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Mithriil

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About Mithriil

Currently an AI sofware dev.

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...