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Mostly a proof of concept based on fla.sh[1]. Proposed changes are : ## minimalist interface I wanted the quiz to show up in the middle of an otherwise empty screen, kind of like w…

It doesn't seem so at all from what I've tried.

> so even theoretically this is hard to imagine. Possibly a strech, but transistors are basically current amplifiers, so their optical equivalent should be... lasers. Indeed lasers…

> Mechanical computers are computers that operate using mechanical components rather than electronic ones. For anyone who's excited about mechanical computers, perhaps it is worth …

In the last few months, I've been using a version of memchess.com that I rebuilt from its archive [1] in order to learn chess openings. I am moderately happy with my results so far…

They took 20 bitcoins out of me, but I never bothered to fill the paperwork. Oh, well.

I'm quite baffled by the fact that LLMs can generate a dataset used to train other LLMs. One would think that such a feedback loop would produce utter nonsense but apparently not. …

> But the first problem is, the number of legal transformations is actually infinite. I am fairly certain the number of legal transformations in mathematics is not infinite. There …

> Nor is it music without a musician. The case of music is quite fascinating. YouTuber Rick Beato is following it very closely. He seems to think that quite soon people will listen…

"I think in the future, instead of typing up our proofs, we would explain them to some GPT. And the GPT will try to formalize it in Lean as you go along. If everything checks out, …

Growing Neural Cellular Automata https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300376 , February 2020

> improved soil health, improved ecosystem health, better water retention, less erosion, more carbon sequestered in the soil. Regarding carbon sequestration, I think it is worth po…

For what it's worth that sounds a lot like what Max Tegmark classifies as the "level 1" multiverse. https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html

Friendly reminder that "Paris syndrome" is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

Well, isn't it what the ISS is?

Please elaborate. Are you thinking of approximating the distance function with an algebraic expression, with algebra itself being the "programming language"?

The application to graphics is interesting. It seems to me that current image generation models struggle with stylized pictures ("ligne claire" in comics, geometric shapes and so o…

No, I didn't take any electrolyte, as it seems artificial to me.

This is only anecdotal but I had heard about the benefits of fasting for brain performance, so I once tried fasting during a chess tournament. I fasted during the first six days of…

> OTOH I think there are theoretical lower bounds on the amount of energy that needs to be ejected as heat from a non-reversible computation, such that a non-reversible SC would st…

My experience with learning chess openings is comparable : repetition is necessary but not sufficient. You need to "work" on each line, thinking deeply about each one and trying to…

This is what this post (or rather just the title, tbh) immediately reminded me of. I remember learning about it in the early 2000s. It was considered a very challenging problem, wi…