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So, does "reasoning in latent space" mean that it does/will not use tokens (e.g. using CoT etc.)?

Video: https://x.com/myprasanna/status/2077069901546852688

Also: >Some of my customers today: A PM is now the full R&D team. He reloads $1,000 a day in tokens and merges code faster than any team he's managed. > Tokenmaxx, not peoplemaxx. Come tokenmaxx with me.

The Units seem to be independent i.e. could be followed in any order. Can someone knowledgeable confirm this? I know Set theory etc is the basis of many things usually in a formal mathematical setting, hence asking.

The society of mind is an interesting reference. I remember browsing through it around the late 90's when it came out. It seemed to provide some theory for the basis of some of our cognitive functions in terms of a collection of cooperating agents. But then, I guess, what the agents themselves are made of was not clear/understood? Are today's LLM models capable of taking the form of those agents, and can we take inspiration from SoM to see how they can evolve together towards a more powerful (real/AG?) intelligence?

Seems like the fact of a large India-Egypt trade link via the red sea was known atleast a year back, and specifically this evidence from Berenike. This [0] link describes the author William Dalrymple talking about it and also about his book [1] which is already out, which presumably covers this in more detail. A lot of Indian scholars are (re)discovering Indic history and we can expect much more of ancient India specific history to come out, which was unknown or has been forgotten over the ages, given the ancient nature of the Indian civilization.

[0] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy/story/indias-anc... [1] https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Road-Ancient-India-Transformed...

This article [0] proves that the Pāṇinian Shiva Sutras are optimal in some mathematical sense. I'm just learning to get into this, learning Sanskrit grammar, etc. and get a sense of the Asthadyaayi [1] so that I can approach it later in more detail. There are various ways to approach it and some online sites make an attempt, but as per an acquaintance who has been taught under a teacher, it [1] is almost impossible to understand without a teacher. Still, this document [2], seems to give a good understandable overview with pointers for further study.

[0] https://user.phil.hhu.de/~petersen/paper/petersen_jolli_proo... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%AD%C4%81dhy%C... [2] https://learnsanskrit.org/vyakarana/

Looks like a service outage in some regions (again).

Thanks for developing, and now open sourcing, Harmonic. It has been my favorite HN client for a few years now, something to it that make you not want to leave!

Could you explain in simple terms (if possible) what is the similarity? For context, I worked for a brief time with ART before Y2K in BU CNS, and took a few courses there, but had to leave it for 'reasons'.

Its Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest. Was it a spell check error or a deliberate misspell for some reason?

I naturally parsed it as he has some friends who are around 30 years old. I am possibly wrong.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21152542

I wonder if the technique can be flipped, by asking the student (who wishes to learn) teacher (in her role as a teacher) to 'teach' someone who actually has a more depth of knowledge and actually the teacher here (playing the role of a student). It would then be a more challenging task for both and hence provide a more direct path to learning by teaching the teacher.

That's too high if you are considering students from all over the world. Why should it be more for outside US students?

OTOH, this looks promising (though I haven't read his 2012 book which spells out the 'vision'), and would be great if this can provide a framework for a democratized online schooling system with the flexibilities and features it provides.

The next demo day is on 26th

https://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2022/04/21/indiebio-t...

Has a chance to revolutionize how we power our world.

Are the video lectures to the course available by any chance?

A question I had was whether a completely plant based diet avoid ingestion of microplastics, as most articles I see are focused on the aquatic ecosystem (probably because the density of pollution in our seas is arguably more than terrestrial). A quick google search turns up a lot of articles on the deleterious effect on plants as well, so I guess there is no escape. But perhaps (hopefully) a plant based (e.g. PBHF) diet can mitigate some of the risks imminent on a meat (mainly seafood?) based diet.

Where can I find a copy of 1 (Math for the layman) - it doesn't turn up in searches.