gowld

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by gowld 9d ago
I don't think that's true at all.
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by gowld 9d ago
It makes sense when you realize that all the information inside a black hole is present at its surface. An object itself approaches singularity, but to an outside observer it never crosses the event horizon, so everything "inside&quo
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by gowld 9d ago
"public-text" doesn't describe the purpose of a public key.
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by gowld 9d ago
And in fact, we have a dedicated term for shared secrets
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by gowld 10d ago
Space Review website has malware-download ads all over the page. That spooks me.
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by gowld 11d ago
Quick, someone make a startup to print chopped-up-books on demand.
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by gowld 11d ago
Comment is unrelated to the link, except that both have the word "Warranty".
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by gowld 11d ago
Nothing can be observed travelling faster that speed of light in the observer's proper time, but many things can be observed having travelled faster than the speed of light, when considering the traveler's proper time and the
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by gowld 11d ago
Yes, LLM is excellent at optimizing exhaustive search algorithms into "representative" search algorithm, by generating heuristic classifications at high scale.
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by gowld 11d ago
I wonder what Karlin thinks.
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by gowld 12d ago
Why is "Doctor of Philosophy" the correct certificate of "becoming expert in a topic"? That's a radical departure from "PhD" being a certificate that someone is qualified to produce new research. What you
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by gowld 12d ago
That's not true. It's pretty clear that she meant "do something you knew they were going to say no to and now you are trying to get away with something." https://youtu.be/wHdHCoeUbU4?t=861s > So I wan
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by gowld 12d ago
Also, the fact that both are very unusual from a spelling perspective makes it an easy human mistake.
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by gowld 12d ago
Criminal law may be lagging or inapplicable. (Crimes require "mens rea", a "guilty mind") Tort law is very general: Contribute toward harming someone -> civil suit for damages $$$
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by gowld 12d ago
Why is a poorly written forum comment on the front-page as a top link?
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by gowld 15d ago
Updated Sept. 11, 2026 9:49 am ET is less than 30 minutes ago
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by gowld 15d ago
re-report here: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-09-11/anthropic-a...
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by gowld 15d ago
Do you consider every trial defendant to be exonerated?
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by gowld 15d ago
Any indictment of LLM needs to distinguish LLM from pocket calculators and books. Calculators and books quietly made reasearch less collaborative. Also, Waymo is an automated taxi service, so it's an exteremly misleading analogy. Taxi
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by gowld 15d ago
Currently, the leader of USA national AI policy (Trump admin and OpenAI) is a history Bachelors with no technical training or advanced training of any kind, Dean Ball.
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by gowld 16d ago
It's a new presentation, an online hypertext, and uses YouTube publications of 21st Century music as example. https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/frontmatter-5.html
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by gowld 16d ago
I would love to have a unicorn pegasus, but some things might just be impossible. Even something as simple as the computer you are posting from is not optimized for human comprehensibilty, in its full detail.
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by gowld 16d ago
Even that is overselling it: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD... > Key messages > We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread o
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by gowld 16d ago
"Seinfeld isn't funny". Hofstadter was one of the pioneers of the "not uncommon" idea.
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by gowld 16d ago
I don't quite know what Aaronson is trying to say. First, LLM AI systems have incredibly huge blind spots despite their incredible performance on many tasks, so self-reference might be the key to what's missing (or not). For examp
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by gowld 16d ago
> And presumably would go on to add systems to allow them to persecute others they deem to be slackers. According to the story (which seemed to lack a "trunk"), the proposed system was individual essays.
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by gowld 16d ago
Create a Meeseek to destroy non-Meeseek AI
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by gowld 16d ago
"monic" is a separate switch from the example functions radio-selector. Enabling "monic" removes the leading coefficient.
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by gowld 16d ago
From the abstract, a name that many on HN would recognize: > We also give an injective polynomial construction for universal hashing that uses N multiplications to hash 2N values with a single random key. This improves the best previous
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by gowld 16d ago
What is the tradeoff between multiplication and addition?

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