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by dr_dshiv 10mo ago
So spheres are invented by humans? In another universe, there are no spheres or triangles?
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by dr_dshiv 10mo ago
Strawman. You are claiming math isn’t real?
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by dr_dshiv 10mo ago
Pythagoras almost certainly was misinterpreted. Unsayable numbers (the way the Greeks said irrational numbers) can take the wrong meaning. Like, why are they unsayable? Because you’d die before you could say them. Well, it’s not a threat! T
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
> I find it very appealing to consider the idea that the world is not somehow running “hidden mathematics”, somewhere and somehow, to solve some complicated equations in a seemingly magical way, but rather, that things are radically simp
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Map of all the buildings in the world(gizmodo.com)
185 points by dr_dshiv 11mo ago|64 comments
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Autism was split into autism and Asperger’s. But calling people with social challenges “Assburgers,” I mean, wow. Just wow.
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Ok, and that’s your prediction for 2 years from now? It’d be quite remarkable if humans had a bigger short term memory than LLMs in 2 years. Or that the kind of dumb security mistakes LLMs make today don’t trigger major, rapid improvements.
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
That’s why we make concrete measurable predictions.
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90% of human devs are not aware of every security consideration.
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Prediction: Vibe coding systems will be better at security in 2 years than 90% of devs.
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
What if the snowflake nucleated around microbes in the air, as is common? [1] Would that be life-like enough, especially as the crystalline structure of the snowflake itself would reflect the microbe. Or, what if the observer of the snowfla
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Yeah, that’s weird. Also many local news sites around the world are effectively banned in EU because of lack of GDPR compliance. Messed up.
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
We want highly talented people to be in government — it’s a lot better than the alternative. Why should we treat comp so differently than other fields?
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
You don’t need to be motivated by money to not want to take a major pay cut to do a horrible job.
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
My logic is that, if you are trying to evaluate whether you'd want to be a politician, consideration of cost/benefit is rational. If you aren't ethical, the benefit of being a politician is a lot higher (because you can get u
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Not enough to attracted talented, sane people with strong ethical values
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
They should benchmark to early USA and Singapore and corporations. George Washington was paid 4x Trump, I believe. In the context of corruption cleanup, I think people understand that paying people well avoids corruption. Mexican cops, that
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Out of tune or just cold?
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
See Brett Victor’s: Kill Math https://worrydream.com/KillMath/ He separates conceptual understanding from notational understanding— pointing out that the interface of using math has a major impact on utility and unders
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Yes, discussed in this paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/...
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
> AI is itself a marketing term that has begun to lose its luster. It’s rapidly becoming an annoying or trendy label, not a cutting edge one. Where have you been the last 15 years? However, I agree with your prediction. Coke making AI ad
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Musical appreciation is almost shockingly absent from animals. One possible reason is that allowing one’s nervous system to be entrained to external rhythms is potentially exploitable. So humans may have evolved the ability to “let the guar
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
And a strong tendency for integer ratios in chords. So is this about compressibility?
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
> Reactors also take a certain amount of mass. You can't just squish two tiny microgram particles together and hope to get anything going. Do they? Why not?
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
What if the fungus accumulated radioactive particles in vesicles? Might they create chained reactions and thus deplete the radioactivity faster than spatially separated particles? Might that be plausible?
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If you know contracting, you know that’s exactly how it’s always worked.
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
“I have one piece of advice for scientists and science communicators: your references matter. They are the evidence that we even have giants supporting us. All scientific claims should be referenced.” From the USTC, I recently learned that
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Does everything come down to waves or to bits? Well, if it’s waves, perhaps principles of consonance and dissonance might apply. Robert Hooke thought so… “Now as we find that musical strings will be moved by Unisons and Eighths, and other h
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1 in 8 freshman at UCSD don't have middle school math skills(10news.com)
5 points by dr_dshiv 11mo ago|2 comments
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by dr_dshiv 11mo ago
Agree. I also wonder whether this helps account for why some people get great value from AI and some terrible value.

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