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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
> You can say LLMs are fundamentally dumb because of their inherent linearity. Are they? Isn’t language by itself linear (more precisely, the presentation of it)? Any linearity (or at least partial ordering) of intelligence comes from ti
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Newborns (and certainly toddlers) seem to understand the underlying concepts for these things when it comes to visual/hepatic object identification and "folk physics": A short list of abilities that cannot be performed by
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I believe Feynman was basically mistaken about the second point, though of course the field was brand new at the time - it is certainly possible to simulate the measurements of quantum mechanics to arbitrarily high accuracy on a classical
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can simulate a human mind - this is the quantum Church-Turing thesis. Since a Turing machine can solve any arbitrary system of Schrodinger equations, it can solve the system describing every atom i
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
> These discontinuities are not just an artifact of poor implementation; it can be proven that any representation of 3D rotations using only three values must contain discontinuities. This is a bit pedantic - and the blog post actually d
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
That is the video I am talking about.
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The only video I saw of this happening seemed to be in a text conversation where they were previously talking about politics. I don't know how Apple's transcription works but it might have jumped the gun simply because the guy tal
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
That is true but it seems like most authoritarians invent a vague emergency to justify grabbing specific powers (e.g. Trump declaring a "border emergency"), whereas a specific emergency for a specific event has a time limit. In pa
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
He is a bit older. Linear algebra is also very old, but it didn't really become the field we know today until the 1950s. I would add that in 2025 it is cheap to buy a computer that can solve large linear systems, but that certainly was
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
No, it is not your right to copy! If you want to keep using euros and have free travel to other Eurozone countries, you need to respect EU law. The tax does not respect EU law because it makes no effort to actually offset losses to copyrigh
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
It certainly has! https://stichtingbrein.nl/largest-ever-criminal-action-again... https://piracymonitor.org/netherlands-odido-is-ordered-to-bl... https://piracymonitor.org/netherlands-brein-
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
11 years ago the EU made the Netherlands change their position: https://www.zdnet.com/article/downloading-pirate-material-fi... AFAIK this is still the case - the Netherlands is more poorly-enforced than other EU count
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I actually wonder if many individual cops use "null" (the ordinary word) as a shorthand for "plate not applicable," "not identified", "missing" etc - semantically the same thing as NULL in programming
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I think in 2025 we can do a bit better than "I scared the LLM into compliance": https://xcancel.com/colin_fraser/status/1892683791514194378
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
This is hilarious: Even those without the last name Null are finding themselves caught in the void. Joseph Tartaro got a license plate with the word “NULL” on it nearly 10 years ago. The 36-year-old security auditor thought it would be
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I think he means that you don't need to train a human to understand that a calculator is useful, and in particular when a problem is hard enough that you need to bust out a calculator. That sort of logic is self-apparent in humans, but
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The most serious problem is that Elon Musk is the 2nd most powerful person in the federal government, and seems to be giving cabinet officials direct orders, yet he has not divested himself of his SpaceX shares. I don't understand how
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I expect SpaceX to use the same care, patience, humility, and honesty as DOGE: Trump administration fires and then tries to rehire nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-firings-us-nu
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The most frustrating iteration of this is when someone uses an article to make a point in an argument...and they didn't read it! A clickbait headline seems to support their claim, but the substance refutes it.
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Yes, one more precise way to phrase this is that the expected value of the dot product between two random vectors chosen from a vector space tends towards 0 as the dimension tends to infinity (I think the scaling is 1/sqrt(dimension)).
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The Fermi paradox seems to take for granted that complex multicellular life will eventually develop technological civilization, but there is no reason for that to be true. Orcas could very well be more intelligent than humans, but they are
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
A lot of these runners come from ethnic groups which live in highlands and mountains: extensive aerobic training in lower-O2 environments, then competing at standard elevations, seems to be the most important advantage: https://w
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
This reflexive cynicism is anti-science, because what you claim is not what's happening here. The authors have a sensible causal hypothesis, which is supported by an empirical correlation. A lot of the value seems to be the hard work t
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I think of TAS as a code competition, almost like demoscene, whereas tool-free speedrunning is more e-athletics.
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Pretty gross to think of these people doing code reviews for projects they have no familiarity with - along with of course this bafflingly incompetent tweet: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961#
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Part of it is selection bias, Claude is much less general-audiences than ChatGPT. But any lawyers using LLMs in 2025 deserve to be disbarred: "A Major Law Firm's ChatGPT Fail" https://davidlat.substack.com/p&#
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
> *By using the term AGI here, we aim to communicate clearly, and we do not intend to alter or interpret the definitions and processes that define our relationship with Microsoft. We fully expect to be partnered with Microsoft for the lo
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I understand being against this law on practicality / constitutionality grounds. It seems to me that the "converse" law would be more useful and legally appropriate: forbid people from making intentionally deceptive bots that
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
I like Raschka's writing, even if he is considerably more optimistic about this tech than I am. But I think it's inappropriate to claim that models like R1 are "good at deductive or inductive reasoning" when that is demo

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