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theemathas

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    Comment #38636579

    Pyinstaller doesn't work with python 3.12.0. You need to use python 3.12.1. https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/7992

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    Comment #36431034

    Sorry for the irrelevant reply, but I'm trying to get some attention on this. This youtuber got a fraudulent DMCA notice, and his counter-notice got automatically rejected. The per…

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    Comment #36429932

    This youtuber got a fraudulent DMCA notice, and his counter-notice got automatically rejected. The person who sent the notice isn't associated with the devs, and is asking for a $1…

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    Comment #35286122

    RLHF makes it possible to get good results with a bad prompt.

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    Comment #35243400

    Probably stuff like this (note: possibly misleading URL) https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-bin... Early Bing AI had a tendency to be rather unhinged.

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    Comment #35236994

    A similar issue happened to Steam in 2015 https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/12/25/steam-is-...

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    Comment #35201369

    Reversing time on an attracting force still gives you an attractive force. Velocity is reversed, but acceleration isn't. Imagine a ball being thrown up and then falling down, in a …

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    Comment #34484845

    > All real numbers, and all numbers of any other variety, can be written with a finite number of symbols. This is false. In some sense, there exist numbers that can't be referred t…

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    Comment #34484797

    An alternative formulation of the axiom of choice: The cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty.

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    Comment #34484785

    The main reason that we use real numbers is because we need real numbers to do calculus, at least in the normal way. And to do physics, we need to do calculus. You can keep approxi…

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    Comment #33798245

    Seems really close to reality https://prompt-to-prompt.github.io/

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    Comment #33798235

    You can give a blank prompt to stable diffusion and it will give you reasonable images https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xu0dt6/no_...

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    Comment #33798206

    Proper hands are already here https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/z8gje0/har...

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    Comment #33156052

    Previous discussion on HN about the website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020694 For the last few days, there seem to be a lot of new users discovering the website, due t…

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    Comment #32911073

    Here's a similar case of a scanner using a traditional compression algorithm. It has a bug in the compression algorithm, which made it replace a number in the scanned image with a …

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    Comment #31677029

    The o(1) here represents a decreasing function in m, such as 1/m. (Note: This is little o, not big o.) Therefore, for any k > 1: m^(1+o(1)) grows more slowly than m^k but faster th…

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    Comment #26472896

    Systems which are turing-complete but not turing-equivalent are stronger than turing machines. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation The "All known Turing-complete sy…

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    Comment #25347605

    The video in the link says that an automatically adjusted hoop has better results than a manually adjusted hoop.

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    Comment #24562710

    A tweet thread and an article on this author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562496 https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2019/06/01/an-astrophysic...

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    Comment #24501544

    The parent comment is talking about solving differential equations . That's a very different thing from computing differentials. Automatic differentiation doesn't help with differe…

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    Comment #24197318

    Garden-path sentences. Or comparative illusions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_illusion