to understand the workings and have very very far to go.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
> personally not like to call whatever that is science A counterargument written pre-LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466
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by abecedarius 2y ago
(I think the difference between the OP's calculation and my estimate all comes from their 80% efficiency vs. my assumption of 100%. My 'roughly' twice as far as high is actually exact under ideal assumptions. Where the slope
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Yep. But calculating what horizontal distance that implies, in your head, doesn't seem trivial the way my note above was.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Checking: it's 6 tons dropped 2 meters to launch a 100kg payload. If straight up, it could go 6000*2/100 or 120 meters. Visualize a launch for range vs. for height, and guess it can go roughly twice as far horizontally as up. (The
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Yes, my judgement too from messing with Claude and (previously) ChatGPT. 'Ridiculous' and 'cultish' are overton-window enforcement more than they are justified.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
You're right, it was kind of rude. Apologies. I really would rather be wrong, for a reason I gave in another comment. The thing is, you can interact with this new kind of actor as much as you need to to judge this -- make up new proble
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I have a similar opinion of Claude Sonnet. Superhuman knowledge; ability to apply it to solve new math/coding problems at roughly the level of a motivated high-schooler (but not corresponding exactly in profile to anything human); le
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Chiang makes some insightful points, e.g. about what we mean by magic. Then I come to > [LLMs] can get better at reproducing patterns found online, but they don’t become capable of actual reasoning; it seems that the problem is fundament
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Thanks! Neat term, debaiting -- though I misread it for a moment.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
And I was just trying to help. :) Easy to miss that link. Unfortunately Wikipedia generally isn't great for motivation on math topics. Tensor ops in e.g. pytorch are pretty opaque to me, too much implicit on shapes which can change as
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by abecedarius 2y ago
HN guidelines: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Perhaps you would also describe the Manson family as a Christian death cult.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I should've said I didn't do any control experiment. I looked more closely at what Claude did in another case and it was console-logging some rough features out of the canvas data that time. If it actually was "looking at&quo
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by abecedarius 2y ago
The submitter of this story inserted 'rationalist' into the title; it's not in the headline and IMO it's calumny. Would you take it back out?
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by abecedarius 2y ago
See the link at bottom right to "Penrose graphical notation". (I have nothing to do with the site.)
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by abecedarius 2y ago
It says "In 2016, Congress passed Public Law 114-190, which among other things banned the use of biographical assessments as a first-line hiring tool for air traffic controllers."
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by abecedarius 2y ago
If you're quoting someone else, please say so at the top of the comment instead leading with "I was a controller" and burying the attribution at the end of a paragraph.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I tried something related today with Claude, who'd messed up a certain visualization of entropies using JS: I snapped a phone photo and said 'behold'. The next try was a glitch mess, and I said hey, could you get your JS to c
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by abecedarius 2y ago
And behind that at least in part is the tangle of bad laws, esp. in IP.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Really it's fine to just start. At some point you may get stuck and want to learn more math, but when I did the first ~45 I certainly had not read generatingfunctionology or Hardy and Wright.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
> "request" sounds demanding I wonder if this is a kind of euphemism treadmill. When the feds demand the records on a user from a service, it's an "access request", as if you could politely say no, I would prefer
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Certainly it was the most common for me (also California public school). That does not mean I would not bring up the physical violence as the first item in the list! It's the one least open to interpretation.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Less ambitiously, how small and clear could you make a program for QED calculations? Where you're going for code that can be clear to someone educated with only undergrad physics, with effort, to help explain what the theory even is --
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I was wondering where LuaJIT would come up, too.

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