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The "Just One More" Paradox – Kelly Criterion [video](youtube.com)
58 points by stared 3y ago|17 comments
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by stared 3y ago
There is a remake of the classic puzzle game Supaplex. It weighs 200MB. The original is less than 300kB ( https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/supaplex ). So, I play the original one in DOSBox-x. Maybe it is nostalgi
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by stared 3y ago
Unless you fail to remember about paying bills, taking medications, picking up deliveries, attending meetings, registering on time, filling taxes, not overbooking oneself, etc, etc. Even though something is one's core value, it is stil
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by stared 3y ago
I used to track things in Evernote, but now I have fallen in love with Obsidian and never looked back (migrated all notes there). The UI is simple, so I focus on the content. As it is Markdown-based, I am not afraid to be locked in, and I b
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Winners of the Quantum Games Hackathon 2023(qaif.org)
1 points by stared 3y ago|0 comments
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by stared 3y ago
I have learnt that platypuses glow in the UV light from, well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxf2MgYCOm0
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by stared 3y ago
Sure. Yet, there were "deep dreams" to generate "unreal" images back then. In my opinion, these are hallucinations - things that happen in dreams (or under the influence of various substances). See https://blo
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by stared 3y ago
> the natural base of logarithms turns out to be something else than 2.71828 The Euler number has a very concrete definition (or, actually, quite a few equivalent ones). The answer is clear if definitions are the same (all - including th
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by stared 3y ago
As a side note, silicon carbide (also known as moissanite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite ) has better optical properties (slightly higher refractive index, twice as high dispersion) while not carrying multipl
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by stared 3y ago
I would love to use it for background music when I am working. I have specific tastes that depend on the task, mood, energy level, and ambiance.
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by stared 3y ago
I beg to differ. If there are indentions, it is easy to fold long lists. For TOML, it takes mental effort to check whether items are from the same list or another. Additionally, in TOML, there are multiple ways to write a list (unlike in JS
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by stared 3y ago
My bad!
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by stared 3y ago
While I like it, it also has shortcomings. For example, while gpt-4-32k is listed in https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4 , it is not available for accounts that have access to its 8k-token variant, gpt-4-
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by stared 3y ago
This view on wave-particle duality and the quantum measurement is a (very) leaky abstraction. It is a process, governed by decoherence - for a nice overview, see e.g. "Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical
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by stared 3y ago
So, it is alike PhD Comics emergency button (see the bottom right corner of https://phdcomics.com/comics/ ).
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by stared 3y ago
Promises are cheap - even if made by researchers and engineers deeply believing that they can beat OpenAI. Let alone any assurances given by PR or marketing departments. And don't fool ourselves - everything announced publicly is prepa
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by stared 3y ago
Many cultures have a ritual of cleansing a place with smoke; see smudging ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudging ). It is believed to ward off evil spirits. Is some sense, it is true, as the smoke has antiseptic and re
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by stared 3y ago
> LLMs won't get intelligent. That's a fact based on their MO. They are sequence completion engines. They can be fine tuned to specific tasks, but at their core, they remain stochastic parrots. Yet, we are different, right?
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by stared 3y ago
Any template strings are ambiguous unless there is more than one example. For example, let's imagine that there is an instruction saying that in a config file, there should be: PASSWORD=[password] Let's say our password is "
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AgentBench – Evaluating LLMs as Agents(llmbench.ai)
2 points by stared 3y ago|0 comments
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Room-temperature levitation of graphene [video](twitter.com)
2 points by stared 3y ago|1 comments
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by stared 3y ago
As I see, it is both a DVCS and a meta-DVCS.
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by stared 3y ago
> Difference between machine learning and AI: > If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning > If it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI (source: https://twitter.com/matvelloso/st
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by stared 3y ago
I don't share the popular anti-Medium sentiment. For many occasional bloggers, it makes sense; otherwise, they would post in the walled gardens of Facebook and LinkedIn, as thread-monsters on Twitter, or - not at all. Still, for a larg
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by stared 3y ago
I am curious how do you use Jupyter? For me, it used to be Jupyter Notebook. For reasons I cannot pinpoint, I never got convinced to JupyterLab. Sometimes I use Google Colab, primarily for sharing and using GPU for deep learning. Now, when
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by stared 3y ago
I call it Pontius Pilate's Ethics. It is (a very rational) approach for administrative workers, who get little credit for getting things better, but are at risk when they can be taken accountable for something terrible. That way, for e
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Balls the pet fruit bat (1978) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by stared 3y ago|0 comments
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by stared 3y ago
I just realized that the top 10% in the UK is what a software engineer earns in... Poland. Sometimes it is good to realize that those of us who work in tech are privileged.
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by stared 3y ago
One thing is dating. The other is that people treat others differently depending on their attractiveness in any other aspect of life. Not only how kids relate to each other in school but even how parents (often subconsciously) favor the mor
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by stared 3y ago
There is a common conception that we don't know the future, but we know the past. In our heads, we have models of the past and models of the future. Sure, there is an asymmetry between knowing the past and the future - due to thermodyn

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