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2024 MIT Integration Bee – Finals [video](youtube.com)
96 points by bschne 3y ago|26 comments
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by bschne 3y ago
Rituals work!
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by bschne 3y ago
Interesting, for me that sounds like exactly the montage thing, just without the set endpoint necessarily. But if you focus on your goal number too much, you may get disheartened by the slow progress there, or the brief setbacks along the w
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by bschne 3y ago
I think this is great! It may not work if you're trying to build a five-minute-a-day daily habit, it may not work for everyone, but there's def something to it! There's also a pattern of some pretty productive people making p
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by bschne 3y ago
Seconded! As an add-on to just navigating things, my native language is German, and when I first learned to read Cyrillic I was extremely surprised to realize how many words in Russian are similar to German. It's not like you get readi
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Montage fallacy(herbertlui.net)
90 points by bschne 3y ago|67 comments
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by bschne 3y ago
Huh, TIL this is in Switzerland https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/07/02/exploring-the-depths-...
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by bschne 3y ago
> The 10M context ability wipes out most RAG stack complexity immediately. 1. People mention accuracy issues with longer contexts 2. People mention processing time issues with longer contexts 3. Something people haven't mentioned in
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by bschne 3y ago
+1 for Karpathy, the series is really good
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by bschne 3y ago
I always wonder how much of this sort of thing is disdain for the specific tool vs. disdain for what working in a mid-to-large org. is like and the overhead it usually brings with it.
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Algorithmic Nuggets in Content Delivery (2015)(dl.acm.org)
1 points by bschne 3y ago|0 comments
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> The list wasn't the important part, but evaluating my own preferences & deciding what I truly cared about was important. I get the temptation, I got very curios too and my first impulse would be asking the same, but maybe it m
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Give each of your users their own SQLite database(blog.turso.tech)
3 points by bschne 3y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 3y ago
the point of 3b1b's video wasn't "how can I figure out what words are still an option", but "what is the optimal word to guess at each step to minimize overall attempts needed to solve". Picking a "good&qu
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by bschne 3y ago
ICYMI, 3blue1brown (Grant Sanderson) has a video applying information theory to solving Wordle, which is conceptually similar to mastermind -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA
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by bschne 3y ago
Motivation is funny like that. I've struggled to work through a paper I didn't even want to understand but had to write an assignment about on an A4 eInk tabled or using the perfect note taking setup, but I've also read a ful
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by bschne 3y ago
I've seen https://lu.ma used thought it's built more around one-offs than recurring meetups of the same group. Also, and I think it's closer to meetup, https://app.getriver.io/ -- though I don&#x2
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EBV and Multiple Sclerosis: More of the Story(science.org)
1 points by bschne 3y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk is not understood(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
6 points by bschne 3y ago|4 comments
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by bschne 3y ago
was wondering the same thing!
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by bschne 3y ago
yeah they missed the tone a bit there, tripped over it too
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by bschne 3y ago
For a semi-related case study of entrepreneurial tool-building in science, I also liked this: http://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/neuropixels/
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Making the Micropipette(press.asimov.com)
147 points by bschne 3y ago|58 comments
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by bschne 3y ago
I couldn't help but think about mechanistic interpretability research on large neural models reading this — I guess this is what happens when humans do something similar, adding and removing tweaks here and there to better fit this or
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by bschne 3y ago
Reading about this — I'm sorry to hear about your loss! — makes me wish we understood the dynamics of things like this much better than we do. Some stuff seems pretty clearly "not good", but sometimes it's really hard to
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by bschne 3y ago
I am serious! In an ideal world, Twitter/X would have more legitimate advertisers to keep the platform running, and also would have adequate content moderation that quickly got rid of the scams, through some combination of tech and hum
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by bschne 3y ago
Ironically Twitter/X, for all its recent criticism, comes out ahead on this stuff: at least there they get community notes saying it’s a scam fairly quickly
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by bschne 3y ago
Nitpick but it was even harder, they wanted to keep the PLCs intact, report back normal operation, and change the control output specifically to destroy/damage uranium centrifuges
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Why Squared Error? (2014)(benkuhn.net)
2 points by bschne 3y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 3y ago
I love this take. Reminds me of how the Mechanical Turk apparently indirectly inspired someone to build a weaving machine b/c "how hard could it be if machines can play chess" -- https://x.com/gordonbrander&#x

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