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Suffering = Pain X Resistance(superbowl.substack.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Video of the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs
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John Fosse 2023 Nobel Prize Lecture(nobelprize.org)
1 points by superb-owl 3y ago|0 comments
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The risk of another consciousness winter(theintrinsicperspective.com)
2 points by superb-owl 3y ago|0 comments
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Taylor Swift Does Not Exist(samkriss.substack.com)
7 points by superb-owl 3y ago|4 comments
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Navigating Manic Psychosis(superbowl.substack.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I've been self-hosting Lychee for a while and love it https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee
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by superb-owl 3y ago
> Finetuning seeks to extend the length of the context window itself. Does it? I'd thought fine-tuning was more like transfer learning, adding highly specific data to the training set (e.g. your internal codebase) rather than actual
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Navigating Manic Psychosis(superbowl.substack.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
> I think when Einstein or Newton make statements they are making statements about reality and not just sense impressions. Einstein in particular made huge strides by thinking in terms of sense impressions, e.g. by using his imagination
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Translation app prompts terror alert after "pomegranate" confused with "grenade"(portugalresident.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I've been asking for something like this for a long time! Am I right that everything is stored as-code, and that code and UI live in a 1:1 relationship? Seems like maybe the data and the code are separate? I would _love_ to see (a) ver
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I've said this here before, but Ursula Le Guin's rendition is one of the best
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by superb-owl 3y ago
There is actually a large philosophical debate on the relationship between determinism and free will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I managed a blind engineer for a while. My main takeaway was: avoid whitespace-delimited languages (e.g. python). Go seemed to work well.
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by superb-owl 3y ago
ACX primer on Land Value Tax: * Original book review: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-progress-a... * Follow-up part 1: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Maybe morality can't be quantified. https://blog.superb-owl.link/p/contra-ozy-brennan-on-ameliat...
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How to Start a Meditation Practice(blog.superb-owl.link)
1 points by superb-owl 3y ago|0 comments
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Ursula Le Guin's translation is, IMO, truest to the spirit of the original text. I defended it a bit here: https://blog.superb-owl.link/p/taoism-minus-the-nonsense
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. I talked a bit about how amazing and magical LLM-based text classification is here: https://blog.superb-owl.link/p/the-shapes-of-stories-with-ch...
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by superb-owl 3y ago
The reason client-side rendering is so popular (IME) is that it creates a clear separation between frontend and backend devs. You can use separate repositories, languages, deployment flows/cadences, code review, etc, with an API as you
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by superb-owl 3y ago
William James makes a similar distinction about asking "what something is" in Varieties of Religious Experience. > First, what is the nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And secon
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Year should be 1997 based on the disclaimer at the bottom. Cc @dang
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Behavioral Theology: Quantifying the effects of beliefs(blog.superb-owl.link)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Elbakyan's about page is worth a read: https://sci-hub.ru/alexandra
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by superb-owl 3y ago
It's nice to see this treated as an hypothesis rather than an assumption. Too many smart people I talk to take it for granted that the universe is made out of math.
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How to Enjoy Things(blog.superb-owl.link)
1 points by superb-owl 3y ago|0 comments
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by superb-owl 3y ago
It'd be helpful to know the minimal energy requirement to desalinate a gallon of water. With perfect technology, how expensive (in terms of energy) would it be? What's our current level of efficiency?
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Reactions to Google's Web Environment Integrity Proposal(github.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
The jelly 2e works much better. Maybe slightly worse than the average android phone I've had, but very much acceptable.

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