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I actually was put off by the know-it-all nature of the whole thing as if nasa scientists had totally not considered any of this.

I don't understand what I'm supposed to be doing here.

If you don't know the length of the stream in advance, you can just calculate the margin of error when you're done, no?

You actually don't need to do that part in the algorithm. If you don't know the length of the list, you can just choose a threshold that seems reasonable and calculate the margin o…

the list is small so the cost of deletions should be small.

It makes a lot of sense because obviously having a river there makes the transport of materials a lot easier, but i do wonder how nobody noticed this before.

Higher dimensions in general? An n-dimensional space is just a collection of points, each defined uniquely by a set of n-numbers. The semantic meaning of those numbers doesn't real…

The letters you're referring to were written in 1753 and 1755, and has he got older, his views on race softened to the point that he was an outright abolitionist by the end of his …

This is just a consequence of the inflation countermeasures working. During the inflationary period, people were flush with cash, demand increased, there were shortages, everyone r…

I read an article about the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" that it was basically the result of a drunk looking for his keys under a lamp post because that's where the …

If have an oracle that can predict the outcome of experiments does it _matter_ if you understand why?

> Yes, absolutely. The US does not trust Tiktok because it is Chinese owned, or is it because of privacy concerns, or is it both? Does it matter what the reason is? It's a foreign …

by the time the rosetta stone was written, the literary language had drifted pretty far from spoken egyptian anyway, which was well on the way to becoming Coptic.

In a practical sense, how you define big O depends on what you consider to be the inputs to the function. If the runtime doesn't change depending on the size of the inputs that you…

The reason it can't do that is that, for example, "twenty" and "20" are nearly identical in the vector embedding space and it can't really distinguish them that well in most contex…

Union members bled and died to get those regulatory protections in the US.

If management was all it takes, why can't they fire all the workers and work the warehouse floor themselves?

If tens of thousands (or really, even a handful) of people were dying from car crashes caused by, for example, brakes failing, then people would absolutely be attacking the manufac…

> “What that means is not only that they learn what it means to be a dog or a cat, …“ I think he's referring to the famous paper: "What is it like to be a bat" https://en.wikipedia…

Probably the "it" is whatever one model has that other models don't have. When everyone is using the same architecture, then the data makes the difference. If everyone has the same…

> Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin…

> This make me wonder on the connection between 2, 3 and 4 dimensions, and Hamilton found out the hard that you need 4 numbering system or quaternion, in order to properly represen…

At the time any of those myths would have originated, nobody really had any concept of a "global" anything. If the local river flooded, that was your _entire world_. Lots of local …

The results are actually shockingly bad, considering that I think this should be _easier_ than producing a realistic image from scratch, which ai does quite well. I don't have more…

I would love if I could blacklist quora from search results. I have no idea why it's ranked so highly. It's a garbage site with worthless answers.