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Do you have any objective data for this? In my experience, most subjective claims about men vs. women are unresolvable as either true or false. At best, the discussion degenerates …

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal Translations vary slightly.

AlphaStar (2019) refined through self-play but was initially trained on human data. I don't know of any other high-level Starcraft AI, but if you do let me know.

LLMs read and write human-code because humans have been reading and writing human-code. The sample size of assembly problems is, in my estimate, too small for LLMs to efficiently r…

> Can you sit down with an unfamiliar domain and develop enough genuine curiosity to get good at it, without a syllabus or a credential dangling in front of you? Do I have faith th…

I've known many people who met through games. They offer something similar, in the sense that you can meet new people and learn about them. The synchronous nature of multiplayer ga…

A case study of myself as an overeager math student: I used to focus so much on finding "elegant" proofs of things, especially geometric proofs. I'd construct elaborate diagrams to…

Agreed. I think the divide is between code-as-thinking and code-as-implementation. Trivial assignments and toy projects and geeking out over implementation details are necessary to…

Writing may not be produced for the prestiege of its result, but written words still serve an essential purpose for communication. I think that, as with any essential art, e.g. coo…

I prefer a more direct formulation of what mathematics is, rather than what it is about. In that case, mathematics is a demonstration of what is apparent, up to but not including w…

I think that humans can find new frontiers to struggle on and develop mental faculties for, even if the prior frontiers are solved. "Problem-solving" might be dead, but people toda…

I have to agree with you. It seems that most measures to make school harder or more rigorous turn it into an aptitude test or boot camp, because so little development can occur in …

Cheating might break tournament or social rules, but it doesn't break the game. So yes. And any online game can be "cheated" by having someone better play in your place, or abusing…

> If a game is good, it’s going to attract cheaters. I have started to consider that games should be inherently cheat-resistant, not protected by anti-cheats. Chess and Go are less…

I'm not sure if concerete seeing/doing is the only, or even most effective, way to learn. I've often learned by recalling the concepts from a lecture, reasoning about the material,…

> The Framework Desktop with 64GB RAM + 2TB NVMe is $1,876 And it's ~$1000 to build a PC with a similar CPU, somewhat larger form factor, and fans. Unless the AI processor is actua…

In my experience as a math/physics TA, either a student cares enough about the material to reduce the resources they rely on, or they aim to pass the class with minimum effort and …