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by alok-g 2y ago
I would love experimentation and innovation in this direction. I see students solving complex differentiation and integration problems without understanding what's going on, or being able to apply calculus to the real world problems. I
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by alok-g 2y ago
Why not define additional metrics around what you would spot check and then produce a consolidated figure of merit as the metric to optimize. Aren't we doing that with AI training and general optimization (including regularization).
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> Acceleration is not relative (like velocity), it's absolute. May be a naive question, but why is this so? Is there a different type of 'ether' when we consider acceleration? Edit: Actually I have the same question
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by alok-g 2y ago
Indeed. Both sides, product/service providers and consumers, try to game the system. That makes it very hard to figure what is the truth.
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by alok-g 2y ago
When they applied Heisenberg principle to vacuum to bring up zero point energy, Casimir force was found, etc., I understood thtis as the principle opposing nothingness.
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by alok-g 2y ago
I agree. There's surely however more to uncover for Physics.
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by alok-g 2y ago
Next stop after 'Computer Use' -- Multimodal input from a robot's sensors and generating various signals to control its actions. Looking forward to see this in the coming few years. And hoping such a robot could be of help t
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by alok-g 2y ago
Two questions: Does this apply retroactively? If someone is found to have written fake reviews or paid to get them written in the past, would the rule apply to them too? (I hope so.) Can the rule be imposed if the culprits are all outside
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> Just require an order number ... This does not solve the problem. Fake reviewers often purchase the product on paper. Behind the scenes, the seller may not even ship and instead buy fake shipment tracking from the shipping company
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by alok-g 2y ago
Thanks. Now I understand the significance of the ruling better. Love this. I am in general interested in seeing free speech being replaced by truthful or well-intentioned speech. Fact-checking is hard, and GenAI is making this worse. In
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by alok-g 2y ago
Hoping it should. When real, testimonials are hand-picked from the full set of reviews and feedback. That practice should be banned too. Of course, creation of rules would do only so much. The real deal is ability to execute those in prac
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by alok-g 2y ago
I do not think the collective rating on Amazon is a blind average of the individual reviews and ratings. So what you say is probably already being done along with use of other similar signals.
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by alok-g 2y ago
I wrote a program in C++ that used a function pointer to a function within the program, mem-copied the function to another location in memory and executed the replica. I had placed a breakpoint in the original function before copying, and
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by alok-g 2y ago
A college friend wrote a C program with: while (true) fork(); It crashed the university supercomputer. This was in the year 2000.
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by alok-g 2y ago
If you read through the link, the estimation for.probability of finding life elsewhere ranges from practically none to very high. When the former is also a.part of that range, could it not be that we actually do not have life anywhere else
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by alok-g 2y ago
That's right. But it does create doubt. To prove, we would need to find such life. To not have doubt, we need to have a reasonably high confidence that such life is there. However, the estimates are so wild and range from very unlike
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> As someone who benefited greatly from a few mentors in childhood and adolescence, my goal is to be able to give the same to at least a few other people in my lifetime. +1. Same for me. Relationships has been more important than wh
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> I think it's a big randomness +1. A big randomness, following the laws of Physics that are themselves possibly rooted in something. With that big randomness, by some chance, intelligent life has happened that can wonder. Wher
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> No proof but no doubt. There's still doubt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#Range_of_result...
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> In my mind, the events do happen at the same time and just are unable to be observed as such. Not so, I would say. Space and time are inherently linked under special (and General) relativity. For two observers who have relative mo
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> ai generated written screens >> I modified my written screen in a way that ... What's a written screen? (I could not find via a quick Google search.)
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by alok-g 2y ago
Thanks a lot for a detailed and simple answer! I have many keywords now to read more on. I just read about Poincaré's recurrence theorem here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor... Even
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by alok-g 2y ago
How specifically do you define 'meaning' and (the domain of) 'any thing'? Pls. consider if your definition of language would lead to an inference that most animals have language abilities.
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by alok-g 2y ago
Could you pls. point to the said book or some other resource for me to learn about this? As such, I follow what you have said, but would love to see the math too. Thanks.
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by alok-g 2y ago
How suitable is 10" for PDF reading? Is the font too small? Do various e-readers allow PDF content to reflow? I have been considering Boox Air 3C. PDFs are important for me. Thanks.
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by alok-g 2y ago
I have been considering Boox Air 3C. Could you pls. explain more about the differences you see between Kindle and Boox? Thanks.
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by alok-g 2y ago
I recently set it up for syncing files between Windows and Mac. That results in many sync errors because of differences in allowed special characters in the file names. Anyone having recommendations for avoiding that? Thanks.
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by alok-g 2y ago
Thanks for your efforts creating SubX. Now I understand the motivations behind that better.
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by alok-g 2y ago
Thanks! I understand better now. And that cheat sheet PDF is cool, exactly what I was looking for. Any chance you are aware of something similar for x64? Thanks.
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by alok-g 2y ago
>> but why? Agreed. More of a curiosity for me from learning and research purposes.

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