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by pfortuny 2y ago
Single-event statistics projections are pretty useless. Much more so when the “projections” are 50/50.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
You mean, like with a notch… It is cool on iOS but not on a mouse… Funny.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Ask yourself: do people really care about rounded corners in furniture? Do people really care about flowers in their balconies? Do people really care about keeping their car polished and clean? …
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by pfortuny 2y ago
This is exactly why drills exist: to make reasoning mechanic. The same as in the military... You can only decide (know) if you have the basics memorized to the core, and this requires... boredom in most of us. I graduated in mathematics. Pr
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by pfortuny 2y ago
I guess you can (at least in C ) use && where you would use “if” and a convoluted while where you could write a “for”.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
What do you mean “a drink?” A beer? A glass of vodka, a thimblefull of absinthe? Unclear parameters. I used to drink a glass of wine with my meals every day. Not an alcoholic.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
“Fresh” is not necessarily relevant, to me. Hayek’s “the road to serfdom” is, in my view, timeless.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
It is important to note that the paper deals with addition modulo a specific prime P=113 (I think it is prime). This is important because the paper does not prove that the LLM discovers the algorithm for addition modulo n for general n.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
My mom almost died from a hemorrage after my birth… Mu granma was there and noticed the sheets getiting red… This was of course many years ago, no monitors etc.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Buf, you may be right but I just cannot visualize it. It took me quite a while to do for the cube, imagine a tetrahedron. But you might be right.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
In some sense, a ball is more “natural” than a cube in Euclidean n-space. Once you add the metric, cubes become artificial constructs (despite being the natural elements in just product spaces).
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by pfortuny 2y ago
The hypercube is the strange thing, not the red sphere. Placing the blue spheres tangent to the hypercube is an artificial construct which only “bounds” the red sphere in small dimensions. Our intuition is wrong because we think of the prob
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Exactly: a corner of a square covers 1/4 of that part of the plane. A corner of a cube covers 1/8, a corner of a hypercube in dimension n covers just 1/(2^n) of the space. But each side/face/hyperface divides the pl
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Mmmmhhhhh… What about Penrose? Honest question.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
There are many people in their 50-60s who can neither “eat no crap”, as you state it nor “work out”.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Yes. Classics are so because they are atemporal. The protagonist’s “environment” is irrelevant, it is their personality and the narrative, the plot. The “felt life”… Noone reads Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because they feel their environment an
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Well, yes: I prefer interacting with a human person to doing so with a machine. Simply because of the value I assign to one and the other.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Sorry: I must have explained myself badly. We agree (I preder the artifacts in, say, London rather than in modern “Egypt”).
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by pfortuny 2y ago
What do you mean “stole”? From whom? They were literally abandoned.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
This is spot on. Why should a “mosern country” be the owner of an artifact? I wonder honestly, I am not just whining.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Well, most PhDs are obtained by writing a book, so there is that.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
It depends on whether future returns increase. One tends to draw the optimistic version of Jensen’s inequality (and in general, of convex curves), but it also applies to decreasing functions.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Should be this (electroweak interaction): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction
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by pfortuny 2y ago
At least here in Spain there is nothing “in the public domain” at least until the owner dies. You can release something with the most permissive license, or without a license, but it cannot be made public by yourself. Just say “no restricti
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Aaaaah, the ether… Always coming back from death. What will it become next?
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Not trying to be harsh but the operative word in your post is “I”.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Just in case you are not being sarcastic: there is a thing called ethics, which is the basis of human relations.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
You are changing the definition of memory we have had for like 25 centuries in the West. That is your choice but there is no stretching on the other side. “To me” is not what defines what something is.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Anything you “know” is because you have memorized it. It has nothing to do with either effort, or consciousness. Memory is the basis of knowledge.
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by pfortuny 2y ago
Actually lots of algorithms "feel" like cheating until you understand what you were not looking at (fast matrix multiplication, fast fourier transforms...).

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