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by thornewolf 2y ago
Is the following source a good starting block to learn Penrose's argument? https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/39993/how-doe...
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by thornewolf 2y ago
that argument is valid, however simple the reasoning may be.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
it feels self-evident that computation can mimic the brain. as a result, it's difficult to argue this line much further. to say the brain is non-computable is to assert the existence of a soul, in my opinion.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
This monitoring is probably +EV for 80% of the US working force. It's not a hiring problem, it's misaligned incentives.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
Looks great! Right in line with what I think a lot of people will realize they need in the next few months-years.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
insurance is negative EV, like gambling, for the individual.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
tolerance should actually go down since the errors help cancel each other out. reference: https://people.umass.edu/phys286/Propagating_uncertainty.pdf disclaimer: it will be a relatively small effect for just two resit
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by thornewolf 2y ago
i tried to find some resources on this but came up empty. can you provide a link? sounds like a fun workflow
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by thornewolf 2y ago
LLMs do reason. We already have AGI. Sometimes they mess up when reasoning. Still reasoning.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
great lecture
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by thornewolf 3y ago
The design style is more accurately labeled "neo-brutalism", which is characterized by these bold colors. gumroad is one of the most popular examples: https://gumroad.com/
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by thornewolf 3y ago
say you have a model with two attributes profile_image_url: str and profile_image: bytes it's expensive to fetch profile_image since it will involve a http call to profile_image_url. right now, i would resolve this by using the @proper
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by thornewolf 3y ago
i personally would throw out the question if i was a teacher. i still feel it's ambiguous
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by thornewolf 3y ago
I've been out of the ML game for a little while now (2+ years) but previously was under the impression everyone loved Keras. This thread says otherwise. The only mentioned alternative so far is `ggml`, which I have heard mentions of bu
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by thornewolf 3y ago
i predict because it's hip to talk that (this) way nowadays
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by thornewolf 3y ago
many things are happening
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by thornewolf 3y ago
does sublime have plugins? I love sublime but I would consider vim + plugins to be faster+more modern.
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by thornewolf 3y ago
To be "that guy" I like this trend. It combines product usage w/ discussion. That said, I believe a web UI would be strictly better.
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by thornewolf 3y ago
google pays money: per view on publisher website google gets money: per click on publisher website google is incentivized to maximize click chance per view in this system
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by thornewolf 3y ago
For the HN crowd, explaining who Terrence Tao is would be ike explaining who Obama is
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by thornewolf 3y ago
brilliant. This is exactly the solution I always hoped for for the exact problem you describe. My specific use-case has always been reading news articles from a set of heterogeneous websites and consolidating them into one db. why chose duc
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by thornewolf 3y ago
24, started with VBA @ 10. Later, Scratch from 11-~14. Python subsequently
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by thornewolf 3y ago
https://github.com/thornewolf/CFC-Fortran This is somewhat of a link dump since the code is definitely too hard to interpret for someone not familiar but this is me converting some fairly performant Fortran code to pyt
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by thornewolf 3y ago
They removed this feature. Now there is a psuedo-replacement called "enhanced shuffle" which interleaves recommended songs in your shuffled playlist. Unfortunately, this drastically reduces the amount of song discovery per unit ti
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by thornewolf 3y ago
The reason to double them is specifically the stark contrast between the two. As the gen-zs would say, "for the meme."
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by thornewolf 3y ago
Massive reduction in boilerplate. As someone who attempted to onboard onto both react and svelte for a couple days each, react continued to feel hyper unintuitive with a bunch of magic constructs. Svelte felt like I could guess what would w
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by thornewolf 3y ago
That is the point of the essay. It's a style where nothing really happens.
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by thornewolf 3y ago
"It merely has all of the byproducts of intelligence, its not intelligence though!" I make this statement in a frank way to rhetorically get the point across. I find myself continually surprised by the general community's des
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by thornewolf 3y ago
Boolean search is pretty expensive computationally. Maybe they are so far disconnected from that initial implementation that there is no semblance of support anymore?

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