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Mithriil
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About Mithriil
Statistical learning, optimization, algorithms, computer sciences, and other nerdy stuff.
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Comment #49218640
The first 1 star comment on the "YEREADW USB-C Tester Power Meter" marketed here is worrisome: > HOWEVER, the issue is that, for some reason, on some devices, it seems to mess with…
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Comment #49218584
Say you've got a set of 5 points that are not all collinear (e.g. everytime you draw a line, you never get all 5 of them). Now every time you try to draw a line between two points,…
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Comment #49218572
Also, see the title of the website.
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Comment #49197682
Not necessarily. Selling a tool doesn't incur the same risks as using it, not at all.
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Comment #49177919
I understand the point that the physical world is still our (human's) anchor, but the virtual world still "exists" anyway, as in: it impacts the physical world. Whether some humans…
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Comment #49177862
I don't think that GA would be incapable of that, from what I know of LLMs and agents. The part where you make the GA uphold your set of values could, instead of coming from an ind…
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Comment #49177853
One of the example Gwern brings [1] is a GA as an agent for public discourse and political life, to bring your "set of values" to have an effect in solving society's issues, when y…
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Comment #49172607
Even if pi is an approximation, it is still representable mathematically. Floating-point arithmetic is an algebra (in this case, a magma [1]), which can be studied mathematically. …
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Comment #49038599
And yet, open source models saved the day.
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Comment #49038364
Some people do read these cyberpunk dystopia, but see them as inevitable.
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Comment #48779305
And what the author goes and shows are equalities, not tautologies.
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Comment #48681974
This is of the 26th of May.
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Comment #48570970
If you hold the eraser for a second at the center, I find that it destroys the image more often than not.
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Comment #48209427
It's relevant to the "thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters".
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Comment #48197240
'Always free' does not sound like an opinion.
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Comment #48182537
The ratio of AI startups at YC surprised me... (slide 48). This is a clear trend.
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Comment #48096435
> Probabilistic analysis can carry you very, very far in doing something that looks like logical inference at the surface level, but it is nonetheless not logical inference. A stat…
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Comment #47922159
> nobody understands the fundamentals Funny statement to be found in the discussion about... research results on the fundamentals.
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Comment #47921969
Asymptotics has been used to validate tons of statistical tools. This is just another tool being validated. If you have a tool that you don't know works when data increases (n-> in…
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Comment #47921930
I don't think that this is true. You need an infinite number of dimensions for this (think Taylor's expansion, Fourier expansion, infinitely wide or deep NNs..)
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Comment #47921546
As someone who worked with Nadaraya-Watson regression in the pass, the result that infinitely wide NNs converges to kernel regression baffles me.
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Comment #47891483
Add the feature of doing a high five for the rare cases when it's actually good.
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Comment #47841376
> instantly Shor's and Grover's still are algorithm that require a massive amount of steps...
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Comment #47806970
I would expect such a law to be lobbied to death.
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Comment #47793269
The Google's n-gram dataset link is outdated. You can get them here: https://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv3...