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Yes, that's exactly the point... "But they didn't have any kind of mathematical foundation until the 1960's, when Robinson found a way to coherently axiomitize them."
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Perhaps; in a lot of cases the architecture barely matters. Transformers took a lot of extra tricks to get working well; the ConvNext paper showed that applying those same tricks to convolutional networks can fully close the gap. https:&#x
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by sdenton4 2y ago
So, the thing is that linear algebra operations are very cheap already... you just need a lot of them. Any other 'cheap' method is going to have a similar problem: if the unit is small and not terribly expressive, you need a whole
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by sdenton4 2y ago
OTOH, a lot of people who really needed to be able to change their event pricing at 2am (+/- two timezones) on jumpcomedy.com were really let down. Probably some of them died. Imagine how much more the damage would have been if someone
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Once we overcome uniqueness bias, we'll need to overcome '...but it might work for us' bias. Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people? Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking
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by sdenton4 2y ago
I dunno, man - a competitive market for browsers likely involves the browser itself inserting a bunch of ads all over the place. It becomes another axis for enshittification, rather than a mostly-neutral window into the web. It's not e
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Interesting, though, that they're getting different numbers using different kinds of stars, which does suggest problems with the distance ladder.
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"researchers started using Cepheids to calibrate the distances to bright supernovas, enabling more accurate measurements of H0." It seems like if there were some error in the luminosity measurement for cepheids, it would propagate
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Usearch: Single-File Similarity Search(github.com)
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The UPS is a battery...
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Yeah, we should probably add a blockchain to the design so that we don't have to trust anyone.
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Yah, I think that's where the experience of how failure happens in machine learning projects is helpful. I've seen wrong explanations for root causes drag out for months and sometimes years, as we tried different attacks that just
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by sdenton4 2y ago
So, I used to think this, but seeing a lot of success and failure in machine learning projects has taught me that negative results can be quite difficult to interpret. You typically don't know if it's because the underlying idea i
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A fun problem with this is that there are 500k minutes in a year, so the critical free minutes needed to get into orbit quickly would be like working at nanosecond scale... Our slow friends would presumably need 100% automation to survive j
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Orca's great! Here's a blog post I wrote after spending a long weekend figuring out how to use it to make some procedurally generated music: https://inventingsituations.net/2021/12/26/procedural-musi
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by sdenton4 2y ago
This is basically the main plot device for the movie Home Alone.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Thrown in for hyperbolism, but also it turns out there's been a fair amount of micro gravity experimentation with mice, for example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5111316
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Well, to be sure, mouse research consistently produces amazing cures for cancer, insomnia, lost limbs, and even gravity itself. Sure, none of it translates to humans, but it's an important source of headlines for high impact journals a
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Computers are good at arithmetic, not math... There's definitely an aspect of this that is 'airplanes, not birds.' Just because the wings don't flap doesn't mean it can't fly, though.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Think of problems in NP - you can check the answer efficiently, but finding the answer to check is the hard part... This is basically what we're looking at here: The proof checker can quickly evaluate correctness, but we need something
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by sdenton4 2y ago
The player choices and handling of partial success in PBtA games (like dungeon world) really makes them sing. A partial success leads to adding complications, which creates really interesting situations. The original Apocalypse World book h
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by sdenton4 2y ago
For things which have some combination of luck and skill, there tends to be a baseline skill for, average results given no/low skill. So in a thousand person event, you'll have some number of people performing at baseline and a sm
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Of course, seventy-five-year-old presidents can have 55-year-old kids... Oh, hey, GW Bush! Didn't see you over there!
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by sdenton4 2y ago
The primary was a coronation, not a contest. The word your looking for here is 'legitimacy.' It's what political power is made of. Biden lost it, by staying hidden through the primaries and then showing himself to be obviousl
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by sdenton4 2y ago
For far too long we have put up with unmetered popes. Lemme give you 95 reasons why all popes should be metered...
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Doesn't it just move the targets? We also have to deal with ridiculously complex permissions structures in cloud dashboards. This is also an operational burden, and certainly a security burden if you get it wrong...
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Uh, OP here.... Calling the Rock's San Andreas a documentary was, in fact, a joke. You are now free to experience the many other surprising and delightful things that this life has to offer.
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Find me the one who knows they got there by chance alone... It's very easy to create a narrative around random movements. I expect that anyone who is ahead of the market creates such a narrative, and declare themselves a genius. And th
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by sdenton4 2y ago
There was a pretty bad flooding event portrayed in the documentary movie San Andreas. https://youtu.be/jvIGFhqbe0c?si=ZCaVjWjw-oi84HgD&t=1m39s
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Consider earthquakes. Preparation and infrastructure are what matter. If you don't do the prep, you'll have a hundred thousand dead from a 6.0. But if you do the prep, you'll have relatively trivial damage from a 7.0. Texas p

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