soVeryTired

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by soVeryTired 2y ago
There ain’t no justice.
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Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle(newscenter.lbl.gov)
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
In some situations I agree you can get a rough and ready sense of one curve or other. Certain types of auctions, and order books for financial markets are examples (though I think your link is broken!). Even with order books though, they ju
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Supply and demand aren’t observable though. Only their intersections, price and quantity, are observable. Honest question: if we don’t know the shape of the curves, if we can’t observe them, and if they shift around according to unknown dyn
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
But this is mathematics, not physics. It's about axioms and logical contradictions, not apples.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
What's SETH in this context? I googled to no avail.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
It's the intent to shock or humiliate behind the sending of a lewd picture that's disturbing, not the picture itself. A urologist can look at penises all day and not care because there's no ill intent behind the display. On a
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
If I sent someone a picture of a raw steak via a dating app, it wouldn't "just be a picture of a steak". There's nothing inherently wrong with pictures of steak, but the context is important. In the context of a dating s
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
I have to say, neither of those answers are very satisfying. Neither is wrong but I don't come away with a clear explanation for why cosine similarity is the obvious metric to use.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
It's not obvious to me that vector size isn't relevant in semantic search. What is it about the training process for semantic search that makes that the case?
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
I still don't understand why cosine similarity is used (other than maybe being cheap to compute). I've read a bunch of hand-wavey articles but none of them add up for me. If all your vectors have the same 2-norm, the cosine simila
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Traditionally you just use money to do that.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
ETFs don’t let you create the underlying asset out of thin air. They’re just a wrapper that allows the underlying to trade easily on an exchange.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
The articles and courses mentioned in the WSJ piece are about science education rather than science itself. I looked up the Afrochemistry course: it's listed along side other 'fun' courses like the chemistry of art and the
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Everyone worked with Fortran long before they worked with Python.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
PCA is purely deterministic (and might not give great results). My guess is this is done by t-sne or UMAP, both of which depend on a seed.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
By that logic I could put the Iraq war on your head, assuming you're American. Hamas supporters are complicit, but not all Gazans are.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
It sounds like the government might have understood it as a termite invasion.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
> My theory is that architecture doesn't matter - convolutional, transformer or recurrent, as long as you can efficiently train models of the same size, what counts is the dataset I assume you mean architecture doesn’t matter much,
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Look to your own tortured words. Referred to a system as ‘performant’ recently?
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
It's a machine learning method for turning a sample of text into a fixed-length vector. We usually try to find embeddings with the property that samples of text with similar meanings are mapped to vectors that are close to one another.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Completely agree, and I think this is where a lot of the confusion in the thread is coming from. The prize claims to compress “human knowledge” but it’s actually a fairly rigid natural language text compression challenge. I’d conjecture tha
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
There’s no way I could reproduce a calculus textbook verbatim, but I can probably prove all the important theorems in it. Even then, given half of any sentence in the book, I don’t rate my chances of reproducing the next half. That’s more a
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
I have it and strongly dislike it. “Undefined PTO” is a much better term than “Unlimited PTO”. There is a limit, the company just delegates the definition of that limit to team leads. It makes planning holidays uncomfortable since it’s ne
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Cubic splines are universal function approximators. As is piecewise linear interpolation. The universal function approximator thing is way overblown.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Is "eliminates" the right word here? My reading of the article abstract is that the treatment kills virus particles and in higher doses, the macaques showed increased white blood counts. But that's not to say that the monkeys
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
I'm not sure I get what you're saying here. ChatGPT and GPT-4 absolutely can write code and poetry. GPT-4 arguably does both better than I do.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
What's taught in undergrad economics courses is incorrect. Fractional reserve banking doesn't really exist anymore. Banks don't lend out the deposits they recieve, they create new ones 'out of thin air'. Arguably th
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Can you explain what's going on there? Sounds like he's doing something to prevent patenting of drugs but I don't follow what it is.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
> but this whole story is more of a parlor trick than anything else I don't think it is really. You're right in saying that 2/3 and 3/2 are the right numbers to ensure that the population wealth stays the same. But t

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