sigmoid10

6 ms·

31.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Sorry, you are still arguing against things I never said or that you desperately want to misinterpret in a disingenuous way. If I was actually wrong about anything I said, all you had to do was write down the explicit metric and point out e
32.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Mathematics in the sense of a complete set of axioms can't, but human research into mathematics apparently just needed enough compute to achieve the same output as a high-tier faculty.
33.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
If OpenAI has set the API standard more or less without even trying just by offering one of the most straightforward ways of interacting with LLMs via http. To the point that they got stuck with this legacy thing now that they and many othe
34.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
These days stripe is perhaps getting dominant, but there was an age before stripe and many small companies still have custom solutions. And how would Paypal scam you out of your money? I've only ever seen this happen to people who did
35.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
I meant scandinavia.
36.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Do you never order stuff online from outside of scandinavia? I've used it extensively for over a decade with zero issues and still find it the best payment method for online shopping if you are a consumer. You only need an email to sen
37.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
USB was developed by a big alliance of major software and hardware vendors. This stuff on the other hand always feels like Anthropic is just scared of dropping out of the news cycle because other companies are constantly releasing models or
38.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
>You wrote that the singularity is a point in space Because it is. Remember: space, not spacetime. Hence the remark in brackets in the original comment and my reminder to read precisely in the other one. And in Eddington Finkelstein it i
39.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
The singularity is just a bookshelf and love can act as space-time GPS amirite? Slap it on a Möbius strip on and make it a flashy wearable, then you basically have the last Avengers movie too.
40.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
That's what you get when you start reading wikipedia about such an advanced topic without knowing anything about it. Wikipedia actually starts to crack as a reliable source for laypeople and on top of that begins to mix science and met
41.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Huggingface is not a product, it's a community. It's the go-to place where everyone who has anything to do with open AI models gathers. You could trivially reproduce their stack, but building such a huge AI community around a sing
42.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Just draw the geometry in Eddington Finkelstein coordinates and you will see everything I wrote above is true at the technical level if you read precisely.
43.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Of course you can show stuff with them too. You can show tons of things with all of them. I was talking in relation to Schwarzschild coords.
44.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
It is not difficult to construct geometries with naked singularities. Reissner, Nordström, Weyl and others individually came up with one long before Oppenheimer. You can also construct geometries where faster than light travel is possible.
45.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Baryon and lepton number conservation are what's called "accidental symmetries" in the standard models, meaning there is no real underlying symmetry that would conserve them. In fact many extensions of the Standard Model don&
46.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Rotating black holes are described by Kerr geometries and have more than one event horizon, but still have their singularities hidden from anyone outside behind their inner horizon.
47.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
>the notion that the singularity is always in your future makes sense But it is just a mathematical artefact of weirdly chosen coordinates. In reality, the singularity is still just a point in space (or a line in spacetime), except that
48.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
>It's a spacelike line on the Kruskal diagram It also is in Schwarzschild coords, so you've gained nothing with respect to the original issue from switching coordinates. Kruskal-Szeres really is only useful for demonstrating th
49.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
>The fact that both have the same name They don't just have the same name, they are the same thing. A Schwarzschild black hole has both: a removable singularity at the event horizon that is just an artefact of a particular choice of
50.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Kruskal-Szeres coordinates indeed get rid of the wonky coordinate stuff at the event horizon, but if you look at the corresponding diagrams, you'll just end up with the same confusion, because the singularity is still a point (or rathe
51.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
If the figures in this announcement hold up, they're gonna spend like $20k per resident of LA. That's insane.
52.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Should be pointed out that this is a critique of common popsci journalism tropes and not a fancy new research result. Anyone who has taken a graduate level class in General Relativity would have been able to tell you the same.
53.
by sigmoid10 1mo ago
Until you actually need to run a business. Then money is much more important than the preferences of your employees. That's why Apple has barely penetrated the business world beyond overfunded startups that are more driven by hype and
54.
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
Exactly. This is not a question of whether you get spied on, it is a question of who gets the monopoly for spying on you. Between extortion groups, cybercrime syndicates, foreign governments and last but not least my own government, there&#
55.
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
Depends on the actual scan. A head CT can be as little as one sievert while a full blown angiogramm can be more than ten sievert. A pilot can accrue 40k flight hours over his career. If 90% of that is at cruising altitude (meaning 3-6 micro
56.
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
>I suspect the physical discomfort of keeping your heart rate at 120 for an hour is less than that of almost maxing it out in a handful of one minute intervals. Only when you limit it to lactate levels. But you're not going to push
57.
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
This still seems like a step in that direction. If you can have more benefits by spending less time training and enduring physical discomfort, then that should be an overall guideline for training aimed at the general population. Although t
58.
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
Professional athletes don't train for cardiometabolic health. They train to perform at competitions. The study is perfectly fine for the people it is intended to serve in the context of their lives. Normal people neither want nor need
59.
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
Eventually they will. But until these models become commonly available there is a significant first mover advantage.
60.
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
This was a widespread opinion a few years ago, but by now it is pretty much accepted that any LLM fine tune you build today based on the best available models will be beaten by a general purpose frontier LLM within a year.

More ›