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by topaz0 8mo ago
For some people the relevant properties of "thing" include not needing overpowered hardware to run it comfortably. So "thing" does not just "exist", at least not in the form of electron.
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by topaz0 8mo ago
I dunno, I think the boosters show their hurt feelings here more often than the detractors do.
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by topaz0 8mo ago
And worth noting that the "even when properly seeded with 256 bits of entropy" example in the article was intended as an extreme case, i.e. that many researchers in fact use seeds that are much less random than that.
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by topaz0 8mo ago
I think the intuition that everything will be fine in the 256 bit vs 300 bit case depends on the intuition that the assignments that you're missing will be (~close to) randomly distributed, but it's far from clear to me that you c
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by topaz0 8mo ago
typo -- meant to say 8 bit random number i.e. having 256 possibilities, convenient just because the number of assignments was close to a power of 2. If instead you use a 248-sided die and have equal probabilities for all but 4 of the assign
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by topaz0 8mo ago
I think your intuition comes from the assumption that the experimental subjects are already coming to you in a random order. If that's the case, then you might as well assign the first half to control and the second half to treatment.
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by topaz0 8mo ago
We're talking about randomizing experiment participants into treatment and control group... What you're saying is equivalent to "I can use the same order of assignments for every experiment I do"...
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by topaz0 8mo ago
I think the problem with insisting on using "is" that way is that you then can't distinguish between two things you might reasonably want to express, i.e. "is isomorphic to"/"has the same structure as&quot
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by topaz0 8mo ago
> if object X models object Y, then I’m going to say that X is Y If you haven't read to the end of the post, you might be interested in the philosophical discussion it builds to. The idea there, which I ascribe to, is not quite the
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by topaz0 8mo ago
Most commenters are talking about the first part of the post, which lays out how you might construct the complex numbers if you're interested in different properties of them. I think the last bit is the real interesting substance, whic
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by topaz0 8mo ago
Maybe the bottom ~1/3, starting at "The complex field as a problem for singular terms", would be helpful to you. It gives a philosophical view of what we mean when we talk about things like the complex numbers, grounded in ma
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by topaz0 8mo ago
Notably, the real numbers are not symmetrical in this way: there are two square roots of 1, but one of them is equal to it and the other is not. (positive) 1 is special because it's the multiplicative identity, whereas i (and -i) have
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by topaz0 8mo ago
Every father is a son to somebody...
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by topaz0 8mo ago
Unfortunately tech journalists' judgement of source credibility don't have a very good track record
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by topaz0 8mo ago
But a) that's the cost to the user -- we don't know how much loss they're taking on those and b) the number of tokens to serve a similar prompt has been going up, so that the total cost to serve a prompt has been going up in
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by topaz0 8mo ago
> people simply don't care I don't think that's right, even for laypeople. It's just that the pain of things that take 5 seconds when they could take 50 ms is subtle and can be discounted or ignored until you are doin
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by topaz0 8mo ago
It's extremely naive to ignore the power dynamics that set the terms of who benefits from those investments, and the relationship between those power dynamics and the initial wealth of the participants. I'll withhold judgement on
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by topaz0 8mo ago
> The question is: does GDP correlate with things we care about? No that is not the question. The questions are: a) would controlling for financialization be a better test of the economic theory, and b) are health metrics a good way of c
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by topaz0 8mo ago
1. The blog states that the relationship between economic growth and initial wealth doesn't show a trend that had been expected from theory. It uses per capita GDP and per capita GDP growth as proxies for wealth and growth. Its analysi
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by topaz0 8mo ago
I didn't say it was useless, just that saying there's a correlation is not a refutation of OP's claim that financialization is an important confounding factor.
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by topaz0 8mo ago
It looks like cherry picking. More to the point, it looks like you are attempting to identify some of the particular factors that might affect gdp or health outcomes in ways that aren't correlated, and exclude cases where those are th
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by topaz0 8mo ago
> [...] three factors [...] Capital accumulation is one. The obvious omission here is well developed in Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism: it's hard to accumulate capital when all of the productivity growth from foreign &
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by topaz0 8mo ago
A huge fraction of that assistance (e.g. the IMF) has been conditioned on opening up their economies to "fair" foreign exploitation. It's not some benevolent gift, generally.
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by topaz0 8mo ago
Life expectancy vs GDP per capita: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe... I don't have an R^2, but clear to me that it's far from one. Likewise for infant mortality rate: https:&#x2F
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by topaz0 8mo ago
Some combination of people misunderstood some other people's joke, not totally clear which and which.
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by topaz0 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut The writer presumably knows that umlauts and other non-ascii characters are functional in many languages. "rock döts" is poking fun at the trend in a certain tranche
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by topaz0 9mo ago
> “Illegal” is almost always used to refer to breaking of criminal law. This is false, at least in general usage. It is very common to hear about civil offenses being referred to as illegal behavior.
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by topaz0 9mo ago
In which case doing this in the dark is clearly bad for the community -- if that location is what's scarce then they should be demanding a better deal.
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by topaz0 9mo ago
It turns out that most of this stuff is not difficult if you're just trying to make a good computer rather than make billions of dollars for your investors.
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by topaz0 9mo ago
If anyone has genuine interest, this review from shortly after the clarifying development of renormalization group theory might be a nice place to start: https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhy

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