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I might just be too autistic for this but I don't get why the article uses the word "existing" to refer to a conflation of contentedness/meditation/stasis/passivity/what have you. …

> Censored is a very strong word I believe GP is using the stats/data science meaning of the word "censor" which is a neutral term simply indicating missing/obscured data (without …

You can even find the exact number of pentagons (or hexagons, or edges, or vertices) using the equation V - E + F = 2 where V, E, F are the number of vertices, edges, and faces, re…

That's a nice way to put it. FWIW the generalization of binomial coefficient which allows you to express an n-dimensional solution is called a multinomial coefficient [0]. So in a …

> All these models see a local failure and try to locally defend against it. As maintainers we have to keep pulling the conversation back to the global invariant, which is harder t…

That's funny, I came out of it with the opposite impression. In the section for my native tongue, I zoomed in a few times, here and there, and I only once did I stumble upon an aut…

The author mentioned (Galashin) has some fun software to play with these combinatorial structure. I went to a talk of his that was "interactive" in that to follow along you could p…

Funnily enough I went into it with a background in math and was surprised about one specific claim that I couldn't quite understand, and it turns out it was subtly incorrect in suc…

Spring motion is the motion of systems where the force is proportional to the distance. Many interesting systems (like springs) are near equilibrium, which means that the potential…

> America got to the moon without H1-Bs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip From the linked article: > The operation played a crucial role in the establishment of NA…

The relevant variable here is the increase in jobs. The crisis in my example is just some exogenous variable. I'm genuinely trying to understand your point. In my view, if one care…

I did considered that but then went with Hanlon's razor [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Do you think that the employee pool overall would be more or less talented without the H-1B program? What about the tails of the distributions?

I still don't see what the issue is. Consider two scenarios: 1. H-1Bs get massively reduced over the next five years. Tech sector crisis ensues due to market shocks. Foreign worker…

How are H-1Bs comparable to nepotism?

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> A language model is made to predict language Isn't a language model made to predict the next token in a series, which just so happens to be good for predicting not only natural l…

I love Lisp (I'm an Emacs user and often write in Racket for personal projects) but the one thing I never understood about the Lisp community is the emphasis placed on metacircular…

These are very cool, thanks. Do you know what kind of jobs are more likely to require Gaussian process expertise? I have experience in using GP for surrogate modeling and will be o…

I don't want to dump too many but I found chess - checkers = wormseed mustard (63%) pretty funny and very hard to understand. All the other options are hyperspecific grasslike plan…

A similar result was found by J. Gagné [0] five years ago, though I don't think he publishes his results outside of his blog (which is well worth a read by the way). [0] https://co…

How did you get started? Was it mostly plug-and-play or was some nontrivial hacking involved? I use emacs and I normally wouldn't mind shaving a yak or two, but right now I'm swamp…

> Also, don't forget the Jacobian and gradient aren't the same thing! Every gradient is a Jacobian but not every Jacobian is a gradient. If you have a map f from R^n to R^m then th…

Ah but that's a bit different. The giant component doesn't connect all the neurons, only a fraction. The wiki page doesn't say this but if you have c * n / 2 edges then the fractio…