kogasa
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- Comment on Plasticccc 1 day ago:
Somehow I doubt hips and wheelchairs are among the top offenders
- Comment on fuckery 1 week ago:
Yes, OP only gets you to Q[i]
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 1 week ago:
No, I stand by it. People who cry about straight representation are goblins at best
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 1 week ago:
Disrespecting fragile cretins who need to pandered to at all times
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 5 weeks ago:
It can be, usually for college credit though
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 5 weeks ago:
At the universities I went to, Calc 2 was integration, sequences and series, then Calc 3 was multivariable. They really pack all the harder parts into 2.
- Comment on The return 1 month ago:
It’s called speed of lobsters
- Comment on mfw you're trying to take the Fourier Transform of a distribution 2 months ago:
It’s a reach, but the Fourier transformation of a Schwarz (rapidly decaying) function is also a Schwarz function. Compact support is a strictly stronger condition than Schwarz (the function must eventually decay to 0) but doesn’t have this nice property with respect to Fourier transforms, i.e. the FT of a compactly supported function is Schwarz but not necessarily compactly supported
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 4 months ago:
Yes. A matrix is unitary if the conjugate transpose (conjugate as in “complex conjugate”) is equal to its inverse.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 4 months ago:
It has access to a python interpreter and can use that to do math, but it shows you that this is happening, and it did not when i asked it.
That’s not what I meant.
You have access to a dictionary, that doesn’t prove you’re incapable of spelling simple words on your own, like goddamn people what’s with the hate boners for ai around here
??? You just don’t understand the difference between a LLM and a chat application using many different tools.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 4 months ago:
ChatGPT uses auxiliary models to perform certain tasks like basic math and programming. Your explanation about plausibility is simply wrong.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 4 months ago:
If you fine tune a LLM on math equations, odds are it won’t actually learn how to reliably solve novel problems. Just the same as it won’t become a subject matter expert on any topic, but it’s a lot harder to write simple math that “looks, but is not, correct” than it is to waffle vaguely about a topic. The idea of a LLM creating a robust model of the semantics of the text it’s trained on is, at face value, plausible; it just doesn’t seem to actually happen in practice.
- Comment on Deadrop developer Midnight Society cuts ties with Dr Disrespect following new Twitch ban allegations 4 months ago:
Well, we knew he was a shitbag beforehand, so that’s not really what’s in question
- Comment on Evidence 4 months ago:
I’m not a physicist, I don’t know one way or another. But it’s possible that there’s a leading explanation for the formation of the universe based on a mathematical model that predicts exactly one big bang.
- Comment on Evidence 4 months ago:
Based on the comment you’re replying to, I assume they would say "no, nothing materialized from nothing because there wasn’t a ‘before’ in which nothing could have existed’
- Comment on Cats 4 months ago:
It wouldn’t have been published, and he’s only relatively famous if you’re a topologist, but it was Charlie Frohman. Not that it must carry the same weight for you, but I value his insight highly, even if it’s just a quip.
- Comment on Science memes 4 months ago:
Yes, but it proves that termwise comparison with the harmonic series isn’t sufficient to tell if a series diverges.
- Comment on Science memes 4 months ago:
The assumption is that the size decreases geometrically, which is reasonable for this kind of self similarity. You can’t just say “less than harmonic” though, I mean 1/(2n) is “slower”.
- Comment on Cats 4 months ago:
Quoting a relatively famous mathematician, linear algebra is one of the few branches of math we’ve really truly understood. It’s very, very well behaved
- Comment on Irrational 5 months ago:
Google it? Axiomatic definition, dedekind cuts, cauchy sequences are the 3 typical ones and are provably equivalent.
- Comment on Irrational 5 months ago:
I’m fully aware of the definitions. I didn’t say the definition of irrationals was wrong. I said the definition of the reals is wrong. The statement about quantum mechanics is so vague as to be meaningless.
- Comment on Irrational 5 months ago:
That is not a definition of the real numbers, quantum physics says no such thing, and even if it did the conclusion is wrong
- Comment on Know who is king 5 months ago:
Only if you’re trying to get a numerical point evaluation. For example, one can use Fourier series to represent complex signals in terms of sine waves, and then reproduce the sine waves with hardware to reproduce the original signal.
- Comment on Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me - YouTube 5 months ago:
Would not be surprised if it’s getting confused about a wallet sponsorship
- Comment on Long Cow is coming 5 months ago:
We aren’t trying to establish that neurons are conscious. The thought experiment presupposes that there is a consciousness, something capable of understanding, in the room. But there is no understanding because of the circumstances of the room. This demonstrates that the appearance of understanding cannot confirm the presence of understanding. The thought experiment can’t be formulated without a prior concept of what it means for a human consciousness to understand something, so I’m not sure it makes sense to say a human mind “is a Chinese room.” Anyway, the fact that a human mind can understand anything is established by completely different lines of thought.
- Comment on Long Cow is coming 5 months ago:
This fails to engage with the thought experiment. The question isn’t if “the room is fluent in Chinese.” It is whether the machine learning model is actually comparable to the person in the room, executing program instructions to turn input into output without ever understanding anything about the input or output.
- Comment on Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer 5 months ago:
I’m not suggesting that. It just looks like he did in fact choose to have that hair color.
- Comment on Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer 5 months ago:
It looks dyed
- Comment on The future is here 5 months ago:
That’s not necessarily wrong, but not the big explaining factor here I think. The technological challenges behind aligning ML models with factual reality aren’t solved, so it’s not an engineering decision. It’s more that AI is remarkably easy to market as being more capable than it is
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 months ago:
Typst is pretty functional