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What do you mean by "subtype"? Lean defines a thing calles `Subtype`, members of which are constructed from a value and a property.
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> Does Microsoft think consumers are stupid masochists Microsoft thinks their product has no agency (and they are mostly right, just not always )
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It no longer works when some definition or other theorem changes slightly. Most of these proof assistants provide ways to write proofs that can slightly adjust and "plug together" the other theorems in the "obvious" way.
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I guess it means "someone who has or is about to have a PhD".
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> It also clearly visible on the Left (in Germany Wagenknecht, die Linke, in France le francais insoumni, every Communist and Left populist party I am aware of) Those parties certainly seem more sympathetic to Russia than "centre&qu
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> It also clearly visible on the Left (in Germany Wagenknecht, die Linke, in France le francais insoumni, every Communist and Left populist party I am aware of) Those parties certainly seem more sympathetic to Russia than "centre&qu
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Russia has given up "communism" as an economic policy. The soviet union, however, generally seems to be seen quite positively by the current political establishment.
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People in the EU don't equate "communist" to "evil", or even to "wants everything to be like the USSR". Recently in the EU, foreign (also Russian and Chinese) interference has been more visible in parties
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I thought Germany was pretty big on privacy protection. What exactly do you mean?
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You absolutely can buy the ISO publication (though I wouldn't recommend it). Also, given that n new version of the C++ standard is published roughly every three years (and named every three years), I'm not really sure what you
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> I just don’t trust anything Surely you trust a lot of things and people every day. One cannot make up ones mind about almost anything without being influenced by others, nor without taking into account information received from others.
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Same thing in all languages I know well enough to read books in. I can't at all explain how or why it works, but certain kinds of writing style have an almost magical effect on me. This feeling of well-rounded beauty, even when the con
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Did this change anything about how research is conducted?
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I didn't really mean anything by this "exclusion" that is not already the case right now. Programers (just like anyone) who are able to solve various problems are doing well. Those who cannot, and who are not doing well can t
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Let's be a little more concrete: do you think FormalGeo [1] is a big deal? I think it's very cool but ultimately not useful in and of itself. It's only useful insofar as it shows AI capabilities advancing in general. Let&#x27
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Fundamentally, it seems inevitable to me that AIs will outperform humans at programming eventually. Humans are terrible at tasks that involve sitting still for long periods of time manipulating abstract symbols. They are not adapted to au
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> understanding mathematics and its proofs not just arithmetic will be the next game changer for LLM Why? I definitely agree that such capabilities would represent a major advance (and very likely go together with game changing increas
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I guess one could start sending fake (AI-generated?) job applications to probe the gatekeeper. I could see this happening.
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Setting aside the politicking about "Left vs. Right", the post makes a good argument why Meta will "soon" stop open-sourcing their models. Whether people will eventually give all their data to one of four companies is an
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I mean functions defined by power series (just like sin(x) is defined in analysis courses). For the three body problem, see http://oro.open.ac.uk/22440/2/Sundman_final.pdf (Warning, pdf!). This is what Wikipedia c
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The crucial parts of that are "closed-form" and "standard". The analytic solution is "non-standard" because it involves the kind of power series that nobody knows or cares about (because they are only about 100
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Even if/when we manage to build working fusion power plants, those will be big and quite expensive...
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Spell the assembly backwards out loud with no prior notes while juggling knives (shows boldness in the way you approach problems!) and standing on a gymnastics ball (shows flexibility and well-roundedness)...
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> The three body problem is also harder than running experiments in the LHC or analysing Hubble data or treating sick kids or building roads or running a business Not that it's particularly relevant to this discussion but the three
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> But is that because of their economic policy or because of social norms? You think the distribution of living standards across a population could be a matter of social norms? How?
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Have you used it? If yes, could you elaborate? Or if you haven't, can you point to any recent source on what it's like to be using HoTT in 2024?
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I agree that Flux.jl is very cool but you can't use it to train a SOTA LLM, can you? The Julia ecosystem does not have the resources to even attempt building a viable alternative to Pytorch. I'm still curious what concrete thi
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> technology they’re working on poses the gravest of dangers. > Or rather, its been actively marketed by Altman as doing so Both can be true at the same time.
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> the Python ecosystem is often far superior to both What would you say does the Python ecosystem have that the others are missing? The obvious thing is pytorch/tensorflow/.... I can't think of much else though.
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At the current level on the way towards "caring about humanity", I really don't think it's a complicated philosophical question. Once a big company actively chooses to forego some profits based on any altruistic consid

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