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uhhhh this seems completely fucking insane?

This actually seems like a decent compromise. Sam and Greg can retain velocity on the product side without having to spin up a whole new operation in direct competition with their …

the only thing significant figures seem to be optimizing for is debate about the right way to use significant figures in my experience, it’s always better to eschew them entirely a…

Articles like this on the internet are usually completely garbage, but Natalie is a really fantastic journalist. If you’re worried about woo because of the title, there isn’t any h…

Rationalists seem extremely common amongst the $300k+/year software engineers I know. If that isn’t “successful”, then I’m not sure we’re using the same word anymore. You can argue…

Scott Alexander is his pseudonym, which he freely shares, and he blogs about his psychiatry work.

I claimed no such thing :D

The number of people “qualified” to go to Harvard is probably more than 10x the current capacity of Harvard, though. Maintaining scarcity/exclusivity in the brand is more valuable …

The subtlety here is that NNs do have a model, but it’s hard to see. Not just any neural network can perform as well as GPT-2–a very specific architecture can. That architecture, c…

To elaborate a bit: people like Marcus tend to overload/move the goal posts with what the word “understand” means. I kinda feel like in a world where we have perfectly conversation…

https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/189965935059/human-ps... for an orthogonal point of view—-I feel Marcus is a bit too embroiled in this particular debate to make level-headed…

iirc, no one has been able to replicate this group’s results. The “X17 particle” wiki page has a good review.

*in mice

Lorentz symmetry was already kinda-sorta baked into Maxwell’s equations. It was only a matter of time before someone took it seriously.

To my knowledge, there are still no tasks a D-Wave is better at (asymptotically) than a classical machine

It’s also a matter of signal to noise. Not very many things (other than neutrinos) are detectable when you point a detector straight down into the earth. Contrariwise, you’re swamp…

...yes? Why is it not surprising?