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by calf 2mo ago
So I had just bought from Amazon in July an M4 mini, brand new, for a lucky post-hike price of 832 CA$ (682 USD); it was the very last unit at that price and I snatched it the morning it listed on the Apple/Amazon.ca official vendor. S
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by calf 2mo ago
That's just punting the meta which is why are companies converging on similar processes? Plausible explanation being that Moore's law exponential is going away.
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by calf 2mo ago
If Moore's law is truly ending as is generally believed, then it seems logically inevitable that the entire industry will flatten out and equalize. Or, I am oversimplifying something.
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by calf 2mo ago
Why can't Canada be more like Japan in relation to its hostile neighboring countries? Hypothetically. Naive comparison, but prompted by your fatalistic analysis of codependent nations.
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by calf 2mo ago
The mistake here is letting the word benefit do all the heavy lifting. You cannot define benefit in a superficial way and expect things to make sense. Notions like "let them eat cake", or trickle-down-economics, also abuse and dis
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by calf 2mo ago
Not PC but is ideologically high-handed and inappropriate to accuse the other side of failing to stick to your desired framing of a discussion. Computer science is about what LLMs fundamentally are. If you implicitly focus on "actually
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by calf 2mo ago
Capitalist progressives unfortunately do view anything toward the left as (false) populism. Steven Pinker and the like. Even the main Democrat party does too, look at what they framed Bernie as. They manufacture such truths. As elites. N.b.
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Feel the burn: 90% of people heal faster by focusing on their pain – study(timesofisrael.com)
4 points by calf 2mo ago|1 comments
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by calf 2mo ago
Article link open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02541-1 (I picked the news piece for its easy to read summary of the main idea)
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by calf 2mo ago
I'll bite, I think Turing completeness is relevant in that it has to be used to informally argue via the Church-Turing thesis that biological intelligence cannot exceed the power or expressivity of formal neural network models. It thus
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by calf 2mo ago
But this is just arguing over word tenses. You think "cannot", they think "could". Somewhere between there is the actual crux of disagreement.
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by calf 2mo ago
> That's all thinking is That's more because a PhD (especially in this socioeconomic era where academia is also a microcosm of capitalism) does not automatically teach or focus on deep inquiry, rather narrow research programmes
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by calf 2mo ago
The Vinogradov example seems curious. The "existential N" there is for encoding the intuition that the property holds eventually, e.g., that we don't know or don't care about which particular N along the number line for
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by calf 2mo ago
I like this counterexample technique against sarcastic comments, I should try it next time someone writes a dismissive comment.
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by calf 2mo ago
LLM is still too verbose, a real person Socratic conversation can interact a couple sentences at a time, not spew 1-3 windowfuls of low density bullet points. I even wonder if this behavior is due to next-token prediction architectures, som
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by calf 2mo ago
A steak is hard because the processes to make it are physically contradictory (crust vs interior). Its hardness is a microcosm for why cooking in general is hard. There is a profound value in that, in that if you can handle a single steak (
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by calf 2mo ago
The article is about existing research suggesting that this intuition is incorrect, though.
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by calf 2mo ago
Are there any readings would you recommend to read if I play classical piano, and especially for Romantic and post-Romantic music ranging from Chopin/Liszt to Debussy/Ravel?
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by calf 2mo ago
I play piano. It's not just cultural, it is partly like that checkerboard lighting illusion. What is objectively one shade, can in a different context, seem like the opposite shade. Major and minor keys in classical music can sometimes
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by calf 2mo ago
What's the risk of collateral damage or autoimmune issues from this kind of process, it sounds more difficult to evaluate for safety because it is more complicated.
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by calf 3mo ago
However, the writing often dwells at length on trivialities, while passing very briefly through (or even obscuring) the most interesting and novel portions of the argument. This is consistently my experience chatting with LLMs. It's
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by calf 3mo ago
There are different levels of outcomes, but even Terence Tao essentially foresees this issue: look at his remark footnote 5 in this very talk. It complements the Balkanization point in the parent comment. Not a big leap or unfathomable to c
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by calf 3mo ago
I would have to reread the piece carefully but I don't think "lack of trying by Biopharma" is consistent with the author's main argument. Because he is still being somewhat critical of the way it is currently done (why h
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by calf 3mo ago
I don't care what he's "saying that" which is just your biased interpretation. His essay does not warrant the final concluding sentence which would require a different essay thesis. It's just basic high school readi
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by calf 3mo ago
Irrelevant hypothetical.
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by calf 3mo ago
Not knowing of a way is inequivalent to inexistence of any way. This is basic and apparently some bloggers are bad writers and or political conservatives of the type "there is no alternative".
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by calf 3mo ago
Why does he conclude there is no alternative? He already argued this would be strange in other disciplines. So reform it.
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by calf 3mo ago
Yeah but Phaedrus was an implicit critique of Socrates so I don't buy the idea of taking Socratic approach at face value (and then in the 20th century many critical interpetations of Phaedrus in turn). A lot has happened since that tim
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by calf 3mo ago
They weren't though. Socratic method was a singular argument and should not be confused with the argument in Chinese culture. As a Chinese American I literally hear the Zhuang Zi type argument in lay discourse and I would argue its leg
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by calf 3mo ago
Ok then please explain why Socrates is better than margin notes for an assumed purpose, because that is not reasonable common knowledge. If by that you meant to suggest that for formal study, some kind of self-review process combined with c

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