There are weaker formal systems like Presburger arithmetic (peano without multiplication) and Skolem arithmetic (peano without addition) that have been proven to be complete and consistent. Tarski also showed that there…
While willpower may work for some people, what actually works for me (and i believe the majority of people) is self-deception or distraction. To sleep, use white noise/rhythmic music/soothing voice To climb a mountain,…
Rather than asserting that current LLMs are at their tail end, or that AI isnt good enough, it is much more instructive to check what are the bottlenecks or constraints to further progress, and what would help remove…
one (quite convincing) theory is that anything that can be achieved by a carbon-based neural network (eg. human brain) can also be achieved by a silicon-based neural network. The hardware may change, but the hardware's…
How can a declining population selling mostly commoditized goods support ever increasing property prices, that too when property is already overleveraged!! This crash was always on the cards. Just a matter of when, and…
I get the feeling the article preaches to the choir. The serious sources have always portrayed NIF's work as technical achievements. But they are read mostly by scientist and engineer types. Mass media which hypes…
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I like the fact that Andrew is very transparent and honest about his experiments. Although he didnt explain 1) how did the Fe impurities get localized into certain regions of the overall batch. 2) Were the impurities…
Not going to say US behavior is morally sound in this case, but - US has provided significant financial assistance here, and if it doesnt get any say in return, it has no incentive to provide continued help. - As far as…
We can debate about expressions/terminology, but these three countries are very very closely aligned with the US. Ofcourse its mutually beneficial. A joke a military contact cracked once is that the only diff between…
Lets not drag Japan into this. They have very high standards in research despite the few examples you gave here, some of which are not even science related. As a widely accepted measure of this, you can read about the…
It would only be logical if Chinese intent also matched its capabilities, which remains to be seen. Anyone can talk a big game.
Yes but both sides can play the game of blocking cargo. Malacca strait comes to mind.
All what you said may be true, but ASML would still be foolish to trust and export to China, given that the latter is hell bent on copying and reverse engg its products, even if unsuccessfully for now. Dont assist even…
Lets just say semiconductor manufacturing is the best example of regional competencies and global trade. Globalization has failed on many fronts and resulted in race to the bottom outcomes, but here it works well due to…
Alright lets do some calculations. Feel free to dissect the assumptions. K event = Kim says Material L is RTSC D event = DFT says L is RTSC S event = L is actually RTSC we have assumed P(S/K) and P(S/D) are each 0.1,…
You are right, but probability estimation of possibly novel phenomena is an ill posed problem. So either you do not model it at all, or come up with some mental model of what probability you are comfortable with and due…
- Nothing against Russian researchers, but apart from Iris who is somewhat anonymous and doesnt have the required equipment to create good samples, I havent seen anyone from there interested in performing expts on this…
There are 2 things in favor of the Korean team - Hyun-Tak Kim is unlikely to ruin his career and legacy for something careless and frivolous. But stranger things have happened, so lets assign a 10% probability to give…
There is some evidence, though still tentative. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01516-2 (Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech) i view this as the newtonian…
The point is not whether it takes one week or two weeks. But eastern competition is fierce, and the western world is mired in esg and bureaucracy. Something is rotten at a general level, and if its not fixed soon, this…
This kind of public interest and demonstrations is unique only to RTS and few other phenomena - ordinary ppl more or less understand the importance of RTS - a visible and understandable effect (Meissner) can be shown on…
Maybe this us vs them mentality is the biggest bottleneck. If instead you consider that this new form of 'alien' intelligence is actually a descendant of human intelligence, that we are raising a new species which will…
A question that arises, how good is chemical vapor deposition (albeit a very expensive way and hence for labwork only) in creating a pure sample with proper Cu substitutions?
I may be wrong, but it seems.. US labs dont find replication work exciting enough. If the effect is genuine, good, if not, life goes on. Chinese labs are looking to build credibility, so they will benefit by publicly…
There are weaker formal systems like Presburger arithmetic (peano without multiplication) and Skolem arithmetic (peano without addition) that have been proven to be complete and consistent. Tarski also showed that there…
While willpower may work for some people, what actually works for me (and i believe the majority of people) is self-deception or distraction. To sleep, use white noise/rhythmic music/soothing voice To climb a mountain,…
Rather than asserting that current LLMs are at their tail end, or that AI isnt good enough, it is much more instructive to check what are the bottlenecks or constraints to further progress, and what would help remove…
one (quite convincing) theory is that anything that can be achieved by a carbon-based neural network (eg. human brain) can also be achieved by a silicon-based neural network. The hardware may change, but the hardware's…
How can a declining population selling mostly commoditized goods support ever increasing property prices, that too when property is already overleveraged!! This crash was always on the cards. Just a matter of when, and…
I get the feeling the article preaches to the choir. The serious sources have always portrayed NIF's work as technical achievements. But they are read mostly by scientist and engineer types. Mass media which hypes…
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I like the fact that Andrew is very transparent and honest about his experiments. Although he didnt explain 1) how did the Fe impurities get localized into certain regions of the overall batch. 2) Were the impurities…
Not going to say US behavior is morally sound in this case, but - US has provided significant financial assistance here, and if it doesnt get any say in return, it has no incentive to provide continued help. - As far as…
We can debate about expressions/terminology, but these three countries are very very closely aligned with the US. Ofcourse its mutually beneficial. A joke a military contact cracked once is that the only diff between…
Lets not drag Japan into this. They have very high standards in research despite the few examples you gave here, some of which are not even science related. As a widely accepted measure of this, you can read about the…
It would only be logical if Chinese intent also matched its capabilities, which remains to be seen. Anyone can talk a big game.
Yes but both sides can play the game of blocking cargo. Malacca strait comes to mind.
All what you said may be true, but ASML would still be foolish to trust and export to China, given that the latter is hell bent on copying and reverse engg its products, even if unsuccessfully for now. Dont assist even…
Lets just say semiconductor manufacturing is the best example of regional competencies and global trade. Globalization has failed on many fronts and resulted in race to the bottom outcomes, but here it works well due to…
Alright lets do some calculations. Feel free to dissect the assumptions. K event = Kim says Material L is RTSC D event = DFT says L is RTSC S event = L is actually RTSC we have assumed P(S/K) and P(S/D) are each 0.1,…
You are right, but probability estimation of possibly novel phenomena is an ill posed problem. So either you do not model it at all, or come up with some mental model of what probability you are comfortable with and due…
- Nothing against Russian researchers, but apart from Iris who is somewhat anonymous and doesnt have the required equipment to create good samples, I havent seen anyone from there interested in performing expts on this…
There are 2 things in favor of the Korean team - Hyun-Tak Kim is unlikely to ruin his career and legacy for something careless and frivolous. But stranger things have happened, so lets assign a 10% probability to give…
There is some evidence, though still tentative. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01516-2 (Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech) i view this as the newtonian…
The point is not whether it takes one week or two weeks. But eastern competition is fierce, and the western world is mired in esg and bureaucracy. Something is rotten at a general level, and if its not fixed soon, this…
This kind of public interest and demonstrations is unique only to RTS and few other phenomena - ordinary ppl more or less understand the importance of RTS - a visible and understandable effect (Meissner) can be shown on…
Maybe this us vs them mentality is the biggest bottleneck. If instead you consider that this new form of 'alien' intelligence is actually a descendant of human intelligence, that we are raising a new species which will…
A question that arises, how good is chemical vapor deposition (albeit a very expensive way and hence for labwork only) in creating a pure sample with proper Cu substitutions?
I may be wrong, but it seems.. US labs dont find replication work exciting enough. If the effect is genuine, good, if not, life goes on. Chinese labs are looking to build credibility, so they will benefit by publicly…