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by chermi 11mo ago
Did you read the paper? Or even the intro? If a model has predictive power, it's capturing something, end of story. What you do with it, popsci spins it, how you interpret it has nothing to do with whether or not it's useful. That
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by chermi 11mo ago
"Unfortunately, we didn't ban the loom to save the weavers. Now anyone can have more than one shirt!"
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by chermi 11mo ago
Don't do drugs that cause them?
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by chermi 11mo ago
Lost me at "The main theme of biology in twentieth-century is an attempt to reduce biological phenomena to the behavior of molecules". Maybe the theme of biophysics in the 80s-2000s, but certainly not all of biology. Evolution? T
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by chermi 11mo ago
Thanks!
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by chermi 11mo ago
I mean, it's as irrational as any belief held with absolute certainty. I hold all such beliefs to the same standard.
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by chermi 11mo ago
Do you mean that there may be some harm in "hiding" from children their intelligence? I can see that maybe at early ages, but certainly they'll eventually catch on with grades and such? I don't know when different parts
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by chermi 11mo ago
Thanks, that's very interesting! Naive question, but why couldn't you force a specific tokenization scheme on SMILES? Specifically, just one token per element? I understand SELFIES does more, but your example of Ba/Br made me
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by chermi 11mo ago
Uhhh. Ok. You lost me. Now you're just proselytizing. Have you truly not considered that people don't believe in Christianity because they don't think there's sufficient evidence for the miracles or prophecy fulfillment?
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by chermi 11mo ago
My money is on a 10-20% pullback within a year. The valuations (besides palantir and tesla) aren't really that crazy. Nvidia is producing real stuff and real people are using these so called scams because they find them helpful, for e
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by chermi 11mo ago
Who are these omnipotent people who determine valuations?
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by chermi 11mo ago
can you guys explain what makes SELFIES robust? I'd only heard of SMILES until this thread, but I have been out of this space for 10 years.
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by chermi 11mo ago
Computational biology/cheminformatics has probably been on the most frustrating investments pharma companies have made in the past 20 years. There's been waves of optimism with many hires, then a slump after reality doesn't m
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by chermi 11mo ago
Way to set up a false dichotomy. I agree with the "cleverness" and the pride people take in not being religious, it's silly. But there are many forms of religion/spirituality. At the end of the day, you're just push
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by chermi 11mo ago
I think this fits perfectly with happiness being strongly driven by comparison and expectations. Those comparisons can be real comparisons to other people or imaginary comparisons to hypothetical outcomes. Comparisons are relative so you
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by chermi 11mo ago
No. Those are not sufficient to become president. If you think that then you will not be able to understand politics and people at large and come to incorrect conclusions. Becoming president requires many factors and there's many traje
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by chermi 11mo ago
Smarter people don't give a shit and try to live a fulfilling life anyway.
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by chermi 11mo ago
As I said in another comment, I think the expectations and probably parts of the narcissism are definitely on the "nurture" side. Smarter people are noticed in school and told how bright their future is. They're not as often
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by chermi 11mo ago
Uhh, money? Supporting a family in the bay area is helped a little by money.
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by chermi 11mo ago
Computers are just electrons moving. Biology is just phyics. See how little that explains? The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, even if it's still encoded in the parts.
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by chermi 11mo ago
I think smart people are told much more often as kids how bright of a future they have. So they build up expectations of "succeeding" in some sense (becoming a doctor, getting rich, etc.). These are the sort of expectations you me
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by chermi 1y ago
Depends on what exactly the opinion is, but generally I'd say yes. If it's about their looks, maybe not.. but even then understanding the basics that determine things like not needing air intake, exhaust, the placement of batterie
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by chermi 1y ago
Could you explain to me how you could reasonably justify not citing even one of Normal Computing's works? I can't imagine you're unaware of them or their works. You cite the Thermodynamic Computing group paper.
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by chermi 1y ago
Nietzsche, who I would argue is one of the best philosophers or at least observers of human nature, I think was largely intuition/"vibes"-based. I don't know of another modern philosopher who nailed so many predictions o
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by chermi 1y ago
Ok. Maybe use it better? Or don't use it at all. Doesn't mean it's not being used to some end, unlike a hole. Keep in mind also that the models are going to continue improving, if only on cost. Just a significant cost reducti
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by chermi 1y ago
Yes, but what does that have to do with this situation? The hole served no purpose. The companies are using the GPUs.
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by chermi 1y ago
Deepseek required existing models that required the horsepower.
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by chermi 1y ago
Umm, part of it does. It necessary but not sufficient, at least to achieve it on the timescales we've seen. Scale is part of the "magic".
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by chermi 1y ago
(citation needed)
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by chermi 1y ago
Do you understand the relevant fundamental difference between SAT and neural net approaches? One is a machine learning approach, the other is not. We know the computational complexity of SAT solvers, they're fixed algorithms. SAT doesn

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