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by david927 1y ago
And this is a timely discussion. Yesterday the Fed held an auction for US Bonds and no one showed up, so the Fed bought it all.
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You'll love it. It will change your life in an amazing way. Tips? Nothing concrete. Be open. Everything will change; let it. What you thought is true and indisputable will be called into question; let it. Find new truths. Bruce Lee s
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My understanding is that the wave function will collapse if information can be retrieved, so the moment it can be known which slit it goes through, it's already over. I also have a fun QM experiment idea but I could be wildly misinfo
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This is an updated version of what he published before.
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Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)(medium.com)
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> Universities should be looking at more and discouraging 1 dimensional applicants They really, really do. Admission to top universities has become hyper competitive. They're getting tens of thousands of highly qualified applica
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by david927 1y ago
This is the type of thinking we need more of. Thanks for posting this.
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Metaphors are symbols and symbols are learning. As a starting point, all learning needs to do that; it's a feature, not a bug. But the finishing point is to understand where it breaks down and where the abstraction becomes leaky.
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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by david927 1y ago
Ages ago I talked about this with Ron Garret here on HN and he pointed me to his Google Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc He makes a tremendous case that, yes, we're in a simulation, and the more I lear
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
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Nice. Keep going.
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What phase of late-stage Capitalism is this? It's horrible but it's spawning some pretty funny takes, such as "Collateralized Burrito Obligations": "A single BNPL contract for a burrito is incredibly risky. Anyone w
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by david927 2y ago
No Princeton?
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I really like that idea! Edit: It would be great if you could set the context and AI would generate it. It would make as an amazing addition to a standard Readme. Further, at one level it could show endpoints and function signatures with p
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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The end of the petrodollar and you're alive to witness it.
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Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle(medium.com)
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Is this going to be a crazy year?
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There's a reason why you have connoisseurs. You can fool carbon dating by using materials from that time. I'll have to look into the x-rays and what they show, but it can be quite hard to prove art authentic with scientific meth
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The details of the crime seem to point to something like this. Remember that Picasso was questioned and probably involved. One theory is that what we think is the original is, in fact, a master-copy by Picasso. The original is held privat
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> Curious too when the various disciples lived, wrote My understanding is that in spite of the names, the disciples didn't write them.
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Me too. I can recommend Dan McClellan, who's an Oxford-education biblical scholar and has some books and makes videos on the topic.
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Thanks, Dan, for that clarification. The question each month is actually two-fold: what have you been tinkering around with and what new ideas are thinking about. It's an invitation to dialogue. We know our history and the role colla
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Ivrea is beautiful. I've been there multiple times for the annual orange-throwing festival. Incredibly fun and recommended.
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What we have is amazing, but it's probably not the path to AGI. Let's focus on what we have, invest in what it can bring us, instead of hyping what we don't have, forcing it to be something it's not. Hucksters like Sam
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Happy to hear that, and yes, will do!
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by david927 2y ago
Very cool! I'll try it out and I'll be watching its progress.
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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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