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by olooney 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230920195545/https://www.wired...
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by olooney 3y ago
See also this sci-fi horror short story, named after the famous test image. https://qntm.org/lena But in the story, the overused test image is a digital copy of a human brain...
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by olooney 3y ago
Yes, this is called the Kelly Criterion[1] which tells us we should optimize the expected value of the log of wealth, not the expected value of wealth directly. On a log scale, it's clear that doubling and halving have the same magnit
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by olooney 3y ago
Maybe mention Pascal[1] and Leibniz[2] as important predecessors to Babbage? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped_reckoner
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by olooney 4y ago
The 2nd edition of Deep Learning with Python[1] (by François Chollet of Keras fame) has a pretty good chapter on the transformer architecture[2]. In fact, the explanations in the book are clear and lucid across the board. [1]: https:/
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My Dinner with ChatGPT(oranlooney.com)
1 points by olooney 4y ago|0 comments
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by olooney 4y ago
I tried your prompt 5 times in a row using the Try Again button. The results: x = 10 and y = 5 (adding equations together) x = 10/33 and y = 15/11 (substitution method) x = 5.33 and y = 2 (substitution method) x
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by olooney 4y ago
Yeah. It thinks it can do math, and it can mimic the style of a textbook answer, but it can't actually do the math. Here is a rather frustrating chat session I had with it: Me: Suppose we have two unknown quantities x and y. If
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A History of Encabulation(oranlooney.com)
87 points by olooney 4y ago|24 comments
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by olooney 4y ago
Has this happened to you? You're logged into a remote server and trying to read a config file or log file. The problem is its in a minified JSON format and looks like a solid wall of noise when you try to use `less`. You reach for your
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by olooney 4y ago
This kind of moderation is broken across the board. No one knows how to scale it. 1. Amazon has completely lost the battle with fake reviews. Not only are they completely incapable of removing even a fraction of the huge swaths of obviously
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by olooney 4y ago
He also said: "It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." - Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols , 1889
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by olooney 5y ago
Many programmers complete some kind of nad2tetris[1] style course where they go from basic hardware primitives (the NAND gate) all the way up through a small von Neumann architecture computer that can be programmed with a simple homebrew ma
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by olooney 5y ago
Even in the US, palliative care is covered by Medicare. https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/hospice-care
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by olooney 5y ago
Here's a quote from the creator of Calvin and Hobbes that's particularly relevant to the above passage: > Calvin’s vocabulary puzzles some readers but Calvin has never been a literal six-year-old. Besides, I like Calvin’s abi
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by olooney 6y ago
Absolutely trivial for an interstellar space-faring civilization to wipe out an up-and-coming species. Grab a medium size asteroid[1] from their solar system, adjust its trajectory slightly, bam! An extinction event level weapon. This works
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by olooney 6y ago
The big bang only produced light elements and heavier elements were produced by nuclear fusion in stars. In particular, carbon and oxygen[1] would not have been abundant until the first generation of very hot, very large stars went supernov
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by olooney 6y ago
Chloe, the digital avatar on the menu of the video game Detroit: Becoming Human is sort of a sneak peak into what that might be like. (Potential spoilers! Chloe has her own story line, and if you want to experience that, don't watch
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by olooney 6y ago
That is correct. As my argument was not a proposition expressed in or reducible to a formal language, nor was it an empirically verifiable statement of fact, it is neither true nor false but is in fact meaningless. There was no point in my
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by olooney 6y ago
Yes, if we were absolutely convinced of the correctness of analytical philosophy and the impossibility of good hypotheses arising from other approaches that would indeed be a good filter. If we are not quite so certain perhaps we should n
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by olooney 6y ago
Distinguishing science from pseudoscience is called the "demarcation problem" and is surprisingly difficult and subtle. It would seem to me that the analogous "philosophical demarcation problem" is even more difficult an
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by olooney 6y ago
I wrote a toy digital circuit simulator[1] as part of a personal "NAND to Tetris" style project. It has none of the bells and whistles of a full simulator but does illustrate how you could write you own in only a few dozen lines
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by olooney 6y ago
Link to the actual apology: https://github.blog/2021-01-17-update-on-an-employee-matter/ Unusually for a corporate missive, they actually use the phrase "we sincerely apologize" instead of the usual non-apolo
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by olooney 6y ago
All true; Bergson's critique is believed to have directly influenced the Nobel prize committee. In hindsight an absolute travesty. However, I would not say that Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect was not Nobel priz
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by olooney 6y ago
I like the way the form is "in situ." Like filling in Mad Libs.
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> Morality [...] is as specific to human behavior as the mating behavior of chimpanzees It's true that a lot of what has been written about morality and ethics turns out to make a lot of assumptions that tend to limit it to human be
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by olooney 6y ago
> He suggested that Reddit users are more skeptical and discerning than other people online, making it difficult for conspiracy theories to gain traction on the platform. Yeah, /r/The_Donald, /r/conservative, /r&
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by olooney 6y ago
Retention is extremely difficult. I once had a history teacher tell the following anecdote: "We'd brought in a bunch of seniors who'd taken the English History class as freshmen and gave them a test to see which dates they co
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Communicating with Interactive Articles(distill.pub)
6 points by olooney 6y ago|0 comments
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Roughly in order of user friendliness and accessibility: Puzzles can help introduce very powerful ideas without any baggage like mathematical notation. Smullyan's "Knights and Knave" style puzzles often touch very deep ideas

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