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A different take: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-18904-3 (Maybe the Greeks' themselves could have done it, they already had a rudimentary steam engine )

Had Archimedes lived to teach the Romans his calculus we might have reached Mars by 500 AD https://youtu.be/h0gPomI3h8o that's not from hesitation. And one can only call the Syracu…

Maybe all i'm suggesting is that AI can help us quickly check that what we humans are working on is indeed insane ( and switch to something else if it passes their sanity checks) T…

Sorry to repeat but I felt a bit of Eureka If I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes (when he basically discovered calculus) motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could wor…

Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!" > Money is a path to acquiring suffici…

Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!" More like survival. I think of Archime…

Thanks for helping to refine the thinking. I guess the other side of the coin that would be make the paradox interesting is that, in the long term , it has to seem that most of the…

There's this related phenom which seems paradoxical to me but maybe you can help figure: Things that are built with money (& not by say, intrinsic motivation alone) seem to have a …

It's the LinkedIn version of the challenge to tell people they can prove P=NP without te ... As far as Jane Jacobs (not a professional) is concerned, this is the hardest problem fo…

> Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom o…

> embarassed Like I once managed not to be triggered by ex-VC aebtebeten's routine dismissal of the following thesis the pieces of which I then had to shovel back into the incubato…

Looks like fitzhugh-nagumo with extra terms? (Or hodgkin-huxley with fewer) A show-HN mid-dive with Brian simulator would be cool

Oops late to the tussle with identarians. > Andersen suggests that a tradeoff exists in predictive processing, where giving higher weight to prediction errors prevents the detectio…

I was amused that higher quality quartz from Spruce Pines NC (Sibelco) doesn't go into the chips themselves, but the silicon crucibles (makes sense in retrospect because you need y…

> One surprising thing I learned is that ChatGPT can solve the word segmentation problem quite well, and it can even add punctuation and capitalization back into the message. While…

I think a better question is of the form "known by Ginsparg?" Conjecture: "no" :) "aP,aS" is a recipe for achieving an equilibrium of (semipermanent) purgatory . Yet there could be…

Ah yes, a paper from Fan Shanhui's group at Stanford, which kicked off the whole business. Should have linked that instead! This is 5.7 deg (using metasurfaces to selectively refle…

As someone who has worked in adjacent areas, I guessed that one might find it in random matrix pedagogy, but only after reading Sam (B) Hopkin's comment was I able to get google to…

To flip this into a potential solution to a wider problem-- global thermal balance-- combine solar panels with radiative cooling. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/…

To add color to your opinion: this piece was written by one of the financial editors https://www.ft.com/tabby-kinder No "unified opinion" but an editorial stance https://en.wikiped…

It's concerning that FT don't take more of an econs-of-AI-investment angle, explored here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399893 (Maybe Doctorow has too much of a Guardian v…

The upping was most clearly down 1940-1950. When shipping and/or industry took a hit. Together with the sulfur emissions debacle, it's clear that most interventions (either radiati…