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I'd be cautious with Sapolsky claims. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/30/its-sapols...

I think this is a great explanation. The "Ladder of Causation" proposed by Judea Pearl covers similar ground - "Rung 1” reasoning is the purely predictive work of ML models, "Rung …

That you seem to consider yourself sufficiently expert and authoritative to declare the idea "overplayed" -- and that you consider this declaration something that will further read…

Of course, the hypothesis that they are sufficiently aware of everything -- existing and being nurtured solely to be slaughtered, having already seen many friends die, if female ha…

I'd just add, these three can be obtained from veg-friendly supplements too.

I'm not an expert in this, but... > BNNs bring the following advantages over GPs: First, training large GPs is computationally expensive, and traditional training algorithms scale …

As an outsider to the "tech" scene, who did a PhD generals field on modern European intellectual history (which included a dollop of recent continental philosophy), it's endlessly …

I think one further bit of horror is, it has the potential to erode your memory of the lost person, piece by piece regressing your recollection of them to the mean (so to speak) of…

John Eliot Gardner's "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven" is a sort of musical biography featuring a (very) deep dive on the cantatas.

As it happens, there's a PyMC implementation of the 1st and 2nd editions of Statistical Rethinking here: https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-resources (I think the author of the book…

FWIW here's Aki Vehtari's approving share on his (and Gelman et al's) blog. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/02/08/bayesian-a... The author was also a lead author on a C…

Not an endorsement, but here's an argument that AGI is computationally intractable (edit: at least via ML). https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inev...

There's also this in the Berkeley Hills. Smaller though. https://redwood-valley-railway.business.site/

I'm curious if others have experienced this. I'd subscribed to the Financial Times last year -- my first ever print subscription to a newspaper -- in the interest of better-absorbi…

Yes, but as I said, I was talking about early Confucians.

For context, he is reasonably well known -- probably the third most-prominent of the early Confucians (albeit a distant third, after Confucius and Mencius), with partial and comple…

Here's a recent webinar from PyMC Labs' Max Kochurov (with some slides and code too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QllfKQH-yQ4

That's what books were for (among other things): they were knowledge prosthetics. EDIT: And to be clear, yes, books were conveying information from other adults. But 1) the capital…

Personally I would vote "no" regardless of whether I had confidence the kid wouldn't be exposed to the dregs of the Internet, for two reasons: 1. LLMs are I think pretty inarguably…

Why on earth would this be remotely noteworthy to Tyler Cowen, an economist ? Set aside the cultural stuff -- it's obviously just market dynamics at its core. Humanities degrees ar…

Second the Beast Academy recommendation. I'd add, it's the younger version of Art of Problem Solving. The interactive games are extremely well designed from a pedagogical standpoin…

I understand why the IP holders want to keep the revenue flowing by adapting the works to meet current market demands/expectations (while offering lofty talk of the "timelessness" …

No, you'd need to be chugging multiple jugs of soy milk a day for that to (maybe) matter. Better would be to lift, eat better, sleep, etc.

There's a big literature on this in Chinese history -- many arguments concentrate on economics and labor specifically (to crudely sum it up, there was always lots of cheap labor av…

I'd wait a few years on Chicago -- my impression is that they've been undergoing some pretty profound cultural shifts regarding admissions and grading, i.e. their rigor is getting …