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Re:Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:15AM (#42039581)
So it's a plain vanilla ABM with lots of human crafted interaction logic? So they are making outrageous claims - since they are making it sound like it's all spontaneously arising from the interaction of LLMs...
Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric on Thursday September 05, 2024 @05:20AM (#41454950)
Which of his suggestions would "make the city stop working"?
Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @05:29AM (#41433006)
Nah, you've got it backwards. The article isn't about dodging understanding - it's about making it way easier to spot patterns in your code. And that's exactly how you start to really get what's going on under the hood. Better searching = faster learning. It's like having a good map when you're exploring a new city
Can anyone explain how an LLM is useful here? The clustering is done traditionally right? Then the llm is given the centroids and asked to give a label? Assumption being that the llm corpus already contained some mapping from gene up/down regulations to clusters of differentiation?
He literally started the UK side of the persecution - starmer is a cop, always has been always will be....
Nobody is being cut off from anywhere - their route is being made longer in order to avoid residential areas - their journeys would be quicker if they walked they just don't want to...and that is the point highly polluting journeys are being disincentivised...if you absolutely must drive then you need to set off earlier this isn't an attack on people's civil liberties you have no right to drive somewhere..
Exactly this! It all boils down to people being pissed that their car journey in London takes longer than it used to - nobody is actually being blocked from getting anywhere just their route is being changed - somehow this has been wrapped up in the 15 minute conspiracy...
Re:Original Pirate Material on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:01AM (#39969276)
Tbh I was not including the second one in the poo - I think the 1st and 2nd albums are both equally good in their own ways!
Fascist! How dare you suggest I shouldn't ever go further than 15 minutes to access necessary resources to live my life! It's my god given right to spend at least an hour in traffic to get to the doctors...

/s there is actually a whole movement of people in the UK that beleive the very idea of a 15 minute city is a conspiracy to limit their freedoms...

Re:Original Pirate Material on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @10:03AM (#39905882)
This is what I clicked on this link for - a masterpiece shame later albums all got a bit poo
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:07PM (#39386074)
That's not what it shows at all - it shows how varying hyper parameters (which are floats and thus can be set at any arbitary precision) effects the speed at which convergence happens - so its some function F: R^n -> Z - it has literally nothing to do with the nodes in the neural network...
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @12:29PM (#39360178)
Same can be said for the madelbtot set or any other fractal - there is a physical bound on the precision of the values - you can in theory run a NN with arbitary precision floats...
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:15AM (#39357781)
"small changes in the hyperparameters can lead to large changes in training dynamics"

This is the definition of Chaos though no? Butterfly flaps its wings, hurricane on other side of the planet...

Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:13AM (#39357768)
Thanks!! I was also under the impression Fractals required self similarity and not just infinite detail but glad to have that misconception corrected!

I think it probably stems from the fact that all the fractals, I have seen, for which the dimension can be analytically calculated do show obvious patterns of similarity at different scales.

Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:10AM (#39357738)
This is what I Initially thought too but I am less certain now - I assumed Fractal implied self similarity (which this doesn't seem to have) but this is in fact not true - I think to actually say if its fractal or not someone needs to estimate its dimension using box counting or some, way beyond me, analytical method.
It's not the financial cost of the time that's important it's the time itself - it's the requirement to completely go against my internal body clock to be at a location by a socially determined starting time - I start working at 10am usually - from home that means I can get up at 8.30 perhaps- to be in an office that means 6.30 am - I don't want to wake up at that time...
Re:Show HN: Sit on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:29PM (#38870505)
I suffer from extreme time blindness and one apparent solution to this is to have a regular metronome like pulse - I would love an app for say a smart watch or something that did this with vibrations!
Re:You do need a technical co-founder on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:23PM (#38477917)
I assumed he got some $$$ - but did he want to be removed or did you tell him he was no longer needed? Was he just as sure that he was no longer needed as u were?
Re:You do need a technical co-founder on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:14PM (#38477781)
What so the person who "provided a lot of value in getting us to where we are" got ditched in the end? Is that your story? Use people and then chuck them to the curb once everything u need has been extracted?
But ycombinator don't "sell" HN do they? So no infringement...no customers...
Why would you not - analytical solutions are the rare occurrences might as well approach everything with simulation...
Re:Kafka as an Antipattern on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:24PM (#37648353)
Amazing reply
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:40AM (#37236739)
No u have to do a bank transfer -in cash here means literally in cash...
Re:Stanford A.I. Courses on Sunday July 02, 2023 @01:06PM (#36563358)
It's nothing more than the chain rule...University level it is not...the engineering aspect is the non trivial part IMHO...
Re:Algebraic Graph Calculus on Sunday April 16, 2023 @08:12AM (#35589300)
Except your comment doesn't come across like that - it comes across as very condescending thus the downvotes...