chermi

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by chermi 2mo ago
This predates stochastic thermo quite a bit. Entropy of markov chain is at least 50 y/o, maybe more.
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by chermi 2mo ago
Wut? Water. H20.
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by chermi 2mo ago
He/she said no reliable alternatives.
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by chermi 2mo ago
I ask once again: why is everyone so convinced that nuclear is the one technology that somehow doesn't get cheaper and better with advancing tech and scale? And don't tell me learning curves are proven to not apply. The preconditi
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by chermi 2mo ago
Lol no. Latent heat is basically all that matters
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by chermi 2mo ago
A nice way to guarantee that is not not try.
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by chermi 2mo ago
I agree, but there's degrees (no pun intended!). Many PhDs are just an advisor telling a student exactly what to do. The training is still valuable, but it's not really what a PhD is "supposed" to mean. The example I giv
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by chermi 2mo ago
Why is that only "technically yes"? It's precisely how the thermodynamic and empirical temperature scales are matched.
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by chermi 2mo ago
The reference point is the triple point, and invariant.
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by chermi 2mo ago
Maybe masters will become more popular. I have no problem with bars being raised on PhDs, but it's crazy history that math may be the first one to have it raised (or brought back to old levels).
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by chermi 2mo ago
Very useful games, self-importance or no. See pattern, conjecture generalization, test generalization. It's almost like empirical math. I like it and I also like mathematicians doing it the old way.
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by chermi 2mo ago
Melanie holding strong against attempts to change the meaning of things!
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by chermi 3mo ago
For what? I thought your trying to argue only baker deserved solo compared to what happened? If you're asking about solving the actual folding problem? Probably Dill, Onuchic, Wolynes, maybe Sosnick would be top of my list off the top
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by chermi 3mo ago
CASP is explicitly structure prediction. That's not the folding problem.
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by chermi 3mo ago
I know baker's work quite well, no it shouldn't have
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by chermi 3mo ago
Pissed me off since day one that got by with that "solving" shit. Not to downplay what they did, but it had little to do with the problem as it's been understood to mean. And to be clear I do think it was nobel worthy.
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by chermi 3mo ago
1) no one who wrote software before llms truly believe it's solved right now 2) shit takes time. Was energy solved the instant we discover nuclear energy?
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by chermi 3mo ago
People losing track of history. No system will be perfectly for everyone, ever. One system has helped the most people ever in history. Fix what's broken, don't switch to something already proven worse. I never even experienced the
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by chermi 3mo ago
I am really trying to get everything digital. But I much prefer writing by hand, especially when doing math. I got Samsung s10+ and have 2 problems: the pen is too damn small and my handwriting sucks for recognition so it's mostly PDF
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by chermi 3mo ago
How did they pick winners and losers early days of Tesla? It demand side subsidy. No one else could meet it. It worked.
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by chermi 3mo ago
Wow having it as a PCI card would be awesome. I don't know the feasiblity but it would be really cool. Ordering different models, back to physical media basically...
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by chermi 3mo ago
weird, I'm pretty sure there was some american that made electric cars a thing. I'm not a fan of state sponsorship or bailouts. but if you're trying to equivocate, it's just not really true. also anti-tarriff. I guess I
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by chermi 3mo ago
I never said it wasn't competitive, I said I'm not optimistic. There's lag effects to everything and I think we're just seeing the beginning of it coming due.
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by chermi 3mo ago
My gut is that, at least for now, there's a timescale mis-match problem. Hardware still takes too long, then you have to deploy it. I don't know much about "burning asics", but if the whole process of spinning up prog
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by chermi 3mo ago
There's a difference between state sponsored and private dumping.
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by chermi 3mo ago
Dario's PR strategy is one of the most confusing things I've ever witnessed.
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by chermi 3mo ago
It's basically American VCs vs the China the state. I'm not optimistic for the US at this point, given how much China cares about it and how much talent they have. And how much they're putting into hardware and the whole ecos
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by chermi 3mo ago
I mean isn't the explanation simply that llama was never good enough, even when it was released? I hear (no data) lots of people using gemma4, at least a month or two ago.
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by chermi 3mo ago
I think I am, but I wouldn't really call it offloading thinking. I would call it trying to offload thinking
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by chermi 3mo ago
Did you mean landauer?

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