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by dkural 11mo ago
As someone who is not so young anymore, but also not old, I think it is compound depreciation.
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by dkural 11mo ago
This article, in the world as it exists right now, is wrong about colon cancer. Anyone reading this of a certain age: get that colonoscopy, and those polyps removed. Snip it in the bud. That's the great thing about a colonoscopies -
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by dkural 1y ago
It's good to remind yourself of Bill Thurston's points: https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1994-30-02/S0273-0979-1994... I love the analogy in David Bessis's wonderful book Mathematica (nothing
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by dkural 1y ago
Of course I agree with this, but without technological progress this "saturates" rapidly. Only long-term durable productivity growth per unit of labor comes from technology - i.e. better ways of doing stuff.
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by dkural 1y ago
Agreed! I am a big fan of Robert Allen's books on the industrial revolution as a counterpoint to Mokyr. (The two are of course are friends with each other as well).
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by dkural 1y ago
There is two contributors to growth: increase in population, and productivity gains. If tech adoption slows down and population slows down, we go back to the historical norm of no economic growth.
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by dkural 1y ago
To go down this rabbit hole, presumably someone is hating somebody in this immoral hierarchy though? If everyone is happy with everyone, where's the immoral part? I do think the OP is right that in many circumstances of everyday life
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by dkural 1y ago
No, it doesn't - here's an easy way to see why: You can already assume any conjecture to be true to see if it helps you factor a large number. After all it's easy to check your answer.
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by dkural 1y ago
No, not at all. A bijection is a very strong requirement. There is no kind of morphism of any kind here, between any given prime and a probability, just an estimate of prime density.
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by dkural 1y ago
It is unrelated to Ulam Spiral. The patterns there are due to various quadratic polynomials generating a finite number of primes, an observation going back to at least the time of Euler.
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by dkural 1y ago
From that viewpoint of all of chemistry and biology is just a consequence of theoretical physics. A lot of the 'consequences' of physics are very surprising and not at all obvious from the fundamental equations. There's a gre
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by dkural 1y ago
It's all good friend. I don't think I said "they LLMs" anywhere though? I think I just said "They can code .." etc.
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by dkural 1y ago
This is a nice article, I misunderstood some of your vision in the original article; thank you for pointing it out.
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by dkural 1y ago
LLMs can code - different products. The plural of "It" is "They". Lol.
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by dkural 1y ago
This article is a great example of how the human is struggling to extrapolate what happens next. There won't be any humans anywhere near this part of the tech stack, just like no one building a SAAS writes assembly code; or has to put
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by dkural 1y ago
It is a lot easier for one unified ML model to remember all the conversations as opposed to a team of engineers who may not communicate with each other anywhere nearing perfect accuracy.
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by dkural 1y ago
:D one would hope.
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by dkural 1y ago
So many people are unable to imagine a future where any misunderstandings in execution by the programmer (AI in this case) can be more pleasantly and quickly solved by a conversation between product team / designer / QA and the AI
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by dkural 1y ago
Huh! I genuinely didn't know that and this makes me very happy.
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by dkural 1y ago
I agree with this directionally, however I think you'll make more like 7.2% per year, and inflation will be about 2.5% per year. You'll also likely pay about 30% in federal and local taxes in the USA on it since you're actua
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Gilles Dowek, automated theorem proving pioneer, passed away(lemonde.fr)
2 points by dkural 1y ago|1 comments
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by dkural 1y ago
Agreed! I often wonder how LLMs will deal with this eventually. It could be their biggest strength. Some people will want tweet-based responses, some will want book-length. It could generate the right level of content for an audience-of-o
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by dkural 1y ago
I think there is a spectrum of compression here, so I find myself agreeing with your overall point but with a caveat. Putting aside "experiences" - travel or emotion - for transmitting information, the level of "desired compr
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by dkural 1y ago
humor.
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by dkural 1y ago
It would create a universe, obviously. First all the mass would attempt being squished at a singularity. WHILE the squishing continues, the first-in-line stuff would've already started to explode back-out inside the event horizon. From
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by dkural 1y ago
This is a straw-man argument. There's value in a well-rounded liberal arts education beyond job preparation. I say this as a math major with a molecular biology PhD. I took multiple classes in history, economics, etc. It allows one to
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by dkural 1y ago
That comment has exactly what you're asking for: Links to papers that show there is no evidence for rotation asymmetry. The very first article linked in that Reddit comment is a scientific publication from the Royal Society with the ti
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by dkural 1y ago
That article is by a crank. People pointed out that he cherry-picked the galaxies, and no one else who looked at the data objectively saw any evidence of preference for a rotation direction.
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by dkural 2y ago
So the battle of AGI will be won on the playing-fields of Factorio and StarCraft..
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by dkural 2y ago
Huh! Today I learned that inverter technology is advanced enough that batteries can also provide inertia and powergrid frequency control that flywheels were used for!

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