biswaroop

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by biswaroop 6y ago
Your other discussion with GPT-3 [1] about covid was ridiculous. Did you have to edit responses or cherry pick out of a number of different paths of conversation? What happens if you ask it the same thing again? Do you get other opinions? [
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by biswaroop 6y ago
> Humans have proven time and time again that we are very good at optimizing for specific metrics, and apparently generally very poor at choosing the right metrics to target. Maybe it's Goodhart's Law: "When a measure beco
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Ah well my concern with eating red meat is related to the cancer risk and the impact on climate change. Are you worried about these issues in relation to your diet?
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Do you avoid red meat? Also, do you worry about cholesterol intake from the meat and eggs?
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Just as a quick feedback, your main hero gif is a bit too low res.
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by biswaroop 6y ago
This is a good point, but I will add, from close discussions with Dreyfus, his position was that it's impossible because it's fundamentally impossible, not because it's intractable. (see my other comment for more)
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by biswaroop 6y ago
I have a perspective on this, since I took a rather engaging philosophy class from the late Prof Dreyfus at Berkeley. As the article hints at, his line of argument was a completely valid criticism of AI based on a set of rules written with
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by biswaroop 6y ago
But what if "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain"?
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Yes! Sorry, I'm just here to fan over Dubliners too. Every winter, on a snowy Massachusetts day, I read them all over again. It's incredible how The Dead and Araby contain so much of what makes us humans. It's hard to explain
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Good point. Case in point: Cancellara's masterful descent here [1]. It's one of the least aerodynamic (I'm certain I can get more aero on a straight descent), but I would get dropped hard on the first curve. Especially on cur
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by biswaroop 6y ago
That's true EBC is quite the metropolitan hike. I ended up traveling solo in the Indian Himalayas, through Uttarakhand, Himachal, and Ladakh. It's far less developed. I spent a few days without seeing a single human. This was also
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Could you elaborate on how it's been an improvement? I always thought it'd be overkill for regular business calls.
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by biswaroop 6y ago
I'm surprised backpacking isn't a more common answer. Pretty much every time I go backpacking, I'm essentially isolated from the world. My phone is just a camera/reference device at that point. Like you, I spent a few mo
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Try nvidia-docker. It's pretty awesome!
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by biswaroop 6y ago
https://github.com/biswaroopmukherjee/condensate I'm trying to interact with superfluids. I use CUDA + OpenGL to simulate the superfluid, and then interact with the mouse or a leap motion.
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by biswaroop 6y ago
To setup CUDA, I highly recommend nvidia-docker. It makes it super easy, especially if you're familiar with docker. All you need is the official graphics drivers from the NVIDIA homepage.
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Maybe I phrased it poorly. Did you read the article? The study involved praise no matter what. The independent variable was the nature of the praise (intelligence vs effort).
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by biswaroop 6y ago
Social accountability is the best. Have someone check that you're doing them one at a time, and tell them to praise you for struggling and working hard. Also, enjoy that feeling of being a beginner, of sucking at something, and of havi
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by biswaroop 6y ago
This could be because you were told you're a smart kid. Kids who are praised for intelligence over effort have been shown in some studies to pick easier problems and give up quickly if a problem is too hard. Check out Carol Dweck'
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by biswaroop 7y ago
DM/DE are just two of the simplest theories that can explain the observations (galaxy rotation/accelerating expansion). The "underlying assumptions" are those measurements, and these are being retaken and questioned ever
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by biswaroop 7y ago
> Do not grow complacent in school, ye numerical methods researchers! Write your stuff in C++. The job market awaits. Could you elaborate a bit on this? I think I know what you mean, but I'd like to hear more if you don't min
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by biswaroop 7y ago
I would like to point out that the Media lab isn't all of MIT. We do some really incredible research (LIGO, Black hole imaging, poverty research, to just name a few recent achievements). Incidentally, the media lab has a reputation wit
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by biswaroop 7y ago
Taxis (including Uber+Lyft) are such incredibly bad drivers. They rarely signal turns, often fail to stop at signs, and make sudden unannounced stops inside bike lanes.
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by biswaroop 7y ago
Tangentially related: In 1988, Iran Air flight 655 was shot down by an American missile cruiser, killing 290 people. It was likely due to a UI problem with the aircraft tracking system on the cruiser that reused an ID number from a potentia
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by biswaroop 7y ago
I think this gets at the difference between knowledge and understanding. Simply knowing a fact (like the Earth is round) is different from understanding why we think that. Perhaps what's even more important than understanding is the ab
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by biswaroop 7y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. This is true. Here in Boston my electric bill is a factor of three higher during the peak heat months.
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by biswaroop 7y ago
I take the T and the buses pretty often. They're quite usable.
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by biswaroop 7y ago
[edit: just wanted to say these are my initial opinionated responses to your points. Not stating these as facts necessarily] * Eh. Running around the Charles in the fall is glorious. Mt Auburn cemetery is awesome. There's a crazy diver
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by biswaroop 7y ago
Good. Parking and driving are not well-suited to narrow roads in high density cities. There have been tons of studies that show this. This is as a Cambridge resident who struggles to find parking when I occasionally have to. Parked cars are
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by biswaroop 7y ago
It's gotten far better. As a grad student who races for MIT and trains on the roads around Boston's suburbs, I've found most drivers to be surprisingly patient with us cyclists. There's the fair fraction of drivers who t

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