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by pkoird 2y ago
Just to clarify, the high speed at which electrons generally move around in metal is called "Fermi velocity". Like you said, since it's random, on average it cancels out to 0. When applying an electric field, the electrons ac
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by pkoird 2y ago
I'm sorry but didn't we already establish that most of his famous books are the edited contents of his recordings with some of those audios available to download as well? Does a person have to actually sit down and write it out an
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by pkoird 2y ago
Many people write books on interesting subjects posthumously (biographies come to mind). I believe it would be up to the descendants of Feynman to sue if due legal etiquettes were not maintained. Having said that, all famous Feynman books l
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by pkoird 2y ago
Without having watched the videos, to say that people made content using his name and made money off of it without Feynman knowing is disingenuous. Ralph Leighton recorded the conversations as Feynman was struggling with cancer. There are e
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by pkoird 2y ago
I had a question related to diplomacy and border-protection. If say this plan goes through and say US reports a citizen from China to El Salvador for whatever reasons. What diplomatic consequences would there be between China and El Salvado
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by pkoird 2y ago
I have always believed that the role of a bureaucracy is to make changes slow. In the far extreme, it leads to red-taping, corruption, and obscurity and presumably that's why one's first response would always be to advocate for mo
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by pkoird 2y ago
I remember the adage of the google of the yore, "don't be evil". It would be exciting to see what the community at large thinks on whether google upheld said principle and consequently, whether it could be believed to make fu
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by pkoird 2y ago
The answer is Perpetuation. Only those "structures" that learn to perpetuate can exist for a significant timeframe given the intrinsic randomness and the vast scale of universe. Be it a cell, or a cluster of cells, or an organism
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by pkoird 2y ago
> "Petro's finding out that tweets have consequences. He's not (facing) a U.S. counterpart that looks at Colombia through a strategic lens, as a key ally, but as a country to make an example of," said Sergio Guzman, d
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Foundations of Large Language Models(arxiv.org)
219 points by pkoird 2y ago|20 comments
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by pkoird 2y ago
While I do consider Chatbots to be the low-hanging fruit of LLM research, I think the hype is partially justified by the fact that they weren't this good even 2-3 years ago. If you are willing to forgive their current status in face of
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by pkoird 2y ago
I bought a used Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra phone and it's astonishing how future proof it was to begin with. Even now, the phone barely stutters, the battery life holds, the camera is surprisingly good and I was recently able to play GTA
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by pkoird 2y ago
So basically a before:2023 filter?
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by pkoird 2y ago
They say its different than neural networks in the text but honestly, it just sounds a lot like monte carlo dropouts.
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by pkoird 2y ago
Are you suggesting that two people in a shared inertial space when venture into other intertial frames but ultimately end up in a same frame later will agree on how much time has passed in between? Because I lowekey believe this to be true
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by pkoird 2y ago
I don't think the recent H1B debacle spread outside the boundary of tech very much simply because a) There is now an increasing abundance of domestic tech workers, and b) The layoffs haven't been so severe outside as much as in te
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by pkoird 2y ago
Cool game. You should do a wordle like version with daily puzzles.
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by pkoird 2y ago
I'd love to read a semi-technical book on everything that we've learned about what works and what does not on LLMs.
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by pkoird 2y ago
Futures are a financial instrument that are much more volatile than Stocks (or even Options).
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by pkoird 2y ago
We already have a device for artificial reasoning, it's called Prolog.
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by pkoird 2y ago
Looks like a job for LLMs?
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by pkoird 2y ago
The difference you are pointing to is the acausal vs causal description. In Simulink (Causal), you have to describe what causes any changes in the system. For example, to model Ohm's law, you'd write something like I=V/R. Whi
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by pkoird 2y ago
Obligatory mention to Openmodelica[1] which is an open source implementation based on the Modelica language. While I haven't used it yet, I was planning on exploring some of the features this holiday. [1] https://openmodelic
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by pkoird 2y ago
I'd argue for the converse: Computer Science is Mathematics
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by pkoird 2y ago
Ahh, so maybe we should first focus on formalizing Lean itself?
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by pkoird 2y ago
I'll say this again, any sufficiently advanced LLM is indistinguishable from Prolog.
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by pkoird 2y ago
I should think so. I forget the source but I seem to have once heard (to my satisfaction) that all global diplomatic maneuvers can essentially be explained in terms of kids playing in a playground.
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by pkoird 2y ago
Well, strictly speaking, it is suitable for places where all actors make choices in ways we can predict. So even if an actor was choosing, say, uniformly at random (and we knew this fact), we'd be able to incorporate it into analysis t
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by pkoird 2y ago
> Photographs of the night sky are compatible with all theories of the solar system in human history (including, eg., stars are angels). There is no summary of these photographs which gives information about the world over and above just
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by pkoird 2y ago
KANs have learnable activations based on splines parameterized on few variables. You can specify a prior over those variables, effectively establishing a prior over your activation function.

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