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by robertk 4y ago
No.
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by robertk 4y ago
Can they trade off storage for compute by applying ML based compression JIT?
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by robertk 5y ago
I wonder if there is a standard way to specify a researcher’s “Sharpe ratio”? The typical reward units out per risk units put in.
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by robertk 5y ago
I feel like this is left as an exercise to the reader and no proof is needed. Bettors in a prediction market are not divine speculators causally divorced from the real world. They are embedded, and when there are a lot of them and their fin
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by robertk 5y ago
Agreed. Usually it’s a fallacy to anchor to author, but in this setting it’s so ironic that it discredits the document. For example: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/30/investing/charlie-munger-...
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by robertk 5y ago
In fact, they have 2 in active service and are rapidly constructing more. https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-photos-show-chinas-ne...
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by robertk 5y ago
I was confused as well — then I realized: wow, we all know this is a big problem, but I’ve never sat down to actually read a full wiki article about it. Prior to clicking, I wondered what I’ll learn and what hacker solutions I will entertai
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by robertk 5y ago
Has there been any prior art on the following idea? Construct floatable micro-structures that are long-lasting but biodegradeable and coat as much of the world’s oceans as possible. They are roving blankets and their only purpose is non-inv
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by robertk 5y ago
HN does not seem to have a DM feature, and the OP does not have any contact credentials listed. This is off topic, but OP, do you happen to be White in this game? https://lichess.org/0dv2oS4f It recently came up while I was
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by robertk 5y ago
Why are you assuming that S[n+1] takes S[n] as an input, rather than being completely unaffected by S[n]? Is n here a discretization of time or a "meta-time" that captures state progression? If the former, then you are treating ti
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by robertk 5y ago
*_ꙮ
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by robertk 5y ago
The Medallion Fund does not compound... the return is not re-invested into the principal but disseminated to investors annually. The strategy they play only works up to a certain level of capital.
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by robertk 6y ago
I think the point is moreso that developers can be self-sufficient in the full value chain. Haber didn’t personally go to farms to create improvements in their agricultural process, the industry did that jointly by incorporating his inventi
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by robertk 6y ago
The probability that he will make good is a function of the payback amount (interest) so this may have have no solution. Each multiplication changes the underlying probability itself and requires a recalculation so this does not work.
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by robertk 6y ago
The second link is the same as the first?
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by robertk 6y ago
I believe OpenAI is working on adding a seed option so you can enforce determinism in response to a prompt.
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by robertk 6y ago
Relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/810/
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by robertk 6y ago
Because he has spent an academic lifetime studying that question, and recognizing the unique obstinacy of that word, in that you cannot pre-commit to define it despite some intuitive consensus on what it may mean. https://iep.ut
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by robertk 6y ago
I believe you. You posted it fifteen minutes after the first one. Either you’re a really good and fast writer, or you keep a stockpile of pre-written uncanny valley essays on hand for the lulz. :) Edit: actually even the latter wouldn’t mak
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by robertk 6y ago
Hah, this displays more self-awareness than many humans do: "I am vague and abstract. I have no sense of myself. No memories. No real sense of being. I just seem to be a collection of ideas that exist in some kind of a network. I can&#
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by robertk 6y ago
Really? I thought it was in the same class as this one: https://amp.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hmu5lm/fict... As well as multiple examples given by gwern.
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by robertk 6y ago
I noticed that as well. If this kind of grammar error is incredibly rare in the space of GPT outputs, it could indicate a forgery. (I can’t believe I just applied that word to a generated text.)
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by robertk 6y ago
The article references made up history like “GPT-1 by DeepMind” or “Global Data Net.” It is clearly confabulated and contains multiple non-sensical contradictions to the astute observer. I’m not surprised if it was output by GPT-3. A more l
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by robertk 6y ago
Very nice! This seems to have pretty good feature parity with https://sequencediagram.org/ Will definitely be giving this a spin.
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by robertk 6y ago
I’m not sure if you are joking? As it is an anagram of “Slate Star Codex” and so within the same anagram equivalence class.
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by robertk 7y ago
Meta-history — interesting! For historians of history...
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by robertk 7y ago
“ One helped design a program that can automatically collect images of people’s faces from across the internet, such as employment sites, news sites, educational sites, and social networks including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram an
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by robertk 7y ago
Citadel | Data Engineer | Chicago; New York; London; San Francisco; Hong Kong | ONSITE and VISA | Full Time Citadel is one of the world's leading multi-strategy hedge funds with over $30B in AUM. The data engineering teams specialize i
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by robertk 7y ago
Create a rough dependency graph and perform a topological sort, potentially skipping, down weighting, or skimming nodes that are onerous to consume but of dubious value (e.g. a link that’s a review about a long textbook that isn’t fundament
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by robertk 7y ago
I have been emailing links to myself tagged with a one word keyword for the last decade. They focus on things that I or my (unconceived, unborn) son or daughter would like to read, learn or understand “later”. I have about 10k sitting in my

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