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pizza

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About pizza

Things that I think are cool:

- algorithmic ethics / praxeology meets algorithms

- algebraic topology

- reinforcement learning

- AGI

- neuroscience (as a true science but also its abuse as pop phrenology)

- information theory applied to mental health and society

- trustless/trustful collaborative systems, zero-knowledge proofs, differential privacy

- alternatives to capitalism

- software defined radio

- decentralized/localizable tech

- music production

- weight lifting

- the minimization of negative externalities, and the maximization of positive externalities

- compressed sensing

- effective methods of dealing with stress, and information overload!

- capitalist realism as a byproduct of information theory

things that I think would be cool if they existed:

- computational metaphysics

- 'paint-able proofs'

- an IDE where the computer is the user of the IDE and the human simply guides it through tough corner cases

- containerized, cloud-based digital audio workstations, a la gitpod or github codespaces

email: (my username).on.hn@gmail.com

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    you can say the same thing of the watts in a person too

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    Had to butcher the title slightly to get it under the limit- original: Compression And Decompression Under FHE Using Error-Correcting Codes and Copy-And-Recurse

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    For most tasks, at some future date, isn't there going to be some ambient baseline of capabilities you can get per $/tok, starting at ~0 for OSS models, such that eventually all to…

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    OP is correct; surprisal is outcome-dependent and entropy is distribution-dependent - entropy is E_p[informativeness of measuring outcome x] - take n outcomes, then a distribution …

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    I meant in the sense of - you have benchmarkers and trainers. If you publicize your evaluation, trainers may likely have their models 'consume' it, even if only indirectly: another…

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    There’s a Dark Forest problem for evals. As soon as they’re made public they start running out of time to be useful. It’s also not clear how to predict how the model will perform o…

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    In Singapore it seems 80% of people live in public housing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore though I can't speak as to what the effect is on its housing ma…

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    I mean. Sounds like the guy had existing long term goals, needed to overcome an activation threshold, and used AI as a catalyst to just get started. Seems like, behaviorally, AI wa…

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    “never go to sea with two chronometers, take one or three”

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    here-doc usage has probably 100x-ed in the last year

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    The more general question of how to evaluate the quality of a given skill file is quite interesting to me. A skill may prime a model's responses in a way that a prompt alone may no…

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    The possibility of intelligent machines undergoing transformative regeneration actually dates back to a party hosted by one Charles Babbage where, in attendance, was one Charles Da…

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    I think you're mistaking the .wav as the final product, whereas instead it's really the .html blog post and this discussion.

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