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by gmadsen 3y ago
that is simply not true. They are classified by their topological invariants, which affects their properties.
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by gmadsen 3y ago
I was answering the inverse. If 9% use, then 91% don't
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by gmadsen 3y ago
for actual understanding, yes it is. The most basic important results, the law of large numbers, and the central limit theorem both require calculus to understand. if you make a class without calculus, it is essentially just a bag of tricks
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by gmadsen 3y ago
im not though. I don't think you need to know measure theory and understand how to formalize probability in terms of sigma algebras to do professional stats. But I would be very skeptical of a professional data scientist that doesn&#x2
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by gmadsen 3y ago
all those formulas were derived using calculus...
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by gmadsen 3y ago
using those "data stuffs" are usually based on calculus. Statistics and probability are both defined in terms of calculus. calculus is the most basic of mathematical machinery, that it is essentially a requirement to do anything e
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by gmadsen 3y ago
well microsoft says there is 750 million users of excel globally. So potentially 90% of the world?
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by gmadsen 3y ago
I think languages like Julia make a strong case the other way. you can literally write algorithms that match the pseudocode in a paper. You have to be ok with unicode in your source file, but for numeric stuff, I think its a nice feature
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by gmadsen 3y ago
for basic things, sure. it is much much worse than this when you deal with different encodings for an application that needs to format and print things
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by gmadsen 3y ago
can you point to any of that? my understanding is that we haven't reached any dimishing returns with transformer models and scaling yet
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by gmadsen 3y ago
What is the plan exactly? keep going at a loss until self driving cars? If they raise prices, do riders use lyft instead?
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by gmadsen 4y ago
that seems like exactly something bing could give you
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by gmadsen 4y ago
task groups solve this problem
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by gmadsen 4y ago
one thing to keep in mind, is that infinity as a physical entity may not even exist. we have constructed infinity from ZFC, and deduced consequences of those axioms. Many many examples in Math go against natural intuition but they are sti
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by gmadsen 4y ago
its only unsound if you are using standard summation. That is not the only kind, nor is it the only useful kind. The same can be said about zero or negative numbers, or the real number line. Those are also "fanciful fictions"
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by gmadsen 4y ago
all physical theories are effective theories. Nothing is fundamental
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by gmadsen 4y ago
Because it is hard and an active area of mathematical research. Which relates to the second question, yes, QED is the most accurate physical theory ever created and its unique predictions have been validated over the past 50 years. The issu
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by gmadsen 4y ago
I don't think thats correct.. C++ has UB because of backwards compatibility, which has origins to design choices of C in the 70s. Its not like it is optimized for performance above all else, it had immediate needs to be close to metal,
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by gmadsen 4y ago
Cruise has started aggressively scaling its fleet of driverless cars, that are currently taxiing people without a human driver.. I'm not sure if its some weird human psychology thing going on, but the amount of posts and emotional resp
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by gmadsen 4y ago
right, thats why some moves by alphago were called beautiful and deeply creative by human go masters? idk know why this keeps getting repeated, it is NOT a statistical analysis of past data and a prompt. It is not just pattern matching. It
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by gmadsen 4y ago
I tend to take the view that thoughts are very similar to sensory input. if you sit in silence for 60 seconds, you literally do not and can not predict what thoughts pop up in consciousness. You can actively focus attention on a thought, bu
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by gmadsen 4y ago
As someone who hasn't really done much deep learning, I've always wondered if the work itself is fullfilling or if it is just the fact that there is absurbly cool outcomes? The math isn't super complex, it seems the majority
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by gmadsen 4y ago
ill try to look later today, it was a big part of the keynote at the ICRA conference last year
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by gmadsen 4y ago
i believe this is in cpp23
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by gmadsen 4y ago
There is considerable research on this already, of less sophisticated models. The research as it stands now, seems to be really positive. So I'm not quite sure its as thoughtless as you state.
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by gmadsen 4y ago
does that mean it could at least run? even if a magnitude or two slower?
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by gmadsen 4y ago
I understand this would be a magnitude more work, but I'd pay money for these mechanics in a snes style populous remake
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by gmadsen 4y ago
10k lines is still 10k lines. What I like about vim is that it mimics how i think about code, its the closest thing to a brain interface that an editor can be.
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by gmadsen 4y ago
what exactly does Huberman shill? As far as I can tell, he has done an extemely commendable service bringing academic literature to the masses.
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by gmadsen 4y ago
which part. how is that not electostatics and van der walls forces?

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