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by davesque 3y ago
Ah, heh. True. I guess Somos-1 would then be undefined? Because \sum_{n=1}^{0} doesn't make much sense.
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by davesque 3y ago
I said Elizabethan English, not English. As in Shakespeare. The point is that there are probably at most a few thousand people in the world who could display that level of competence at making Shakespearean rhymes. And I doubt enough of the
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by davesque 3y ago
Yeah, it would be pretty surprising to find out that India has so many individuals that are profoundly competent at converting arbitrary text into rhymes in Elizabethan English.
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by davesque 3y ago
Here's a definition from Wolfram math world that includes an addition operation for any valid value of k : https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SomosSequence.html Are you talking about the behavior of the floor operator in d
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by davesque 3y ago
Definitely looks like progress, but they're still firmly in the center of the uncanny valley.
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I've definitely experienced this. Lately, I often forget that I'm making coffee and just leave the grinder on the counter. This is utterly bizarre behavior for me. I'm usually very focused on what I'm doing. I'm in
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by davesque 3y ago
But I know I'm reaching here. I just like fantasizing about math :).
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by davesque 3y ago
I suppose e's connection to hyperbolic geometry might suggest a relationship with the implicit formula x^2 - y^2 = 1. And I guess log2's behavior would be very much connected to that since it only differs from the natural log by
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by davesque 3y ago
Squinting at this, I wonder if it's at all valid to say that the existence of a quadratic time algorithm to calculate pi has anything to do with the fact that the implicit formula of a circle is made up of quadratic terms. In other wor
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by davesque 3y ago
> So now, I don't like listening to some of the super fast rough styles that some players have. Completely agree with you on this point. I find that there are very few players that I actually enjoy listening to. Many players rush
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by davesque 3y ago
Yeah, I'm aware that this is often the arrangement between teacher and student in India or Pakistan. My teacher was Nepali and studied both with his childhood teacher in Kathmandu and also with Suresh Talwalkar in New Delhi. We were
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by davesque 3y ago
Who's your favorite Tabla player? I became oddly obsessed with this instrument for about two or three years of my life. It helped that I had an extremely competent teacher. My favorite player was Anindo Chatterjee. Of course, there
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by davesque 3y ago
This is also a nice way to show that the growth of fib numbers is exponentially bounded.
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I think the problem is bigger than the young author would like to admit. She's correct that Zoomers probably have it worse than previous generations as the victims of a psychological capitalism that seeks to profit by hollowing out the
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by davesque 3y ago
Had this in music school. Struck me completely out of nowhere the first day I performed in studio class. I had never really struggled with performance anxiety and then, suddenly, I was completely paralyzed by it.
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by davesque 3y ago
I played the 7th Guest on my Mac Centris 610 when I was 12 or 13 when it came out. Was fun and the visuals, if you can believe it, were really impressive. There were a lot of games coming out right around that time that were essentially j
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by davesque 3y ago
Not sure why this is getting so many upvotes. There is no concrete information in the paper about how the model actually works or what differentiates it from other models.
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by davesque 3y ago
Sounds like the basic idea is as follows: Typical transformers apply self-attention between tokens that vary across time. So the dot product values for each pair of tokens in the resulting attention (correlation) matrix are basically dot p
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by davesque 3y ago
Google's business model is such that it needs to invade privacy in order to make money. It's also made up of human beings who are subject to self-serving bias (believing that they have no bad intentions, therefore nothing will go
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by davesque 3y ago
My impression is that the device isn't able to track all of the face's subtle movements so the avatars come across as seeming relatively expressionless. For example, I noticed that Lex's and Mark's eyebrows don't s
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by davesque 3y ago
TIL: Ignore any job postings by Flexport.
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by davesque 3y ago
Yeah, I remember the same. I was 13 in 1994 and I remember the impact theory being taught as the cause well before the Shoemaker-Levy impact.
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by davesque 3y ago
This article made me laugh out loud more than once. My favorite quote: > Plenty of these findings are interesting and some are useful (especially if you are a rich, lonely monkey). You'll have to read the article for the context.
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by davesque 3y ago
I think I might be a bit of an outlier on this, but I struggle to see the value of imposing an embargo date in a security disclosure unless it's sent to a large institution that is used to a formal process like that. In most cases, if
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by davesque 3y ago
I've seen that video a number of times and it's great. Very compelling. You really feel like he understands how important it is to model good behavior. And I think it not only matters to children but to adults as well. People look
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by davesque 3y ago
@frfl No problem. Thanks for being receptive to my observation.
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You could have simply asked something like, "What are peoples opinions on the job market?" > My conclusion, so far, is unless you've got strong connections it's hard right now to find a job. By including this take, yo
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by davesque 3y ago
Just wanted to point out that the way you presented the question, and the forum you presented it in, made it more likely that you would hear from people that agreed with you. Generally, if people don't have a problem with something, t
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by davesque 3y ago
Do companies want the trust of their employees or do they want productivity metrics? Because they can't have both. And they should certainly prefer one over the other if they want to succeed.
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Something I think is missing from this list: make a sacrifice for the sake of the other person. If trust has been damaged, it might take more than just talk to repair it. You may need to give the other person part of what they want as a ge

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