awanderingmind

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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Great post that hits the sweet spot between a dry academic summary and a popular exposition. Personally I hope that the current wave of AI is over hyped and misunderstood (so that e.g. https://ai-2027.com/ will be a comical
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
This is both chilling and hopefully incorrect.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Recommendations vary, but in general earlier is better so you can establish a baseline PSA level.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Interesting comment, thank you.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
And only use computers they built themselves from transistors made from silicon they mined using hand-made, wooden tools... etc.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
I do agree with that.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
I have had zero real-life interaction with the rationalist space beyond exchanging some emails with people and reading numerous blog posts, reading lesswrong, and stuff like that, but this post seems to lean too far into drawing a conclusio
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
What types of engineering software do you work on?
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Many mathematicians dismissed the function. It was an anomaly, they said — the work of a pedant, mathematically useless. This is low-key hilarious given how much of mathematics seems like pedantry to an outsider.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
This is interesting, but as other commenters have noted, the general point applies more broadly than hardware versus software, or UK versus the US - if you're only trying to optimise for income, 'go work in the US and/or the
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Here is an example of that sort of thing, using gradient descent as a starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611451 . It is technically about spherical codes rather than the kissing problem specifically, but t
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Fortuitously the author of the posted article also has a series on the Higgs mechanism (with the math, but still including some simplifications): https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
I haven't read the other two, but I'll second 'Quarks and Leptons'. I do believe it's Halzen though, rather than Halzel...
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
There is a lesson in here... I can recommend playing to the end. The contrast to the frenetic pace of the game is like an epiphany.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
As I said, I'd rather not start a flame war ;)
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Well, assuming I agree with your premise (I'm not sure I do), what percentage of all the companies in the world does Elon run? I can also assure you that Julii exist at e.g. Tesla, which employees over 100000 people. I don't want
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Fantastic, hilarious, and too relatable. Perhaps I am becoming overly cynical as I approach middle age, but it seems to me that this phenomenon exists because the people who have the ultimate decision making powers in businesses are busines
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Haha thanks
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
This was a great read, thanks. OP, readers might benefit from having it explicitly mentioned that while the pseudocode is in Python, actual Python code will likely not benefit from such an approach because of how memory is fragmented in the
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
> [...]this article shows that our anxiety at the perceived lack of formalism is justified, but we must remember that anxiety is a feeling -- and the proper response to that feeling is curiosity, not avoidance. Beautiful sentiment, also
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Ah missed that, thank you.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
This is cute, but I don't understand why it's on the arXiv. It's only two pages long, of which almost half is a picture and the bibliography, and as far as I can see contains nothing novel. I love Baez's blog(s) ( https:
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
update: I consulted my copy of 'The Sleepwalkers' again, and I see that Martianus Capella is listed twice in the index. Koestler claims that Martianus Capella's system, wherein Venus and Mercury orbit around the Sun, while th
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
For anyone interested in the topic of Copernicus' heliocentrism, I can recommend Arthur Koestler's 'The Sleepwalkers': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleepwalkers:_A_History_of... . While it does
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
Thank you for this, I agree.
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
As a South African, this is good news (it would have been nice if the payment was higher and more people at McKinsey were held accountable). Unfortunately we are unlikely to see accountability locally for whoever actually paid this bribe. T
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
I agree strongly - if I worked at an organisation where the linked article was the 'necessary' way of communicating I would look for a job at a less dysfunctional company. The context of the article seems to be a workplace with a
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
The end of an era perhaps, but not 'the end' - another commenter has already mentioned Moravec's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox It will be interesting if/when these model
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by awanderingmind 2y ago
I've never really experienced that from his writing, and I am definitely not an Ayn Rand fan. I'm also pretty sure he's not interested in creating a movement that could have 'adherents'... I suppose I could be wrong

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