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I think the most fascinating thing about music (from a mathematical/scientific perspective) is the fact that the principal harmonics of equal temperament are so close to the mathem…

It is nearly incontrovertible that perfect (aka absolute) pitch is either 100% innate or picked up in very early childhood. A product like this could easily discourage kids from le…

Wow, lots of words!

And yet it turns

I find it strange that no one talks about consciousness and intelligence from the perspective of evolution. We have big brains for exactly one reason only: bigger brains bestowed r…

They said FORTH!!

You can say that again. I went through a 50-75 hour process of interviews, leet-code exams (with tight pencil-down timing), culminating with a long-form project that they budgeted …

Is it possible the chatbot he is communicating with meant literally "I have no API endpoint for refunding your money"? Meaning their use of the verb "can't" was hyper-literal, as i…

Dunno if this is a late-in-life thing or I was always like this, but I definitely need more blue to see blue than most (this test put me at 82%, I think that means I'm in the lowes…

For as long as I can remember, about once a week or so someone on Hacker News introduced their pet project, a new programming language. It almost seems like a rite of passage to, f…

More like,"AI: DW"

No love for "Sirens Of Titan"?

Has anyone else had the experience of dreading a session with Claude, because his personality is often chirpy and annoying; he's always got positive things to say; and working with…

What bothers me is this: Claude & I work hard on a subtle issue; eventually (often after wiping Claude's memory clean and trying again) we collectively come to a solution that work…

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The NYC buses require you to take the kid(s) out of the pram and fold it up. A total PITA Another kvetch: using car seats in taxis. Maybe it's different now with Uber but 20 years …

As others have noted, you sound about 3 months behind the leading edge. What you describe is like my experience from February. Switch to Claude (IMSHO, I think Gemini is considered…

One word: baby carriages up and down stairs

Now that I think of it, if using damped springs, the system would not be reversible. Energy is dissipated through the damping, and the system will increase in entropy and converge …

Quantum computation came directly out of reversible computing. Look for example at the Fredkin and Toffoli gates.

> Nevertheless in a deterministic system you can know a future state without calculating intermediary states. Exactly wrong. See the halting problem

Very cool! I've often wondered whether one could procedurally generate sounds of objects interacting in a physics engine? This approach seems like a good place to start.

Started a new company.

50.001% of Americans voted for this. FAFO

Claude represents some sort of inflection point or phase change. With all the noise, Claude Sonnet is by far the most impressive model since gpt4.