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jpt4

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About jpt4

jpt4 at the Swiss, physics themed secure e-mail service.

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    Comment #48173974

    > a big blindspot for western science Which scientific tradition ought one consult where this subject has been foregrounded?

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    Comment #45668810

    > fe Interesting, I have never encountered this initialism in the wild, to my recollection: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.e.#English

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    Comment #45390603

    \> statistical learning theory does not adequately model the macro-behavior of very large models. Might you please elaborate on this? I recognize that "artificial neural networks a…

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    Comment #42852049

    If that analogy is remotely accurate, it strikes me as a strictly negative value proposition for the tool.

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    Comment #42836092

    No, it needn't be.

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    Comment #42215696

    Local archiving tool I've been testing: webchiver.com

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    Comment #41607381

    Have violations of this license been successfully countered?

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    Comment #41473382

    Late binding of metadata is critical to my notetaking, and the primary advantage of digital over physical media. I am curious whether any technology like the Nuwa pen will be able …

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    Comment #41399726

    Can a person with amnesia understand themselves?

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    Comment #41368151

    If a person could unequivocally understand themselves without understanding their past, then the trivial understanding of mere knowledge of the past should have no impact on their …

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    Comment #41151552

    The first order theories of the real numbers using addition and multiplication are decidable [0], while FO theories of the integers under the same operations are not. [0] https://e…

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    Comment #40847485

    The Curry-Howard Correspondence is more of an observation than a theorem, but insofar as it describes the general concept of relating logics and programming languages, what is the …

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    Comment #40847336

    YeGoblynQueene, would you be amenable to discussing certain questions of logic programming via e-mail? I am reading about Jean-Yves Girard's "Stellar Resolution" model of computati…

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    Comment #40824785

    Indeed, the United States is abnormal in the statistical sense, and superlative in the moral sense. Free men fear not to bear arms, and so this status befits us.

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    Comment #40815482

    It makes no objective sense at all, and merely reflects hypersensitive German policy regarding civilian ownership of anything resembling the means of force application.

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    Comment #40810130

    Which is to say, language is a tool for rigorization.

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    Comment #40724769

    Pay successful bounty submissions on a faster than net 180 time frame. A friend was interested in the rather extensive Expensify bug bounty programme [0], but the red tape involved…

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    Comment #40511994

    Liquid petrochemicals will continue to be used in any application dominated by power-to-weight ratio considerations. > Pairing lithium and ambient oxygen can theoretically lead to …

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    Comment #40462679

    Collecting old books is one of the highest "adventure to effort" ratio endeavors, the closest one can approach to breaking the Dixie Flatline out of the Sense/Net Pyramid; it will …

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    Comment #40409326

    Thank you, this is a good resource.

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    Comment #40409246

    > Communication is about being understood. > The subtext of "Academic content is usually in text, not video" is "I don't trust this because it's in video, not text". Now if you say…

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    Comment #40408982

    At minimum, this does not capture that I _am_ challenging the Original Commenter ("prima facie suspect") to more rigorously defend his position, but doing so respectfully. "One sal…

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    Comment #40408861

    My reply is an attempt to address the original comment with precision. To diagram its intended meaning: > alternative theories of consciousness "Any body of academic thought" [I ac…

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    Comment #40407831

    Any body of academic thought whose paradigmatic communication medium is video rather than text is prima facie suspect. Might you please link a written statement of the salient posi…

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    Comment #40136035

    > Every definition and theorem in mathlib and this project have been checked by Lean’s trusted kernel, which computationally verifies that the proofs we have constructed are indeed…