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811.
by munchler 3y ago
I don't think Θ makes for a good fundamental constant, though, because it's composed of pi and e, which must persist as distinct concepts in the end.
812.
by munchler 3y ago
> The book’s core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence—sometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)—is for mathematical reasons impossible. Mathematically impossible? Really?
813.
by munchler 3y ago
The chance that any of those samples contains evidence of extraterrestrial life is quite low. No one is betting this much money on those kind of odds. The samples are scientifically valuable even if they are “just dirt”.
814.
by munchler 3y ago
> Starting in 1942, 1,700 miles of military roadway were built over the course of 234 days, connecting eastern British Columbia with Fairbanks, Alaska. Color me dubious on this one. 1700 miles / 234 days = 7.26 miles/day = 0.44
815.
by munchler 3y ago
Agreed. A crucial benefit of two’s complement is that it eliminates the distinction between +0 and -0.
816.
by munchler 3y ago
> Romeo and Juliet ... A beautiful play, but I just don’t connect with its romantic core. Anyone who has children understands that this play is 100% a tragedy and is in no way romantic. Two teenage idiots think they're in love and e
817.
by munchler 3y ago
I enjoy his 3B1B videos, but this talk did not resonate with me at all. I was good at math as a kid, but no part of my motivation came from "a desire to be seen as being good at it." If anything, many people looked at me kind of f
818.
by munchler 3y ago
So it’s basically the Spinal Tap “amp goes to 11” for displays? Genius.
819.
by munchler 3y ago
It was March 2006 for me, and I haven’t worked in an office since. What a great feeling.
820.
by munchler 3y ago
Does this affect the security of password-protected Office documents as well? I think there's lots of valuable information locked up with simple Excel or Word passwords.
821.
by munchler 3y ago
Many of us are quitting Reddit for good on June 30 when Apollo and the other third-party apps are killed. This week's strike is just a warning shot across Reddit's bow.
822.
by munchler 3y ago
I think this idea is essentially an example of a "gravitational slingshot". I found it interesting that such a system could be used to "accelerate delicate and fragile objects to a velocity of 2000 km/sec at an accelerat
823.
by munchler 3y ago
Why do you think Selig’s pricing justifications are worthless?
824.
by munchler 3y ago
Why is the answer ~29 liters? Since it takes just over two minutes to complete a lap, you can complete no more than 9 laps in 20 minutes. At 2.73 liters/lap, that's 9 x 2.73 = 24.57 liters, no? Or maybe I don't understand the
825.
by munchler 3y ago
The Google Bard folks have a blog post today making exactly that connection: https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-go...
826.
by munchler 3y ago
How could this be enforced?
827.
by munchler 3y ago
Seriously. Any design that encourages aliasing of mutable memory like this is just asking for trouble. This is a lesson that the functional programming community has already internalized, but the rest of the world sadly has not.
828.
by munchler 3y ago
This is the exploration-exploitation trade-off often found in reinforcement learning. https://towardsdatascience.com/intuition-exploration-vs-expl...
829.
by munchler 3y ago
Which is true for many humans as well.
830.
by munchler 3y ago
ChatGPT is the fastest growing application in history. It had 100 million monthly active users just two months after launch. No one is “waiting” for Google’s version.
831.
by munchler 3y ago
Again, I'm sure your code is great, and I'm not asking you to defend anything. I'm simply responding to the stated philosophy in the linked article.
832.
by munchler 3y ago
I'm just quoting the article. It's not an "active incident", whatever that means.
833.
by munchler 3y ago
I agree. However, the linked article that I was quoting from seems to see things differently. It describes a situation in which transactions are failing (i.e. data is being lost), but it's not an incident.
834.
by munchler 3y ago
I'm sure your software is great, and I don't mean this personally, but I just find this philosophy really strange. You don't write defensive code, and you don't often check for errors. You just let pieces of your applica
835.
by munchler 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "accommodated". This example doesn't even rise to the level of an "active incident" in the Erlang philosophy. In other words, it's not a bug, so there's no urgency to imp
836.
by munchler 3y ago
I've always found myself in fundamental disagreement with the Erlang/Elixir philosophy. Resilience, within the context of this presentation, and the philosophy of Erlang, would be the capability to recover from errors while
837.
by munchler 4y ago
> It is installed by default everywhere. For some values of "everywhere". Pretty sure this is not true on Windows, for example.
838.
by munchler 4y ago
> maybe manufacture a consensus You're running a one-person troll farm? Please reconsider your choices in life.
839.
by munchler 4y ago
It's true that m and n have to have the same parity, but they could be both odd (in principle).
840.
by munchler 4y ago
1) Do you really think ChatGPT works by memorizing quantum mechanics textbooks? There are only 355 billion parameters in GPT-3.5, which is several orders of magnitude less than the 600 trillion synapses in the human brain. 2) Your conclusio

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