I don’t understand why customer owned co-ops aren’t ubiquitous. Vanguard is amazing- low fees, and great services- they beat all of the competition. I had to call their support line today and it was the most…
Of course you do, that's the whole point: to focus on what you actually can control- your own actions, which absolutely includes using your own ingenuity and effort to influence things for the better.
> You're mistaking "knowing how they work" with "understanding all of the emergent behaviors of them" By knowing how they work I specifically mean understanding the emergent capabilities and behaviors, but I don't see…
There's no belief or magic required, the word 'reasoning' is used here to refer to an observed capability, not a particular underlying process. We also don't understand exactly how humans reason, so any claims that…
I'm sure both of you know this, but "stochastic parrot" refers to the title of a research article that contained a particular argument about LLM limitations that had very little to do with parrots.
> You don't seem to understand how they work I don't think anyone understands how they work- these type of explanations aren't very complete or accurate. Such explanations/models allow one to reason out what types of…
> they are incapable of even the simplest "out-of-distribution" deductive reasoning But the link demonstrates the opposite- these models absolutely are able to reason out of distribution, just not with perfect fidelity.…
The paper I cited above that has an ancestor 40 years removed, is actually more closely related to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13. "We find RmYN02 shares a common ancestor with SARS-CoV-2 about 40 years ago and RaTG13—about 50…
A lot of those claims about water physics used to market homeopathy are based on real experimental observations- see the link in my other reply, water really does do some strange and complex stuff. But the problem is…
Interesting, thanks!
> It is unlikely. The samples collected would be checked for fragments. It is not straightforward to identify a new virus that is not closely related to known human viruses. You cannot just “check for it.” It is largely…
> I grow most of my own produce, with RO water Do you really grow enough food to make up most of your diet on RO water? And is this specifically to avoid microplastic exposure, or what?
I’m not going to systematically rebut what you cited because it has been done better than I can (see the TWIV link above), but I have heard all of what you cited before, and frankly it still appears to be just a…
Seems like an unidentified virus could be the cause?
> there's nothing special about having darpa build it other than they provide funds DARPA chooses real world engineering/technical problems, and then works closely with the external grantees that develop possible…
That is a subcommittee of the House of representatives- I'm not sure why you didn't mention the House, or mentioned Biden instead? It's a panel of politicians with an obvious political bias, and while some are MDs, none…
This German comedy sketch sums up this situation incredibly well IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI
Thanks! That makes sense, I have read that series, but didn't remember that was where this was from.
This is such an interesting and weird phenomenon, in the context of the complexity of human made nuclear reactors. I once read a horrifying fiction story about a pre-industrial culture that used nuclear reactions in…
I find it hilarious how anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist sentiments are heavily monetized with targeted products. You can buy t-shirts on Amazon that say “stop buying shit you don’t need.” I am embarrassed in…
It was because they could only image a dead/fixed 2D cross section on an electron microscope. The 2D cross section of a vast interconnected network of tubes looks like disconnected small “beans.”
Are you kidding me? How could you simply take that at face value?
Your comment assumes that the constitution and democracy still stand- which does not appear to me to be the case. Hopefully I’m wrong.
We're talking here specifically about how to solve the problem of academic fraud- not how to solve the problem of treating trainees more fairly. That's an important problem also, but not what my comments were…
Published historical pay will be 12 month salaries. Most non tenured professors will refuse the optional summer salary and work all summer for free, because they have to pay for it from their own grants- it means hiring…
I don’t understand why customer owned co-ops aren’t ubiquitous. Vanguard is amazing- low fees, and great services- they beat all of the competition. I had to call their support line today and it was the most…
Of course you do, that's the whole point: to focus on what you actually can control- your own actions, which absolutely includes using your own ingenuity and effort to influence things for the better.
> You're mistaking "knowing how they work" with "understanding all of the emergent behaviors of them" By knowing how they work I specifically mean understanding the emergent capabilities and behaviors, but I don't see…
There's no belief or magic required, the word 'reasoning' is used here to refer to an observed capability, not a particular underlying process. We also don't understand exactly how humans reason, so any claims that…
I'm sure both of you know this, but "stochastic parrot" refers to the title of a research article that contained a particular argument about LLM limitations that had very little to do with parrots.
> You don't seem to understand how they work I don't think anyone understands how they work- these type of explanations aren't very complete or accurate. Such explanations/models allow one to reason out what types of…
> they are incapable of even the simplest "out-of-distribution" deductive reasoning But the link demonstrates the opposite- these models absolutely are able to reason out of distribution, just not with perfect fidelity.…
The paper I cited above that has an ancestor 40 years removed, is actually more closely related to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13. "We find RmYN02 shares a common ancestor with SARS-CoV-2 about 40 years ago and RaTG13—about 50…
A lot of those claims about water physics used to market homeopathy are based on real experimental observations- see the link in my other reply, water really does do some strange and complex stuff. But the problem is…
Interesting, thanks!
> It is unlikely. The samples collected would be checked for fragments. It is not straightforward to identify a new virus that is not closely related to known human viruses. You cannot just “check for it.” It is largely…
> I grow most of my own produce, with RO water Do you really grow enough food to make up most of your diet on RO water? And is this specifically to avoid microplastic exposure, or what?
I’m not going to systematically rebut what you cited because it has been done better than I can (see the TWIV link above), but I have heard all of what you cited before, and frankly it still appears to be just a…
Seems like an unidentified virus could be the cause?
> there's nothing special about having darpa build it other than they provide funds DARPA chooses real world engineering/technical problems, and then works closely with the external grantees that develop possible…
That is a subcommittee of the House of representatives- I'm not sure why you didn't mention the House, or mentioned Biden instead? It's a panel of politicians with an obvious political bias, and while some are MDs, none…
This German comedy sketch sums up this situation incredibly well IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI
Thanks! That makes sense, I have read that series, but didn't remember that was where this was from.
This is such an interesting and weird phenomenon, in the context of the complexity of human made nuclear reactors. I once read a horrifying fiction story about a pre-industrial culture that used nuclear reactions in…
I find it hilarious how anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist sentiments are heavily monetized with targeted products. You can buy t-shirts on Amazon that say “stop buying shit you don’t need.” I am embarrassed in…
It was because they could only image a dead/fixed 2D cross section on an electron microscope. The 2D cross section of a vast interconnected network of tubes looks like disconnected small “beans.”
Are you kidding me? How could you simply take that at face value?
Your comment assumes that the constitution and democracy still stand- which does not appear to me to be the case. Hopefully I’m wrong.
We're talking here specifically about how to solve the problem of academic fraud- not how to solve the problem of treating trainees more fairly. That's an important problem also, but not what my comments were…
Published historical pay will be 12 month salaries. Most non tenured professors will refuse the optional summer salary and work all summer for free, because they have to pay for it from their own grants- it means hiring…