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We lack robust frameworks for 'forward engineering' stochastic thermodynamic computation over molecular free-energy landscapes (which is basically what a "chemical soup" is doing) …

I think counter to the assumption of myself (and many), for long form agent coding tasks, models are not as easily hot swappable as I thought. I have developed decent intuition on …

This was a common argument against LLMs, that the space of possible next tokens is so vast that eventually a long enough sequence will necessarily decay into nonsense, or at least …

People could trivially switch their search engine to Bing or Yahoo, but they don't. If ads are so overpriced, how big is your short position on google? Also ads are extremely ineff…

Not at all. Vanishingly few things during the development process of a novel thing have truly objective measures. The world is far too complex. We all act and exist primarily in a …

I don't think the concern is whether a user can compile git from source on said platform, but rather whether the rust standard lib is well supported on said platform, which is requ…

See this page [1], particularly the 'Tier 3' platforms. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html

> LLMs are a dead end in achieving "intelligence" There is no evidence to indicate this is the case. To the contrary, all evidence we have points to these models, over time, being …

This question becomes difficult whenever a system becomes sufficiently complex. Take any chaotic system, like a double pendulum, and press play at step 100,000. You ask 'what is it…

Cool idea! I would note there are some known health hazards in handling thermal-paper receipts(BPA/BPS)[1] with your bare hands if you do so often. I don't know much beyond this, I…

imo it's a mistake to interpret the marginal increases in the upper echelons of benchmarks as materially marginal gains. Chess is an example. ELO narrows heavily at the top, but ea…

The complaint about his ego is warranted, but he also earned it. Wolfram earned his PhD in particle physics from cal tech at 21 years old. Feynman was on his thesis committee. He s…

I am deeply disturbed they decided to go off-device for these services to work. This is a terrible precedent, seemingly inconsistent with their previous philosophies and likely a p…

The near 8x increase in compute capacity since March 2023 is the eyebrow raiser for me. My belief is that the vast majority of speculative value in Tesla has almost nothing to do w…

The main energy export of Texas is natural gas, which is responsible for a significant portion of the decrease in greenhouse emissions in the US[1]. Furthermore, Texas has led the …

The arms race between generators and detectors has just begun.

> Weight is an outcome that has many factors outside of diet Thermodynamics disagrees with this assertion.

Building organs in microgravity, a potentially crucial ingredient to make the process work. From what I've seen this is the most realistic near future application. "When you're 3D-…