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And I consider that a great achievement, not being on the HN front page when I have nothing to say.

This stuff should have some warning tag: rando's musings about LLMs. Lately, whenever I think I found an interesting article it turns out to be this.

22ns might be about 100 processor instructions. Somehow I doubt that any programming language can parse 50 strings in 100 instructions, let alone with naive code.

"Blessing of dimensionality"?

Oh, the OP pretty much told me that they didn't like taking notes. I am trying to understand why, what is the mechanism? Is it like burning out? Can it happen to me and my notes wh…

I don't get this. I have a megabyte or two of plain-text notes, and going through them and maintaining them and extending them is fun (apologize to the person who doesn't like thre…

The point is minimizing curvature, not maximizing length. Curved path makes the accelerated particles lose energy through radiation.

Impossible with just the basic inductive principle of tokamaks, yes. Some years back I learned that you can keep the current going with microwaves, not sure about recent progress. …

While temperature may be in the stellar ballpark, pressure should be much lower. That is fine because we are not trying to do proton-proton fusion (that one is very slow even in a …

Ability to perceive your own thoughts. Access to your own debug logs. I think this is distinct from "ability to perceive green, which doesn't exist". A neural network trained to di…

What is an optimum in a two-objective (time, space) problem? Also, how exactly does time help to save space? Is this about some sophisticated hash functions? Handling collisions?

Is that wrong? I don't know the logic of the game, but a 20:10 battle can very well have different odds than a 2:1 one.

To me, it sounds more like you're saying the same thing as me: It is not a law of nature, it is text on paper, a human fiction. Yet, somehow you manage to disagree with me. How did…

Human laws do not follow laws of nature, or laws of logic. Trying to rationalize why something is or isn't owning or stealing is a misunderstanding. "It is not missing anywhere, so…

It is not just typing in multiple places, but executing a vim command in multiple places. Which means, you can replace the insides of a parenthesis with something, then proceed to …

> sure you can if you're comparing with Notepad++. But modern editors have multiple cursors Notepad++ has multiple cursors. Vim has "repeat last command", which is better.

I see. Physicists face this problem with the Large Hadron Collider, and many possible hypotheses explaining its results. Yet, I think many many nurses are needed to beat the 342 mi…

I believe Pr[evidence | innocence] is p-value (or maybe one minus p-value, not sure). Statisticians use this routinely to test "innocence". It does not mean probability of innocenc…

Isn't this just hypothesis testing? [1] Zero hypothesis: N deaths happen by chance, given a known probability distribution of patient deaths. Alternative: There was a different pro…

> all the money that previously went to a lot of workers instead goes to a small number of people who own these companies, and the workers will be destitute All the money the rich …

Thanks, clear. Though, I think my example was misunderstood. I meant, why is it a problem that there is no set meeting Russell's definition, but not a problem that there is no numb…

Maybe this is in the article which I could not read, but - why is this a paradox? What I see is that Russell tried to define a set, then found out that there is no set which would …

You can be wrong about your level of confidence just as you can be wrong about the rest of the world. Either is just a prediction made by your neural network.

> Elon Musk had 44 billion dollars and he didn't decide to share it with the world, he decided to buy Twitter with it. That kind of is sharing his money with the world. > "How will…