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    Comment #42200817

    >> Problems … —PH With gratitude, i’d already riffen on this with “ … [YC] proved its salt… ” Riffing on the schlep of “talking to users” my current (more designori-oriented?) vari…

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    Comment #42200720

    Top of my deadtree stack is Chazelle, The Discrepancy Method (1998) (Father of the regrettably more famous Chazelle, if you’re okay californicating rabbit holes)

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    Comment #42200682

    Thanks for the ref! Not sure when i’ll get there praying for a serendipitous intersection of cargoculting nonsssociativity and diagram spelunking (aided by your hints, half-remembe…

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    Comment #42200619

    If you interpret (like i do) AGI as “median human level allweather selfdriving cars”, 2030 sounds a little optimistic even for that. If AGI is IMO 6/6(/6) 2030 might be even less o…

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    Comment #42200529

    Citation for SAK? (Im getting hints that the keyphrase is “Big Step (vs Small Step) semantics) Case study here of phoneboothknifefight elevated to a streetside assassination attemp…

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    Comment #42181699

    En wiki claims (via Gorky) he was entitled to sign off as a statskiy sovetnik(‘s son)

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    Comment #42181463

    Hopefully one of you will supersede von Neumann, in one mega Step

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    Comment #42181427

    Teach physics to geology enthusiasts so i can land a government contract involving fossils.. (I dont need those contracts, i just desire them. Which gov is interested in fossils? T…

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    Comment #42180701

    I realized the beekeeper quasidoggerel was perhaps inspired by a recent movie (2024) i hadnt heard about.. Though breaking taps violated the Thorne-Weiss rules of game playing, i a…

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    Comment #42180674

    Upon snowcloning the Melian dialog to the context of Gwern(‘s interview) The foxes protect from dismissal using what they can hide and the lions suffer the misinterpretations that …

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    Comment #42179929

    Edit: Rao- Sturgeon Normalization Lagniappe: https://archive.ph/G5nXO Cultural revo for the old c. :=> wardriven emigration to the relatively hilly Eastcoast > these prizes give me…

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    Comment #42179724

    KST blackhole that he is, might be only approximating his inner state as Killer for better transmission.. recall that he was highly involved in Interstellar , had he been involved …

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    Comment #42179651

    Its also worth placeholdering that PG’s role model is the aanglo neoEdwardian(?) (Bloomsbury) jMKeynes rather than the teutonic (neoVic) vonMises, considering the diverging hyperno…

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    Comment #42179441

    Not to needlessly alleviate your suffering, but what is LTL? Of course, these Nobel Bauble driven days, “quantum memories” sound like little more than search engine bawdlerised AdW…

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    Comment #42178616

    I do respectfully interpret {pg,tlb,rtm} as preferring to become genius hunters that fail well to remaining grad students that succeed badly.. (Thanks for reminding me of the cases…

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    Comment #42162061

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7xH9ZSp_B4?t=10s (Compare with how Zeloof was positioning (his ikigai) to Jim Keller) This guy, by bringing attention to his emo, sells to fellow p…

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    Comment #42161269

    In other words, “All preferences are subjective but some ikigais locally align (or at least have positive inner product*)” ? In yet further words, Each of us would like to find our…

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    Comment #42161109

    It would appear that our cones align well enough to keep the intersection positive (the conversation semiprocrastinative) I shant say that artbasel doesnt exist. Shall we align yet…

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    Comment #42156728

    Every ___ & their mother has a worldview… I submit that what pple should focus in trading are ikigais… (although i suspect Pareto could have hidden a hint or two. — here , i have a…

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    Comment #42156659

    the offerings at kokoko.spb.ru, how they triage the (upper mid to top) market! 1. Slavophile, past (god save the tsar!) 2. Laptop class, cosmopolitan future (tomorrow the universe!…

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    Comment #42144293

    Mutual envy hits the sweet spot imho.. to me the (median) Informatiker has superior naming/notation/training. Recall that bit with Moitra et al cutting the Gordian knot of thermali…

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    Comment #42144257

    https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5529908z.texteImage Mostly figured out the deal with the Leningrad (just noticed the logo animation..) Shnurov runs a restaurant in Peterburg…

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    Comment #42135562

    Uh (first off) its the german sense of vertex, not the anglo sense lol (Image Search for “3-gluon vertex” to get a language independent sense) On (regrettably still halfass’d) refl…

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    Comment #42135422

    EDIT: The Minims: i saw somewhere that Brienne was run by monks.. ive unfortunately (ego quoque!) degenerated to link/comment taiji for now, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42…