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Quanta Magazine consistently explains mathematics/physics for an advanced lay audience in ways that don't terribly oversimplify / still expose you to the true ideas. It's really ni…

> My hope is that my own cadaver is ripped apart by somebody as crazy/appreciative as me =D https://meded.ucsf.edu/willed-body-program :)

Nice! Re: favorite systems for migrations — not really; I've always just kind of not used one, or rolled my own. Desiderata: * fully atomic (all goes through or none goes through) …

(1) This is awesome. Feels like this wraps enough complexity that it won't just be a toy / for prototyping. (2) When a schema is provided, is it fully enforced? Is there a way to d…

I haven’t seen a better solution than remolacha’s #2 (create separate temporary state for the form). Forms just inherently can have partially-finished/invalid states, and it feels …

In the usual course of writing software, it's common to install huge dependency chains (npm, pypi), and any vulnerable package could spell doom. There's some nasty stuff out there,…

> slightly charred ends of the sticks had been cut specially to stick into the fire, and both were coated in human or animal fat. Wait, what? Where did they get human fat from…?

In all the cases in the article it looks like shame plays a big role. I wonder if hikikomori is caused by a loop of [adverse circumstances that cause the person to feel shame] -> w…

How’s PostgreSQL’s code quality? If projects have tons of technical debt or poor abstractions it can often be hard to make significant changes. Is that the case here, or no?

It was certainly an unresolved question before they did this work! Naively, it seems reasonable to believe that if you adjust all the weights of a neural net towards the behavior y…

An LLM can be executed in an “OODA” loop like in AutoGPT and given a goal towards which it takes agentic actions, especially if the LLM is fine-tuned for function calling. So, it c…

Hmm wonder if that applies to https://www.hacksmith.tech/lightsaber :D

> But the ways in which a LLM can “talk about” the universe (and everything it contains) are limited to the ways in which humans have previously talked about the universe. This is …

> but LLMs can’t do anything, really Do you think https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT et al will become more performant as models improve?

Happen to have one more? thank you either way!

Is it me, or have there been more earthquakes in the Bay Area lately?

LLaMA isn't built on RLHF, so it may be necessary to create a more extensive prompt. For example: ``` You are a super intelligent honest question-answering system. Q: What's 2+2? A…

It's true that many of the people on Jan 6 didn't view themselves as extreme and didn't realize they were being fascist — they probably mostly truly did believe they were protectin…

Caro understands his subjects so so well that you feel you are inside their heads. Caro’s works have spoiled me — other biographies feel out-of-focus and surface-level and speculat…

One strategy I’ve seen employee is to tear the book into three parts.

For me, more frisson is evoked by some of the passages in this rendition of Elgar's Cello Concerto than by anything else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhkZW_jwc0

I wonder what happens if you ask it to draw a self-portrait

Computational proofs of integrity (STARKs, SNARKs) could detect silent data corruptions (at the cost of a ~1000x slowdown) I wonder if we’ll see them used for large scale applicati…