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Noting the theory papers on Kolmorogov complexity. For those not familiar, Ilya argues that the reason why neural networks generalize -- why they work at all -- is because they are…

For those who don't know -- while Zachtronics is no longer making games, Zach Barth is still active now under the company Coincidence Games. They just game out with a spacecraft en…

Looks like this may have received the HN Hug of Death. I'm getting "Too Many Requests" error trying to load the images.

Is this AI? You've copied the best comment and put into AI-speak.

Mawson et al. 2017 (two papers) – internet survey of homeschoolers recruited from anti-vaccine groups; non-random, self-reported, unverified health outcomes. Retracted by the publi…

Take a look at the next sentence from your linked article. “I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” he said, using the jail’s internal messaging system. “I will just sa…

I think for this to be interesting to an outside observer, it should at least address the bulk of the debate around the topic. If the GP is right and it's missing the key points of…

Insofar as "the problem" is sifting through pages and pages of documentation to find the relevant information for an answer, I think that current-day LLMs are actually quite capabl…

You can measure the sharpness of the position, as in this paper section 2.3 "Complexity of a position". They find their metric correlates with human performance. https://en.chessba…

Real world systems are complicated. In theory, you could do belief propagation to update your beliefs through the whole network, if your brain worked something like a Bayesian netw…

Isn't that Edwin T. Jaynes example just p-hacking? If only 1 out of 100 experiments produces a statistically significant result, and you only report the one, I would intuitively co…

Yes, the possible programs are enumerable, and you can start searching with the least complex programs and work your way up in complexity. Once you find a program that explains the…

I don’t know if it’s fair to say that revolutionary wealth redistribution movements, like Occupy, are failing because everybody is distracted with social justice movements. The Lef…

If you're just saying that rainbow capitalism is in alignment with capitalists' interests, and anti-capitalism movements are not, then that makes sense.

Isn’t that because of the BLM movement? I’m not seeing how any of these events are connected.

No, the text is AI too. It is crazy.

Just for the sake of argument, I can name some an entire field of science that was invalidated in light of genetic & neuroscience evidence: phrenology. At the time, it was the newe…

Are those two events connected? They both happened in the same decade and received some press. That's all I can come up with. And both things you mention -- LGBT rights and class c…

Yeah but your enemy is also moving forward because they’re trailing you.

If you think about it, those lives actually were saved. People either didn't play the video game, or they spent a moment in the loading screen in quiet contemplation.

The tweet is in response to a preliminary paper [1] [2] studying text found in images generated by, e.g., "Two whales talking about food, with subtitles." DALL-E doesn't generate m…

The reaction diffusion / NCA models have been applied to videos recently — check it out: https://wandb.ai/johnowhitaker/nca/reports/Fun-with-Neural-C...

Not a language model, but there was this classifier mapping pig squeals to contextual information about the animal [1]. For human language models there are obvious practical uses a…

There are physiological adaptations as well. People in hotter climates are still going to get good sleep. It’s just when there are hotter temperatures than people are used to that …

The fact that heat stress affects different populations with such different impacts is super important to climate policy and diplomacy and geopolitics. The authors in this case ide…