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Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:48AM (#49843286)
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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...

Re:Why GPT-3 Matters on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:19AM (#23897014)
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.
Re:Where Am I? NYTimes or Google? on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:40AM (#23731643)
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.

Ah our favorite third world countries, like China, Japan, and Israel.
Re:Why does the Wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 A’s? on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:11PM (#22150150)
What's the point of this comment? Isn't this pretty much exactly what's in the answer linked?
Re:Mathematician Wins $3M Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem' on Friday September 06, 2019 @09:52PM (#20901305)
Great visualization, thanks!
Re:Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:02PM (#18528697)
This article comes at the perfect time for me, while I'm about to choose a tool to read Japanese sentences!
Re:Ask HN: What are you thankful for? on Thursday November 22, 2018 @04:52PM (#18512802)
That's great! It feels so good to be doing something you want to do.
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.

Re:My account is sending spam emails on Sunday April 22, 2018 @12:40PM (#16896956)
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.
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.
Everything in America should emulate Japan, pretty much.
Re:Neural Network Quine on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:45PM (#16633496)
So genetic programming, but for NN's? Hasn't that been done?
This is why whenever I see news like this, I get nervous.
Quick question: Why? What does NVIDIA have to gain by forbidding people from using GeForce for ML in datacenters?
Re:Attention Is All You Need on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:12AM (#15940126)
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.
Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:05AM (#15748276)
Wow, great comeback
Classic Microsoft. See the Windows Phone as well.
Can you elaborate? How do you know they're thinking abstractly?
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.

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
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.

Then again drinking while eating is also impolite.
Re:Never Completed Game on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:59AM (#15376621)
That's so contrived, and they got it so quickly. And they got #40 even quicker.
Re:Never Completed Game on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:57AM (#15376607)
Thanks 4chan. It was a lot of fun watching that thread honestly. The collaborative effort was great.
Re:Never Completed Game on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:56AM (#15376604)
Completed Game.
"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.

Re:Git git git git git on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:05PM (#15342937)
Knowing software developers, probably entirely serious.
Re:China Blocks WhatsApp on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:35PM (#15335288)
God, living in China sounds like absolute hell.

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