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> Could someone link me to a poem that an LLM did that they personally find in some way remarkable or beautiful or moving? Something with a bit of truth and/or beauty in it? A lot of people couldn't link you to _any_ poem, huma
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I think a lot of the problems with game _rulebooks_ are actually problems with the game _design_. Once you start getting into _dozens of pages_ to explain the rules, there's no amount of re-organization or quality technical writing tha
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I try to do everything in a single pure functional expression no matter how dumb and unreadable that makes the code look.
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> Either way, the VC's value is to be able to predict whether Dropbox or Zumodrive deserves their bet, and they clearly couldn't. This is an extremely wrong-headed view of what VCs do, and one thing investors do _in general_ is
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Leibniz independently invented calculus, including the notation for the derivative that is most common today. He also basically invented computer science -- he did pioneering work in binary arithmetic, designed a mechanical calculator, and
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> While this is sometimes done in C++ as well for various reasons, it's certainly not the default pattern there. If you have two things that need to point to each other, you just do that. And then you have to handle all the subtle m
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Minecraft is probably one of the most profitable IPs of all time.
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2y ago
You just don't know enough about the foundations the article is building off of to follow it. What I do in such a case, is forget about the article at hand, and make a list of things that I don't understand and then try and learn
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> I think we will get to a place (around 5 years) where AI will be able to solve these problems and create these new objects. For all we know, buried deep in AlphaProof's attempts to solve these toy problems, it already tried and d
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The big exception being predicting market movements, and I can't imagine how much money the hedge funds are spending on this right now.
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Computers have been better than us at calculation since about a week after computers were invented. If a computer proves the Reimann Hypothesis, someone will say "Oh of course, writing a proof doesn't require intelligence, it'
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> I don't understand why educated people expect that an LLM would be able to play chess at a decent level. You shouldn't but there's lots of things that LLMs can do that educated people shouldn't expect it to be able
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2y ago
You say this quite confidently, but LLMs do generalize somewhat.
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The point of creating a service like this is for it to be useful, and if recognizing and handing off tasks to specialized agents isn't useful, i don't know what is.
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Still nobody offering even a scintilla of proof?
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2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9QHGaxdig Tempest 2000 was probably more acid house influenced, but there was also a lot of early breakbeat hardcore/jungle tunes in there too.
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> Austria has no sea access, no navy, few natural resources. Austria used to have all of those things. Vienna itself is not particularly different from any other imperial capital in terms of its location.
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I'm with you on intelligence, but the hallmark of civilization is right in the etymology -- the existence of cities.
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There are lots of ways that nuclear plants can explode or fail in otherwise catastrophic ways, it doesn't need to be an atomic explosion.
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Trying to understand what this gives me that kubeflow doesn't and I think it's just completely untrue that this does everything kubeflow does and more, as your documentation claims.
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Well, sure, but you don't know that until you work out the consequences -- you're just exploring the space of possibilities. Eventually you'll either find a contradiction or you won't, but you'll _never_ find a con
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If you search for a picture of alonzo church now on google, the image from your article is near the top.
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I applaud this person for disproving conjectures and think disproving conjectures is important, but the reason why the conjectures he disproved didn't get much attention is that they're all relatively minor conjectures, and he pro
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2y ago
I don't know, I always thought it sounded simplistic, cheap and dated, even at the time. Placing stuff in the stereo field has been bog standard music production since the 70s. Q sound adds a _little_ bit to it, but somewhat importan
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Not everyone involved in a religion is a believer. A lot of people get involved for their own purposes. But yes, the desire of believers to be accurate is why I'd expect something like Q to be written down eventually. Also, people mi
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Based on nothing other than that "people don't really change", I would guess that pretty soon after the death of Jesus, people started misattributing quotes to him. We have recent, extremely well documented historical figure
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This is a controversial claim, FWIW. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/world/europe/alexander-th...
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I don't really understand why they chose to rewrite this in rust if they're just going to spend their time writing unsafe C code in rust.
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it seems like there's a lot of potential for abuse if you can get it to generate ai images of real people reliably.
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You can judge the truth and falsity of its output without caring a whit about how it produces those outputs.
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