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I guess that makes sense. as you get to higher dimensions, most points sit very close to the surface. So if we're trading off N things and N >> 1, expect to basically always be at …

for the last one, that's the whole story of Socrates being the wisest man because unlike others he knew the bounds of his knowledge: "I seem, then, in just this little thing to be …

best point in that first link: openai doesn't tell us if they only tried to solve these 10 and each was solved (amazing) or if they asked it to solve a million problems and it got …

I recently wrote an article about this problem, and detail one reasonable algo for minimizing wait time. (Doesn’t consider concept of cars being full though, interesting addition) …

Thanks, I was curious for the motivation behind the conjecture, but it wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.

My three year old taught me something he saw on a YouTube video: you can search through a maze and find your way out just by keeping your right hand on the wall at all times and co…

Indeed, having a hard time thinking of anything I desire that I wouldn’t want sooner rather than later. Maybe a grave yard plot — hopefully won’t need that anytime soon.

Another question: they say road speeds increased, great. But that’s a different metric than average drive time. Curious if that also decreased.

Great book: An Introduction to Statistical Learning PDF here: https://www.statlearning.com/

FWIW in numerical analysis stable differentiation is harder than integration.

Very cool historical doc, thanks for sharing. Curious if his idea of determining the race of the individual from the fingerprint is possible. Never heard that idea before.

They also say that if they do the analysis globally the effect goes away. Curious, does that not imply that if one domain is biased against some group there would be another where …

Pleading has worked for me. “My job depends on this, please help me” and ChatGPT would do a task it previously claimed it wasn’t able to (extract text from an image, it claimed it …

FWIW I wrote a paper on nutrient-limited growth rates of cells and how that depends on their shape. one of the interesting findings was that elongated cells can grow exponentially …

When reading and writing became prevalent, the ancients bemoaned our reduced facility to memorize long texts. Are we now “less smart” because of that technology?

Article says this misses important details, eg data that might be in the image.

FWIW: A few nearby towns that are supposed to have good schools: Castro Valley, Albany, Alameda.

I’ve noticed that people in my field tend to have relatively similar personalities and relatively similar MB categories (close to INTJ). That combo is relatively rare within the br…