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I feel like LLM's will change advertising like internet search changed advertising. Here "like" means similarly in magnitude, not direction. If I could predict the future etc.

It is not the technology that sucks ever more money out of the populace, it's the people at the top!

NYTimes competing with NYTimesPitchBot for funnier headlines, I see. What a bizarre and awesome piece of science. I like crystals for the miracle of uncountable numbers of atoms tr…

It's mentioned in the article that the chimpanzees only relinquished the crystals in exchange for many bananas, so it seems they're more into crystals...

This is just a general pattern: applied mathematicians are often using things pure mathematicians haven't proved to be true yet. The examples are widespread for the generalized Rie…

Can you list some better books for those of us who liked Le Guin and are interested in what could be better?

The dots need to be the vertices of equilateral triangles for the Voronoi diagram to be hexagons, the above is a rectangular grid rotated 45 degrees. You can overlay a regular hexa…

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Why is the scrolling janky?

Terry Tao is writing about this on his blog.

The bull case is that everyone losing their jobs will accelerate and bring about the socialist revolution, giving us universal basic income and universal healthcare.

How long did it take for mobile repair shops to proliferate? Surely solar repair shops will also appear.

It reads more like mysticism than a serious claim of novelty, chill out.

Lee taught Intro to Topological Manifolds for one quarter, and then the next two quarters where Intro to Smooth Manifolds. Then Riemannian, then vector bundles, and then complex ma…

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Yesterday there was an article about how the ear works more like a Gabor transform or a wavelet transform than a Fourier transform, both of which are Short Time Fourier Transforms,…

We need investors to fund ideas to find out if they are good or bad. It is called testing.

A function (which is an isomorphism) from complex numbers a+bi to matrices is a+bi |-> [[a,-b],[b,a]] where the matrix is listed by rows. So i is sent to the matrix R with a 0 in t…

It turns out incremental thought is much better than original thought. I guess.

Doctors would implement self-healing and abolish checklists if they could! Be glad if you don't need a checklist.

Depends on if the managers above them are accountable or not. Accountability is the opposite of corruption and both need to come from the top.

Is the LHC humanity's biggest let down? Confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson but birthed 0 black holes!

Here, I asked ChatGPT to summarize it for you: just kidding.

How did you pick the number "about a dozen"? Probably just LLM budget constraint I guess.