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I agree, I see how Gemini itself with a usable harness can be excellent. But in agy with forced eager compaction (~125k with 3.1-pro, ~200k with flash) a kind of laziness and forge…

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For any space-like event you can find reference frames where things happen in different order. For the time-like situation you described the order indeed exists within the cone, wh…

I guess when you use it for generic "problem solving", brainstorming for solutions, this is great. That's what I use it for, and Gemini is my favorite model. I love when Gemini res…

And who believes that the difference between 91.9% and 92.4% is significant in these benchmarks? Clearly these have margins of error that are swept under the rug.

How is "If" as a function even a drawback? It is largely seen as something desired, no? I would see that as a huge advantage, which allows for very powerful programming and meta-pr…

This is not true. Mathematica has the concept of contexts. You can have each notebook have it's own unique context. Mathematica Packages create their own context too, we are not ta…

I've been at a few universities and labs as a postdoc, and a Mathematica license always came either as part of the University or the department. It might not be relevant in some di…

Meanwhile companies exist that have built essentially layers in front of chatbots, masking or filtering sensitive data, then forwarding the masked query, then unmasking it when giv…

Oniux seems like an "officially" supported tool similar to orjail (which hasn't received a commit in four years, but still works great as a shell script with iptables/iproute tools…

You can use firejail for network isolation, it can run applications in a new network namespace [1]. I'm using this to run applications over tor to make sure that nothing leaks. [1]…

This might turn into a debate of defining "simplest", but I think the ensemble/statistical interpretation is really the most minimal in terms of fancy ideas or concepts like "wavef…

I hope you bring that up as an example in favor on open-source, as an example that open-source works. In a closed-source situation it would either not be detected or reach the ligh…

I was interested and looked at the actual patent: https://patents.justia.com/patent/4348422 (there seem to be multiple patent documents, but this one adds some explanation), and he…

This is why I think that modeling elementary physics is nothing else than fitting data. We might end up with something that we perceive as "simple", or not. But in any case all the…

To fuel your cosmic horror: Some of the dots may even be galaxy clusters

It looks like this is being discussed, with a complication of additional symbols that were introduced https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024

It seems like this was the solution for archlinux, pull directly from the github tag and run autogen: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz...

I find the article quite confusing and unclear to be honest. Are there any other sources? This is the original NYT article from 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/f…

Recently talked to a DOE program manager. I confronted them with the question why we do things like machine learning or quantum computing in academia, when there's no hope in match…

Is academia supposed to compete? I think the researchers wish for that, but that's not directly how government funding agencies see it. From a government's funding perspective the …

Is knowing the presence of something more valuable than knowing the precise absence of something? In my opinion both drive our knowledge forward and challenge our current understan…

Or even follow the idea of Stephen Wolfram's hyper graph, where space dimension and time are purely emergent properties of graph transformations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08210

"Large retailers like The Home Depot, Walmart, or Amazon showed up, too" Call me naive, but I'm surprised to see these sell my data, I'll have to read agreements for accounts on th…

This is very interesting, because for me it's just the opposite. In particular the two column layout is just more readable and approachable for me. The PDF version also allows for …