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by nis0s 2y ago
To add cognitive context to what you’re saying, which is right, I’ll add that intuition is an unconscious averaging of direct or indirect observations, which doesn’t translate well to anything which hasn’t been experienced in some manner. W
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by nis0s 2y ago
Satire? Yes, there are amazing ways to build technology that we’ve yet to imagine, but the physical world still works the way that it does.
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by nis0s 2y ago
I am left wondering if the differences in brain anatomy happen because these people read more and thus become good at reading, i.e., the brain is plastic, or these people have a proclivity to be better at reading because their brain is stru
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by nis0s 2y ago
It’s really obvious to anyone who has ever studied human behavior with any seriousness.
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by nis0s 2y ago
In the universe? I want to believe, but I wonder how something reaches Earth unnoticed by our network of observational sensors. Keep in mind that more than one nation state is interested in knowing and controlling what goes on in the differ
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by nis0s 2y ago
What does that mean exactly? Will they share information about individuals in a company? It’s insane to share state intelligence with corporations because corporate security could be any random person without any accountability or oversight
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by nis0s 2y ago
I think setup an automated partiful with meetup invites for people who sign up, the location should be an easy going place that wouldn’t mind if 1-2 people show up, or 5-10 do. Sounds interesting, I might give it a go.
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by nis0s 2y ago
I made the following comment in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42386324
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by nis0s 2y ago
> Sure, it may take some on the team a half hour to do some work, but for others, it will take two weeks. That seems like an egregious difference, and I don’t think should be mentioned in such an off hand manner. Why doesn’t your team tr
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by nis0s 2y ago
Seems like something someone would say to generate marketing buzz, but it’s a cute way to assess the chip performance. If someone has seen the team’s paper or other work, how did rule out more plausible explanations?
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Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist(techcrunch.com)
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by nis0s 2y ago
I appreciate the detailed response. I am aware of the information theoretic definition, and I get that this definition is rejected or controversial. From the wiki you cited, > Another interpretation is given by communication theorists Cl
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by nis0s 2y ago
This student obviously should never have done this, what a waste of his talent. I could be wrong, but I think the psychological aspect driving his actions was that he found himself working under people or with peers who were far less talent
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by nis0s 2y ago
No, a reflex action is not communication. You can hit someone’s knee and it produces a response. The knee isn’t communicating with you, it’s reacting to a stimuli.
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by nis0s 2y ago
Okay, what’s the larger picture then?
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by nis0s 2y ago
Not exactly, the conscious intent of communicating is important too. For example, someone in a coma may react reflexively, but they’re not communicating per se.
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by nis0s 2y ago
I could be wrong, but he’s reading the room around who’s coming into the White House, so maybe he’s trying to get some favors? If we picks winners and ideas based on arbitrary criteria like religion, it’s a good way to lose competitively to
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by nis0s 2y ago
The unfathomable are private or nation state actors.
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by nis0s 2y ago
Boeing took a nose dive in standards and quality when they replaced people who understood engineering and product fundamentals with bottom-line focused MBAs. I hope Boeing serves as a cautionary tale for other companies, most others are not
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by nis0s 2y ago
It’s describing phenomena that’s observable in a sample from a Gaussian distribution, what’s condescending about that?
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by nis0s 2y ago
Maybe this is an opportunity to create more curated online services which exclude AI slop, while acknowledging that not all AI-generated content is awful.
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by nis0s 2y ago
It’s disappointing to me that people share articles from unqualified perspectives on HN. There are many baseless assumptions in that article, and in part this is a reason why social media has a misinformation problem.
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by nis0s 2y ago
Maybe someone who has read the paper can confirm, but I think correlating optimism with a longer reward period is only meaningful if there is a comparative analysis which looks at what level of optimism presents in rats which wait longer fo
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by nis0s 2y ago
Interesting observation, I read a similar paper recently which reported LLMs experiencing degradation from compression. To me, these observations indicate that the neural net model isn’t sufficient for mimicking human learning or memory. My
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by nis0s 2y ago
It seems then sample analysis should happen in place instead of bringing samples back to study. I think this motivates the need for better ISS equipment, or off-site research labs, like on the moon.
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AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own(technologyreview.com)
1 points by nis0s 2y ago|0 comments
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by nis0s 2y ago
Yes, I do. I think I block myself off from some types of jobs which say they’d like a PhD holding applicant, so that’s the only concern.
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Ask HN: I am thinking of quitting my PhD program
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by nis0s 2y ago
I find such claims dubious at best. The AI will create a snapshot of you at one point in time, but it’s not going to faithfully represent how you think and develop over time, where the growth is the basis for your personality. I expect seri
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by nis0s 2y ago
What’s the appeal of Windows now, is it primarily the productivity tools? So many Linux OS are user friendly to a fault, like Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian. I think if someone is setting up Windows for grandma to use Facebook on, then surely Ub

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