ifethereal

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by ifethereal 12d ago
I would say that it is lowering the bar to "find better ways to demystify and explain things." But there is no harm to this bar falling, because this is a bar for entry . There is a separate bar for making research discoveries
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by ifethereal 13d ago
I read > The important question is, therefore, not whether AI will defeat mathematicians, but which mathematical ends we want AI to serve. and had the opposite interpretation as I see you having. To me, it reads as the authors [1] acknow
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by ifethereal 15d ago
Maybe an analogy of "why not solve all medical problems at once" is closer. We absolutely want to, of course. But you extinguish an industry and the systems of training that supply it. It's hard to know if letting it go that
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by ifethereal 1mo ago
It's a habit of the community. Tao actually elaborates on what he means by this in the same paragraph. I'd like to offer a charitable interpretation. By Tao labelling it as "remarkably elementary", he encourages less exp
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by ifethereal 5mo ago
Master's programs in Europe are commonly the pathway/requirement to applying for a PhD position. This supports why they might be commonplace there, but it also means the same reason would not justify the master's only program
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by ifethereal 6mo ago
Can anyone come up with a citation for this? Not to say it's a hallucination, but, to modern standards, if this were publicly funded research, it seems like it would have been a gross violation of ethics or other non-technical criteria
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by ifethereal 9mo ago
May I ask what your impression of "the sum" is? Namely, what is "the sum of a game" to you? The question may sound slightly opaque (and, sure, maybe even pedantic), but here are examples of some aspects I am trying to ga
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by ifethereal 9mo ago
Not GP author. I'd like to continue the conversation though. However, be warned that my view is actually closer to reducing the economy to thermodynamics. I don't intend to overturn every single point you've made, but I hope
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by ifethereal 9mo ago
I'm replying without having read the entirety of the text you've referred to by Proudhon, but it looks interesting—thanks. Some raw thoughts of mine if I may (feel free to add seasoning): You mention that capitalism is definitiona
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by ifethereal 5y ago
One example of a data structure implementing faceted classification would be the multitree [0]. Unfortunately multitrees seem to receive far less support than 2 other data structures it intermediates: trees and DAGs. k-d trees [1] are close