Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created āany kind of problem.ā
āThe ship was an unsinkable ship,ā he said. āI say it, I repeat it.ā
- Designer of sunken ship
For some reason the previous weekās thread doesnāt show up on the feed for me (and didnāt all week)ā¦ nvm, i somehow managed to block froztbyte by accident, no idea how
I donāt think itās very surprising. The various CS departments are extremely happy to ride the wave of easy funding and spend a lot of time boosting AI, just like how a few years ago all the cryptographers were getting into blockchains. For instance they added an entire new āAIā major, while eliminating the electrical engineering major on the grounds that ācomputationā is more important than electrical engineering.
No, but the moon does.
the moon could get mad - fact.
the computational cost of operating over a matrix is always going to be convex relative to its size
This makes no sense - āconvexā doesnāt mean fast-growing. For instance a constant function is convex.
My university sends me checks occasionally, like when they overcharged the premium on my dental insurance. No idea why they canāt just do an electronic transfer like for my stipend.
Harry Potter and the Surprisingly Good Take
If you want a serious discussion of interpretations of quantum mechanics, here is a transcript of a lecture āQuantum Mechanics in Your Faceā which has the best explanation Iāve ever seen. Iād recommend the first 6 of Peter Shorās Quantum Computation notes (donāt worry theyāre each very short) for just enough background to understand the transcript.
I honestly think anyone who writes āquantumā in an article should be required to take a linear algebra exam to avoid being instantly sacked
Possibly the worst misunderstanding of quantum mechanics Iāve ever seen. I have no idea how anyone managed to convince themselves that the laws of physics are somehow different for conscious observers.
a brave editor spreads the truth
uh, or not
donāt mention skull sizes for 5 minutes challenge
Wasnāt Heidegger a Nazi, and his works famously avoid any mention of the Holocaust?
im doing my part
Yudkowskian Probability Theory
what a throwback
Dan Luuās āA discussion of discussions on AI biasā, about techbros trying to gaslight the rest of the world into thinking ML models donāt have problems
okay but if they hadnāt done that we wouldnāt have gotten this work of art
Why when we look into the stars do we not see a sign of life anywhere else? Has life not emerged yet or has it wiped itself out? With what? Nukes? AI? Synthetic viruses made with AI? Who knowsā¦
entertaining this awful sci-fi schtick for a moment - if every civilization is wiped out by āsuperintelligent AIā, how come you canāt look through a telescope and see signs of artificial life? in this fantasy world shouldnāt planets taken over by paperclip factories be even more conspicuous?
I read one of the papers. About the specific question you have: given a string of bits s, theyāre making the choice to associate the empirical distribution to s, as if s was generated by an iid Bernoulli process. So if s has 10 zero bits and 30 one bits, its associated empirical distribution is Ber(3/4). This is the distribution which theyāre calculating the entropy of. I have no idea on what basis they are making this choice.
The rest of the paper didnāt make sense to me - they are somehow assigning a number N of āinformation statesā which can change over time as the memory cells fail. I honestly have no idea what itās supposed to mean and kinda suspect the whole thing is rubbish.
Edit: after reading the authorās quotes from the associated hype article Iām 100% sure itās rubbish. Itās also really funny that they didnāt manage to catch the COVID-19 research hype train so theyāve pivoted to the simulation hypothesis.