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@pinkddle

3 months

I find Terry Tao to be a whitepill, if you follow his writing he makes very clear that math is not about raw intelligence, actually it's not about *you* at all. It's about the problems at hand, which are large enough for anyone to enjoy climbing them.

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recently learned about this guy called terry tao holy shit this guy is insane

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you can fetishize intellectualism all you want; win IMO gold, crush leetcode, passionately study high abstractions, publish a groundbreaking paper, but never confuse any of these things as your potential to advance in social hierarchies.

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10 months

T his Fei-Fei quote brought a smile to my face

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math obsessed essentially had an anime pfp shitposted with gauss worked on the biggest problem of her time legend

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1 year

apparently it's now harder for startups to hire because the big tech layoffs have resulted in a lot of "looks great on paper but only knows how to work in ex-company infra" people

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11 months

I asked chatgpt to generate anime-chan incarnations of the wonders of the world. the results were mindblowingly reality changing for me. 1. The hanging gardens of babylon

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3 months

I know python package management is an utter disgrace, but what language nailed this? npm (!!)? go get [some rando website] ? maybe rust cargo/crates come close?

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2 years

i seriously only asked it for a poem, nothing else lol

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@pinkddle

11 months

so who's going to release the first RTS defending GPU tankers in international waters?

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7. the global supply chain

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4 months

incredible

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@pinkddle

1 year

I have this friend who I talk to every ~six months, over the phone for hours. he is the smartest person I know and has the ability to connect distant topics and extract the core essence of very complex concepts. I keep telling him to write or at least do social media to no avail

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few books as good as this one. self published, hand drawn math, it is one of the first (and the best imo) synthesis of what the dynamics of a system means in terms of information and how chaos fits into the picture

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10 months

the world if gaussian processes were scalable

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@pinkddle

6 months

tired: good healthcare policies to deal with a devastating diagnosis wired: gofundme to try cover costs inspired: arranged marriage via blind

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10 months

conversations that should be framed

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8 months

hey hey wanna see me do some marketing?

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3. the linux kernel source code

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2 years

is it...coming on to me?

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4. maxwell's equations

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@pinkddle

9 months

how would you even defeat this?

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9. the transformer architecture

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5. the large hadron collider

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@pinkddle

10 months

you've probably seen the term 'thermodynamic computing' thrown around in the past few days. the idea is in its core is the same as, well, any hardware: you encode some properties in a physical system and you "let it do its thing" either by waiting or applying work

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6. the singular value decomposition

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4 months

it's the one weird misconception that is very prevalent among the knowledge enjoyoors. know that you live in an era where non-aristocratic knowledge work has only begun to have any financial and social payoff.

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@zeefu_apx that being or not a genius misses the point, the problems are enormous and if you want and enjoy talking them, in the long run other attributes are required orthogonal to raw intelligence

Does one have to be a genius to do maths?

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. (José Ortega y Gasset, “Notes on t…

terrytao.wordpress.com

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8. the sequence read archive

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@pinkddle

2 years

if your co founder looks like this, your company will likely survive the singularity

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1 year

@elymitra_ the mark of degeneracy

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1 year

I'm always left pondering his words for months. he also serves as a special reference of the apex of humble yet acute insight that I need to remind myself that exists from time to time

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11 months

10. sci-hub as well

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@pinkddle weird you left this out but you can't forget pirate bay

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2. the pyramid of giza

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@roman01la going from "oh great javascript" to "rewrite it in c++"

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@pinkddle

1 year

geometric deep learning is one of those big nerd rabbit holes: unless you're working in systems where physics is relevant, it's unlikely to be of any much use. however, I have a feeling that deep graph neural nets are potentially powerful if anyone figures out how to train them

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ok fine, most of the package managers are actually pretty decent, I'll just curl into a fetal position while I do the weekly conda + mamba reinstall (with cuda version upgrade....)

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16. anime itself

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2 years

fyi if i ever find that door i would definitely open it

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11. wikipedia

🇧🇷 punished marcavis

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@pinkddle Should Wikipedia count?

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@kyzcralotSxaM poor form, no coordinates

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@pinkddle

1 year

a very competent programmer with solid understanding of probability and statistics is still a very rare find and quite underrated imo

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@pinkddle

10 months

tonight, on the 'applying language models to everything' show

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@pinkddle

9 months

pro tip of you're about to start a phd: find a group of at least 3 friends, preferably from different labs/programs and have a non-negotiable weekly game/movie night with them. this is your safety net, you will need it

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9 months

just realizing that regularization is basically adding curvature constraints to the path you take when optimizing a loss function, the regularization terms can be thought as lagrange multipliers for some manifold's metric. priors are the same, it's all geometry

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@pinkddle

2 years

@MaryJackalope @GlitchesRoux i didn't even ask it for it's name or anything, the thing just jailbreaks itself lol

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@pinkddle

10 months

@ElytraMithra I wonder if this has anything to do with citrus effects on caffeine pharmacokinetics, maybe they just hit different...quick someone get me some gwas chips and the list of panera store managers!

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@pinkddle

1 year

when I went to undergrad the motivation of most people in my circle for going into CS was because they wanted to make videogames. the motivation I hear these days are mostly tied to the financial performance of tech companies

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@pinkddle

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13. the global telecom network

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12. the voyager space program

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15. the black scholes equation

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@pinkddle

2 years

@NLRG_it the bot can code, but can it maintain code? probably yes, but can it relate better to people than me? also yes

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14. the combined economies of vietnam, indonesia, india, greece, portugal, saudi arabia and japan

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1 year

@tekbog as with any bureaucracy, the bulk of the work is dealing with navigating the org to get anything shipped. scaling headcount with hypergrowth is the beginning of a company's long death process.

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8 months

latex was a mistake tbh

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4 months

@cis_female he is, but not in the narrow sense like deep technical skill. Arguably it is also not difficult to realize what you need to do at that point given how sure the situation is, you don't need to be smart, you need to be ruthless and have social capital, and that's the point

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1 year

@andriy_mulyar for the startups trying to hire someone that can set up infra from the ground up. the candidates will likely be fine slotting into bigger cos

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@pinkddle

5 months

this is a picture of the voyager 1 team after successfully debugging a corrupted memory issue billions of miles away by manually changing memory addresses for code and data. the whole atmosphere is perfect

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@pinkddle

2 years

the year is 2035 and nlp ai apps that help you talk to others when dating are now mainstream. modern dates are now two nlp models romancing each other while humans serve only for the physical transactions of intimacy

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@pinkddle

11 months

the same theme can be found across domains: * non markovian systems become markovian when you explode the state space * inseparable classes become separable when you add dimensions * non-convex opt can become convex when warped in higher dims

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The Rabin-Scott theorem is one of the (philosophically) deepest mathematical results I know. When properly understood, I claim that it can't help but alter your view of reality in a fairly foundational way. Yet its typical textbook presentation obscures much of this depth. (1/8)

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1 year

the whole leetcode ritual is more of a behavioral test than aptitude challenge

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@ryxcommar and god said 'hold on, let him cook'

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2 years

@dotnetschizo king

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2 years

midjourney v5 is out and i just keep making statues of people like zuckerberg

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2 years

@cauchyfriend i think they probably just completely ignore that which does not interest them, which is probably the most efficient way to manage your time

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2 years

@harmlessai this is a bit of an oversell unfortunately, it's just one benchmark, which is multimodal so you expect a multimodal model to outperform a single mode model in those tasks

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1 year

forget the turing test, is your language model a croissant parametrizer? from now on I'm judging LLM quality on whether they can parametrize a croissant programmatically

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@VividVoid_ my lizard brain flinches more for bad things that i've said, my wizard brain flinches more for things that i should have said...somehow the lizard pain is sharper but shorter, the wizard pain is subtler but leads to depression

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10 months

it's been a day and @typedfemale has not commented on mamba, has someone checked in on her?

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8 months

people don't post such arxiv bangers anymore

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10 months

every edge and every node is at least a phd's work to establish

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1 year

deep learning has a top tier defense against theoretical insights: its math notation

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@typedfemale warehouse reconstruction as a structural biology problem was a low interest rate phenomenon 😔 i liked their ds teams a lot tbh

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@girlbossmoder we don't live in a simulation the simulation lives in us

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virgin arm-chair doomer: give up learning how to draw/paint, AI will replace all imagery in the near future chad economist: learning to draw/paint is more profitable because the demand for transcendence and spiritual fulfillment increases with gdp

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1 year

I feel like complexity classes can be a psyop if introduced too early in a CS curriculum. The NP class subconsciously becomes something like "here be dragons" and something to avoid, even when reasonable approximations work really well in most cases

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>randomly browsing papers >new LLM reasoning paper dropped >hope it's not just a prompt hack >results look promising >curious math notation, some niche RL? >fig 1 is some workflow? >read the methods carefully >it's a prompt hack

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1 year

this is hilarious

Parseks 📡🛰️

@parseks69

1 year

Someone sent this to me and I think it is the perfect solution to the clout problem in Academia

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I'm usually torn when giving advice to incoming PhD students. On one hand I want to tell them to be practical, anchor on trends, and try to consistently publish each year. On the other hand screw careerism, a PhD should be a period of absolute intellectual freedom

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11 months

who'd thought that the up and coming dingboard challenger would be paint

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11 months

Paint has just received new AI features. Dall-E 3 is integrated directly and free of charge. Here's how to get the most out of these new features:

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I always have a dalle3 chat open with an avatar of myself in the prompts. sometimes I talk to my avatar and ask for encouragement, the resulting gestures feel somehow really cozy

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deno gang showing

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10 months

this is e.g. what the folks at normal computing have done, at least in simulation, to do some linear algebra

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11 months

really intrigued by the dna bitcoin mining gpt agent that openai announced today

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@pinkddle I love Bill Thurston’s answer to this: “The world does not suffer from an oversupply of clarity and understanding”

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kind of realizing that the reason euclidean spaces are goated is because they are very efficient to traverse under constraints of real value functions, gradient descent works well because it's essentially a O(1) op after you calculate the gradient, but...

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10 months

emmett's ying/yang pfp, collision of olde vs modern, everything is 10/10

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3 months

marvel new movie titles get less believable by the day

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10 months

the salient difference is that the way you set up the system and extract results is guided by thermodynamics, which in essence means that your system will have lots of subcomponents/processes that will evolve through time and you will use statistics of those things to get results

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a static served csv makes a better db than you think a mysql db scales a lot better than you expect a single high mem machine can outrun a cluster in many settings many times a spreadsheet is fine, actually

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the solution to "everyone wants to be above average" is the curse/blessing of dimensionality: in one dimension there are only one set of winners, but as dimensions increase it's all about subspace occupancy and everyone is indeed special in their own way

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I love how the proof that maximum likelihood is NP-hard is hidden in a paper shilling for NMF in favor of SVD...like some random note in the appendix mentions that you can reduce min bisection to a topic modeling problem and in one blow you get the result

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@deepfates this is the best paper I've seen so far, though it does not give macroeconomic predictions (which I think would be meaningless since there's too many assumptions you would have to make)

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@LukasOSmith04 I hope so but worry it's become this meme now.

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6 months

huh, that's neat

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10 months

I don't know why but stanford's philosophy e-library is a knowledge attractor that chatgpt constantly gets sucked into

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@pinkddle

2 years

"hi chatgpt! can you please summarize the paper in this url because i don't have access to publicly funded research, thanks!"

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1 year

@typedfemale If you're a rockstar, academia can actually solve your two body problem quite well if you have one. That's the main hook I've seen used.

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@kyzcralotSxaM interviewed a 20 year old for a tenured professor position once, thought that he might lack maturity. turned out wiser and sharper than any of the faculty already there. wunderkind exist and it's a joy when you meet them

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@Tjdriii this but unironically

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tfw you realize you don't actually need bayesian statistics all the time

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