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by tux3 3y ago
Thanks, those are interesting! I didn't think of them and I can see your point
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by tux3 3y ago
The cat book again! It seems everyone recommends Griffiths. I finally gave in and my copy should be arriving in a couple weeks. I've looked through the Feynman lectures a bit, and although it's very nice for a free resource, it do
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by tux3 3y ago
So, they seem to have made special DNA probes that attaches to some cancer-specific bit of RNA, and the combination of the two stuck together is something they can detect via "scanning tunneling microscopy break junction (STM-BJ)"
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by tux3 3y ago
According to the README, this seems to be the data used in Lynn and Vanhanen (2002), which has received a.. fair share of criticism. The wikipedia article on their book has more context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ
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by tux3 3y ago
It's an intentional artistic choice, if you denoise people don't like it, because film noise is nostalgic and vinyl has a warmer sound, etc etc If you download the video file and play it back locally, you can change it or turn it
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by tux3 3y ago
It is. That said, I can't fault people too much for being afraid of the lawnmower. People have been mowed for much less.
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by tux3 3y ago
Bio neurons produce action potentials by depolarizing when reaching a threshold voltage, they're certainly very different from matrix multiplication operations. The thought experiment is that a group of bio neurons can perform the same
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by tux3 3y ago
I was thinking of this thread from 5.0 in particular (2019, time flies!) https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190110182413.GA6932@kroah.com/
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by tux3 3y ago
We may get a successor filesystem before that particular situation is sorted out.. By all accounts mainline is at best not interested, if not actively against ZFS on Linux. The last few kerfuffles around symbols used by the out-of-tree modu
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by tux3 3y ago
>The locked in LLM still uses tokens, which is language. It cannot operate without these tokens. I think that's incorrect on a technicality. Input sentences are tokenized, but then the first step is to convert tokens into their high
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by tux3 3y ago
Can you say more? I'd like to hear about examples you've experienced.
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by tux3 3y ago
>LLMs cannot function, by definition, without language. But we know there is an experience of being without language. Take a sufficiently big LLM, remove the input and the output, but let it run in a loop regardless, in a complete vacuum
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by tux3 3y ago
What does it mean, for something that is not you to experience feelings, qualia? How would you be able to write any meaningful definition, from the outside? You categorically reject that an LLM running in a loop could have a sense of being,
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by tux3 3y ago
The transistor level is not the part to focus on If I grow human neurons in a dish, such that they are connected in 2D layers to approximate the linear algebra in GPT-2, and the human neurons start generating tokens that express hurt, is my
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by tux3 3y ago
There is a scale from less obvious things (plants, programs) to more obvious things (your self, other people) If you try to turn the scale into a category (not conscious, doesn't feel pain vs conscious and feels pain) you will have to
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by tux3 3y ago
Google IPv6 stats (approaching 50%, ever so slowly): https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
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by tux3 3y ago
>I have already said 'context' is critical That's what I mean by high-contextualisation! There are discussion cultures where it's okay to talk about just a thing in isolation with the understanding that we're put
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by tux3 3y ago
I agree it's not that simple, and finding better interventions in term of quality-adjusted life years seems really good! I'm not sure though how much elasticity there is in people's willingness to contribute more in response
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by tux3 3y ago
The only way to make the budget work, for all of medicine worldwide, is to let people die (!) There's a marginal dollar cost on saving one extra life, versus not saving it. It's not that we're out of people to save, it's
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by tux3 3y ago
Sure, but at some point it's a debate of high-contextualisation versus low. We can commiserate about the poverty stricken corners of the planet. And I'm happy to recomend global health charities. It's taking effort not to. Bu
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by tux3 3y ago
I'm not really sure I understand why I should suppose that. I've seen people in every category, who started with a passion and did or did not turn it into a job, and did or did find the time to keep making art for the love of it Y
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by tux3 3y ago
Some people like creating enough that they'll even do it for free, as a hobby, sometimes in addition to doing in professionally and getting paid good money for it. Sometimes it's drawings, sometimes it's music, sometimes it&#
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by tux3 3y ago
Think of the middlemen and distributors, they need to get paid, otherwise who will be making the music?
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by tux3 3y ago
Voting this up for a spirit of curiosity and learning while having fun Talking with the matrices, you sometimes get made up nonsense or overly verbose trite answers, but I think it's really valuable having a conversation partner with i
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by tux3 3y ago
there's #bookz, that's pretty well known slsk is also an old thing that sometimes surprises, though it's not the best for books much newer is telegram bots for all sorts of things, from sci-hub replacement to general ebooks
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by tux3 3y ago
>I think the confusion here is "in space", maybe you can expand on that. Is space itself not the medium? I think using that definition is fine! I tried to talk about things positioned in space directly instead of using a notion
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by tux3 3y ago
There's different ways to interpret what people expect there to be by an extra medium on top of the vacuum. We can observe and describe stuff interacting. The stuff is positioned in space. We can see that some stuff takes up space, and
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by tux3 3y ago
>what actually is a photon It depends what answer you're looking for! We can tell you how photons behave, how to recognize them, and how to predict what they do. For hard philosophy questions, that's more under sections 100-119
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by tux3 3y ago
Fair enough, I suppose! Thanks for the the correction.
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by tux3 3y ago
Right. I mean that measurements conflicted with theory, and the new CMD-3 measurements suggest a better calculation. Assuming CMD-3 is good, there's no significant gap between theory results and collider results

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