unholiness

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by unholiness 8d ago
A wonderfully made introduction to the surreal numbers and their surrounding game theoretic concepts is this video on Hackenbush[0], a winner in 3Blue1Brown's Summer of Math competition. [0] https://www.google.com/search
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by unholiness 8d ago
Humanity has built every capable institution, every scientific discovery, every technological innovation, without mind-reading. Quite the opposite: By putting thoughts from our latent spaces into words, we better separated the good argument
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by unholiness 13d ago
I imagine OP is more describing e.g. the backed up 1-lane highway exit, where the second lane is clearly for through traffic. Uber drivers in that situation will often drive straight to the end, signal, completely stop, and just wait for so
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by unholiness 2mo ago
I agree it's an interesting puzzle! Just thought he made the jump to transparent paper without introduction in a way that confused me. It seemed instead like a non-transparent Mobius strip would join itself upside-down after a full loo
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by unholiness 2mo ago
Why not every line of knights moves too? Because the cells aren't adjacent I'd say. (Both immediately make the problem unsolvable since all corners must match). Seems "unfair" that hexagons have multiple line lengths to
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by unholiness 2mo ago
Cool problem. I always doing it a bit unsatisfying that magic hexagons so trivially disallowed solutions that aren't order 3. Starting at a different index is a nice modification, especially since for magic squares it's an equally
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by unholiness 2mo ago
> if it actually wrapped around on itself with a half-twist, wouldn’t the letters wind up backwards too? Then 6-Down wouldn’t be MESSENGER but rather MESSENGER, and so on. This premise is assuming the Mobius strip is transparent, which t
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by unholiness 2mo ago
> The regulation is good only for US interests. I think your nuclear scenario outlines precisely why this isn't true. Nuclear regulation has terms that are "good for the US" only in an absolute sense. The US would dominate
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by unholiness 2mo ago
And who is held responsible for crimes committed by AI? When open model A, fine tuned by B, is running with system prompt C, hosted by D running on E's hardware, is prompted by F to "fix this code", then escapes it's san
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by unholiness 2mo ago
I've directly inspected calls for pro/Max plans and as of today they have 1hr cache expiries. This has definitely degraded to 5 min in the past but that's the behavior today. If you're paying API rates, you can choose 5m
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by unholiness 2mo ago
Training on generating SVGs directly at all is already fairly niche. Generating full scenes with a cartoony character is even nicher. But there's plenty of non-pelican cartoony SVG content out there (created, not written, by humans wit
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by unholiness 2mo ago
I don't think this small amount generalization to other animals and vehicles is strong evidence they haven't trained on this, either directly or more generally.
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by unholiness 2mo ago
No mention of KV cache, one of the biggest reasons not to switch models mid-stream. Once you pay, say, 50k input and 50k output Opus 4.8 tokens, you don't pay token cost for cache reads of the 100k context while it builds. Switch to an
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by unholiness 2mo ago
I mean, this is real. Your KV cache lives for an hour since the last token (on anthropic pro/Max at least, today at least, this has degraded in the past). So once you pay, say, 50k input and 50k output Opus tokens, you don't pay f
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by unholiness 3mo ago
Are you maybe misunderstanding this point? > It's a fascinating arms race right now: the AIs are training on the humans but the human hivemind is also training on the AIs. Readers are developing allergic sensitivities to language th
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by unholiness 3mo ago
So, Claude Cowork for OpenAI? Feels overdue! I've loved using Cowork recently for sourcing decisions. Things where seemingly everyone's out of stock or questionably reputable, just let Cowork spin for 20 minutes, find the best new
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by unholiness 3mo ago
I also love the countdown. Counterintuitively it makes the game less stressful — the counter goes back to 30 no matter what. If the timer counted up, you'd constantly need to care about getting each one as fast as possible, or fret abo
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by unholiness 3mo ago
> I have to imagine if you give it positions in text it'd be pretty great Not at all? LLMs are a terrible match for the kind of analysis a chess engine does (scaled deep search, deeply trained position evaluations). It's just n
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by unholiness 3mo ago
In a hypothetical scenario where we were inventing the standard model in the first 10^-11 seconds after the big bang, you're right there would be an analogy there. But in that scenario, our standard model would say there was one electr
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by unholiness 3mo ago
Stopped reading after "Yet in the mathematical equations that define the Standard Model, the eight gluons are distinct from one another in the same way that the W and Z bosons differ." W and Z bosons, photons, etc have fixed masse
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by unholiness 3mo ago
"Elastic" in economics happens to refers to how elastic the supply/demand is when the price changes (not vice versa, as you're describing). So e.g. an inelastic demand means the quantity demanded changes very little when
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by unholiness 3mo ago
It doesn't solve scalping, it solves putting everyone in a Red Queen race[0] against the scalpers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
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by unholiness 3mo ago
Overdiagnosis will be a major problem long after we have the data. It's just hard convince people with a general feeling something's wrong and a specific picture of something wrong that the two are almost certainly unconnected.
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by unholiness 3mo ago
Another problem is that there haven't been natural experiments in low dose exposures the way there unfortunately have been for high dose exposures.
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by unholiness 3mo ago
LNT is the null hypothesis. No one disagrees a linear model fits the data very well in high doses. If you want to argue that model doesn't work in low doses, you need a model with more parameters and sufficient data to fit it. The is
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by unholiness 3mo ago
So, on the one hand, this is interesting! Reducing radiation from CT scans is a noble cause on its own. If on top of that it could make tomography cheaper and easier, you could imagine getting earlier detection of aneurisms, fibrosis, cirrh
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by unholiness 4mo ago
> I will never pay the "normal" API token price for it. Not until June 22 you won't!
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by unholiness 4mo ago
TBF I think it's just a remark on the upvotes. It's a perfectly cromulent comment with no business being at the top of an AMA.
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by unholiness 4mo ago
> Your first 2 to 3ish paragraph (explanation and rephrasing) is very characteristic of an AI What you're seeing in those paragraphs is patience and empathy. Let's not let LLMs have a monopoly on these.
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by unholiness 4mo ago
Zeros are just sold out everywhere through, no?

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