epgui

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by epgui 12d ago
That’s better but I’d argue it’s still not clear enough. If you told me that, I’d interpret that as meaning “don’t try to imagine things that never happened as a thought exercise”, which is what I normally understand “counterfactual” to mea
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by epgui 12d ago
Well, I agree that all of that is annoying, but "Don’t contradict sentences" is not a very good instruction. The construction "A, not B" is not a "contradiction", it's a clarification, a juxtaposition, a c
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by epgui 16d ago
Yeah, I suppose this could vary by geography, but my understanding is that in Canada, you're nearly-absolutely responsible for hitting anything in front of you, and nearly-absolutely not responsible for anything hitting you from behind
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by epgui 17d ago
Anecdotally, the only times I've ever noticed these chimes and the auto-braking (even automatic rolling-up of windows), it was false positives, and it was mildly terrifying: for a brief and unexpected moment I was no longer in control
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by epgui 22d ago
Lean is for humans.
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by epgui 22d ago
Is Lean a DSL? I’d argue it’s a general purpose programming language that excels at proofs.
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by epgui 1mo ago
I would only wish that on my enemies... For god's sake, if you're going to think in a programming language, pick one with strict referential transparency.
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by epgui 1mo ago
If you use AI to outsource your thinking, then AI is not “just an amplifier” at all. A huge proportion of people who use AI use it to outsource their thinking.
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by epgui 1mo ago
No, it’s just written as speech.
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by epgui 1mo ago
Sounds more like an admission than a boast to me.
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by epgui 1mo ago
I think you’re failing to identify the important part of the story.
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by epgui 1mo ago
What gives you the impression that "people" have come to such a conclusion?
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by epgui 1mo ago
I am a very big fan of Axler's approach, because to me it really gets to the (abstract) essence of things. When I truly started to "get" this approach, it really made linear algebra an important part of how I think.
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by epgui 2mo ago
No.
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by epgui 2mo ago
Well “a lot” in volume sure, but that feels unnecessarily (maybe ignorantly) dismissive of the core corpus of the field. Find me any field in which there isn’t “a lot” of BS.
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by epgui 2mo ago
A lot of “shallow philosophy” seems more like “pseudo-philosophy”. I feel like a lot of people just take “thoughts” and label that philosophy.
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by epgui 2mo ago
There’s a term for what the last sentence expresses: John Rawls’ “Veil of Ignorance”.
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by epgui 2mo ago
Markedly not my experience at all, haha. I stopped using it.
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by epgui 2mo ago
*ahem* roger penrose and his microtubules *ahem*
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by epgui 2mo ago
It won’t. And I will. I’m not sure if your question misunderstands what AI is and what it can do, or if it misunderstands what cancer is and how medical research works.
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by epgui 2mo ago
I'm a scientist, so I know how science works. More research is always needed. Thinking that watching video content on a different box is any different in this context is wishful thinking.
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by epgui 2mo ago
Obviously? Why do you think it would be any different?
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by epgui 3mo ago
That’s quite judgmental and shows an impressive lack of scientific curiosity.
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by epgui 3mo ago
Nanopore data is a lot easier to analyze than short read sequencing data. You just don’t get the same alignment/assembly issues: these things sequence incredibly long reads. (also a biochemist, MSc)
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by epgui 3mo ago
The word abstraction does not mean the same thing as the words analogy or comparison.
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by epgui 3mo ago
What does that have to do with the article?
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by epgui 3mo ago
I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?
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by epgui 3mo ago
They don’t create energy, but they do create heat. It’s entropy, can’t avoid it.
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by epgui 3mo ago
> What would you say are the benefits of the grammar-of-graphics approach? When a mathematical formalism exists, just use that. Other approaches just reinvent the wheel on an ad-hoc/piecemeal basis and end up making all sorts of unn
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by epgui 3mo ago
The selling point is the grammar of graphics. See Wilkinson on the subject.

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