>Mathematicians are prone to taking words from elsewhere, either twisting their meaning or inventing wholly new meaning out of thin air, all according to their whimsy for their own particular needs. True but one benefit…
>what this routing mechanism is (heating a substrate, maybe?) You can engineer a waveguide if you understand the nonlinear theory they propose. There's no heat exchange involved, which is easy to get confused on because…
I have some minor complaints but overall I think this is great! My background is in physics, and I remember finally understanding every equation on the formula sheet given to us for exams... that really felt like I…
The error in the OP is a typo that could never seriously confuse anyone, as the element Gr does not exist. An interesting perspective is Terry Tao's on local vs. global errors…
>This seems to be quite a bit of a strawman to me. Not really, if you ever listen to CS undergrads or people in non-traditional schooling (bootcamps, etc.) talk about software engineering this opinion is essentially…
It's reasonable but essentially every "common misconceptions about Big O" is because people didn't have the necessary notions in calculus. For example, the fact that O(x^2) can be practically faster than O(x), due to…
Whenever I read content like this about Big O notation I can't help but think the real solution is that computer science education should take calculus more seriously, and students/learners should not dismiss calculus…
Agree. Science communicators should stick to talking about well-established or at least peer reviewed results. They do not need to be peddling fringe crackpottery. I don't think Tim's prose is magnificent, but the work…
>but we know that reasoning is an emergent capability! This is like saying in the 70s that we know only the US is capable of sending a man to the moon. Just because the reasoning developed in a particular context means…
Yann LeCun (Meta AI head) is still all-in on energy based models, which are basically Hopfield-like. Not sure if there are any major developments in that direction, but the hype/optimism is still there.…
Pretty cool. Makes me think if we're overdue for another 1960s era tech boom?
>FWIW our CS program mandated a programming languages class and the first third of the class was taught in Scheme. This is important but doesn't replace having a dual-track intro sequence. The reason one has "physics…
I mean they get evaluated in a weird way: for example you cannot use the `rec` keyword when declaring inputs.
Not sure if it's the perfect example. Pretty sure Arc was shady before it had any AI stuff.
>but the spelling rules differ depending on whether the word was imported directly from Latin, or came in via Norman French In fact it can be even more complicated because in English the words can come from Norman…
Now that Google Maps has the AI summary for restaurants, I wonder if this can be queried in the API? It would probably have the keywords for Xinjiang food or whatever the OP wants to analyze. Checking two Central Asian…
The short answers: 1. It answers how macroscopic equations of e.g., fluid dynamics are compatible with Newton's law, when they single out an arrow of time while Newton's laws do not. 2. It was solved in the 1800s if you…
I mean you're right it's just a front end. And front ends can be open sourced? Obviously this has some public value: other people don't have to build a frontend starting from zero. I don't think it's well-aimed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage
In the diagonalization you don't need to assume the existence of any real numbers. Just on the left hand side you write down, formally, any sort of numbers that have decimal expansions that may be infinite. Rational…
This is just a question about the origins of inhomogeneity in the universe. The prevailing theory is cosmic inflation, I believe: in the early universe a quantum field existed in a high entropy state and then the rapid…
Staying at home row is not really about ergonomics. The best thing you can do (without breaking the bank, i.e., no bespoke split keyboard setups) for your hand ergonomics at the computer is to get a vertical mouse and…
Typing fast is an underrated skill for developers. A lot of the value added by various intelligent tab completion and LLMs is easily replicated by typing variable and function names at 100+ wpm. Not a fan, however, of…
Typically non-relativistic and non-quantum is called "Newtonian". Classical is just for anything which is not quantized, and so far no one knows how to quantize general relativity.
You learned about stress tensors and PDEs in high school?
>Mathematicians are prone to taking words from elsewhere, either twisting their meaning or inventing wholly new meaning out of thin air, all according to their whimsy for their own particular needs. True but one benefit…
>what this routing mechanism is (heating a substrate, maybe?) You can engineer a waveguide if you understand the nonlinear theory they propose. There's no heat exchange involved, which is easy to get confused on because…
I have some minor complaints but overall I think this is great! My background is in physics, and I remember finally understanding every equation on the formula sheet given to us for exams... that really felt like I…
The error in the OP is a typo that could never seriously confuse anyone, as the element Gr does not exist. An interesting perspective is Terry Tao's on local vs. global errors…
>This seems to be quite a bit of a strawman to me. Not really, if you ever listen to CS undergrads or people in non-traditional schooling (bootcamps, etc.) talk about software engineering this opinion is essentially…
It's reasonable but essentially every "common misconceptions about Big O" is because people didn't have the necessary notions in calculus. For example, the fact that O(x^2) can be practically faster than O(x), due to…
Whenever I read content like this about Big O notation I can't help but think the real solution is that computer science education should take calculus more seriously, and students/learners should not dismiss calculus…
Agree. Science communicators should stick to talking about well-established or at least peer reviewed results. They do not need to be peddling fringe crackpottery. I don't think Tim's prose is magnificent, but the work…
>but we know that reasoning is an emergent capability! This is like saying in the 70s that we know only the US is capable of sending a man to the moon. Just because the reasoning developed in a particular context means…
Yann LeCun (Meta AI head) is still all-in on energy based models, which are basically Hopfield-like. Not sure if there are any major developments in that direction, but the hype/optimism is still there.…
Pretty cool. Makes me think if we're overdue for another 1960s era tech boom?
>FWIW our CS program mandated a programming languages class and the first third of the class was taught in Scheme. This is important but doesn't replace having a dual-track intro sequence. The reason one has "physics…
I mean they get evaluated in a weird way: for example you cannot use the `rec` keyword when declaring inputs.
Not sure if it's the perfect example. Pretty sure Arc was shady before it had any AI stuff.
>but the spelling rules differ depending on whether the word was imported directly from Latin, or came in via Norman French In fact it can be even more complicated because in English the words can come from Norman…
Now that Google Maps has the AI summary for restaurants, I wonder if this can be queried in the API? It would probably have the keywords for Xinjiang food or whatever the OP wants to analyze. Checking two Central Asian…
The short answers: 1. It answers how macroscopic equations of e.g., fluid dynamics are compatible with Newton's law, when they single out an arrow of time while Newton's laws do not. 2. It was solved in the 1800s if you…
I mean you're right it's just a front end. And front ends can be open sourced? Obviously this has some public value: other people don't have to build a frontend starting from zero. I don't think it's well-aimed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage
In the diagonalization you don't need to assume the existence of any real numbers. Just on the left hand side you write down, formally, any sort of numbers that have decimal expansions that may be infinite. Rational…
This is just a question about the origins of inhomogeneity in the universe. The prevailing theory is cosmic inflation, I believe: in the early universe a quantum field existed in a high entropy state and then the rapid…
Staying at home row is not really about ergonomics. The best thing you can do (without breaking the bank, i.e., no bespoke split keyboard setups) for your hand ergonomics at the computer is to get a vertical mouse and…
Typing fast is an underrated skill for developers. A lot of the value added by various intelligent tab completion and LLMs is easily replicated by typing variable and function names at 100+ wpm. Not a fan, however, of…
Typically non-relativistic and non-quantum is called "Newtonian". Classical is just for anything which is not quantized, and so far no one knows how to quantize general relativity.
You learned about stress tensors and PDEs in high school?