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> Said another way, LIGO can't work because the ruler itself is squashing as space squashes, so you can't measure if space is compressing. I think the chief confusion here is that …

> This Connection is Untrusted Go Back The owner of costantini.pw has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected …

From your linked post: > What made this result so shocking at the time was that the common wisdom was that RNNs were supposed to be difficult to train (with more experience I’ve in…

I think this is an uncharitable reading of this thread. I’m arguing against the breathless use of “surprising”. My gp explains what I think you overlooked in this dismissive respon…

> It's surprising because it wasn't the intent of LLMs. LLMs are just predictive models that guess the most likely next word. Having the results make sense was never a priority. If…

> Or by "async" do you just mean concurrent code? I'm reading "async" to mean lightweight coroutines or similar. Yeah, my bad, I was utilizing a colloquial definition of a term tha…

> Is parallel programming hard? Without any further details or specifics, yes it is. It is far harder to conceptualize code instructions executing simultaneously, than one-at-a-tim…

> Weird thing is it was designed to model language. It’s surprising that it returns sound answers as often as it does. Is this surprising? Can you point to researchers in the field…

This comment from "50 days ago" absolutely rocked me then and continues to provide a sobering and depressing real life metric to the climate crisis. I've showed anyone who will lis…

> "Infinitesimal" is just an idea, as far as I know. Nothing real is infinitesimal. The unreal (re: abstracted) aspect is what places it outside the confines of “language” for me. …

> This is just wrong lol. The needless condescension of your “lol” feels a bit premature. How can you have self correction without superintelligence?

I am having trouble following your opinion through this thread. > Your argument demonstrates the usefulness of mathematics, but does not demonstrate that it isn't a language. What …

> Just wanted to question why these elements (namely intelligence and reasoning) strike the nerve that they do. “Just asking questions” is a meme of the unscrupulous. I think you a…

I recognize your clarification of “discovery” and conclusion from that research, but I do think there is a strong argument that in terms of the stochastic usage of a nonlinear syst…

For me one major aspect of this “debate” is that the people who see or espouse what I see as over extensions of the abilities of technologies are the ones most unfamiliar with it. …

You are unable to. “LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds“ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823543 Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant of …

Only thing missing in that video is some rando walking by on campus in the background yelling “when they come, I hope they come for you first!”

If I am understanding your experience correctly the colloquial wisdom here is to use GIN on static data and GIST on dynamic data. > In choosing which index type to use, GiST or GIN…