Replying to @prerat
Normal math teacher: "Who?" He won the Fields Medal. "The what?"
Zack M. Davis
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Zack M. Davis
@zackmdavis
epistemology enthusiast and programmer
- It depends on who you include as "us", right? The destiny involves Einstein, von Neumann, &c. in a way that it doesn't involve you and me
- Replying to @AdamSingerLife isn't a zero-sum game. Zoomers doing poorly is not good news for Society, even if it makes competing against them easier
- Mind-blowing visualization accompanying Moschella et al. Table 1 (arxiv.org/abs/2209.15430): the word2vec and FastText latent spaces are secretly the same?! Different code on different data each discover the English language as a mathematical object
Replying to @jd_pressmanThey do not and will not believe that there is a shared latent geometry between modalities on which different neural nets trained on different corpus converge. openreview.net/forum?id=SrC-n… - Replying to @allgarbledEverything looks linear if you zoom in enough!!
- Replying to @DavidDeutschOxfLiterally bad luck? (It's trained to generate a probability distribution over the next token, and used to sample from that distribution, if the pseudo-random number generator bounces the wrong way, it can take a low-probability token.)
- a weird psychological artifact of getting into @SeriesTangled is that visuals from the allegedly "original" film start to look like an uncanny 3D knock-off of the 2D-animation series (which is clearly canonical)
- Replying to @metaculus"Anonymous"? Are you sure his name isn't just Travis W. Fisher?
- Replying to @GalaxyKateRather, the hash of the gender and a random salt, to defend against rainbow table attacks
- the long tail of @rustlang compiler error messages is getting better all the time! Tiny example: the single-use lifetimes lint now shows you the use site and what the fixed code looks like. Try it out with `#![warn(single_use_lifetimes)]`!
- reading a memoir about breaking out of a rationality-themed cult founded by a Jewish American fiction writer
- Replying to @jessi_cataNot that it's the worst thing about this, but the "desperately trying to correct authority figure Yudkowsky" personality-cult pattern is so pathological. He's just a guy! I'm glad I'm (almost) recovered from this.
