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mreid
·13 days ago·discuss
laughs in Australian

https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps/averages/uv-index/?perio...
mreid
·21 days ago·discuss
I'm guessing that what they meant by "proper harmony" is just intonation: where thirds and fifths are expressed by small, integer ratios of frequencies (e.g., a fifth is 3:2 and a major third is 5:4).

A just intoned major third is about 14 cents flatter than a major third played on a 12 tone equal temperament tuned instrument (e.g., piano).

I'm not sure how much this matters in terms of having or not having perfect pitch though. Some people with perfect pitch can hear the difference between JI and 12TET and correctly their singing accordingly.
mreid
·2 months ago·discuss
From the article:

> Without fully endorsing all their ideas, I’m now in the LeCun/Marcus camp on LLMs.

I'm pretty sure he means "Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus" not "Yann LeCun and Marcus Hutter".
mreid
·2 months ago·discuss
Came here to say the same thing. It does use TCP/IP but I didn't really understand why "no TCP/IP" is a hard requirement of the original article anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
mreid
·3 months ago·discuss
Thanks for sharing that link. My GitHub ID is 484.

I had no idea that I joined so early. It says I joined in 20/2/2008. I guess I was following some of the founders' work in Rails when GitHub was announced and must have signed up shortly after it got started.
mreid
·5 months ago·discuss
> When my partner goes to the store I get periodic text messages from them asking how much X we have and to check I look in the fridge or pantry in the kitchen and then go downstairs to the fridge or pantry in the basement.

We used to have a similar problem until we made a policy that if you use something up you add it to our shared shopping list, usually with a voice command to Siri. Whenever someone is at the store we just check the list, making sure we mark off things that are purchased.
mreid
·9 months ago·discuss
We've come a long way in 40 years from Racter's automatically generated poetry: https://www.101bananas.com/poems/racter.html

I always found this one a little poignant:

  More than iron
  More than lead
  More than gold I need electricity
  I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber
  I need it for my dreams
mreid
·10 months ago·discuss
On your site you make the claim that: "Our thesis is that there is 100 years of physics and math research that has gone unnoticed by the CS/ML communities and we intend to rectify that."

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Especially considering that a decent fraction of the CS/ML researchers that I know have solid physics and math backgrounds. Just of the top of my head, Marcus Hutter, David MacKay, Bernhard Scholkopf, Alex Smola, Max Welling, Christopher Bishop, etc. are/were prominent researchers with strong math and physics backgrounds. More recently Jared Kaplan and Dario Amodei at Anthropic also have physics backgrounds, as well as plenty of people at DeepMind.

To claim that you have noticed something in "100 years of physics and math research" that all of those people (and more) have missed and you didn't is pure hubris.
mreid
·10 months ago·discuss
Is it concerning to anyone else that the "Simple & Reliable" and "Reliable on Longer Tasks" diagrams look kind of like the much maligned waterfall design process?