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by soVeryTired 3y ago
In the first regime, where we calculate at the population level, we stop and average the wealth of the whole population after every coin toss. So if E[X_t] is the expected sum of wins and losses from the coin toss, W_t = exp(k E[X_t]) Where
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
I think it's the videos of levitating samples that people are getting excited about. At this point it's either outright fraud (unlikely), an interesting materials science discovery that isn't superconductivity (most likely IM
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Subtle nitpick, but inflation favours fixed-rate debt holders. Floating rate debt holders can get burned pretty badly in an inflationary period.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
I’m not going to argue that asset managers and trading desks have plenty of resources and that they can transact very quickly and cheaply. But having been on the inside of small and large asset managers for almost ten years, I can say there
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Have you tried asking GPT-4? I got a pretty good explanation of attantion from it. The 'key' and 'value' description in the attention mechanism probably doesn't make much sense to you because at best it's a str
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
The Drake equation? We can see the stars, we can see the planets (and there are lots of them). We can infer the number of earth-like planets. So where's all the intelligent life?
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
A manufacturer and fitter of wooden legs: “Ken’s knee-log in”
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Just a guess: is this answer GPT output?
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
> The map is not the territory. Turing would argue that if the map resembles the territory so faithfully that you can't distinguish between them, the difference is moot. We're not there yet, but we're a hell of a lot close
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
ChatGPT is most certainly AI: all of machine learning is a subset of the field of AI, as is much of symbolic logic and Bayesian inference. It's a massive and wide-ranging academic discipline. Maybe you're thinking of "AGI&quo
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
The model is mildly interesting but surely there’s actual data available out there that shows the variability?
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Over the past decade more and more devs have been out-earning surgeons and white-shoe lawyers. The tech salaries of today feel like the i-banking salaries of the early 2000s. It’s not just the c-suite that’s been earning crazy money.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
> I realize there's a 99.9% chance this will cause some emotions, so I won't post any further. Or maybe go the whole hog and just don’t post? I’m not religious but questions like this can only be asked in very specific circumst
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
Honestly is Demis that big a deal? I always figured it was the researchers a layer or two down (e.g. David Silver) who were doing the real work.
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by soVeryTired 3y ago
It wouldn’t look too dissimilar to a standard sinusoid, just shifted upwards a bit. In the range [-1, 1], e^x is reasonably similar to 1 + x.
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
Maybe you could provide us with a reference then?
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
As an externality, the price of emitting 1kg of carbon should be a little greater than the cost of capturing and storing 1kg of carbon. That's too expensive a target to be realistic right now, so the real question is what's a leve
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
It's civil service. There's basically no negotiating on pay - they certainly won't pay an internal candidate more.
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
> They do not even reason, just make up words that fit some context - thus they "hallucinate". But they can explain their 'reasoning' in a way that makes sense to humans a lot of the time. Serious question: how do you
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
Fractional reserve banking isn't a thing anymore.
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
It’s a bit perplexing that you’d even ask this. Wouldn’t it be incredibly surprising if people in early civilisations never conspired with one another?
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
Maybe I've misunderstood here but it sounds like you're comparing the revenue brought in from a customer to the cost of attracting them in the first place. Doesn't that ignore costs like ongoing customer service and maintaini
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
> That some sectors boom while others fade is well known, but we only care about the final aggregate. Why? I really don’t think it’s a good idea to try to measure something as complex and multi-faceted as the evolution of an economy with
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
It’s really interesting to create a DAN style character that always lies, then ask it to write code. The code it generates contains subtle bugs (e.g changing the minus to a plus in recursive factorial)
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
(expanding on what other posters have already said) Cash is a liability of the central bank, yep. Destroying it removes a liability from the bank's balance sheet, increasing their equity. As others have noted, destroying cash is equiva
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
Ignoring some techincalities, the normal distribuiton pops up when you add together a bunch of independent random values. So in 50 question exam, I might have a probability p of getting any question correct. My final score might be somethin
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
Those are just subsets of R though (though I think your last example would take more work to make rigorous, if it's even possible). The weirdness of the axiom of choice only really comes through when you consider bigger and bigger coll
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
Mathoverflow has some good discussion of Banach-Tarski [0]. The top-rated posts argue that - The 'problem' with B-T may be related to our notion of "space" (i.e. point-set topology) rather than any issues with the axiom
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
I guess the egg cell you came from was made inside your grandma when your mom was an embryo in her. So the the cell was technically made inside your grandma’s body.
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by soVeryTired 4y ago
The BMJ draws a distinction between the terms assisted dying, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. It depends on the health of the person dying, and who’s administering the drugs: https://www.bmj.com/assisted-dying

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