This is blatantly false. You just have to look at Jerome Powell's reasoning in 2018-2019 and just last month!
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Usually on here you see a bunch of apologia for when republicans do inane economic policy and I am not seeing that bs on here for once...
Guess Trump really wasn't the crypto, AI, chips, wtv you wanna say president lmao. But nah all the naysayers just had TDS.
Guess Wall St and others are going to have to re-learn that sound policy beats vibes.
But now you just need 2 associates instead of a team having you as part of their portfolio of clients. The fact that many the consultants are going "AI won't come for us" has me betting against the consultants lol.
These people should be a lot more worried lol.
AI agents can't do sql queries a lot of the time, but they sure can autofill the remainder of most excel sheets (and AI agents can't really autocomplete sql queries yet for some reason lol).
Yes, I use claude to code sometimes, but I use claude much more as an assistant to brainstorm tasks and mindmap than actually doing software engineering because vibe coding builds brittle projects. Whereas one-off decks are a perfect use case
Now replacing people that require a license or some other sort of credentials like lawyers, doctors or accountants... That is much harder.
Nobody has really decided on a name.
Also chain of thought is somewhat different from chain of thought reasoning so mb throw in multimodal chain of thought reasoning
In case people don't understand why the government can do this, it is called parallel construction and the SCOTUS deemed it constitutional.
Btw this comment is not me approving this behavior. And that last sentence was not a hint of me approving that behavior in secret :). Those last two sentences are a hint of what I think about the scotus on this topic though :)
I do this when hackernews is calling an article stupid and missing some of the salvageable or mostly correct things from the article, so I do some effort to highlight these kernels of truth that most articles have because most authors do have something of value to say.
For the first time on this account on this site... This article is hopelessly naive. Music label executives dgaf. If anything, they want the history gone so that they can charge extra premiums when they release 100 year old songs or for visits to their museums. It is like saying NFL owners regret people not being able to watch the first super bowl game and relive history.
Nah... that is stuff they could sell later if they figure out how.
Expecting music labels to have any sense of democratic music access is almost insulting to artists that have been often dicked by these labels.
Part of me thinks this article is a psyop to make music label executives seem more humane lol.
multiple encodings are stronger since they end up fusing into not just more robust and general representations, but also more well connected.
i forgot which neuroscience textbook it was that I read all this from from, but Dr. Barbara Oakley talks about this in her course too so anyone can look through there for more details and sources.
> desirable difficulty
Well regarded in anki, music practice, and most problem solving books (Polya's "How To Solve It"). I think some neuroscience texts also try to formalize it but I don't know enough there to point to a more concrete abstraction of the phenomenon.
> As you re-read the explanation
I suggest something even better. Try to do the explanation yourself from free recall, and when you fail, then re-read and note exactly where and why you failed. This is a mid-level efficiency technique (I forgot the source) compared to free call, active testing, and spaced repetition, but definitely better than plain re-reading.
With something like learning a language, problem solving skills, a code base, new maths, or wtv, it is less apparent because the mind can delude itself, and it is much harder to delude yourself with actual physical movements. You either do it, or you don't...
From what I've read, the training isn't necessarily transferable. You just get better at these sorts of brain games, which doesn't necessarily mean your working memory is increasing.
Even while reading gwern's blog that seemed pretty positive of this kind of training, there was limited evidence that you shouldn't learn just a new instrument or language or new sort of math discipline.
Why do people keep thinking that "training" can improve working memory?
half life 2 and team fortress 2 and the subsequent intro into the source engine... i really needed them at that time.
Viktor dying makes me sad
it is how i wrote a blog post on generating builds for heroes before dota plus even had the feature!
In most of america, until 5th grade, one teacher teaches everything.
In some states, in 4th grade and 5th grade, you do get some segments of specialization in course load, but even then you still have mostly one teacher.
A lot of applied math courses are also taught by people that despise math and just teach that course because it was given to them and they would much rather teach a course in their main discipline.
Somewhat related but very different from the point you raised, a lot of people that enjoy math, especially research, HATE teaching math. I'd actually even venture it is the majority...
People like John Conway were rare. RIP. I miss seeing him around Fine Hall. And now I think of Nash :(
I essentially blocked every subreddit and specifically only open accounts now. I completely agree with you.
One of the best advices I heard is: don't let the algorithm recommend stuff for you.
Never click on the recommend for you page. Or doom scroll.
Any time on these sites, you should know what you are looking for. Never get on there just to browse.
The only thing that helped was the KitchenSafe / kSafe.
I put my phone in the kSafe during pomodoro sized chunks. If there is an emergency, I can still do calls from my apple watch/ipad. I keep my ipad in my closet so i don't use it for doom scrolling.
It is funny because I random found out that the ksafe got popular from a sharktank episode where the inventor was advocating for controlling binge eating lol.... I found that funny because I've only heard it propose to quit smoking/vaping nicotine/weed.
Still figuring out the interface for other things. When I am at work, social pressures help. Still figuring out a way to prevent myself from opening incognito on my mac laptop and opening hackernews / reddit.
There is a "plato" story on how he laments the invention of writing because now people don't need to memorize speeches and stuff.
I think there is a level of balance. Writing gave us enough efficiencies that the learned laziness made us overall more effective.
The internet in 2011 made us a bit less effective. I am not gonna lie; I spent a lot more time being able to get resources, whereas I would have to struggle on my own to solve a problem. You internalize one more than the other, but is it worth the additional time every time?
I worry about current students learning through LLMs just like I would worry about a student in 2012 graduating in physics when such a student had constant access to wolfram alpha.
Because not everyone has the prerequisite math or time/attention to go into quantum field theory for a rather intuitive point about mass and fields.
This reminds me a bit of how high school physics classes are sometimes taught when it comes to thermodynamics and optics. You learn these "formulas" and properties (like harmonics or ideal gas law) because deriving where they come from require 2-3 years of actual undergraduate physics with additional lessons in differential equations and analysis.
https://profmattstrassler.com/2025/01/10/no-the-short-range-...
And then everyone ignored this outcome because of the implications. Ofc there is the "legitimate interests" line. Vague enough for a judge to apply as they see fit, but one judge messed up at least one time.