They're saying you can't find a ruler accurate enough to be sure the number you measure is sqrt(2) and not sqrt(2) for the first 1000 digits then something else. And eventually, as you build better and better rulers, it…
Non-physicst here. Hopefully someone can correct me or elaborate. My understanding is that what's being described is smaller scale decoherence inside the proton. Normally, the universe only asks protons the question:…
He's not making it up and there's no reason for that tone. Strings are more straightforward to isolate compared to vocals/horns/etc because they produce a near-perfect harmonic series in parallel lines in a spectrogram.…
Agreed. My experience is GPT5 is significantly better at large-scale planning & architecture (at least for the kind of stuff I care about which is strongly typed functional systems), and then Sonnet is much better at…
These models still have guardrails. Even locally they won't tell you how to make bombs or write pornographic short stories.
I believe that those who justify cruelty with rhetoric and spread hate will one day look into the mirror and be horrified at what they see.
> Part of this problem is also because courses have (in my experience) rarely rewarded actual knowledge or understanding It doesn't matter. There is literally no assignment you can give students that they won't cheat…
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This is exactly what I got wrong when I started learning jazz piano as an adult. My wife is a lifelong musician and I got to the annoying point where I'd be playing and she'd walk by and go "that third chord sounds…
Definitions are created to be useful or interesting or both, and sometimes those specifiers overlap with physical reality. But that doesn't mean they're created to match reality or to tell you anything about it. I…
It's also nice to get an error when you `recur` from a non-tail position rather than the function just quietly becoming truly recursive.
Think "probably" vs "provably" (it's about pronunciation/spelling)
I was asked this one in a google phone interview in ~2009. I remember deriving that intervals of 10 floors were optimal in the two-egg 100-story case using some simple calculus and getting that far took me most of the…
Just like with chess, when AI engines got very strong a few years ago, people started using them to find superhuman moves and win games. Now OGS will tell you how similar your game's moves are to what a computer would…
Sort of. OGS is the Lichess of the English-speaking world certainly. There are several much larger servers if you speak Korean/Japanese/Chinese, but they also have less in common with Lichess.
I think there's two parts to this: first, if you know your input meets certain constraints, then there's no benefit to over-complicating the solution. Second, this is a teaching tool. It makes sense to start simply and…
Evolution better get to work fast. We only have around 500 million years until the sun's increasing luminosity leaves Earth uninhabitable.
> By what possible commonly agreed upon definition could consciousness be equal to experience? I'll turn the question around: What aspect of your consciousness is not an experience? What aspect of your experience is not…
We can't really talk about what multiplication "is" or "isn't" independently of context. It's an operation on two objects and the context its used in is necessary for defining the operation. Though it can be helpful to…
Don't confuse the terrain with the map. The formal systems which underly mathematics describing the universe are incomplete (containing true but unprovable statements), but that is not a statement about the universe.
You wrap it in parens to avoid the warning: if ((x = 7)) { ... }
At this point there's a basically unanimous opinion among Go professionals that humans don't stand a chance unless the time controls were skewed in a very unfair way and/or humans cooperated against the computer.…
I use an Advantage at work and a standard laptop keyboard at home and I would have to disagree. Using the Kinesis was a challenge the first week or so, but it never interfered with my typing on normal keyboards. The…
This is a great article. One thing I don't understand: the author says: > If you want to create something heavy like the Higgs boson, you have to hit the > Higgs field with a sufficiently large (and sufficiently…
They're saying you can't find a ruler accurate enough to be sure the number you measure is sqrt(2) and not sqrt(2) for the first 1000 digits then something else. And eventually, as you build better and better rulers, it…
Non-physicst here. Hopefully someone can correct me or elaborate. My understanding is that what's being described is smaller scale decoherence inside the proton. Normally, the universe only asks protons the question:…
He's not making it up and there's no reason for that tone. Strings are more straightforward to isolate compared to vocals/horns/etc because they produce a near-perfect harmonic series in parallel lines in a spectrogram.…
Agreed. My experience is GPT5 is significantly better at large-scale planning & architecture (at least for the kind of stuff I care about which is strongly typed functional systems), and then Sonnet is much better at…
These models still have guardrails. Even locally they won't tell you how to make bombs or write pornographic short stories.
I believe that those who justify cruelty with rhetoric and spread hate will one day look into the mirror and be horrified at what they see.
> Part of this problem is also because courses have (in my experience) rarely rewarded actual knowledge or understanding It doesn't matter. There is literally no assignment you can give students that they won't cheat…
megaparsec (1 million parsecs)
This is exactly what I got wrong when I started learning jazz piano as an adult. My wife is a lifelong musician and I got to the annoying point where I'd be playing and she'd walk by and go "that third chord sounds…
Definitions are created to be useful or interesting or both, and sometimes those specifiers overlap with physical reality. But that doesn't mean they're created to match reality or to tell you anything about it. I…
It's also nice to get an error when you `recur` from a non-tail position rather than the function just quietly becoming truly recursive.
Think "probably" vs "provably" (it's about pronunciation/spelling)
I was asked this one in a google phone interview in ~2009. I remember deriving that intervals of 10 floors were optimal in the two-egg 100-story case using some simple calculus and getting that far took me most of the…
Just like with chess, when AI engines got very strong a few years ago, people started using them to find superhuman moves and win games. Now OGS will tell you how similar your game's moves are to what a computer would…
Sort of. OGS is the Lichess of the English-speaking world certainly. There are several much larger servers if you speak Korean/Japanese/Chinese, but they also have less in common with Lichess.
I think there's two parts to this: first, if you know your input meets certain constraints, then there's no benefit to over-complicating the solution. Second, this is a teaching tool. It makes sense to start simply and…
Evolution better get to work fast. We only have around 500 million years until the sun's increasing luminosity leaves Earth uninhabitable.
> By what possible commonly agreed upon definition could consciousness be equal to experience? I'll turn the question around: What aspect of your consciousness is not an experience? What aspect of your experience is not…
We can't really talk about what multiplication "is" or "isn't" independently of context. It's an operation on two objects and the context its used in is necessary for defining the operation. Though it can be helpful to…
Don't confuse the terrain with the map. The formal systems which underly mathematics describing the universe are incomplete (containing true but unprovable statements), but that is not a statement about the universe.
You wrap it in parens to avoid the warning: if ((x = 7)) { ... }
At this point there's a basically unanimous opinion among Go professionals that humans don't stand a chance unless the time controls were skewed in a very unfair way and/or humans cooperated against the computer.…
I use an Advantage at work and a standard laptop keyboard at home and I would have to disagree. Using the Kinesis was a challenge the first week or so, but it never interfered with my typing on normal keyboards. The…
This is a great article. One thing I don't understand: the author says: > If you want to create something heavy like the Higgs boson, you have to hit the > Higgs field with a sufficiently large (and sufficiently…