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by sandgiant 4y ago
Fair enough. I can see how for a limited domain of understanding, it can be a reasonable analogue for compression. I still don't see the benefit of reducing the domain of a word just to be able to put a new technology on arbitrary scal
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Yes, it's brilliant! I love how novel things like these always end up on their own axis of reality, while everyone (including me) is trying hard to project them onto whatever predisposed axes we're hauling around.
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At the point before we actually understand how the models work and realize this has nothing to do with awareness. On the upside, we can learn a lot about ourselves when we realize this.
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by sandgiant 4y ago
On the contrary, it's important to realize that these models have no sort of understanding in any definition of the word. We can always decide to redefine the word "understanding", but that doesn't seem like it would pr
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Thank you for posting this. I'm always a bit conflicted when "AI" news goes viral like this. One the one hand it's fantastic that the excellent work of OpenAI and many others are getting the attention it deserves, but at
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I'd love to get on the hype train here, but I really need for someone to explain to me how ChatGPT is more than just a toy. What is this going to be useful for exactly? Another kind of knowledge exploration perhaps? If they find a way
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by sandgiant 4y ago
Call me a skeptic, but I'm frankly a bit surprised that the output of ChatGPT gets attributed to any sort of understanding or general intelligence. Whatever ChatGPT does currently, albeit novel and impressive, is still extremely limite
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by sandgiant 4y ago
This is great! Had a real good time completing Panda Love with my daughter. Thanks for sharing!
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by sandgiant 4y ago
Looks like Quanta Magazine changed the title of the article after publication. I guess they did get some push back on the original article. Original title (dec 1.): "Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer" [1] Curre
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by sandgiant 4y ago
> What Sequoia was reacting to was the scale of SBF’s vision. It wasn’t a story about how we might use fintech in the future, or crypto, or a new kind of bank. It was a vision about the future of money itself—with a total addressable mar
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I think this is a misunderstanding of how these models work. The model does not understand anything at all. It's computing correlations. I could spend all day computing correlation without ever understanding what the correlations corre
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by sandgiant 4y ago
Sure they could. There are bikes made specifically for obese and elderly people. If you prefer driving your car, that's fine, but don't pretend that biking is somehow reserved for young fit people, that's simply not true. Go
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In reality Kübler-Ross developed her stage model after interviewing many individuals with life-threatening illnesses. It was only the experiences of these patients that she attempted to model. I actually didn't know this, but that ma
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Some fairly negative comments here. I think it looks fantastic. I'd love to roam the site, imagining that I just stepped through a farcaster portal into some alien civilization. I can't recall seeing anything that would be able to
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by sandgiant 4y ago
This is great! Love Soulver too, but having it in the browser is fantastic. Well done!
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It most certainly is funded with tax money. This usually means that the work has to be publicly accessible. Which it is on https://arxiv.org . I agree that the fees journals charge to access (even your own) work is absurd, but it
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by sandgiant 4y ago
Interesting idea. The number could also be an attempt to cover up their actual intention of targeting specific users. Among the 1,900 phone numbers, the attacker explicitly searched for three numbers, and we’ve received a report from one o
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by sandgiant 4y ago
While the title does sound a bit sensationalist the actual paper refers to a standard in the International Commission for Weights and Measures which is indeed (according to the paper) based on 100-year old paradigm introduced by Riemann and
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by sandgiant 4y ago
Was also surprised not seeing the EDK for abseiling. Perhaps it's a cultural thing?
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I don't think physicist really misinterpret this if you asked them. The problem is, as you say, that the "past" and "future" only have a physical meaning inside your own light cone. As alluded to in the video, you c
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by sandgiant 4y ago
The picture in the article is misleading. It's an image of the Barnard 68 molecular cloud that has nothing to do with Boötes void. Also, the existence of the void is not at tension with LambdaCDM, the standard model of cosmology, as th
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Testing Implementation Details(kentcdodds.com)
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I'm getting this: # fermented chilli sauce recipe # https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/friedchilli_83671
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by sandgiant 4y ago
What you find most exciting is a subjective thing. I don't have a clear answer, but you can browse through the list of accepted proposals in cycle 1 and decide for yourself: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execu
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by sandgiant 4y ago
The JWST is only now entering science operations. What you see is pretty pictures taken as part of the commissioning and PR efforts of NASA. The actual science is yet to come, but will likely not look as spectacular to the layperson. Edit:
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This is manly a demonstration of the imaging capabilities of JWST. Making actual sausage is a way longer, way more boring process. It depends on the science of course, but generally the sausage is made with specialized software that produce
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I agree, this seems analogous to the argument that simulation of the weather can't produce rain. In some sense, that argument is true by prior definition. It's like saying that the Universe can't simulate itself. But consciou
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I've had millions of files in git using git-annex. It kind of works if you're very patient, it's definitely not something I'd recommend. I wish there was a solution, such as git-annex, that worked well with millions of f
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by sandgiant 4y ago
I think the author misunderstands what entropy is. It's not a measure of complexity. If anything is the opposite.
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by sandgiant 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, but almost all "alternatives to Evernote" lack some of the most important (to me) features like web clipping, OCR and related notes. The only real alternative to Evernote I've found is DEVONthink.

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