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wrong. ultimately, crypto is information science. mathematically, cryptography, compression, and so on (data transmission) are all the "same" problem. LLMs compress knowledge, not just data, and they do it in a lossy way. traditio
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but as soon as you are doing that, the people who have to read your self-review will simply throw what you gave them into their own instance of the same corporate AI at which point why not simply let the corporate AI tell you what to do as
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1y ago
they're an upgraded version of self-executable zip files that compresses knowledge like mp3 compresses music, without knowing exactly wtf are either music nor knowledge the self-execution is the interactive chat interface. wikipedia ge
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1y ago
or if you own the company
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1y ago
culture has always been all about imitating and copying each other unapologetically the whole "marketplace of ideas" which has led us into "let us charge money for ideas" is as dumb as bricks
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1y ago
if the Federal Reserve lies about the numbers.... what don't they lie about?
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1y ago
in other words: Does shape shape action-shape?
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1y ago
there is only a perfect move in certain kinds of constrained "games", like a fight.
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1y ago
but what is the difference between a shoddy toy model and a real world pro "rigorous research"? it's like asking between the difference between amateur toy audio gear, and real pro level audio gear... (which is not a simple t
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1y ago
with all that signaling... it's almost like they're trying to communicate!!! who would've thought!?
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I hope the twin prime conjecture will become a theorem during the remainder of my lifetime that's why I already got the double twin prime conjecture ready: there exists an infinite number of consecutive twin primes. 3 examples: 11,13;
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1y ago
a person is not their DNA
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1y ago
now say it in a sociology or economics conference
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1y ago
> Someone has to invent new tech from scratch. uhm, as a research university or private company like a startup??
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1y ago
AI Pressure from the Bottom: Workers unionize
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1y ago
the more mistakes one knows about the most mistakes one can avoid
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1y ago
Wayland has always smelled to me like a corporate grab... but I'm known to be a bit paranoid (understatement)
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1y ago
this very cool I smell a formal grammar behind dumbiffied grug english. nonetheless, I think that when it says: > so grug say again and say often: complexity very, very bad at the end of that section, it shoulud say instead: > so grug
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1y ago
because of just don't tell me, show me here is one of Liszt's most well known pieces played by Brendel Hungarian Rhapsodies S. 244 No. 2 Lento a capriccioso (Alfred Brendel)(1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue
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I think "recursion" simpy said, allows for algorithms which end as much as "not ending algorithms". but in practice, an algorithm has gotta end, otherwise it's not very useful. I think some academics would go as far
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1y ago
actually, reddit is a mainstream hacker news to me old.reddit.com will always be reddit.com
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you seem to be missing this idea that mathematics must be doable alone, individually this appears to be what sets mathematics appart from science? I mean, it's not like Euler, or Poincaré, and so on, are really there with you when &quo
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1y ago
on the upside, somebody is about to get really good experimental data about this issue???
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1y ago
I think i'm fighting on those wars right now, you can also call them 'darwin wars' i suppose... but bear in mind i'm crazy and online
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it is an abstraction based on how our biological eyes work (this implies "knowledge" of physics) so it is indirectly based on knowledge of how color works, it's simply not physics as we understand it but it's "physi
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personally I believe that philosophy helps to "compress" more knowledge about the world into "less" knowledge by shifting quantity of data into difficulty from advanced conceptual abstractions
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> The sheer arrogance of American leaders is astounding. there, fixed it... the top brass at USG also behave this way, they're following the leader (or more likely the other way around, USG behaving like a private interest corpora
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1y ago
we don't have software engineering anymore than the romans had civil engineering we now DO have civil engineering but that is it
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the decimal point is a lie, big whoop p-adic numbers will save us. the alternative completion of the rationals we did not know we needed the only problem is making sense of p-adics in terms of counting seems rather difficult
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1y ago
> same as pressing F12 in the browser to hack the mainframe! so that's why new mac keyboards did away the entire F keys row?
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