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by nico 2y ago
Does GitHub pages support ftp? Or are you talking about some other potential hosting options? Yes, ftp is pretty easy for static sites. However, given I want to have version control, it’s nice to have automated deploys happen after a git pu
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by nico 2y ago
Can it be a good replacement for Capistrano (for deploying rails applications)? Love the focus on being lightweight Recently I wanted to create a super basic website, and discovered it’s actually pretty hard to create something simple And t
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by nico 2y ago
Awesome, thank you!
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by nico 2y ago
Very cool effect Is there a basic JS library to do something like this by giving it two image paths via a property of an html tag? (and then the library automatically replacing the html element with an animation) For example: <div x-img-
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by nico 2y ago
I’ve read of people taking it, experiencing a whole life (some up to 60+ years), and then coming back The experience is not exclusive to psychedelics either. It can happen through intense physical trauma, like a car accident. There’s a case
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by nico 2y ago
> We were surprised to see that diffusion models were able to solve path-finding task I wonder if this type of method might allow for faster solutions to the traveling salesman problem
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by nico 2y ago
I know this is for tokens/text, but can the same concept be applied to images using something like a diffusion model? And then be able to upscale images arbitrarily by infilling?
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by nico 2y ago
Interesting. This is how I sometimes feel about physics The field completely appropriated and redefined so many terms of common language, that now it’s hard to talk in plain language with someone formally trained in physics about physical p
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you for the clarification, great point about the importance of distinguishing the acts of "detecting" and "making sense of" some signal/data/information
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by nico 2y ago
Very similar pattern to the recent stories about grokking (someone leaving a model training for too long by accident, then discovering something unexpected when realizing the accident)
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you! Yes, this is very much along the lines of what I was imagining Now I wonder if there are other communities like that one, but around other topics
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by nico 2y ago
I have the impression that there are a lot of people doing interesting things on their own and probably not sharing them. Maybe in big part because they are scared of getting rejected I want to be able to see what “normal” people are doing.
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by nico 2y ago
Are there publications for “research as a leisure activity”? Somewhere where I can read what “amateurs” are researching in their free time? There’s a few channels I follow on YouTube, but they all seem to be living off of the content they p
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by nico 2y ago
Excuse my ignorance about the term, what does “crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics” mean in this context?
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by nico 2y ago
This is an awesome concept. Thank you
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My comment was in the context of the article, which states that AI doesn’t need physics Having models doesn’t imply what you probably mean by “knowing about physics”, it just means having a representation of something that is not that somet
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by nico 2y ago
Very cool. Thank you for making and sharing this How are the animations made? Are they gifs or svgs or canvas + js, something else?
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by nico 2y ago
Ok, let’s say you don’t need data What is the goal of that NN? How are inputs and output of that NN defined? If you define any structure or properties of the NN, or any description at all, you are implicitly creating a model. Any NN is alre
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by nico 2y ago
> Now our lead experimenter asks this person "what will happen if the global average temperature increases by N degreesC?" and they get an answer What symbols or language did the lead experimenter use to ask the person the ques
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by nico 2y ago
Very cool idea! I wonder how simple could the NNs be to model some basic physical process?
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by nico 2y ago
Exactly. Taking it further, I don’t understand how my hands work. Yet here I am typing away, without even having a good model for it, except just the language I’m using to describe what I’m doing
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by nico 2y ago
Why are you assuming that people want to stop understanding the AI models? If anything, AI researchers are digging deeper into the models too And people in physics are starting to use AI tools to model physical phenomena I think that it’s a
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by nico 2y ago
That’s an excellent interpretation. Thank you
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I’m saying the person setting up the NN is doing so by following some model of what outputs to expect from the inputs To train a NN you need a training set of data, that data follows a certain order or pattern that represents the model that
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by nico 2y ago
> and therefore does not really provide understanding of the underlying process What is “the underlying process”? For example, Newton was able to model gravity quite successfully without ever being able to “understand the underlying proc
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by nico 2y ago
At some point we always need some sort of model of the world, you don’t want to call it physics?, that’s fine, but you are still modeling the world Interestingly though, physical models are usually expressed as mathematical equations. Which
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by nico 2y ago
Exactly Interestingly, in a philosophical way, you might never be able to know the “original signal”, since any signal can also technically be the alias of an infinite number of other signals, including the one used for sampling
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by nico 2y ago
This is a great way to explain it But, who/what wants to prevent everything from happening at once? Interestingly, it seems like that might be the missing piece Most mainstream physical models try to do away with us. To explain the wor
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by nico 2y ago
No need to be sarcastic. We are trying to develop ideas and have a conversation We are not trying to prove who is right and who is wrong Regardless of whatever the mainstream agreement in physics might be regarding a preferred model for rea
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you. Hadn’t heard the name. Apparently it was a central part of Nietzche’s thought and similar to the concept of Eternal Return. Fascinating! And yes, it’s a bit like the scene in Dune 2 when Paul’s mother, after taking the water of l

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