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You do realize that that's also likely true for all the thousands of Gods that've ever been imagined by humans? So I am gently nudging you to consider praying to them as well, just…

Those are some awesome videos. You'll notice that by the end of the series, he's using advanced notation everywhere as well. And you'll notice the original PDF has lots of pictures…

> But can anybody name a wrapper company as/more valuable than foundation model companies Ask the same question about databases. Then consider these wrapper companies: Salesforce, …

I have a very naive question. Why is the ARC challenge difficult but coding problems are easy? The two examples they give for ARC (border width and square filling) are much simpler…

I've always thought that using vertical space and indentation alone to organize code was a failure of imagination for IDE development. Why can't the IDE allow for and auto-format c…

Yes. I appreciate the article because it gets people to think about high dimensional geometry. But I think the right takeaway is that in high dimensions, cubes have huge volume com…

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Latest from their status page: Update - The underlying issue affecting a subset of our API customers (and ChatGPT by extension) is with an upstream part of our API authentication s…

Try using a mobile browser, like Opera, that supports text rewrap on zoom. It is a revelation.

This depends crucially on your definition of AGI. LLMs are more like a mathematical function than they are a conscious being. If, in your opinion, AGI could be realized as a input/…

I agree. This is why I use Opera's mobile browser which defaults to zoom with dynamic text wrapping to fit the screen width.

Amazing: "A healthy person at rest produces their body weight in adenosine triphosphate every day! At maximal exercise, this number can increase to 0.5 to 1.0 kg per minute."

It seems to know that song lyrics have rhyme. > Please compose some song lyrics about loving someone else's dog. Verse 1: I never thought I'd fall in love again But then I met your…

Isn't the change in this yearly inflation number saying only that this July's inflation was less than last July's? So going up or down depends only on the monthly rate a year ago.

Ergodicity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity

Here's an interview with the company's founder: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Hagoromo-presiden...

Gauge theory is the collection of techniques used to describe forces in quantum field theory (electro-magnetism, weak force, and strong force). In field theory you have many vector…

This text reflow feature is key to my choosing a mobile browser. I use Opera mainly for this reason. Text reflow used to be standard. Does anyone know why Chrome and Firefox remove…

I use YouTube Red and love it. My YouTube usage has doubled because I don't see ads. And I feel good knowing I'm helping the video makers whether I skip ads or not.

> Or, of course, what aspects of the world are we missing that would be obvious to a slightly more complex intelligence? Also, there are surely aspects of the world we miss which a…

I have a question. Given an u derstanding of special relativity plus Einstein's equivalence principle, can one derive the Ricci curvature formulation of GR? By that I mean, is the …