xanderlewis

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by xanderlewis 11mo ago
> or at least it's easily possible to come up with a good definition.
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by xanderlewis 11mo ago
But flying machines are well defined, or at least it's easily possible to come up with a good definition. 'A machine capable of transporting a person from a to b without touching the ground at any point in between', or whatev
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by xanderlewis 11mo ago
So you don't think it's relevant at all? Really? It seems completely obvious that AI companies benefit massively from (and in many cases likely only continue to stay afloat because of) 'research papers' like this. I also
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by xanderlewis 11mo ago
боже мой.
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by xanderlewis 11mo ago
> I don't get why you would say that. Because it's hard to imagine the sheer volume of data it's been trained on.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I can't be exactly sure of the intended target, but it certainly helps to increase the sense of FOMO among investors even if as an unintended side effect (though I don't think it is unintended).
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Did you understand the point of my comment at all?
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Given that this is 'research' carried out (and seemingly published) by a company with a direct interest in selling you a product (or, rather, getting investors excited/panicked), can we trust it?
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
It's absolutely understandable that you would want to know my cards, and I'm sorry to have kept that vital information from you. *My current hand* (breakdown by suit and rank) ...
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I agree. I've written like this too, but these days when you see it it's more likely to be AI. I actually think if I were writing blog posts these days I'd deliberately avoid these kinds of cliches for that reason. I'd t
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
> That's when it clicked: > You know the drill: etc etc. If these are hand-typed, I'll eat my hat.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Is it really so painful to just think for yourself? For one sentence? The answer to your question is that it rids the writer of their unique voice and replaces it with disingenuous slop. Also, it's not a 'tool' if it does the
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I agree. It's just sad for those of us who've always been fans of semicolons and em dashes and now have to risk looking like we're 'AI' or — worse — unthinkingly adopting the AI tone of voice.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
> What makes it sound overly AI are the semicolon and the timing It's very disappointing that it now seems to be commonly believed that semicolons and em dashes are a sign of AI. Semicolons have been used as a useful tool for a long
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
> superhuman results in mathematics LLMs mostly spew nonsense if you ask them basic questions on research or even master's degree-level mathematics. I've only ever seen non-mathematicians suggest otherwise, and even the biggest
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
The impressive part is that he said '...and I' rather than 'me and...'!
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
No, but if you want to talk about composing those arrows (and a sensible notion of composition should probably be associative, and perhaps have a unit) you eventually end up reinventing category theory.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Phone cases are not required. I’ve been using an iPhone 12 for nearly five years now — and yes, I’ve carelessly dropped it plenty of times, onto very hard surfaces. It’s got a couple of tiny dents in it, but the screen is untouched and it w
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
[says who?]
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
The hand pyramid stance. Yes! I find it quite off putting. It feels overly choreographed and fake.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I don’t think it is akin; Welsh is almost completely different to English with only a few modern words in common. Just try reading some Welsh as an English speaker. It’s unintelligible. Catalan is very much a Latinate language, and anyone w
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Anyone who doesn’t happen to do exactly what I do and have the same interests as me is ‘80 IQ’ — whatever that means. Got it.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Are you talking about the MacBook trackpad, or something else?
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Come to think of it, a good example of the distinction are the NDBs (non-directional beacons) that aircraft use for navigation. They transmit, repeatedly, an identifier in Morse code, but the signal is an audio range frequency (somewhere ar
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
In the amateur radio community, yes. You probably know this, but for those who might not: CW isn’t totally synonymous with Morse code. Morse is the encoding scheme; CW is one particular method of transmission. You could instead flash a ligh
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I guess the Axiom of Extensionality doesn’t apply to kings. Interesting.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
That’s what I thought it was going to be.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Another 'reason' it works for odd-dimensional spheres is that the (2n - 1)-sphere can be identified with a certain subset of C^n (n-dimensional complex coordinate space) where your 'swap elements and multiply one by -1'
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
The somewhat ironic thing is that my comment was a joke.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
In German it’s called the Hedgehog Theorem. Clearly, what they say about Germans is true.

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