vladimirralev

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by vladimirralev 2y ago
That's what I mean. The Jensen inequality applies to any distribution, but the intuition presented in the post is only good for simple distributions and all examples are gaussian/binomial-like. It would be difficult to raise the s
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by vladimirralev 2y ago
Looks like a reasonable intuition guide with a couple of caveats. This intuition only works for gaussian or may be a few other distributions, not for a general p(x). Then the EV rows in the tables are not actual EV quantities, only the tota
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by vladimirralev 2y ago
One can make the case for a perfectly rational adversary who always avoids picking paying numbers in anticipation of the opponent to exclude paying numbers successively in their guesses. When the game is played with perfectly rational chara
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by vladimirralev 2y ago
I have the same experience. I have my own benchmark, I take a relatively complex project like FreeSWITCH on github, which is part of the training set for all coding LLMs anyway so they should know it and I ask the AI to code small snippets,
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
Shockingly, there is a related algorithm that is widely considered much easier to understand and implement. https://cp-algorithms.com/string/z-function.html And I can certainly implement the Z algorithm in a few mins w
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
The VP9 codec I imagine would heavily benefit from SIMD? Just SIMD should massively outperform any advantage gained by putting this into the kernel. Why does the kernel need an unoptimized codec?
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
First, don't count on AI being aligned at all. States who are behind in the AI race will increasingly take more and more risks with alignment to catch up. Without a doubt, one if the first use cases of the AI will be as a cyberweapon t
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
> With a fully automated economy, all 8 billion of us can have that We probably can't. I mean why stop at humans? Let's give every pet the same luxury, or ... in the limit we could give this to every living being. Ultimately so
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
The state space here is subsets of V, but not all possible subsets and not exponential. The entire state is represented by the priority queue at each step which is bounded by the number of nodes and edges. And each state represented (encode
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
Dijkstra is definitely dynamic programming, no doubt about it, you are still computing a new state from neighbouring state nodes while ignoring substantial number of non-neighbouring states. You just have to accept the more abstract definit
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
My advise is don't take Erlang's fault-tolerance promises too seriously. It's just a little framework that helps in some cases and gets in the way in other cases. I've seen many Erlang systems fail in funny ways, includi
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
I keep saying Markov process because it encodes any kind of chance over time on a large scale. It encodes how smart the entrepreneurs and investors are born, how many opportunities they get per time step, how corrupt the regulators are, how
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
Well, no. This game sucks for individuals. That's not the point though. The point is that even though the game sucks, this is the game that represents the economic reality. And while this tweak of you or somebody deciding when to pay i
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
True, but with some tweaks this is a representative model. You can just carry any non-100% gain/loss "swimlane" as a game still-in-progress. Eventually on larger time scale, puchasing power adjusted or not, a swimlane of an i
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
It's pretty disgusting, but we all come from a long history of violence and pain. The only chance these species have to survive long terms is for us humans to figure out how (preserve DNA, leave earth, simulated environments, and so on
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
Not aware of this type of simplistic embeddings. I think getting the first few layers of a large pretrained vision model will get you better results. Blindly learning from a generic image would probably steer it toward the dominant textures
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by vladimirralev 3y ago
In naive ML scenarios you are right. You can think of JPEG as an input embedding. One of many. The JPEG/spectral embedding is useful because it already provides miniature variational encoding that "makes sense" in terms of tr
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by vladimirralev 4y ago
The economy is just increasingly fake or rewarding foolish scummy behaviour instead of honest cooperative work. People coasted for 10+ years now on "passive income" from printed money along with almost no enforcement action agains
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by vladimirralev 4y ago
With handouts, you only redistribute the wealth for an instant and you need to keep printing to sustain it. On top of that, the stability of this system becomes dependent on active approach of handing out money (i.e. tight dependency on cen
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by vladimirralev 4y ago
If you take it just one step further, the people "that need it most" really only need it in order to instantly donate it to the megacorps with pricing power at ever-increasing prices. The handouts help only in that instant and at
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
The only reason for people to take money out of circulation is because nobody managed to convince them to spend or invest in something worthy. If the economy can't produce enough worthy money sinks, that is a structural problem with re
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
I know this is the mainstream, but all of this reads like total nonsense to me. 1. Price changes carry important information too. What if demand stays the same but price still goes up? It could there is too much money, or supply is constrai
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
Again, how do you define a shortage? Chip production is way above the 2019 levels. Moreover the utilisation of the fabs, new and old processes combined is much higher[1]. Semiconductor fab worker count is at all time high, 10% above 2019. W
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
I really want an opportunity to unpack this with a real economist, because it doesn't make any sense. How do you define a short supply of goods? We are far above the 2019 supply of goods in nominal terms, in real terms, in terms of shi
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
Shelter is 33% of the basket weight. Gasoline is like 1%.[1] This is not an energy problem. This is just textbook populist dumb inflation from printing too much money and handing it out for no work/productivity. [1] https://w
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
I think this article is overlooking the most important reason for this. Most senior developers have plenty of assets and are retiring or taking a long vacation with stock/crypto/real-estate gains from the past year. Some are rolli
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
It is better than coin toss. If you can't communicate a convincing solution or approach to your future team mates why should they hire you?
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
I think the greatest damage was done in the state of mind of regular workers. Nobody wants to work for cash that depreciates that fast. While passive asset holders are seeing gains exceeding normal wages for no work at all. Watching bankers
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
I wonder if it's possible that CureVac had to take some extra risks to be competitive this late in the race. With the Pfeizer/Moderna results already in, may be they aimed to deliver a lower dose vaccine with less side effects tha
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by vladimirralev 5y ago
Not quite accurate. The insurance you are talking about is for the custodial services of financial institutions. You can get custodial service for crypto with insurance too ( https://custody.coinbase.com/faq ). Outside of you

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