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by meowkit 3y ago
Going to go out on a limb and say they are probably referring to the gradient calculus required for updating the model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiable_programming See automatic differentiation.
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by meowkit 3y ago
So I guess we're at the point which Harvard Medical School isn't good signal? https://sinclair.hms.harvard.edu/people/david-sinclair Who considers him a quack? Why should I believe them?
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by meowkit 3y ago
This article and others are most certainly just baseless hit pieces. They have shown up before, and seem to be extreme animal activists leveraging anti-Musk sentiment. A neurosurgeon at Neurallink was just on Huberman Lab. He discussed, in
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by meowkit 4y ago
You’re right. I did a singular literature review myself during my masters degree, and much of what I learned in that period has been really beneficial, especislly the nuances. But having an extensive summary or table of contents generated f
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by meowkit 4y ago
Nobody is forced to work at Tesla or SpaceX or any Musk company. I love the mission. I would never work there. They expect grueling hours and a level of commitment that I don't want to give. It is not abusive to voluntarily work somewh
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by meowkit 4y ago
Video games nowadays are just as bad. Children don't really watch TV (anecdotally). They watch YouTube, which is just as bad. The key difference between television and video games of yore is the feedback loop. TV and video games were o
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by meowkit 4y ago
MSFT Research generated some SVG images with GPT4. Kinda mind blowing among some of the many experiments they published in here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
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by meowkit 4y ago
This begs the question of what differentiates Bitcoin? Besides being the first, there aren’t really any structural differences for the functionality or the development and marketing of BTC than other coins. The only sufficient argument I se
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by meowkit 4y ago
> He's a fairly toxic human being and I have no idea why people love him. You've answered your own question. Give it an honest good faith attempt to understand why people might like someone, and you'll probably find some s
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by meowkit 4y ago
And to counter your claim here - someone's "lived experience" is not a sufficient ballast for blindly accepting an anecdote. People's memories suck. And more often than not subjective experiences don't map onto real
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by meowkit 4y ago
As an engineer and a musician I want to push back on some of this. Missing a bolt on a bridge is hyperbolic. Your simulation should catch that long before the bridge is ever built. Engineering is also all about approximation. Art and Engine
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by meowkit 4y ago
The argument then becomes how to interpret "Open", not that you both agree. If they keep publishing their research, then OpenAI seems like a fine name to me.
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by meowkit 4y ago
Cap & Trade (as I understand it) would be the government playing referrer, and polluters/cleaners building a market place to exchange credits. Taxing would involve playing referrer, collecting taxes for this specific issue, and the
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by meowkit 4y ago
Normative statements. You should be asking what are the incentives. > like the more straightforward tech solution is to improve traffic cameras/monitors such that tickets are given out more appropriately This is not straightforward
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by meowkit 4y ago
Link for the curious. http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf It's a neat read, from 1977 to be pedantic. It does miss networking - the DynaBook misses the forest for the trees in that it is a personal c
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by meowkit 4y ago
> Obviously, V-Bucks are not a "representation of value" Second point, sure, but this one? I would disagree vehemently that its obvious. I've always thoughts "points" from credit cards, gift cards in shops, or vi
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by meowkit 4y ago
This is called the Oracle Problem. It can work outside of the digital realm. https://blockpit.io/en/blog/how-to-solve-the-oracle-problem/ > A decentralized oracle uses a decentralized network of nodes to o
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by meowkit 4y ago
> Yeah, but why do you need to extend your life? There are two distinct concepts here - your life span and your health span. Your life span is the duration of your life, and you health span is the duration in which you are able bodied. S
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by meowkit 4y ago
A wonderful outcome if that level of adaption occurs. I am more worried that the Luddite mentality will get these models banned in (primary school) educational settings.
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by meowkit 4y ago
The person you are responding to said anti-consumer, not anti-competitive.
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by meowkit 4y ago
Issues has a negative connotation. Staking withdrawals were >intentionally< not enabled to give the system more stability in the short term. Unstaking, in a FIFO manner, has a roadmap you can read about with a quick web search.
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by meowkit 4y ago
That author is a dismissive ass - makes it hard to take his points seriously.
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by meowkit 4y ago
> Bitcoin is a commodity, ETH & all of crypto is just (unregistered) securities lying/pretending to be commodities. Here's the problem with this: Bitcoin doesn't exist below a society - its not independent of a functio
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by meowkit 4y ago
Not OP, but dialectics not dialects. Here's how I interpret it: The phrase dialectics of power is framing the concept that a lot of a political discourse is centered around arguments of who has power, and who doesn't. Its superfic
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by meowkit 4y ago
It... doesn't.
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by meowkit 4y ago
>A system without fraud protections (i.e. wires) is a much more efficient solution The assumption here of efficiency by any metric is the wrong thinking for crypto. Energy/speed are being optimized for, but they are not the goals. W
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by meowkit 4y ago
> The point of crypto is that trading parties don't have to trust each other and have no recourse to fix issues post payment. You trust random people on the street? This comment falls apart because your premise here is wrong. All tr
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by meowkit 4y ago
The wiki page on Hopf Fibrations has a brief application section - but its still a bit too technical. Any sophisticated HN readers have a more simplistic explanation of the applications of these structures? I've done some light investi
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by meowkit 4y ago
>Never in my life I felt like I have experienced censorship in default app stores. Alternative frame: How could you possibly know? Have you experienced an app store system outside the western duopoly?
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by meowkit 4y ago
> And there's something about crypto though where the proponents almost revel in other's ignorance. I've had a hard time deciding whether the proponents really understand it (and all of its nuances) or if pretending you un

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