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by pfortuny 1y ago
Essentially similar to “after N throws of a coin, what will the difference be between heads and tails?”. It will most likely be away from 0, and probably large.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
This useless lack of clarity in design is clearly an example of lack of work ethics. "Boss, this idea is shit and I am not implementing it. Either you change or I go." And before leaving, an email to the boss's boss or to the
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by pfortuny 1y ago
What is the purpose of the windshield in a car? What is the purpose of text in a screen? Does something really help that purpose? Anything that does not is WRONG.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
Well, the change of sign in the correlation looks to have happened in a very narrow time window, so… sour grapes from Krugman?
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by pfortuny 1y ago
Right, you’ve just described a calculator.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
Figure 4: Enter Caption.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
Implementations of IEEE-754 can differ between machines, and the order of operations in a library/compiled function can also be different. It is not entropy, it is the nature of floating-point arithmetic.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
This is a place where uou can use either. There is IIRC a letter of JRR tolkien where he discusses this very issue. "The crew" can be thouth of as "a set of people" (so you can say The crew has) or "severa people&qu
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by pfortuny 1y ago
Well, I did not want to say "Mathematics" because it sounded a bit exaggerated. Of course you are right.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
People think medicine is Physics. They really do.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
Well that might be just you.
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by pfortuny 1y ago
Totally right. It should be "structure". Maths is just its description in a specific language.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Gains and losses are measured in % not in quantity because a dollar (or ant currency) has no fixed value. Sorry: I intended to reply to the grandparent.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
I guess you are conflating "democracy" and "republic", as Jefferson (?) pointed out. The key thing is not democracy but the separation of powers, and the rule of law, which is more or less what a "republic" is
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Yep, same idea.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Order as in "first, second, third", whereas counting is "none, one, two". This is not a formal distinction, it is a conceptual one for things (not mathematical models).
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Actually, the duality arises from counting (there can be 0 items) and ordering (there is only a 1st item), conceptually. Which is why the year 2000 can and cannot be the start of the 3rd millenium, for instance.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
I do not see the “circularity”, it may lack foundation, but that is a different argument.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
I think (but may be wrong) that you are thinking metamathematics is a part of mathematics, which (to my knowledge) it is not.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
The emperor’s new mind is his work on this (not specifically on LLMs obviously).
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Maybe because the response pattern-matches other languages’s?
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Romario (soccer player from long ago) is a prime example of this. One of the best scorers ever, he was pretty much static most of the time. Until.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Whatever you think of Communism, the repression under Lenin and Stalin is worth knowing in and of itself.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
In Spain I guess it is because SMS have never been free (or similar). It took off well before wifi was widespread in homes and offices, IIRC. Edit: it costs me around .10€ to send an SMS...
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by pfortuny 2y ago
You are totally right but "convex" is a very strong assumption (so strong that the shape is determined by its harmonics). Very strong.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Are you talking about a specific country or anywhere (in the West, I assume)?
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by pfortuny 2y ago
"remember parts of the world..." not even "some"... That is a tell-tale.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Right you are, indeed. I was first annoyed by your comment but (miraculously) I stepped aside for a few seconds! Of course. But nevertheless, Category Theory or Schopenhauer are good ways to get interesting insight which may (emphasis) be
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by pfortuny 2y ago
You are not alone. Composition and the general idea of type is enough for most of us. You do not need Schopenhauer to discover that life is hard, or Hegel to know that opposites exist and sometimes their relation creates something different
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Let me suggest everyone here reading Nadhezda Mandelstam’s memoirs, “Hope against hope”, and “Hope abandoned”. A lot to learn about people who “only wanted to make everybody happy” (she includes herself in that group). Amazing.

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