thelaxiankey

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by thelaxiankey 10d ago
there are far more reams of chess moves than there are math papers. Lichess is pretty open... But hey, they're actually good at chess if you prompt correctly so.... https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
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by thelaxiankey 10d ago
I'm just dropping this all over this thread but you're unfortunately mistaken https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
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by thelaxiankey 10d ago
Sure: https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
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by thelaxiankey 10d ago
Forgot to add the amazing follow up https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
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by thelaxiankey 10d ago
These "researchers" are less informed on LLM chess than random internet bloggers. The situation is much more interesting https://dynomight.net/chess/
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by thelaxiankey 15d ago
My suspicion is small phone users buy phones less often, and thus are less represented by the market. This may be borne out if a company randomly produces a small phone and it proves popular
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by thelaxiankey 16d ago
are you an LLM? I know what gfp is lol
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by thelaxiankey 18d ago
ah yeah, the intelligence claim was basically an afterthought in the actual paper, the smithsonian mag did a bad job with their reporting. the paper is just called: 'Evolution of a core ribosomal innovation in octopus', and I woul
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by thelaxiankey 18d ago
this is literally not possible. while I'm excited for these kinds of things, alphafold is already imperfect, and this basically side-steps actual structural predictions. it sounds good, but frankly biology is not there yet. in practice
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by thelaxiankey 23d ago
Call me crazy but I don't think wanting to successfully achieve real things in the external world is bad
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by thelaxiankey 23d ago
Learning a language in this way is some sad boi stuff
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by thelaxiankey 23d ago
I've gone from amateur punter to moderately competent athlete (think d3 college team, though my sport has no such metric), and my thought is this: The only way to get better if you've plateaued is to change something. The external
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by thelaxiankey 1mo ago
where is the error? 9 years ago (2017) 'attention is all you need' hasn't been written yet, no llms exist. his take is literally 'it would be cool if something like llms existed', seems fine (if anything, vaguely pr
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by thelaxiankey 1mo ago
maybe he/she missed the part where they reconstituted the break in e coli to show that it had the molecular effect they said it did?
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by thelaxiankey 1mo ago
not sure I agree, they reconstituted this mutation in E coli ribosomes, using Fluc as a luminescence readout, and saw a reduction in aggregates at similar luminescence without a reduction in translation speeds. Not really familiar with tran
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by thelaxiankey 1mo ago
The thing about linear algebra is that it isn't really a cohesive subject in the same way that calc is. This is why you get as many perspectives as you get commenters. There are some central concepts, and which ones matter to you dep
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by thelaxiankey 2mo ago
Maybe I'm cynical, but I always get excited, only to be really disappointed by the other person's thoughts :/ They never feel like they're contributing much.
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by thelaxiankey 2mo ago
Anyone more econ literate know why Coase isn't trivially answered by accounting for corporate time-discounting? Maybe I'm missing something, but this always confused me.
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by thelaxiankey 3mo ago
If you could beat Godot and Unity in two weeks with AI, why doesn't everyone just do this? (A: there be dragons)
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by thelaxiankey 3mo ago
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by thelaxiankey 10mo ago
def not life. there is no sense in which a virus... 'does' anything, it's not agentic. it's kind of like a free-floating loaded spring.
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by thelaxiankey 11mo ago
i've wondered for a long time why this isn't a more common solution to these services that are almost inevitably monopolous. power, water, and internet kind of things.
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
the thing about being human is you internalize cultural values as your own. if you lived in a society that valued, i dunno, tracking and hunting down giraffes in small groups, would you have the same struggles? what if just participating in
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
i'm well aware of how medications are developed. i'm talking about biology, not medicine. there is a world of difference. pharma companies combine tech that gets developed in academic labs in clever ways to treat diseases. but mak
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
I used to be like this back when I chronically under-exercised, it was the only thing that would help me sleep. And even then, I struggled with insomnia. Personally I need 10-20 hours of real sport a week to function really well, which seem
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
I mean, for like, some ML research, sure. For certain, even most, aspects of electrical engineering, absolutely. But for biology? Absolutely not. And even in more computer-adjacent fields, this is still ridiculously reductive. Geoff Hinton
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
uh... maybe in your field. personally i've never seen good physics on Vixra or good biology anywhere except in biorxiv or journals.
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
i'd say the success of substack flies directly in the face of your claim
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
This is crazy to me because when I've run labs in the past, there were equipment failures literally all of the time. When you teach lots of people, shit breaks. Quite often if something didn't work, I'd just have one student
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by thelaxiankey 1y ago
'flunked everyone who claimed they got the supposed "correct" answer to three significant digits because that was impossible.' while I've never seen anyone flunked for this, I certainly have taken off substantial am

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