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…
Why are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?
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.
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…
Yet it remains true that not having magic evil talismans in my house makes it very unlikely that my family or I get cursed by accident.
I didn't say and don't believe those things.
Like all writing, proofs have a target audience. If you don't know what a Galois group or a modular form is, it's not the author's job to teach you. Formal verification is getting more mainstream, but it's not there yet.
I think this is correct. I play Go at a strong amateur level, and on the 19x19 board, I can often fully recall 200+ move games against "normal" opponents, because the moves tell a story that makes sense. But if I play…
Mathematicians don't "believe" in real numbers. They're part of an abstract logical framework, not a statement about the nature of reality. Mathematical objects arise from definitions, not measurements and observations.
It's audible in the sense that it exists completely in an audio modality. But it's not audible in the sense that human ears can't discern it.
>The electron cloud on it's own is an empty volume except where the electrons are at any given moment. The article specifically rejects this way of thinking and makes the point that the electrons are not in the cloud.…
The simple point is that the fundraising banner is intentionally misleading. People believe they are donating to the cause of keeping Wikipedia online and significantly less than half of their money is going to that.
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…
If such a program ever terminates, then the result is rational. If it doesn't terminate, then pausing at any point will always describe an infinite number of irrationals.
KGS is still huge, but OGS has been consistently adding feature after feature for years. At some point, my impression is that most English people just realized it has a nicer interface and better analysis and…
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.
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…
"Injecting code," is not the way I'd describe making changes to a product that it's your job to maintain.
The repeated stretching/folding/waiting process develops the gluten like kneading does. You can tell that his gluten development is fine from the windowpane effect in first picture.
I'm not sure how a barely concealed personal insult helps the conversation. Kenji is expressing a simple true fact: when we meet new coworkers and want to have a casual friendly conversation with them, the question, "So…
I don't think I would agree with the general statement that science gives us axioms. In normal usage, "axioms" are not the same as scientific "givens" or "data" even though it makes sense to interpret the word that way.…
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…
Why are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?
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.
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…
Yet it remains true that not having magic evil talismans in my house makes it very unlikely that my family or I get cursed by accident.
I didn't say and don't believe those things.
Like all writing, proofs have a target audience. If you don't know what a Galois group or a modular form is, it's not the author's job to teach you. Formal verification is getting more mainstream, but it's not there yet.
I think this is correct. I play Go at a strong amateur level, and on the 19x19 board, I can often fully recall 200+ move games against "normal" opponents, because the moves tell a story that makes sense. But if I play…
Mathematicians don't "believe" in real numbers. They're part of an abstract logical framework, not a statement about the nature of reality. Mathematical objects arise from definitions, not measurements and observations.
It's audible in the sense that it exists completely in an audio modality. But it's not audible in the sense that human ears can't discern it.
>The electron cloud on it's own is an empty volume except where the electrons are at any given moment. The article specifically rejects this way of thinking and makes the point that the electrons are not in the cloud.…
The simple point is that the fundraising banner is intentionally misleading. People believe they are donating to the cause of keeping Wikipedia online and significantly less than half of their money is going to that.
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…
If such a program ever terminates, then the result is rational. If it doesn't terminate, then pausing at any point will always describe an infinite number of irrationals.
KGS is still huge, but OGS has been consistently adding feature after feature for years. At some point, my impression is that most English people just realized it has a nicer interface and better analysis and…
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.
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…
"Injecting code," is not the way I'd describe making changes to a product that it's your job to maintain.
The repeated stretching/folding/waiting process develops the gluten like kneading does. You can tell that his gluten development is fine from the windowpane effect in first picture.
I'm not sure how a barely concealed personal insult helps the conversation. Kenji is expressing a simple true fact: when we meet new coworkers and want to have a casual friendly conversation with them, the question, "So…
I don't think I would agree with the general statement that science gives us axioms. In normal usage, "axioms" are not the same as scientific "givens" or "data" even though it makes sense to interpret the word that way.…