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by ziofill 1y ago
I’m sure you have though about it already, but if you had a way to modify the refractive index of the resin, you could make the fishing lines disappear completely.
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by ziofill 1y ago
I dream of a day when LLM naming follows a convention.
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by ziofill 1y ago
I can't stand websites that override scrolling
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by ziofill 1y ago
It is a frequent fantasy of mine to bring tech back to historical figures, like to show my phone to Galileo or to take Leonardo da Vinci for a ride in my car. But I guess you don't need to go that far to blow minds.
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by ziofill 1y ago
The smell of coffee (and your other examples) are not a property of the molecules themselves. It is the interpretation of such molecules given by our brain and the “coffee-ness” is a quality made up by the brain.
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by ziofill 1y ago
> since grass has been outlawed why?? (because it takes water to maintain?)
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by ziofill 1y ago
+1 for the GitHub user name :)
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by ziofill 1y ago
Every time I glance at the title my brain reads “death maps”
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by ziofill 1y ago
This was only 10 years ago https://xkcd.com/1425/
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by ziofill 1y ago
In 630as light travels half a micron. If that's the clock cycle, a chip would need to do some amazing coordination for bits to reach gates at the same time, and there would be many many cycles before a signal reaches the other side of
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by ziofill 1y ago
Actually optical interconnects are the biggest of (photonic) quantum computing problems. If we had good enough optical interconnects (i.e. with low enough optical loss) we would already have a fault-tolerant quantum computer. See https:&
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by ziofill 1y ago
I won't, but do you bet nobody will?
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by ziofill 1y ago
Does it matter if an LLM is roleplaying when it executes real harmful actions?
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by ziofill 1y ago
Exactly, whether or not it’s the “actual thought” of the model, it does influence its final output, so it matters to the user.
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by ziofill 1y ago
I've been playing the piano for 30 years, and although I'm pretty good at sight reading I don't think I would manage well on random notes. Music is generally not random (even jazz): there is structure, there is alternating te
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by ziofill 1y ago
Yes, it's the same thing in the sense that even if you work with a single photon the same applies (if you want its wavefunction to be narrow in time, its energy uncertainty must be broad)
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by ziofill 1y ago
Oh wait, I just realized what I said was probably very stupid: I was thinking of some computational complexity theorem that links memory and runtime complexity classes in the same way that the "speed of light" sets an ultimate bou
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by ziofill 1y ago
The nice thing about dBs is that they are logarithms: successive applications of gain/attenuation are easily computed by just adding up the dBs. (but yes, I agree that there should be more consistency in their definition)
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by ziofill 1y ago
At the cost of sounding ridiculous: can there be a notion of "speed of light" in the theory of computation, determining the ultimate limit of memory (space) vs runtime?
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by ziofill 1y ago
Time and energy are “conjugated” quantities: the more one is sharp, the more the other one is broad (it’s the same concept as Fourier transforming a Gaussian: the more it’s peaked the more the transform is broad). In order for the time dura
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by ziofill 1y ago
Mostly the part that brings groups of humans to optimize for wealth, even if this directly makes the life of other humans shittier. It turns humans into automata who blindly want to make the number go up, and not worry about the consequence
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by ziofill 1y ago
I used a “trick” to make YouTube work in my favour. For a few days I purposefully watched and liked/subscribed a bunch of videos about things that I think make me a better me (jazz piano lessons, philosophy conversations, math/phy
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by ziofill 1y ago
This. When will the discourse finally become about Capitalism being the evil algorithm?
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by ziofill 1y ago
I don’t know how, but we’re in this weird regime where companies are happy to offer “value” at the cost of needing so much compute that a 200+$/mo subscription still won’t make it profitable. What the hell? A few years ago they would h
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by ziofill 1y ago
A chemist friend of mine did his thesis on lipid vesicles, and I remember my mind being blown when he told me these are modelled as a liquid on the 2D plane of the membrane, but as a solid on the 1D orthogonal direction because the energy t
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by ziofill 1y ago
Is it just me or those scatter plots feel silly to fit with a straight line?
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by ziofill 1y ago
In principle heat can be converted to work if there are two bodies at different temperature. In space heat can only be irradiated away since there’s no matter available for conduction, so I would think that eventually all of your machinery
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by ziofill 1y ago
I swear this is true: my old bank (Allianz) introduced a two factor authentication where they would show me a code upon login, then I HAD TO CALL THEM, go through a menu and punch in the code. I changed bank a couple months later.
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by ziofill 1y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but if the only energy they get is coming from the sun, then they only need to dissipate that same amount of heat (minus whatever energy was needed for beaming data down to Earth).
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by ziofill 1y ago
If your condition can easily be resolved by waiting a little and letting your body recover, an honest doctor will tell you so. I wonder if an AI will ever risk not recommending you to see a doctor.

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