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by jgord 2y ago
... theres an argument to having arXiv paper hashes, and/or important digitalia checksums put on a blockchain. detect-ability of state-actor post-facto editing : DEI related or otherwise
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by jgord 2y ago
> making actual things .. ahh, am trying to do that - largely self-funded RnD over 4 years - Also trying to wake people up about the scope for ML to be applied to real engineering problems / processes .. We hear of applied-RL/M
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by jgord 2y ago
yeah.. Ive noticed a kind of anti-pattern - governments funding various startup programs, which end up being totally useless to _actual_ startups, but great plays for the next level investors [ eg. the real estate investor who rents out the
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by jgord 2y ago
fair enough .. how do we fund the next generation of tech development ? Governments giving money as science grants ? Are you against all VC investment in startups ? Philanthropy donations ? or.. would millionaires be the people starting new
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by jgord 2y ago
.. we need a Foundation .. and a second Foundation :]
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by jgord 2y ago
I think we're in for a new multi-decade round of 'eating the world' .. and Im going to annoy everyone by suggesting that the microkernel of this new megascale world-changing engine of growth is actually the tiny garage startu
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by jgord 2y ago
I thought thats why we had urls not only IP addresses .. which reminds me, who has control over DOI.org ... eg. is it DOGE-safe ? likewise arXiv .. can it easily be co-opted / subsumed ?
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by jgord 2y ago
Demis Hassabis seems to describe a process whereby an AI can accelerate the results of billions of simulations by efficiently encoding that predictive behavior.. making something that is computationally expensive to simulate perhaps several
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by jgord 2y ago
stands to reason .. if we assume the actual economy is full of autonomous agents [ people, companies, governments ] acting largely in self interest.
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by jgord 2y ago
Just as we have weather forecasting, climate models .. we do need and should have good fine-grain computational models of complex systems such as the cell .. and the global economy. We should be able to have whole economy simulations give r
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by jgord 2y ago
Inequality has also changed over the last 40 years .. students have to hustle gig-economy jobs just to get by, and incur substantial debt to study. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/wp-content/uploads... C
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by jgord 2y ago
People should just choose to have wealthier parents, then they have more options from which to chose what to do - breed dogs, travel, get a degree in a totally useless but culturally enriching subject, make some great garage music, tinker w
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by jgord 2y ago
I was going to mention BurntSushis excellent xsv, also written in rust ... but I see xan mantions its a fork + rewrite of xsv.
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by jgord 2y ago
The animated history of Co2 levels is stunning : https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/history.html
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by jgord 2y ago
aaand xsv : https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
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by jgord 2y ago
nice .. xsv is also very handy for wrangling csv files generally
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by jgord 2y ago
shout out to BurntSushis excellent xsv util https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
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by jgord 2y ago
16K .. wow Great read, important history.. HACF / Gary Kildall pioneering stuff.
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by jgord 2y ago
fantastic contribution .. I wish I had known about GPascal back then ! As a kid with my dads 8088 .. I tried GW-Basic but ugh.. then found a free Assembler A86 on a BBS and a book on writing TSRs. Then the heavens opened and I got a copy of
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by jgord 2y ago
they could probably make more angel investing.
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by jgord 2y ago
have you considered starting / joining a startup instead ?
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by jgord 2y ago
Its not too late to hope for the current crop of LLMs to give rise to a benevolent, patient science based educator, like the "Young Ladies Illustrated Primer" of Neal Stephensons Diamond Age. We clearly will soon have the technolo
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by jgord 2y ago
Sure.. and neural networks came out a very long time ago, but are now arguably approaching usefulness in LLMs. Perhaps thats because it takes a while for the ideas to get polished/weeded and diffuse into the engineer zeitgeist .. or it
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by jgord 2y ago
I think the web animation is really useful for people new to the concept.
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by jgord 2y ago
ooh, fantastic.. thankyou ! Im doing a bunch of 3D rotation transforms on millions of points in javascript .. this looks like what I need.
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by jgord 2y ago
Highly recommended .. even the main contents diagram is a great visual overview of RL in general, as is the 30 minute intro YT video. Im expecting to see a lot of hyper growth startups using RL to solve a realworld problem in engineering &#
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by jgord 2y ago
yeah, I mean 3Blue1Brown has done a great job .. and maybe those would be even better if you could app-ify them into something you can interact with. Current gen of LLM programming AIs might make it less leg-work to make these
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by jgord 2y ago
I dont think anyone has found a good way to map higher dimensional space onto 4D visualizations, yet. Maybe this is why tokens and language are so useful for humans ? they might be the closest analog we have.
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by jgord 2y ago
The text has some great explanatory diagrams and looks to be a very high quality overview of ML thru the lens of probability, with lots of math. I was also recently impressed by Zhaos "Mathematical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning&
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by jgord 2y ago
Im guessing "cooked" means the opposite of "based" ? but I could be a Feynman radian out on those vectors in leet space.

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