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by olooney 1y ago
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views." - Dr. Who
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by olooney 1y ago
This is very good! Word of advice, though: I saw a bunch of stuff that was in poor taste scrolling through the "Useless" tab, such as this product: https://anycrap.shop/product/charlie-kirk-bulletproof-neck-g.
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by olooney 1y ago
The Greeks were not adverse to studying topics outside of the classic axioms, for example neusis, conic sections, or Archimedes work on quadrature (which presaged calculus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neusis_construc
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Controling my SH101 with Code [video](youtube.com)
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by olooney 1y ago
In 1948 Ashby wired four control units together and made a device he called the "Homeostat." What made it special is that it was "ultrastable" - if you changed the dynamics of the system, or plugged it into a completely
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Exploration and Epiphany – 3Blue1Brown [video](youtube.com)
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Birds of a Feather (Remake in Strudel) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by olooney 1y ago|0 comments
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by olooney 1y ago
Individual water molecules don't do much thinking either, but fluid dynamics is still an interesting and useful subject of study. If people seem to be putting considerable effort trying to understand such trivial things as memes, perha
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Reinforcement Learning by AI Punishment [Fiction](owlposting.com)
2 points by olooney 2y ago|0 comments
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Change Python's syntax with the " coding:" trick(bitecode.dev)
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by olooney 2y ago
The Earnest Shackleton quote "Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success," while very famous and of
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Kepler Invented Sci-Fi and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial(themarginalian.org)
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by olooney 2y ago
Might be useful someday: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtotechnology
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by olooney 2y ago
I tried setting `width` to 5 and found that your algorithm handles Yugiri correctly out-of-the-box. I tried commenting out various special case rules, such as lines 162-170, but it's the recursive algorithm itself that causes this. As
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The Art and Mathematics of Genji-Ko(oranlooney.com)
172 points by olooney 2y ago|10 comments
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by olooney 2y ago
I wrote an implementation of this programming language last month: https://github.com/olooney/fourth_gen It is a terrible, terrible idea, but it does work. It uses GPT-4 to read Python docstrings and magically implemen
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by olooney 2y ago
And yet, counterintuitively, it's in precisely these areas (relativity, quantum physics) that our theories are best (most predictive with the strongest mathematical foundations) and the areas where our human intuition ought to supply t
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Why Do Drugs Work at All?(owlposting.com)
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Algorithms for Optimization (Explained Simply)(photonlines.substack.com)
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Early Androids and Artificial Speech(publicdomainreview.org)
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by olooney 2y ago
Some related works from my notes on the extended mind thesis: The Extended Mind Thesis, Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998) - https://www.alice.id.tue.nl/references/clark-chalmers-1998.p... Man-Computer Symbiosis, J.
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by olooney 2y ago
Penny Arcade[1] had a rant about this very subject this morning: > The big players in this space all happen believe things about other people's intellectual property that are orthogonal to human flourishing. It appears to be endemic
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by olooney 2y ago
Location: Madison, WI Remote: Only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, NumPy, Pandas, matplotlib, Keras, Hyperopt, scikit-learn, SciPy, statsmodels, FastAPI, SQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Docker, Databricks, Spark, AWS, Azure, R, Tidyve
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by olooney 2y ago
This would make a pretty good programming interview question: "Design a service with two endpoints, one to create a postzegelcode and another to redeem it. A postzegelcode is a nine character, case insensitive alphanumeric code convent
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ML from Scratch, Part 3: Backpropagation (2019)(oranlooney.com)
7 points by olooney 2y ago|0 comments
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by olooney 2y ago
That's interesting, I recently wrote a game of life that uses PyTorch to run on the GPU: https://gist.github.com/olooney/d835353176bd9a679ad2f057cd58... It benefits from using PyTorch's 2D convolution operati
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The Singularity Is Nearer(penguinrandomhouse.com)
31 points by olooney 2y ago|45 comments
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by olooney 2y ago
Ray Kurzweil's new book was released today (2024-06-25.) Thoughts?
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by olooney 2y ago
I use a `TODO.md` file. GitHub flavored markdown will format a list like this: 1. [X] Dockerfile 2. [ ] Bulk Inference 3. [ ] CLI 4. [ ] Logging as a neat little list of checked/unchecked checkboxes. I create a sec
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by olooney 2y ago
Well, we hire for MERIT: merit, excellence, responsibility, intelligence, and tenacity. Which is 40% more acronym, and 100% more clever than hiring for "meh." Sorry, MEI.

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