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by nico 2y ago
Really hope at some point the healthcare industry starts trying to figure out how to harness the power of the placebo effect to enhance healing, rather than trying to do away with it I mean, is the goal healing people? Or is it to only heal
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by nico 2y ago
Well, if you believe in causality, everything that happens in a certain progression might seem as the consequence of a previous event And that seems totally right and it’s a great model to understand our everyday life Now imagine for a seco
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you! This is fascinating I guess if we consider ourselves, or our perception, as a quantum system, then we can be included as the clock that “drives the time” of the entangled system (the reality that we perceive)
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by nico 2y ago
It’s not talking about an unchanging clock. It’s saying that change depends on something that runs like a clock, that “ticks”, that alternates sequentially and in cycles An alternative analogy would be: imagine space and time as opposites o
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you. Not familiar with this lecture, but I love how eloquent Alan Watts was And it’s also great that he credits a lot of his insights to ancient Asian cultures. Essentially explaining that naturally, humans rediscover the nature of th
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by nico 2y ago
> So it's pointless to say "time is an illusion". It's a basic category of thought If you think it’s pointless, it’s going to be pointless to you whether it’s true or not However, to give an alternative point of view.
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by nico 2y ago
My intuitive, but not mathematical, model is that time is an illusion created by our perception “sampling reality” It’s like when it looks like wheels are spinning backwards, or when using a stroboscopic light you see something different “T
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by nico 2y ago
Great way to explain it! Loved this: > As with many other optimization techniques, it’s a trade off between soundness and completeness
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by nico 2y ago
Language is a very useful tool. However, it’s also just a model/description of what we experience through our perception It’s hard to let go of language But it’s an amazing experience when we can stop it from mediating or even interrup
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by nico 2y ago
Maybe I’m mixing Shannon’s limit with the sampling rate imposed by the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling theorem > Around 2004, Emmanuel Candès, Justin Romberg, Terence Tao, and David Donoho proved that given knowledge about a signal's spars
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by nico 2y ago
Interesting. Is that related to compressed sensing? I wonder if compress sensing could be used for something like the Voyager signals It seems there might be multiple ways to go beyond Shannon’s limit, depending on what you are trying to do
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by nico 2y ago
Very cool. It’s interesting to realize that at some level, every system is a quantum system if you “zoom in” enough
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by nico 2y ago
Looks cool. Love terminal apps. Currently still fascinated and happy with Spotify Terminal Great work. Would love to have the options of following someone and getting a feed of their comments/or stories
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by nico 2y ago
There is a very good Veritasium video that talks about analog computers and Lord Kelvin’s tide prediction machine: https://youtu.be/IgF3OX8nT0w?feature=shared
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by nico 2y ago
Cool, so it seems like a rather universal core intuition of human consciousness :) It also makes sense thinking about our own creation: - we were made by our parents (and our experience in the world) - our matter/energy has always been
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by nico 2y ago
That’s cool. Could it be possible that the expansion that immediately follows the singularity is not necessarily pointing to a very distant past space time, but rather to a recurrent cyclical process that is currently happening for everythi
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by nico 2y ago
I think everything is, at least conceptually, quantum. Only that our perception range “matches” our macro world so that things look mostly like solid objects, but they are all actually superpositions that I’m “sampling” through my perceptio
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by nico 2y ago
That is a great observation I can think of states of cycles “mediated” (or alternated), by “unknowns” For example, if I have a cycle that produces 1,0,1,0,1,0… I could say there is an unknown between 0 and 1 that flips between the two, but
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by nico 2y ago
I guess my usual experience is that AM transmissions sound pretty horrible, especially compared to FM So, my question is more like, can we just upgrade the equipment and keep the channels? And can AM be used more like for signal/indexi
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by nico 2y ago
I have no mathematical justification for this However, my intuition and direct perception of my reality, makes me think of the universe more like a big (potentially never ending) cycle I don’t think there is a beginning (probably no end eit
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by nico 2y ago
Could we have something like an AM broadcast, but then the receiver “upsampling” the data? Maybe using some ML? For example, if you have an AM channel that always transmits some song from a list, then you might not even need to receive the
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by nico 2y ago
True. Recently flew Alaska. They announced on speaker that if your bag didn’t come out within a certain time (I think it was 20min), you were entitled to some compensation or even the refund of the flight
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by nico 2y ago
Yesterday someone posted this awesome 3D fractal visualizer for the browser (it runs really well on my phone): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493981
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by nico 2y ago
Conceptually, grokking reminds me of the concept presented in the book The Dip Most people, for most tasks, will only learn/train/try to improve, up to where they get to a flat or negative return curve per unit of effort put in Bu
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by nico 2y ago
That’s a great idea. In a way, HN is that for many papers in topics that the HN community resonates with Are there other communities that also post scientific papers and comment publicly? Even if the community isn’t exclusively about scienc
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by nico 2y ago
This is amazing! Great work It would be cool to define something like a 3d fractal game of life kind of visualization that produces a constantly evolving 3d scene (that changes without having to move, but also being able to move)
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you for the detailed explanation. These are fascinating topics What do you think would make a bigger impact in terms of our understanding of the universe?
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by nico 2y ago
And this is why getting interrupted is so annoying It takes a while to “load up” all of those things in our minds, and it’s a bit like a balancing act, you need to keep balancing them to prevent the whole thing from crashing down Then if yo
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by nico 2y ago
This is one of the most eloquent explanations I’ve read. Thank you Do you have any links to online resources that might go slightly more into the math and the free parameters issue? Without getting too technical with the math too quickly?
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by nico 2y ago
Not sure about the LLM context But conceptually, everything we put in a computer is represented in discrete binary sequences to be processed and stored. So from that perspective, it wouldn’t be too far fetched

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