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by storus 7mo ago
The swirly effect is certainly unique, though I always considered it a bug as it's not even, some parts look oversharpened, some diffused. Like some weird algorithmic filter in Photoshop.
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by storus 7mo ago
"The Helios 44-2 is a very popular Soviet-era lens among cinematographers" - yeah, not like there were any other Soviet lens available there. Legendary in this context means the only ones anyone there could get their hands on. I b
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by storus 7mo ago
30u30 are an artifact of networking not directly Machiavellianism/sociopathy; pals promote them (often as children of their pals) to the list.
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by storus 7mo ago
Material implication was not the default implication historically; it came as a useful hack by people who hoped that by enforcing it they could formalize the whole math and knowledge and have a sort of a "single source of truth" f
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by storus 7mo ago
There are still many major oversimplifications in the core of math, making it weirdly corresponding with the real world. For example, if you want to model human reasoning you need to step away from binary logic that uses "weird" m
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by storus 7mo ago
My math classes were theorem, lemma, proof all day long, no conceptualization, no explanation; low-level formulas down to axioms. Sink or swim, figure it out on your own or fail.
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by storus 7mo ago
Rigor is one solution to mutual understanding Bourbaki came up with that in turn led to making math inaccessible to most humans as it now takes regular mathematicians over 40 years to get to the bleeding edge, often surpassing their brain&#
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by storus 7mo ago
This has some grain of truth though companies would only execute your ideas if they don't destroy their own business. Imagine creating your own Bloomberg Terminal/Capital IQ using agentic AI - you'd directly attack incumbents
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by storus 7mo ago
I've recently bought 3x32TB (new) and 2x28TB (recertified) drives for a new NAS as my old one started running out of space on some drives (local LLMs and datasets or media for dataset preparations are huge these days) as I expect the p
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by storus 7mo ago
I am failing to see how this stops pre-training scrapping? It still looks like legit code, playing nicely with the desired pre-training distribution. Obviously nobody is going to use it for SFT/DPO/GRPO later.
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by storus 7mo ago
Swedish hospital study was about desloratidine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33550204/ Metabolic theory of cancer is untestable in practice as you can't control all variables over long time.
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by storus 7mo ago
Maybe it's time for him to give the metabolic cancer theory a go and try to bump up his mitochondrial function as much as possible? It's practically untestable due to science testing all compounds in isolation instead of a cocktai
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by storus 7mo ago
To combat sycophancy it's always good to ask the devil's advocate view of whatever the conversation was about in the end.
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by storus 7mo ago
Updating games on HDDs on Steam takes ages; I often see the download complete but then wait another 30 minutes for their diff to complete; and that happens with 10-20 games every week when they have big updates (10GB+). Just for this one th
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by storus 7mo ago
Or that some quixotic problems nobody cared about to the extent to actually work on them do have some solution.
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by storus 7mo ago
The point is that humans do have some edge compared to current LLMs which are essentially next token predictors. If we all start relying on current AI and stop thinking, we would only be able to "exhaust the remix space" of existi
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by storus 7mo ago
Ok, I'll bite. Show me an LLM that comes up with a new math operator. Or which will come up with theory of relativity if only Newton physics is in its training dataset. That it could remix existing ideas which leads to novel insights i
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by storus 7mo ago
This was obviously a simplification which holds for zero temperature. Obviously top-p-sampling will add some randomness but the probability of unexpected longer sequences goes asymptotically to zero pretty quickly.
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by storus 7mo ago
AI is a remixer; it remixes all known ideas together. It won't come up with new ideas though; the LLMs just predict the most likely next token based on the context. That means the group of characters it outputs must have been quite com
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by storus 7mo ago
If no coding agent offers your framework as a choice for code generation, your framework might not even exist, you'd get the same outcome.
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by storus 7mo ago
Your single exam performance doesn't forever assign you to a class of people, you still have an opportunity to redo the exam next year or to be successful even without a degree. That's not possible in China nor Korea. Even in Germ
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by storus 7mo ago
There is even a bigger problem; if AI didn't see your framework, you don't exist. Soon AI companies will be asking for money from devs to include their frameworks in the training dataset. Worse than Google's SEO that could at
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by storus 7mo ago
Isn't this all about brain hypoperfusion coming from some sort of dysautonomia and/or mitochondrial dysfunction and worse blood vessels as we age? We know that medication that helps blood flow and endothelium improves brain long-t
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by storus 7mo ago
Regular thing in Hilo or Waiʻaleʻale.
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by storus 7mo ago
A large portion of generative AI is based on Bayesian statistics, like stable diffusion, regularization, LLM as a learned prior (though trained with frequentist MLE), variational autoencoders etc. Chain-of-thought and self-consistency can b
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by storus 7mo ago
You keep mixing normal carbohydrate metabolism with functional starvation mode when in low caloric high carb diet, i.e. elevated insulin in a low-energy/tired mode with increased cortisol, ramping up gluconeogenesis from muscle tissue,
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by storus 7mo ago
I suspect you have no idea that your body has two independent energetic circuits - one driven by insulin and glucose, the other driver by ketones. Just please dump this to any decent LLm to give you ELI5. Muscles obviously need glucose for
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by storus 7mo ago
Yes, I tried all open mobile OSes with PinePhone. Even apps left a lot to be desired; obviously non-open mobile SoCs are the main problem but such is the life in the ARM ecosystem where very few custom things are upstreamed.
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by storus 7mo ago
Not really, Ozempic face is the same face as one gets when starved of food for a longer period of time from low caloric diet that contains carbs. Ketosis on the other hand doesn't cause this unless one has almost no fat left as it does
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by storus 7mo ago
"Emerging research suggests GLP‑1 receptors are present on adipocytes and fibroblasts. Some animal studies indicate that GLP‑1 agonism may promote lipolysis in subcutaneous fat more aggressively than in visceral fat, leading to disprop

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