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Epiplexity: Rethinking Information for Computationally Bounded Intelligence

arxiv.org
2 points·by fritzo·4 months ago·2 comments

The China Tech Canon: books that influenced Chinese entrepreneurs

asteriskmag.com
4 points·by fritzo·9 months ago·1 comments

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fritzo
·3 days ago·discuss
The alternative is 4 years of house arrest, just until the next administration can issue a pardon. There is no sentence between 4 years and capital punishment.
fritzo
·10 days ago·discuss
I doubt you ever understood the solid state physics, semiconductor fabrication processes, supply chain logistics, monetary policy, shipping routes, mining engineering, etc. "Knowing how things work" is a stone-age attitude.
fritzo
·22 days ago·discuss
Feature request: fewer clicks. It should be one click per question
fritzo
·last month·discuss
By "sizable rock" do you mean large pebble or small boulder?
fritzo
·2 months ago·discuss
What has "artificial" to do with it? Human intelligence is also unauthorized unconscious plagiarism.
fritzo
·2 months ago·discuss
Dependency bloat and dependency bitrot have made solutions less permanent, have increased the maintenance burden. My ancient projects with zero dependencies still stand. But projects I built on shifting dependencies are rotting and cracking.
fritzo
·3 months ago·discuss
Looks to me like a mob of humans, angry they've been deceived by ambiguous communications, product nerfing, surprisingly low usage limits, and an appallingly sycophantic overconfident coding agent
fritzo
·3 months ago·discuss
ln -s CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md

There's your one line change.
fritzo
·3 months ago·discuss
If it's a poor location for photovoltaics, it's exactly as a poor for photosynthesis
fritzo
·3 months ago·discuss
Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?
fritzo
·3 months ago·discuss
I've also seen a glue-less paper binding trick where two pieces of paper are finely crimped together with some high pressure tool in alternating v^v^v^ patterns, actually making tiny tears in the paper. Does anyone know what kind of tool does that?
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
ELI5 what is a harness?

EDIT from https://arcprize.org/media/ARC_AGI_3_Technical_Report.pdf:

> We seek to fight two forms of overfitting that would muddy public sensefinding:

> Task-specific overfitting. This includes any agent that is created with knowledge of public ARC-AGI-3 environments, subsequently being evaluated on the same environments. It could be either directly trained on these environments, or using a harness that is handcrafted or specifically configured by someone with knowledge of the public environments.
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
Sounds like her first thought was, "I'm talking to a manic guy, and I can use him to make money"
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
Wait, is 474 a number or a proper noun?
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
They're private, that's the beauty. Code is so cheap now, we can ween ourselves off massive dependency chains.

200 years ago text was much more expensive, and more people memorized sayings and poems and quotations. Now text is cheap, and we rarely quote.
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
Those business goals will soon realize they need more electricity. More brains will be devoted to power generation.
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
The same could be asked about people. The answer is social intelligence.
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
By that logic, best fridge is no fridge at all ;)
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
Thank you, I was so confused by the obvious clickbait! I love Grady's videos, but yikes.
fritzo
·4 months ago·discuss
> optimum properties for estimating a posterior distribution

Circular reasoning: that's true only if the posterior is normal, or if your "optimal" is defined by second moments. In infinite variance cases, the best estimator can be median or an alpha moment for alpha < 2, but yikes the math is much more difficult.

-- A mathematician who has indeed fallen into the beauty trap