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To the more exercise-inclined, there's this introductory game: https://incredible.pm/

Same here A potential solution would be to have a reputation system, with some light pageranking in it. People who care about their reputation are bound to rate other likewise peop…

Not doing retrieval, but one thing I'd love to try would be active learning passes of querying. Here is a paper for large scale active learning https://cdn.aaai.org/ojs/20591/20591…

Yet another manycore proposal, but I feel each time we're getting closer. Bandwidth is one of the few dimensions still growing, and there's something to unlock by shaping computati…

LCOE is good for marginal cost (eg: one more solar panel), but fails dramatically at evaluating systemic costs. A nuclear reactor moves the entire market down, including the costs …

JAX is designed from the start to fit well with systolic arrays (TPUs, Nvidia's tensor cores, etc), which are extremely energy-efficient. WebGL won't be the tool that connects it o…

I believe we could get there eventually. For example for collision there is work to make it differentiable (or use a local surrogate at the collision point): https://arxiv.org/abs/…

Yeah :) I had a lot of fun writing the article! And it is only half a joke My intuition for so-called world models is that we'll have to plug modules, each responsible for a domain…

Damn, I should have spent more time QA-ing that post. I'll try to patch it. You did not miss much though: it just rotates the scene.

It is AI generated. Or was written by someone a bit far from the technical advances IMHO. The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma is a very specific and powerful concept, when in the artic…

> the whole process remains differentiable: we can even propagate gradients through the computation itself. That makes this fundamentally different from an external tool. It become…

> He's still computing cross(z, d) and dot(z, d) separately. that looks like a code smell to me. with quaternions ... Fair point, but I think you misspelled Projective Geometric Al…

But the newer commenters most probably could be younger

> laser pulses > phased-array I'm not well versed into RF physics. I had the feeling that light-wave coherency in lasers had to be created at a single source (or amplified as it pa…

A hard problem, especially wrt to transactions on a moving target. From memory, handful of projects just dedicated to this dimension of databases: Noria, Materialize, Apache Flink,…

On the brand new and shiny 486 running dos and windows 3.1 that my father bought, on the qbasic language. With only a paper book as reference. No llm, no stackoverflow, no pagerank…

Of note is that once you've got planes, you can define points as intersections of n hyperplanes. In 2D, 2 intersecting hyperplanes (=lines here) will define a point. But what if th…

Most programs should be written in GCd languages, but not this. Except in a few cases, GCs introduce small stop-the-world pauses. Even at 15ms pauses, it'd still be very noticeable…

> > Just intuitively, in such a high dimensional space, two random vectors are basically orthogonal. > What's the intuition here? Law of large numbers? Yep, the large number being …

> "theory building" Strongly agree with your comment. I wonder now if this "theory building" can have a grammar, and be expressed in code; be versioned, etc. Sort of like a 5th-gen…

A bit late to the discussion, but this has deep connections. As a programmer, your job is provide business invariants using complexity management techniques. And checking that your…