trhway

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by trhway 7d ago
>"Positive proof" opposes the concept of falsification. no. Positive proofs have nothing to do with falsification. They just tell you that there is no point in spending effort on searching for negative proofs and counter exampl
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by trhway 7d ago
>Basing science on proof (or anyway believing that you can) is Logical Positivism, a mindset that opposes the method of falsifiability not really. You can consider positive proof as an experiment confirming your theory and the negative p
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by trhway 7d ago
It starts to sound like medieval science - "understanding" instead of proofs. And like a medieval army loosing a battle in the open field tries to retreat back into the fortress, people, facing the prospects of machine doing intel
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by trhway 7d ago
and from another post on the front page right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735541 : "Nervous systems are typically defined as networks of neurons that communicate across synapses. But Burkhardt’s lab foun
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by trhway 7d ago
And as a result additional illegibility arises - LLMs inventing their own languages looking as meaningless garbage to humans. One can wonder whether decoding such a language will provide a bit more view into the LLM’s “thinking “.
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by trhway 8d ago
>which have fundamentally been the same thing brains-wise since forever and you don't see any issue here? When it takes people 2 years to understand a proof it means that the old ways are done, they hit cul-de-sac. Like in many sit
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by trhway 8d ago
>where an AI system was trained as a 1870s mathematician and see if it can come up with set theory a car or a future starship wouldn't climb a tree better than ancient human.
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by trhway 8d ago
That exactly illustrates the way of technology - the first commercial GPS receivers cost $3000, and of course people used the paper maps back then, yet technology prices have always been going down (temporary RAM crunches notwithstanding :)
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by trhway 8d ago
Do we support people who are intentionally not using GPS and are still using paper maps? Or even the people who do it without any maps, just from their memory? Do we support people who aren't using vaccines and are intentionally infect
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by trhway 9d ago
>written records comes via contemporary visitors from much different cultures that isn't necessarily bad, anyway in the context of your post reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan "10th
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by trhway 10d ago
>Should be interesting to see how this impacts the AI hyper-scalers. They were already burning through cash like a furnace and were running out of people to borrow from looks very similar to 2007-2008 - high rates plus an wide economy se
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by trhway 10d ago
You fire a radar guided powerful laser pulse at the incoming object causing small surface ablation , intentionally a bit to the side, which will serve as a small reaction mass eject altering the trajectory of that incoming object.
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by trhway 11d ago
i'm sure that i'm telling actual historical events and not an interpretation. Feel free to point to the things which you think didn't happen.
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by trhway 11d ago
> it does $100B in damages, that's everyone's problem. we have the 2008 crisis to wit. And the involved supposedly failed math models and lines of responsibilities and other involved financial relationships were much simpler a
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by trhway 14d ago
>for us to become ignorant consumers of wonders beyond our understanding just because our robots can do it better than we can all this fantasy books with magic artifacts should have mentally prepared us. Time to study the prompts Potter
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by trhway 14d ago
> It feels like the mathematical world is changing very rapidly, almost overnight. ... >Now AI is changing that. I wonder what this means for the kind of mathematics that people have traditionally done. Mathematics becomes engineering
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by trhway 14d ago
>work is made easier by using very strong Canadian flour what is up with Canadian flour? Just recently we were talking to an acquaintance here in Bay Area who makes her own bread from specially ordered Canadian flour.
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by trhway 15d ago
>you can't really add new rivers to the geography to support additional industry. yes, you can - with all those fiords surrounded by mountains you can use excess wind/solar (your own as well as German, etc.) and pump water up
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by trhway 15d ago
For those regions green house and barn heating is a major cost (to the point that Norway for example subsidizes barn heating for dairy farmers), while pretty much all the energy consumed by a datacenter goes straight to heat without any mea
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by trhway 15d ago
>the data center's waste heat One can imagine the saunas the guys will have there :) On the main point - there are persistent leaks/rumors that one of the main points of the Trump's envoys (Kushner and Witkoff) to Putin is
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by trhway 16d ago
whatever the motherland's ideology/propaganda had been telling, the first gen gets to firsthand witness/experience that it were lies. After that you become were critical/unbelieving to whatever propaganda and ideology, e
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by trhway 16d ago
Yet the scam ads like the 33tb ssd are running wild unrestrained on YT.
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by trhway 16d ago
I see that already in veterinary medicine with the non-DVM office/practice managers (or whatever title that guy lurking around in the office may have) - in the vet practices belonging to large networks the DVMs and nurses constantly lo
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by trhway 16d ago
The pilots have union supposedly. I wonder if AMZN was able to break through here. May be it was "positive" pressure - i.e. bonuses for saving fuel/time/etc.
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by trhway 20d ago
without situational awareness, there is no good default behavior for a simple dead man handle on a hundreds ton train. These days though i wonder why we don't have [semi-]autonomous control there. At least for emergency stop when the e
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by trhway 21d ago
man, that's grand, especially the last paragraph. I definitely should be less modest with my resume :) "Stat reported that in 2017, Richard Graydon self-published a book titled The Genetic Risks of Cancer: The Effects of DNA, Geno
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by trhway 22d ago
>but it doesn’t have to be correct, accurate, or ... why we don't do GAN here, ie. second model verifying correctness/accuracy/etc. ?
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by trhway 22d ago
With so many signs of improvement, even if some of them happens to be just flukes, from so many different areas, it feels like a penicillin moment. And i suppose penicillin also was initially mostly available to the ones with better socio-e
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by trhway 22d ago
I suspect all the other rules plus that one would make it unsolvable at least in some cases like probably in the case of 2. It also brings to mind distributed consensus of cryptocoins (pardon for mentioning crypto :)
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by trhway 22d ago
there seems to be no need to match number of dice with number of players - for example in 2 players the second player throwing second die (2,3) is really a noop as outcome is decided by the first player's die (1,4)

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