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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I want a children’s picture book of majorana topologies, they are so beautiful! https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S25902385220017... https://qdev.nbi.ku.dk/research/topological_quan
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
The vast majority of mathematicians are platonists. They think math is real.
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You can represent pi on a number line but it is absolutely completely impossible to randomly put a dot down on a number line and have it be pi. You can achieve endless measurable precision with decimal rational numbers. So randomly placing
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Thanks, Dang et al. It’s such a massive effort. And thanks to all those who have responsibly resisted the urge to x. It’s not easy!
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That’s right. It’s about American slaveholders. So you’d have to prove a direct descendant was a slave. Then there’d be the capitalization of the bank. Could probably be structured as a loan. And yes, everyone would indirectly be taxed for
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Instead of DEI, why not formal reparations for slavery? Done in the form of a bank, it could be pretty powerful.
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We are working on a project to have original language on the left and translation on the facing page. Instead of perfect translations or OCR, we try to report error rates with random sampling. We plan to have the texts editable on a Wikimed
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Renewables are getting built at a massive rate. Doubling every 3 years. It’s not a replacement yet, though. That’s because existing energy infrastructure is cheaper (eg gas), as is, than replacing it. Don’t be mean, we are after the same th
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I don’t think so. At the end of the day, I think people are pragmatic. It’s not about not believing in climate change, it’s about money. What is the tech that allows us to stop climate change today?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Geoengineering research needs to happen ASAP if we care about preventing runaway positive feedback effects. Calcium carbonate in upper atmosphere is a very promising solution. So is bringing back containership ship tracks via fuel additives
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The key thing about this paper is the invalidity of the measures. They are essentially looking at the correlation between measures of frequency of AI usage and measures of critical thinking skills. Yet, in the questions themselves, question
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Read Paul Smolensky’s paper on the harmonium. First restricted Boltzmann machine. The beginning helps justify subsymbolic in a pretty beautiful way.
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A Turing test along with a rating for preference. How preference relates to efficacy is unknown.
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Here’s the study itself. It is pretty cleverly designed, even though it can’t be compared to a therapeutic relationship—at all. People basically signed up to get couples help — and received a message. Then, they had to guess whether the res
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
>The infamous "Oh my gosh!" scream in Skrillex's "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" was sampled from a viral sport stacking video from 2008. The story fits!
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Maybe gen AI coding is neurosymbolic AI, realized differently than expected
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In a showdown of psychotherapists vs. ChatGPT, the latter wins, new study finds(fortune.com)
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Blind, experimental comparison of ChatGPT vs. human couples therapists(journals.plos.org)
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Mixture of depths, too.
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Good old fashioned AI, amirite
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There is a huge opportunity in simplifying and automating IRB review. Here in the Netherlands (we call it HREC, human research ethics committee) the process takes months and months to get permission to talk to people. Like, “hey I’ve design
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
A lot of people pursue PhDs because they are good at school and are highly trained to “jump through the next hoop.” Not to be dismissive, because career academics are important. But there is an unnecessary anxiety for many about leaving sch
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I wonder if they combined this with Valproic acid, which supposedly can help adults learn perfect pitch https://www.npr.org/2014/01/04/259552442/want-perfect-pitch-...
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Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood(link.springer.com)
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That’s fast! But for how much energy? For comparison, the total energy from this one particle (0.0192 joules) is equivalent to keeping a 50 mW LED lit for a third of a second.
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Neutrinos “interact with regular matter so rarely that it's estimated you'd need about a light-year of lead to completely block a bright source of them. Every one of us has tens of trillions of neutrinos passing through us eve
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Power budget will drop like a rock over time. Exponential increases in cost (and power) for next-level AI and exponential decreases for the cost (and power) of current level AI.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I wonder how this lower Volga group interacted with the earliest known civilization (5000-3000 BCE), in modern day Ukraine, the Cucuteni–Trypillia [1].They had cities with between 20-40k people that overlapped with the Yamnaya people’s disc
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My father, at one point, imagined himself on a Greek island. “Ouzo!” He’d offer from his hospital bed. He was an avid fisherman and his last words were, distinctly, “Big fish.” Yet, he was mostly unconscious for his last day. I spent time t
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
This was an excellent article. Jane Jacob’s is my hero. But now I see the downside.

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