dawnofdusk

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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
>Similarly, Chinese and Korean names are usually written in the order they are pronounced, while Japanese names are reversed. As a Chinese speaker this is maddeningly confusing when reading Western media. It's also a fairly new tren
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
In French you can (and most people do) drop diacritics from all uppercase forms.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
>but the spelling rules differ depending on whether the word was imported directly from Latin, or came in via Norman French In fact it can be even more complicated because in English the words can come from Norman dialects and "typi
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Now that Google Maps has the AI summary for restaurants, I wonder if this can be queried in the API? It would probably have the keywords for Xinjiang food or whatever the OP wants to analyze. Checking two Central Asian restaurants I've
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
The short answers: 1. It answers how macroscopic equations of e.g., fluid dynamics are compatible with Newton's law, when they single out an arrow of time while Newton's laws do not. 2. It was solved in the 1800s if you made an un
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
>This really does sound like Computer Science since it's very beginnings. Except in actual computer science you can prove that your strategies, discovered by trial and error, are actually good. Even though Dijkstra invented his epon
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Yeah it's hard to get excited about these sorts of tools when Nix exists. I think for development purposes it's a smart idea to use the language specific conventions/ecosystem.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
This comment you wrote sounds a lot like an LLM, FYI. Not saying you are
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Haha that's crazy I'm so used to reading RL papers that when the blog linked to a textbook about RL I just filled in Sutton & Barto without clicking on the link or thinking any further about the matter. I think the other criti
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
I mean you're right it's just a front end. And front ends can be open sourced? Obviously this has some public value: other people don't have to build a frontend starting from zero. I don't think it's well-aimed crit
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
The author of this blog is clearly eloquent and, as per their interspersed quotations of David Hume and others, it is refreshing to see someone so well-read in the software/tech blogosphere. I love Lisp. The last few paragraphs are a p
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Yes they do. Scroll to bottom of Github readme >This project leverages the Gemini APIs to provide AI capabilities. For details on the terms of service governing the Gemini API, please refer to the terms for the access mechanism you are u
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
I feel like you get more mileage out of prompt engineering and being specific... not sure if "fix all the bugs" is an effective real-world use case.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
In the diagonalization you don't need to assume the existence of any real numbers. Just on the left hand side you write down, formally, any sort of numbers that have decimal expansions that may be infinite. Rational numbers have infini
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
The paper maps two energy-based methods to each other. I'm not sure what the innovation is.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Fast-moving field? This is a chemistry paper not an ML paper. ML people have their conferences which are on much abridged timeframes.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Yes but Euclidean 3-space means you need to test 1) that it's 3-space, by counting dimensions and 2) that it's Euclidean, which is a question about local curvature
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
This is just a question about the origins of inhomogeneity in the universe. The prevailing theory is cosmic inflation, I believe: in the early universe a quantum field existed in a high entropy state and then the rapid expansion of space ma
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Deriving existing theories of gravity is an important test of the theory, it's not a problem at all. It's only a problem if you can only do this with more free parameters than the existing theory and/or the generalized theory
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Not in this field directly, but first of all, talking about the "geometry of space" is more than just saying there are three spatial dimensions: geometry involves the local curvature of the object. Historically the Pauli matrices
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
If you like Lisp there is GUIX which is the Nix packaging idea but using a language that is slightly less trash. The ecosystem is much worse so it would not be great for a desktop end user AFAIK.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
They are the same for physicists who analytically continue everything. Steepest descent is technically for integrals in the complex plane, and Laplace's method is for integrating over the real line.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Interesting! My personal experience is that using a vertical mouse very quickly cured wrist and forearm pain that I had, and that the reason is because the "handshake" position is the most neutral hand/forearm posture from an
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Staying at home row is not really about ergonomics. The best thing you can do (without breaking the bank, i.e., no bespoke split keyboard setups) for your hand ergonomics at the computer is to get a vertical mouse and tilt your keyboard dow
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
>I can't think of any benefit If you want to minimize the time it takes to travel to a particular key, it makes sense to keep your fingers at the "center of mass" of the keyboard... which is the home row.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Typing fast is an underrated skill for developers. A lot of the value added by various intelligent tab completion and LLMs is easily replicated by typing variable and function names at 100+ wpm. Not a fan, however, of the desire to disparag
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Typically non-relativistic and non-quantum is called "Newtonian". Classical is just for anything which is not quantized, and so far no one knows how to quantize general relativity.
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
You learned about stress tensors and PDEs in high school?
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by dawnofdusk 1y ago
Not really dumbed down, just that it prioritizes quantum physics instead of classical. One can debate whether this is a good set of priorities but it's flippant to say a curriculum focused on quantum mechanics is dumber than one focuse

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