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measurablefunc

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I don't comment on internet forums to be complimented on my response style. Address the substance of my arguments or just save yourself the keystrokes.

Convincing (counter)arguments make as few assumptions as possible & clarify them as they unfold w/o making unnecessary claims that are not validated w/ the evidence presented. Furthermore, pathologizing the speaker/writer does not contribute to anything either so my recommendation is to leave those out as well.

Submissions

Sheaf theory: from deep geometry to deep learning (2025)

arxiv.org
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Combining SAT Solvers with CAS to Verify Combinatorial Conjectures (2016)

link.springer.com
2 points·by measurablefunc·Hôm kia·0 comments

Classical computing, quantum computing, and Shor's factoring algorithm (1999)

alphaxiv.org
1 points·by measurablefunc·4 ngày trước·0 comments

Fixed-Point Theorems and the Ethics of Transparency (2025)

arxiv.org
4 points·by measurablefunc·4 ngày trước·0 comments

Trouble Transitioning (2025)

lrb.co.uk
7 points·by measurablefunc·5 ngày trước·1 comments

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

math.ucr.edu
152 points·by measurablefunc·7 ngày trước·13 comments

The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

moeonmargin.substack.com
129 points·by measurablefunc·9 ngày trước·116 comments

How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

buttondown.com
3 points·by measurablefunc·10 ngày trước·0 comments

Category-Theoretic Comparative Framework for Artificial General Intelligence

arxiv.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·12 ngày trước·0 comments

A Survey on Lawvere's Fixed-Point Theorem (2025)

arxiv.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·15 ngày trước·0 comments

Calculus in Coinductive Form (1998)

ieeexplore.ieee.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·16 ngày trước·0 comments

Wave Equation with Computable Initial Data and Solution Is Nowhere Computable

dl.acm.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·21 ngày trước·0 comments

Bad universal priors and notions of optimality (2015) [pdf]

jan.leike.name
1 points·by measurablefunc·tháng trước·0 comments

Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

philosophynow.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·2 tháng trước·1 comments

Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes (2003)

arxiv.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·2 tháng trước·0 comments

New Orleans needs to prepare to relocate residents

npr.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·2 tháng trước·0 comments

Thermal Power and Climate Change

eartharxiv.org
2 points·by measurablefunc·2 tháng trước·0 comments

Isbell Duality (2022)

alphaxiv.org
1 points·by measurablefunc·2 tháng trước·0 comments

A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8

alphaxiv.org
34 points·by measurablefunc·2 tháng trước·0 comments

World food systems 'pushed to the brink' by extreme heat, UN warns

theguardian.com
5 points·by measurablefunc·3 tháng trước·0 comments

comments

measurablefunc
·4 giờ trước·discuss
Analogy doesn't really work.
measurablefunc
·Hôm qua·discuss
I recommend you look into Gell-Mann amnesia.
measurablefunc
·7 ngày trước·discuss
Then you are paying for the electricity. It's not physically possible to do more computation & not use more energy b/c every arithmetic operation requires a minimum amount of energy so more operations = more energy.
measurablefunc
·8 ngày trước·discuss
You should look into In-Q-Tel.
measurablefunc
·15 ngày trước·discuss
I got the answer from the AI I was looking for & it makes sense. You can try to map the volumetric density to areal density but the mapping is not canonical so it doesn't say anything about the physical reality of actual transistor density since the reality is that it is a volumetric measure that gets fudged for marketing purposes. 3D volume for chips is going to keep increasing so they will eventually transition to measuring density over volume instead of area.
measurablefunc
·15 ngày trước·discuss
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measurablefunc
·15 ngày trước·discuss
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measurablefunc
·15 ngày trước·discuss
It's a physical quantity per some unit of spatial measurement so the units still don't match up b/c in one case the transistors are stacked per volume & in the other case per area.

> Historically, "node" sizes (like 28nm or 7nm) directly correlated to the physical length of a transistor's gate. Today, names like 3nm or 2nm reflect a marketing generation. The actual transistors are significantly larger than these nanometer labels, meaning density varies between companies

> Research organizations like IEEE have proposed new metrics, such as transistors per cubic millimeter (MTr/mm^3), to accurately map future 3D scaling. However, commercial chip foundries resist this change because it would make it harder to calculate commercial yields and thermal density limits using standard industry formulas.

https://share.google/aimode/Z5BqUjlZWFNphm6Z6
measurablefunc
·15 ngày trước·discuss
Density is mass per volume so how are you comparing it to a planar transistor? Your units don't even match.
measurablefunc
·17 ngày trước·discuss
Shareholders didn't like it. At the end of the day Meta is an advertising company so everything they do must be in service of increasing revenue from advertising.
measurablefunc
·18 ngày trước·discuss
Something for future generations to figure out with their AI chatbots.
measurablefunc
·27 ngày trước·discuss
This is correct. The most valuable form of data for any AI company is corrective feedback from real use cases.
measurablefunc
·tháng trước·discuss
Argument from ignorance is not as well known as other fallacies but very common in discussions about sentience, consciousness, and computability, i.e. not having evidence for something doesn't mean that thing is false. It is possible there are physical processes that are not computable & not being aware of such processes doesn't mean the alternative (everything is computable) is true.

So instead of making any unjustifiable claims like "everything physical is computable" you should instead just say "I believe consciousness is computable and that is why it is possible to instantiate it on any computational substrate, including strategy games like Age of Empires, properly arranged dominoes, and water wheels".
measurablefunc
·tháng trước·discuss
Physically describable doesn't mean computable. You're making too many unjustified logical leaps which makes your argument circular & conflates "physical" w/ "computable".
measurablefunc
·tháng trước·discuss
That says every LTL formula can be compiled into UHAT w/ polynomial overhead. It doesn't say that all languages recognizable w/ UHATs necessarily do not have succinct recgonizers in LTLs or RNNs.

Edit: Actually nevermind. If UHAT could be compiled into LTL w/ polynomial overhead then that would also work for the languages that have exponential overhead in LTL but since they don't there is a strict separation.
measurablefunc
·tháng trước·discuss
What about the other direction? What languages are expressible w/ RNNs & LTLs that require exponential blowup for transformers?
measurablefunc
·tháng trước·discuss
> "Moreover, it must be confessed that perception and that which depends upon it are inexplicable on mechanical grounds, that is to say, by means of figures and motions. And supposing there were a machine, so constructed as to think, feel, and have perception, it might be conceived as increased in size, while keeping the same proportions, so that one might go into it as into a mill. That being so, we should, on examining its interior, find only parts which work one upon another, and never anything by which to explain a perception."

- Monadology, Section 17

Conscious self-awareness is neither scale invariant nor independent of substrate. Computational theories will never account for it b/c computational abstractions are both scale invariant & substrate independent.
measurablefunc
·tháng trước·discuss
> However, our system relies on frontier LLMs, whose compute costs still remain nontrivial. Moreover, each textbook was formalized in isolation, without the careful planning needed to make it maximally compatible with existing mathlib infrastructure. Human involvement currently remains necessary to handle such organisational concerns — selecting and ordering books in a dependency-aware manner, bridging mismatched conventions across sources, etc
measurablefunc
·2 tháng trước·discuss
> if f and g are algebraically equivalent programs then FPSan(f) and FPSan(g) produce identical results when given identical inputs

Ok, but we want the other direction. If FPSan(f) & FPSan(g) produce identical results for identical inputs then we want to conclude that f & g are also equivalent. If g is an "optimized" version of f then this would allow checking equivalence but that's not what they are proving or maybe they are but it looks like the converse is contingent on an unproven conjecture.
measurablefunc
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Still kinda weird that a non-YC company gets to have job listings on a site for only YC companies.