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by srean 9mo ago
Could you elaborate please.
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by srean 9mo ago
Yes, as you would note, this was one of my hypotheses. However, it is on shaky ground. This friend has suffered from vertigo chronically, it was not a new one off. My wife's and her friend's phones have been close proximity many
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by srean 9mo ago
I used to be skeptical about this and would try and find alternative explanations, for example, cognitive biases, coincidences, search requests from another device routed through a common wifi. However, I have changed my mind through a leng
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by srean 9mo ago
Is that really true ? Golden ratio is very specific, whereas any proportional that is vaguely close to 1.5 (equivalently, 2:1) gets called out as an example of golden ratio. The same tendency exists among wannabe-mathematician art critics w
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by srean 9mo ago
> especially when it’s taught by Anant Sahai, who’s a delightfully classic hardass immigrant professor ... That's a rather odd way to begin an article. I understand the contributions of immigrant and temporarily-immigrant skilled p
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by srean 10mo ago
I am not from the US but your observation, if correct, would offer a counterexample worth thinking about. You are saying that in the past, more resources were spent supporting individuals than the resources spent supporting communities and
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by srean 10mo ago
I hear you. For me things that have worked are those that are built around a hobby -- travelling to the wooded hills, astronomy, music recitals, caring for strays / abandoned pets.
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by srean 10mo ago
That's right. Church does not have to be a church of faith, it can well be a church of reason. What matters is that people with shared values get to spend time together on a regular basis without getting into status games that might ev
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by srean 10mo ago
Traumatic childhood almost always messes with how one attaches with people. A small exceptional fraction somehow manage to remain unaffected. When attachment styles get warped, behaviors that were a self protective behavior in childhood, be
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by srean 10mo ago
I am always in awe when people are able to manage such an unsavoury baggage. That's some tough going.
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by srean 10mo ago
Yes. Our lopsided emphasis on individualism, our definition of economic efficiency that does not include the mental health value, these have been detrimental to our connections, roots, community, family etc. We said, let the mom and pop sto
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by srean 10mo ago
This. I also think that a lot of the waste can be done away with by using application specific codecs. Yes, even gzip compresses logs and metrics by a lot, but one can go further with specialized codecs to hone in on the redundancy much qui
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by srean 10mo ago
It seems our down-voters disagree. Quite an interesting phenomena though, how affiliations color some unarguable facts. Many clearly believe that ICE agents are doing the right thing, they got what they voted for.
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by srean 10mo ago
Or what Upton Sinclair said.
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by srean 10mo ago
All I can say is silkworm pupae are delicious. Once you get over the ick.
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by srean 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617645 comments that it's only federal employees who are legally bound regarding classified documents, reporters are not.
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ICE is now close to being Trump's private police, funded by tax payer's money and beyond accountability.
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by srean 10mo ago
In India we have been going through this the last 14 years or so. Look up Stanswamy [0], an octagenarian jailed on the basis of trumped up charges and planted evidence (most likely with the help of Israeli companies). Journalists held in ja
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by srean 10mo ago
And offer presidential pardons to those who sell it inside, illegally
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by srean 10mo ago
Compared to numbers at peak whaling you are correct. I was commenting on a more recent phenomena. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ocean-hea... http://archive.today/2025.09.03-030
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by srean 10mo ago
By any chance is Ned Flanders modelled upon Florian Seiffert. Link to photo fromthe pist: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil
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by srean 10mo ago
Yes! Archimedes was probably alien intelligence compared to his peers. His method of exhaustion does qualify as integral calculus and it's not limited to that overwritten document. It appears many times in his work
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by srean 10mo ago
Neural nets are quite a bit more than matrix multiplications, at least in their current representation. There are layers upon layers of nonlinearity, be it with softmax or sigmoid. In the tangent kernel view it does linearize.
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by srean 10mo ago
There's a massive reduction in the whale song of the blue whales. Almost halved. They are presumably starving. That something ginormous can be so elegant, beautiful and sleek is hard to conceive till one meets a blue whale. Let's
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by srean 10mo ago
It depends on parameterization. For example, if you prameterize the x,y coordinates of a plane-circular trajectory in terms the angle theta, it's nonlinear function of theta. However, if you parameterized a point in terms of the tuple
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by srean 10mo ago
Quite so. Quite so indeed. We know that under benign conditions and infinite dimensional basis must exist but finding it from finite samples is very non-trivial, we don't know how to do it in the general case.
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by srean 10mo ago
Wouldn't mind killer whales and dolphins while we are at it. We aren't that great about sharing the environment though.
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by srean 10mo ago
Weird typo in what I wrote. It's past the edit window. This is what I had meant to type: There's joy in figuring things out, but the process of communicating what has been so figured can be tedious and full of drama -- the kind
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by srean 10mo ago
Thanks a bunch for the references. Reading the abstract these used a different idea compared to what Fourier analysis is about, but nonetheless should be a very interesting read.
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by srean 10mo ago
You may well be right about neural networks. Sometimes models that seem nonlinear turns linear if those nonlinearities are pushed into the basis functions, so one can still hope. For GPT like models, I see sentences as trajectories in the

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