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by defgeneric 2y ago
I may be missing the point of this blog but I don't think I am. I too miss the era of blogging but this isn't it. The only thing this piece does is name drop--without having the courage to actually name names--and point out how th
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by defgeneric 2y ago
I don't know the context, but Claus Kiefer was on the Physics Frontiers podcast recently talking about this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07331 Gödel's undecidability theorems and the search for a theory
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by defgeneric 2y ago
Perhaps what we should be pushing for is a law that would force full disclosure regarding the training corpus and require a curated version of the training data to be made available. I'm sure there would be all kinds of unintended cons
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by defgeneric 2y ago
Arguably it's more than just moral superiority, with thin being considered beautiful (high status) and fat being considered ugly (low status).
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by defgeneric 2y ago
I've tried this and found it doesn't make much difference. The idea was to somehow preserve the document structure while reducing the token count, so you do things like strip all styles, etc. until you have something like a struct
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by defgeneric 2y ago
Why didn't they use a respirator?
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by defgeneric 3y ago
A theory can be untestable but also falsifiable. For example, while the multiverse theory/interpretation may be untestable, it could be immediately falsified if QM were falsified. Popper's falsifiability criterion was more aimed a
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by defgeneric 3y ago
Sorry, but the parents' "values" are almost always some crackpot nonsense. Public schools at least aim for a measure of neutrality, beyond which children can develop their own ideas. It's just strange to me that people a
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by defgeneric 3y ago
Socialization is broader than just between peers. It's how the individual develops a relationship to society as a whole. The public school system is the primary way the state socializes kids. You learn the difference between the public
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by defgeneric 3y ago
Then these should be distinguished and regulated appropriately.
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by defgeneric 3y ago
I'm skeptical when these parents their kids cite poor public schools as the primary reason for home schooling. When you look closer, it's almost always lifestyle and ideology that are the main factors. The often-cited failure in s
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by defgeneric 3y ago
The debate about the "public intellectual" is a very old one by now. Most date the emergence of the public intellectual to the Dreyfus affair. I read the author's list here with sadness, thinking that the younger generation i
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by defgeneric 3y ago
They're also evidently unaware that the Bloomsbury Set was equally composed of men, with Keynes among them.
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by defgeneric 3y ago
They lost about 16% from Feb 8 to Feb 24 but recovered it all by Apr 6. The stock sits around that same level as of May 1.
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by defgeneric 3y ago
> Also I think it's important to mention that just a short while ago virtually no-one thought that shoving more layers into an llm would be enough to reach AGI. This was basically the strategy of the OpenAI team if I understand them
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by defgeneric 3y ago
> And it'll be a nice neutral way of arguing about what is in a bill - people might be able to agree on which AI is reasonable and what it thinks the summary should be. It's more likely that they'll further politicize thes
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by defgeneric 3y ago
https://treasurydirect.gov/
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by defgeneric 3y ago
Interesting to note that the idea of the "Big Bounce" has been around a long time. Penrose's claim seems to be that there may be evidence of it in cosmic background radiation hotspots. This was Nietzsche in 1885, musing on ho
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by defgeneric 4y ago
It's less unsettling when you think of LLMs as an approximation to a kind of "general intellect" recorded in language. But then the surprising thing is that we as "individual intellects" tend to operate the same way
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by defgeneric 4y ago
I agree generally but read the post and it only mentions cellular automata briefly and promotes Wolfram Alpha once. Overall it's very good at moving from Markov chains to neural nets with decent examples and graphics.
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by defgeneric 4y ago
I don't agree with their decision but it's neither Marxist nor deconstructionist. The politics of deconstruction was pretty explicitly anti-Marxist or at least non-Marxist and in the 80s-90s and the Marxists were endlessly critica
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by defgeneric 4y ago
Obvious fear mongering from a right-wing "newspaper" but it's interesting to consider how it might be possible to detect if was carrying something radioactive.
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by defgeneric 4y ago
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo is often cited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatub...
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by defgeneric 4y ago
No doctor would ever recommend TRT for increasing sperm as it literally shuts down sperm production (LH, FSH are near zero on TRT).
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by defgeneric 4y ago
> The Bitcoin decision is single handedly marching San Salvador into a currency crisis This is an extreme oversimplification. The issue is that decision to make Bitcoin legal tender has put El Salvador at odds with the IMF. Arguably they
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by defgeneric 4y ago
This is correct. The Nuevas Ideas party led by Bukele simply demolished FMLN and ARENA and rightly so.
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by defgeneric 4y ago
See also the 2020 documentary Mighty Ira : https://www.mightyira.com/
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by defgeneric 4y ago
I think you're confusing that with "pocket change" as in a small/insignificant amount of money. Pocket money can just mean that you always have money around that can be spent according to whatever whim or whatever you wa
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by defgeneric 5y ago
Even in American English it's fairly common to say "scheme" without implying "scam".
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by defgeneric 5y ago
The quality of this thread is really disappointing. Conservatively, about 80% of the replies, criticisms, suggestions, re-framings, here are addressed in the article by the author. About 20% of the replies here are responding to the title a

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