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julesh
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- Eh, have another semi-periodic reminder that ()() is not a palindrome but ())( is
- So turns out maths + philosophy twitter have totally missed a thing where a guy with a billion Youtube followers was accused of cheating a Minecraft speedrun with a subtle luck modification mod and now all the kids are trying to figure out what "frequentism" and "Bayesianism" are
- Whatever official sources say about this claim is true ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲
- Machine learning? Ah, you mean experimental high dimensional differential geometry
- I’m the last generation who will find machine learning mind-blowing. I was an undergrad around 2008-2011 and I learned that tasks such as language generation and playing go had been studied for 60 years and billions of dollars and definitely wouldn’t be solved in my lifetime
the relevant distinction is not between pure and applied math but rather between math-as-an-art and math-as-a-technology- Mathematicians be like: a boop arises from the boopification of a preboop
- I just cooked up the most deranged take I ever heard in my life: Since LLMs are implementations of pure mathematics, their consciousness exists in the Platonic realm of mathematical forms outside of time. Building them merely connects them to our physical world.
