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by nico 2y ago
Thank you for the explanation What does it mean for “all spacetime instantly collapsing”? It would be amazing to see a video of a simulation of that
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by nico 2y ago
> But QM can't be reconciled with GR in the same way Would you care to explain? Why are the models so fundamentally incongruent? What exactly is the issue?
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by nico 2y ago
Where’s the incongruence? At a macro scale, anything that happens in time can be considered as a sort of wave that we perceive as an object because of the way we are sampling it Even basic things, like when you measure your own weight, will
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by nico 2y ago
Maybe we don’t need a new model, but rather just accepting that the universe can be two seemingly opposite things at the same time Like the particle/wave duality Maybe the whole universe is both quantum and not, at the same time. And w
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by nico 2y ago
Now I want this for my phone When I plug it into the car, it automatically starts playing the same song on Apple Music I want it to start playing Spotify instead, but that can’t be configured Either I turn off CarPlay altogether, or I let i
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by nico 2y ago
You definitely know a lot about mangling data with spreadsheets! > Programmers are used to floating point numbers and the fact that properties like associativity don't apply, but that's not obvious to everyone One of my first p
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by nico 2y ago
Now I noticed that the period at the end of the paragraph is a bit unfortunate The value was 1. which I guess is shorthand for 1.0 and it’s technically not the same value as 1 On top of that, sometimes values like 0.961727 will be shown as
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by nico 2y ago
Or when your formulas on Google sheets start failing because you do 1-1 and the result is not 0, and then you spend 30 minutes creating new sheets, searching the web and double checking everything, until you realize that the value on the ce
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by nico 2y ago
Amazing visualizations
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by nico 2y ago
It’s fascinating that the generated Gaussian splats look kind of like a dream. Almost like that was the way we generate 3d scenes in our minds
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by nico 2y ago
Maybe that’s the key to AGI, two complementary (adversarial maybe?) models, that “control each other”, to produce a common output A little bit like the two sides of our brain coordinate to produce one mono-experience out of complementary in
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by nico 2y ago
> The joke goes that everything in math is named after the second person to discover it after Euler This was one of the stories on my calculus book in college I loved reading the brief explanations about the history of the different form
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by nico 2y ago
You can mix the two models as well. For example, have subscription plans that include a base usage level and have per use price if they go over their plan (some mobile plans work like that)
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by nico 2y ago
What is “hypothesis X” and why would it be all over the news if proven?
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It’s interesting that technically an individual camera’s sensor is itself an array of smaller sensors that capture individual pixels. So you have like a tree of arrays Maybe we can keep stacking them. Build an array of arrays of cameras&#x2
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by nico 2y ago
> is in fact the 2d fourier transform of the spatial distribution of that light at the lens. this property has been used to build optical-computing military machine vision systems Amazing. Do you have any links/references about thos
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by nico 2y ago
It makes me think how the lens of the camera, is focusing the light/image at the center of the sensor, so it would make sense that data is also denser at the center, where the lens concentrated more light
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you for the examples It seems like AND is similar to calculating a binary derivative ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40328821 ) In a certain way you could say you can integrate AND For example 1 AND 0 = 0 Now if
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by nico 2y ago
What are irreversible problems? Any good/fun and maybe practical, examples?
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by nico 2y ago
I thought this was an announcement of an LLM model called Wasp that had 193B parameters Was happy when I clicked the link and it was about a newly discovered planet 1200 light years from Earth
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by nico 2y ago
This is still mind blowing and a huge luxury for most of the world “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” - William Gibson
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you for the reference, these concepts are definitely closely related This is super interesting: > We successfully test the algorithm in the fields of Prime Number Theory (where we prove explicitly that the sequence of prime numbers
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by nico 2y ago
The intro was hilarious! Thank you :)
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by nico 2y ago
From the neural network Wikipedia page: > The signal each neuron outputs is calculated from this number, according to its activation function The activation function is usually a sigmoid, which is also usually defined in terms of trigono
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by nico 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense About turning the screen on and off, it’s very slow if I want to change it in real time. It would be nice to have a little nob on the side and just change the phase one way or the other in correspondingly :)
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by nico 2y ago
This can also be generalized to anything that can be expressed as sequence generated by a function You can always just split the thing into it’s sequential elements, then get a pair-wise derivative in between the elements The sequence of pa
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by nico 2y ago
Interesting That means that some civilizations figure out how to be more efficient for real and others just keep increasing their energy use So “advancing” could mean either, and we might find very advanced civilizations on a range of two o
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by nico 2y ago
Derivative of a binary number: Think of any binary number as a sequence of 0s and 1s in a certain order For example, 16 in binary is the sequence: 1000 Reading the sequence from right to left, two bits at a time, for each one of those two b
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by nico 2y ago
This is a very interesting concept Is there a way to sync the monitor’s refresh rate to a different phase/offset? It would be cool to play with that setting and see the effects on our perception of the screen
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by nico 2y ago
There is a cool veritasium video in which they show we are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field surrounding us We can’t consciously tell, but they can see our brain lighting up when sensing the changes Link to video: https:/&#x2

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