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popcorncolonel··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
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popcorncolonel··on New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
Individual particle interactions are not chaotic. Simulating them one timestep at a time would take linear time in the number of particles.

They're only chaotic if you treat them in aggregate, which a superintelligence wouldn't do. It would be less lossy to get all the positions of the particles and figure out exactly what each one would do.

Something has to compute the universe, since it is currently running...

popcorncolonel··on Why GPT-3 Matters
Not necessarily. There have been a number of papers trying to emphasize the generalization power of a network rather than "it got a SOTA number", and so leave off fine tuning results. Because that would distract from the point of the paper.
popcorncolonel··on Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
Do you really think most smartphone users look at the URL anymore? Or even know what a URL is?

From the non-technical people I've talked to, the answer is no, they don't know what a URL is, and that was happening before AMP came around.

popcorncolonel··on U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan
Ah our favorite third world countries, like China, Japan, and Israel.
popcorncolonel··on Why does the Wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 A’s?
What's the point of this comment? Isn't this pretty much exactly what's in the answer linked?
popcorncolonel··on Mathematician Wins $3M Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem'
Great visualization, thanks!
popcorncolonel··on Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo
This article comes at the perfect time for me, while I'm about to choose a tool to read Japanese sentences!
popcorncolonel··on Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
That's great! It feels so good to be doing something you want to do.
popcorncolonel··on Mathematician-M.D. claims to have solved the 110-year-old Lindelöf hypothesis
Pretty much all of the relationship to practical stuff in papers like this related to the RH are "it gives us information about the prime numbers, and those are used in cryptography".

It's really just about getting people to perk their ears up rather than true implications about crypto.

popcorncolonel··on My account is sending spam emails
I checked that and the only one that had email access was my Windows desktop. This led me to assume my PC had a virus, until I saw this thread.
popcorncolonel··on California should emulate Tokyo, where housing stayed ahead of population growth
Hence the "pretty much". Clearly Japan has numerous numerous social issues, but other than that they're doing much better than we are over there.
popcorncolonel··on California should emulate Tokyo, where housing stayed ahead of population growth
Everything in America should emulate Japan, pretty much.
popcorncolonel··on Neural Network Quine
So genetic programming, but for NN's? Hasn't that been done?
popcorncolonel··on Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too
This is why whenever I see news like this, I get nervous.
popcorncolonel··on NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbidden now
Quick question: Why? What does NVIDIA have to gain by forbidding people from using GeForce for ML in datacenters?
popcorncolonel··on Attention Is All You Need
Agreed. Plus, its really annoying to open it on mobile and my phone starts downloading the pdf file immediately, which I don't want to have to manually delete in the future.
popcorncolonel··on Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
Wow, great comeback
popcorncolonel··on Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
Classic Microsoft. See the Windows Phone as well.
popcorncolonel··on How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (2015)
Can you elaborate? How do you know they're thinking abstractly?
popcorncolonel··on How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (2015)
A related idea that I had while reading the article is this: it's easy to get computers and machines to talk to each other both unnaturally (with our own protocols) and naturally (using a randomly initialized and then learned/iterated upon version - see https://blog.openai.com/learning-to-communicate/ or Facebook's recent experiment. It's also easy to imagine such a scenario).

But computers are nowhere near being able to have conscious thought. So what's the difference? Clearly it's not just natural language that differentiates the conscious from the unconscious.

popcorncolonel··on Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
It would be amazing if we could browse "Latest" by category, and for a certain day, much like: https://arxiv.org/list/math.NT/recent
popcorncolonel··on Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape
Japan was beautiful; visually, culturally, and culinarily. I'd highly recommend it.

I just started taking Japanese classes yesterday and I can't wait to go back next year.

popcorncolonel··on Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape
Then again drinking while eating is also impolite.
popcorncolonel··on Never Completed Game
That's so contrived, and they got it so quickly. And they got #40 even quicker.
popcorncolonel··on Never Completed Game
Thanks 4chan. It was a lot of fun watching that thread honestly. The collaborative effort was great.
popcorncolonel··on Never Completed Game
Completed Game.
popcorncolonel··on Tsunami carried a million sea creatures from Japan to US west coast
"Natural" is defined as: existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind.

So by definition, there are things that are natural, such as other galaxies, and all things a million years ago.

popcorncolonel··on Git git git git git
Knowing software developers, probably entirely serious.
popcorncolonel··on China Blocks WhatsApp
God, living in China sounds like absolute hell.
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