currymj

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by currymj 1y ago
I don't think it diminishes him. "Stella Maris" is a great novel that could only be written by someone who was very knowledgeable about math. As far as art that engages deeply with math and science, I don't know of anyth
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by currymj 1y ago
If you read his last two novels he was clearly well-informed about mathematics. However I have to assume that McCarthy didn't actually master all the material in the math books mentioned here, I think the reporter may be a little too c
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by currymj 1y ago
if you're maximizing accessibility you'd have both. often in broadcasts with closed captioning, there will also be a video of the sign language interpreter.
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by currymj 1y ago
sign languages are completely different languages from spoken languages, with their own grammar etc. subtitles can work but it's basically a second language. perhaps comparable to many countries where people speak a dialect that's
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by currymj 1y ago
I also can't think of a reason why I would ever want to look at an AI generated video. however as they hint at a little in the announcement, if video generation becomes good enough at simulating physics and environments realistically,
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by currymj 1y ago
two interesting cases: convex analysis and linear algebra are both relatively easy, concrete areas of mathematics. also beautiful and unbelievably useful. yet they didn't develop until the 19th century and didn't mature until the
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by currymj 1y ago
from a certain perspective, they've found that if I tell you nothing more about a person than their lab test results on some biomarkers, you can make a better-than-random educated guess about how much social connection they have in the
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by currymj 1y ago
they've already had that exact feature for a while, scheduled tasks are available in the settings menu. if you just tell the chat to schedule a task it will also make one automatically.
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by currymj 1y ago
i think it just doesn’t matter much. answering a question in 30 seconds vs. 5 minutes of thought is a very salient distinction in school and in some job interviews. it can impress people. so it feels painful to be slow. all else equal you’d
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by currymj 1y ago
the way it edits powerpoints is by launching a command line environment, and then editing the OOXML directly using command line tools. this takes several minutes to do even simple changes. to me it seems miraculous that it even "sort o
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by currymj 1y ago
i think a lot of social media influencers are selling a get rich quick scheme around other people's AI products. the actual AI companies marketing hype seems to claim: 1) you can make fun non-serious toy apps 2) any day now massive pro
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by currymj 1y ago
the thing about students who cheat is most of them are (at least in the context of schoolwork) very lazy and don't care if their work is high quality. i would guess waiting multiple minutes for Thinking mode to give thorough results is
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by currymj 1y ago
not only does a founder capture more upside, they also pay less of a cost. autonomy prevents burnout even under very intense working conditions. plus the nature of a founder's day to day work is very different. 12 hours a day of manage
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by currymj 1y ago
i think skepticism is healthy, but they've handled this in a fairer way than any other online product i've used before. they gave me a popup to agree to the ToS change, but I can ignore it for a month and still use the product. In
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by currymj 1y ago
i found the ToS change to be surprisingly not a dark pattern. in fact, i haven’t agreed to it yet, and was able to close the popup and continue using Claude. they also made it extremely clear how to opt out, providing the switch right in th
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by currymj 1y ago
in ChatGPT settings now there is a question "What personality should ChatGPT have?". you can set it to "Robot". highly recommended.
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by currymj 1y ago
if the router is working properly, it should send questions like this to thinking mode which can handle it well. unfortunately the router doesn't always seem to make the right call.
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by currymj 1y ago
I do think that you can tell apart these cases. Outright fabricated data is very different from p-hacking, which is very different from a meaningless garbage paper. On the other hand, convenient laboratory errors might be hard to tell apart
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by currymj 1y ago
probably not. the writing quality will improve but LLM-generated papers will still be ignored. to the extent they aren't ignored, but seem so plausible that they are taken seriously, eventually people will want to talk to the researche
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by currymj 1y ago
there are many separate problems of scientific fraud. I think these issues sometimes get confused which is unhelpful. 1. apparently-legitimate papers in prestigious journals with fraudulent data. extremely bad. 2. legitimate papers in legit
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by currymj 1y ago
i can understand a university administrator not feeling they can give a good educational experience to a 14 year old. but she'd be the same age as all the first years on campus, any university must be institutionally equipped to deal w
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by currymj 1y ago
this basically functions as a switch you can press that says "more effort please". after every response it makes you solve a little comprehension check problem before moving on. you can try to weasel out of it but it does push bac
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by currymj 1y ago
as a professor i'm tentatively pleased. it's hard to shake out the edge cases for anything like this so it may break down or cause annoying problems, who knows. but even with this feature in this very early state, it seems quite u
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by currymj 1y ago
a lot of "all you can eat" restaurants have to charge extra for uneaten food. there are people who just enjoy the feeling of abundance they get from paying a flat fee and then wasting something. This is clearly what was happening
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by currymj 1y ago
Those came from Larry Cuba, who worked at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois Chicago. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2017/05/23/blueprints-for-sta...
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by currymj 1y ago
from an information theory perspective, predicting and efficiently representing data is so closely tied to generation that it is unavoidable. if you want to use ML to do anything at all with image and video, you will usually wind up creatin
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by currymj 1y ago
this article contains some reasonable points about problems caused both by concrete advances in AI and by rhetoric about AI used to justify the decisions of the powerful. the focus is especially on AI-based end-user technology being sold
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by currymj 1y ago
thanks to training data + this being a popular benchmark, they're pretty good at grinding through symbolic mathematical derivations, which is often useful if you want an explanation of a mathematical concept. there's not really a
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by currymj 1y ago
everyone already leaves DNA everywhere, so it doesn’t seem like a step change. genetic privacy is a good thing but is utterly artificial, we have to create it if we want it.
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by currymj 1y ago
even in the much simpler world of image classifiers, avoiding both adversarial inputs and data poisoning attacks on the training data is extremely hard. when it can be done, it comes at a cost to performance. I don't expect it to be mu

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