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grantpitt

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    Comment #48558824

    You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both.

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    Comment #47444168

    Somewhat analogously the best predictor of if I read a book on a given day is if I read the day before, I'd guess.

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    Comment #47125773

    Very cool project! Reminds me Chiang's great short story 'The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling': > “If you speak slowly, you pause very briefly after each word. Thatʼs why we le…

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    Comment #47125636

    Can you say more on this?

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    Comment #46920167

    I quoted from the middle of the article what I found interesting. I don't submit on here much and I just put that in the title field without thinking. I'm glad that comment provide…

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    Comment #46920087

    Sorry, my mistake. Thanks for the reminder. I don't think I can change it after 2 hrs.

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    Comment #46918875

    Yeah, the article links the source where every state can be viewed: https://edunomicslab.org/roi-over-time/

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    Comment #46038118

    well, it's a big trick

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    Comment #46037877

    do say more

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    Comment #46005607

    Any application that can run in the browser, will eventually run in the browser.

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    Comment #45994167

    Huh, can you share a link? I tried here: https://gemini.google.com/share/e753745dfc5d

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    Comment #45968897

    Agreed, it also leads performance on arc-agi-1. Here's the leaderboard where you can toggle between arc-agi-1 and 2: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

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    Comment #45505826

    Very interesting to hear two technologists at a tech business conference say things along the lines of: "our tools do not merely extend us, they transform us", followed up with "we…

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    Comment #44879087

    Interesting because games are exactly the kinds of RL environments that models can effectively learn - but the catch is that they must do this learning on the fly in test-time. Ver…

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    Comment #40467342

    Right, like in math, not all infinite sequences contain every finite subsequence. For example, a non-repeating sequence of 2's and 7's contains no sequence "4". The further conditi…

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    Comment #40092059

    Nice post. With respect to maximizing future options, I find the ideas expressed in the following quotes are interesting counter-points. From '4,000 weeks': "Not only should you se…

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    Comment #40015629

    > "By the 1880s, their numbers had plummeted from around 30 million to a mere 325" I thought that must've been a typo upon first reading. Even 325,000 would be shocking. Amazing th…

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    Comment #39866113

    That quote is him criticizing a certain shift in science and education he perceives, right? Not him advocating for that position.

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    Comment #39117492

    I had similar thoughts on this. It looks polynomial because he classified errors into certain groups and spread them across an axis which we implicitly think is a dimension. But it…