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1. 1741.▲
   by dekhn 2y ago

   elon musk is trolling.
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   by dekhn 2y ago

   I think MD is a big waste of time and resources for nearly all problems, even free energy prediction. Maybe useful for studying kinetics of sub forms, ala Pande. Baker and deep mind lead the field with many ankle biters nipping at their h
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   by dekhn 2y ago

   Let's see what's left in Alphabet that isn't Google. There's Calico, CapitalG, Fiber, GV, Intrinsic, Isomorphic, Verily, Waymo, Wing, X. Nest and DeepMind were absorbed into Google, and many of the previous Alphabet mini
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   by dekhn 2y ago

   The car almost certainly made a reasonable decision based on the information available. They have all the technology and logic required to make decisions based on ambiguous and vague signage, and if they hadn't done this, we'd be
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   by dekhn 2y ago

   Yeah, so after collecting enough opinions from enough people, I'm 100% confident saying there isn't truly anything specific to GW here. When I use the ROOT library from CERN to analyze my molecular dynamics data, I'm not doi
6. 1746.▲
   by dekhn 2y ago

   Based on comments elsewhere in this thread and some re-reading of the definitions of those terms, I think those weren't quite right. I'm mulling over doomsayer (Hinton), and hypster (Altman). It's very similar to the folks
7. 1747.▲
   by dekhn 2y ago

   OK, fair. I will stop saying shysters, hucksters, and charlatans when referring to Hinton ( https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-neural-net... and https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/
8. 1748.▲
   by dekhn 2y ago

   Hmm. Looking at https://github.com/redoxcode/micropython-stepper/blob/main/s... it looks like they basically run a fairly tight loop in Python using a Timer (which uses the hardware timer on ESP32 and R
9. 1749.▲
   by dekhn 2y ago

   He was right about not getting involved in a land war in Asia, but not so much with iocaine powder?
10. 1750.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    I think Sutskever is a charlatan outside of his area of expertise, Hinton (with whom I worked loosely at Google) is a bit of a charlatan (again, outside his area of expertise; clearly he and LeCun both did absolutely phenomenal work) and I
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    I'm pretty good at estimating the future; I started working in ML around 1993 and my last work in ML was on TPU hardware at Google (helping researchers solve deep problems when hardware goes wonky), and a number of my ideas (like Alpha
12. 1752.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    My text written above makes it quite clear that I don't think most people were saying GPT-4 was superintelligence, but the implication, especially from the charlatans, was there. I'm referring to the OpenAI white paper on GPT4 tha
13. 1753.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    I call this the "filter changing problem". No matter how complex you make the technology, somebody still has to change the oil filter (or do whatever other maintainence is required to keep the system running). Sort of like ML-SR
14. 1754.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    I don't think we can really say what path would lead to superintelligence (for whichever definition you desire) in the near future. Perhaps it is technically possible to achieve merely by making an embodied agent with enough different
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    Yes, here's the original URL which should download a full multi-page PDF: https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/... It's mostly speculative narrative with a fair number of data
16. 1756.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    Except for a short window around the release of GPT-4 (especially the inflated claims around beating expert trained humans at legal and math tests, as well as "replacing google"), I think people have more or less right-sized their
17. 1757.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    Stain is almost always for coloring, not finishing (not clear if you were implying otherwise). There are products marketed as "stain" which are made from linseed oil and beeswax, but they really only darken the wood a little. Ge
18. 1758.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    In the US those are usually called "self-healing cutting mats" made of PVC (indeed, a plastic).
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    This is one of those techniques I don't understand when I read it as text, but will instantly absorb when I have a working code example and pass some of my own data through it a few times, inspecting the working process. I first learne
20. 1760.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    Yes, commonly used Titebond II and III are both food-safe.
21. 1761.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    The pyramids were original covered in polished white limestone casement, which was highly reflective and visible hundreds of miles away. I wonder if you could exploit this to send pictograms by selectively covering parts of the casement wi
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    The technology to build large stone monuments has been repeatedly rediscovered. Once you have stone chisels, a quarry, and a log supply, plus enough food to maintain a population of people to work the stone and haul it, and a stable leader
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    Not helpful. From https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-missile-knows-where-it-is
24. 1764.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    I'm not sure there's any really good book that furthers this argument (possibly The Perfectionists or One Good Turn?) but it sort of becomes obvious when you read about Maudsley ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
25. 1765.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    I have to assume in this case the stepper motor signals are generated by a hardware peripheral (like RMT on the ESP32), rather than using python code to generate the stepper signal? In my microscope, I run a FluidNC board that's doing
26. 1766.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    After many years of working on the the problem of biological automation, I came to conclude that it's really hard to beat an extremely skilled/smart lab tech for general purpose experiments. And my company thinks on the decade+ t
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    If you're in optical measurement and it should be around 200nm (rayleigh criterion, wavelength dependent), am I missing something? Obviously, that's just angular resolution, not measurement precision, so I'm guessing I&#x27
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    Fortunately, Yonatan (who was in fact the main engineer working on Google+) reposted it to Medium: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/how-the-price-of-paint-is-... After he wrote it I pointed out most historical barns i
29. 1769.▲
    by dekhn 2y ago

    That's a great question, I really have no idea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_hat ). I'm generally not opposed to hunting, and totally get that beavers are a nuisance to many people, but IMHO they'
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    by dekhn 2y ago

    This is one situation where metalwork probably beats 3d printing, in terms of ease of implementation. My guess is that the antikythera was probably state of the art, built by a highly advanced workshop by extremely skilled artisans, and cos