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findalex

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    Comment #47967805

    I loved this game so much. Can't wait to see Santa.

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    Comment #47090549

    My measurement of quality going in was how far I need to scroll to see EKS. Very high quality.

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    Comment #46994519

    The nature of the basic research beast. There are grad student written astrophysics/comp chemistry spaghetti codes that continue to get big funding for the sole reason (it feels li…

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    Comment #46960581

    It tickled me too - and TBH I got sidetracked by the misspelling when my browser pointed it out in the HN comment box :)

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    Comment #46959671

    > Confusing. Inscrutible. But groundbreaking if we can pull it off. You know what gets lift? Correct spelling (inscrutable)! Unless they chose that word specifically to misspell bu…

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    Comment #46888269

    Right - e.g., if you're modeling a physical system it makes sense to bake in some physics - like symmetry.

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    Comment #46881750

    Intended as analogy - but it is essentially a description of the DMRG algorithm (quantum chem). Only pair-wise operators there but the theory approaches exact when there are enough…

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    Comment #46881109

    QM would tell us the order of your Hamiltonian (attention operator) doesn’t limit the complexity of the wave function (hidden state). It might be more efficient to explicitly corre…

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    Comment #46815174

    ugh.. i <3 emacs. Thanks for this tidbit.

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    Comment #46810413

    I enjoyed this comment on many levels.

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    Comment #44358846

    and pipx.

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    Comment #44244446

    How boxed in is cosmology by the cosmological principle? If we - as an example - didn't assume the cosmological constant was constant and expected it to vary over large distances, …

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    Comment #44019233

    ...must function unfastened from current PsyOps doctrine which prohibits communicating any PsyOps type message or meme to US domestic audiences. PsyOps doctrine is an interesting w…

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    Comment #38382365

    Common blocks for the win.

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    Comment #37485438

    > proven in science What does this mean?

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    Comment #37120875

    Sounds like this restaurant owner has some friends high up on the force?

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    Comment #37101461

    Here, here. Science = the scientific method. It should be nothing more.

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    Comment #37067434

    I saw how straight the stick figure's back was and laughed out loud to myself.

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    Comment #36139007

    Compute moat. aka cash moat. It's a deep one, too.

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    Comment #35975064

    There is a package for querying dataframes with SQL: https://github.com/yhat/pandasql/ . I assumed this was going to be LLM -> SQL -> Pandas.

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    Comment #35474302

    Based on what I've seen in this thread: Alternate title: Dystopian/surreal/weird/huh? SCI-FI premise generation.

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    Comment #35469660

    >computational chemistry >RANDOM IDEA >Create a startup that utilizes AI and computational chemistry to develop personalized medicine for rare diseases in children. Use large repos…

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    Comment #35387262

    >started writing research papers about the safety issues with ChatGPT; Feels strange that academia would focus so much energy on a product.