gsf_emergency_2

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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
A different take: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-18904-3 (Maybe the Greeks' themselves could have done it, they already had a rudimentary steam engine )
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Had Archimedes lived to teach the Romans his calculus we might have reached Mars by 500 AD https://youtu.be/h0gPomI3h8o that's not from hesitation. And one can only call the Syracuse invasion an inefficiency in hindsi
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Maybe all i'm suggesting is that AI can help us quickly check that what we humans are working on is indeed insane ( and switch to something else if it passes their sanity checks) The causal path from Rodenderry to the ipod .. is.. eas
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Sorry to repeat but I felt a bit of Eureka If I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes (when he basically discovered calculus) motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "yep that wo
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!" > Money is a path to acquiring sufficient power Power and money are
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!" More like survival. I think of Archimedes' letters to the libraria
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Thanks for helping to refine the thinking. I guess the other side of the coin that would be make the paradox interesting is that, in the long term , it has to seem that most of the stuff built with money (but without intrinsically motivate
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
There's this related phenom which seems paradoxical to me but maybe you can help figure: Things that are built with money (& not by say, intrinsic motivation alone) seem to have a high ratio of (traction) to (resources invested). N
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
It's the LinkedIn version of the challenge to tell people they can prove P=NP without te ... As far as Jane Jacobs (not a professional) is concerned, this is the hardest problem for any tribe of humans: how to survive as a culture? On
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
> Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows t
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
> embarassed Like I once managed not to be triggered by ex-VC aebtebeten's routine dismissal of the following thesis the pieces of which I then had to shovel back into the incubator: expert embarassment is a seriously under-investi
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Looks like fitzhugh-nagumo with extra terms? (Or hodgkin-huxley with fewer) A show-HN mid-dive with Brian simulator would be cool
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Oops late to the tussle with identarians. > Andersen suggests that a tradeoff exists in predictive processing, where giving higher weight to prediction errors prevents the detection of false patterns (i.e. apophenia) at the cost of being
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
I was amused that higher quality quartz from Spruce Pines NC (Sibelco) doesn't go into the chips themselves, but the silicon crucibles (makes sense in retrospect because you need your tools to be finer than the product, but as a chip-u
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
> One surprising thing I learned is that ChatGPT can solve the word segmentation problem quite well, and it can even add punctuation and capitalization back into the message. While LLMs are far too slow to participate in the performance-
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
I think a better question is of the form "known by Ginsparg?" Conjecture: "no" :) "aP,aS" is a recipe for achieving an equilibrium of (semipermanent) purgatory . Yet there could be tiny (cross-community, even t
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Ah yes, a paper from Fan Shanhui's group at Stanford, which kicked off the whole business. Should have linked that instead! This is 5.7 deg (using metasurfaces to selectively reflect reflect absorb different wavelengths) compared to a
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
As someone who has worked in adjacent areas, I guessed that one might find it in random matrix pedagogy, but only after reading Sam (B) Hopkin's comment was I able to get google to give a source for something close to that formula: ht
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
To flip this into a potential solution to a wider problem-- global thermal balance-- combine solar panels with radiative cooling. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422... https:&#x2F
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Natural and artificial forms of embodied mind(youtube.com)
1 points by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago|0 comments
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
To add color to your opinion: this piece was written by one of the financial editors https://www.ft.com/tabby-kinder No "unified opinion" but an editorial stance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons(msn.com)
50 points by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago|49 comments
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
It's concerning that FT don't take more of an econs-of-AI-investment angle, explored here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399893 (Maybe Doctorow has too much of a Guardian vibe, compared to Zitron?) The E
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
The upping was most clearly down 1940-1950. When shipping and/or industry took a hit. Together with the sulfur emissions debacle, it's clear that most interventions (either radiative cooling or at-source capture) need to focus on
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Time for a New Proof Assistant(youtube.com)
3 points by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago|0 comments
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Pre-chatgpt blogposts on well-known topics used to be far better motivated or layman-oriented https://ace-pt.org/ace-physical-therapy-and-sports-medicine-... which hints that the low 2.7% improvement should not be unexpecte
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
I couldn't find my old photo of a modern-day nordic recreational cyclist with an all metal SAAB on his back, so here's the next best thing https://old.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/yicgme&#x
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3D reconstruction using only 15 pixels(youtube.com)
2 points by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago|0 comments
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Lines on a cubic surface: visualized with Sage and 3D printing (2019)(nathanfieldsteel.github.io)
3 points by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago|0 comments
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by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
(this thread may blow up but anyhows) > strange sort of liminal person exhibits the sort of behavior I'd imagine Bell Labs would have wanted to encourage. (It also gets me upset when in comparison charlatans manage to get onto the

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