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missingET

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    Comment #39798263

    No, there’s an abstract algebra extension of real numbers to have an extra symbol h such that h^2=0. This is not a real number so you cannot apply the argument h^2=0 implies h=0, m…

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    Comment #39376250

    What’s interesting is that there’s a net charm content: there are more charm quarks to be found than anti-charms. Given that charm quarks are heavier than the proton, you’d expect …

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    Comment #37777038

    It largely is. Many use AI and machine learning interchangeably these days. I’ve even seen a random forest model called “AI”…

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    Comment #37700967

    You can’t really negotiate with corporations on what they do. On this kind of topic negotiations are at the political level and whether you like it or not they will take the unsavo…

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    Comment #37700801

    Jax has a much nicer handling of higher order differentiation. PyTorch has functions to compute Hessians and there are libraries to keep differentiability through optimizers, but g…

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    Comment #37700376

    Although I never find myself agreeing fully with them, ideological absolutists who refuse compromise are actually useful as some kind of anchors to the Overton window. They are not…