Malentropic Gizmo's Shortform
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I barely hear about Wildbow in the wild nowadays, so if you are like me in this regard, you might also have missed that they are writing a new scifi series called Seek. It's really fun imo!
How often do you see people wearing a necklace with a green gem in your day-to-day life? I don't mean to be impolite to the author, but how could it not have been a notable piece of the outfit? It's also telling that the author only described the colors of the clothes she was wearing, while the Slytherin look obviously includes much more (eg. texture, style, hair, makeup etc..).
Replying toThe Origami Men
Great!
That is surprising. We often used the word in high school ~10 years ago and I'm not even a native speaker. Example
What's up with glowfic.com? Getting a lot of 500 responses..
EDIT: I thought some might know here, because of the dath ilan stories, and I have no clue where else to ask, but nvm if it's too unrelated to this site.
Replying toWhen you downvote, explain why
I think I can!
When I write, I am constantly balancing brevity (and aesthetics generally) with clarity. Unfortunately, I sometimes gravely fail at achieving the latter without me noticing. Your above comment immediately informs me of this mistake.
Replying toLevel up your spreadsheeting
Thank you for this! Your companion piece instantly solved a problem I was having with my diet spreadsheet!
Replying toThe Closed Eyes Argument For Thirding
Yes, I basically agree: My above comment is only an argument against the most popular halfer model.
However, in the interest of sparing reader's time I have to mention that your model doesn't have a probability for 'today is Monday' nor for 'today is Tuesday'. If they want to see your reasoning for this choice, they should start with the post you linked second instead of the post you linked first.
I had to use keras backend's switch function for the automatic differentiation to work, but basically yes.
Random Musing on Autoregressive Transformers resulting from Taelin's A::B Challenge
Let's model an autoregressive transformer as a Boolean circuit or, for simpler presentation, a n-ary circuit with m inputs and 1 output.
Model the entire system the following way: Given some particular m length starting input:
- circuit calculates the output token (/integer) from the input
- appends calculated output token to the end of the inputword
- deletes first token of input
- go to 1
It's easy to see that, strictly speaking, this system is not very powerful computationally: we have finite number of possible tokens (n) and finite length context window (m), so we only have finite possible states (n*m), therefore our model is as powerful as a finite state... (read 415 more words →)
I will read the fiction book that is recommended to me first (and I haven't already read it)! Time is of the essence! I will read anything, but if you want to recommend me something I am more likely to enjoy, here are a few thing about me: I like Sci-fi, Fantasy, metaethics, computers, games, Computer Science theory, Artificial Intelligence, fitness, D&D, edgy/shock humor.
So I've reached a point in my amateur bodybuilding process where I am satisfied with my arms. I, of course, regularly see and talk with guys who have better physiques, but it doesn't bother me, when I look in the mirror, I'm still happy.
This, apparently, is not the typical experience. In the bodybuilding noosphere, there are many memes born from the opposite experience: "The day you start lifting is the day you're never big enough.", "You will never be as big as your pump.", etc..
My question is about a meme I've seen recenty which DOES mirror my own experience, but unfortunately I can't find it. IIRC the meme had similar art style... (read more)
A coin has two sides. One side commonly has a person on it, this side is called Heads, and the other usually has a number or some other picture on it, this side is called Tails. What I don't understand is why would the creator (I'm unsure whether we should blame Adam Elga, Robert Stalnaker or Arnold Zuboff) of the Sleeping Beauty Problem specify the problem so that the branch with the extra person corresponds to the Tails side of the coin. This almost annoys me more than not calling Superpermutations supermutations or Poisson equations Laplace equations or Laplace equations Harmonic equations.
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My impression is that your view is very rare on social media, but it almost completely agrees with mine so far (two exceptions are: fixing up 600 lines of tests that it wrote for me didn't took nearly as long as it would have taken for me to write the tests myself & i've no strong opinions on speed/ceiling of future progress), so I'm curious how it will evolve. If it's not too big of an ask, pleass reply to this comment when you have a new comment on the topic.