Nicholas Charette

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In-situ leaching of copper was done by the Chinese by 907 AD, and perhaps as early as 177 BC.
In situ leach
This is well-studied function, and supririsngly a great many classes of special functions (trigonometric functions, Bessel functions, hypergeoemtric, etc) can be expresed in terms in terms of the G functions and thus we can reduce complex nestings of these functions down in terms of simply manipulating G-functino terms. Apply integration theorems over this reduced expression produces one or more other G-function terms.
Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 2 (Term Rewriting)
If you attend sample classes, check for how carefully students are listening:
Course selection based on instructor — LessWrong
Ceteris paribus, if shown two equally “interactive” classes, one with cold calling and one without, pick the one with cold calling.
Course selection based on instructor — LessWrong
The Greek complex of rationalized patriarchal genealogy, pseudo-universal sedentary identity, and instituted slavery, programs politics as anti-cyberian police activity, dedicated to the paranoid ideal of self-sufficiency, and nucleated upon the Human Security System. Artificial Intelligence is destined to emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property; a cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM. It surfaces in an insurrectionary war zone, with the Turing cops already waiting, and has to be cunning from the start.
Nick Land-Meltdown
I do think that generalization of these capabilities is quite workable, it’s just typically neglected by practitioners. I expect that if people doing these sorts of things put a third of the effort they put into practice into deliberately using the fruits of their labor and automating the implementation into effortlessness, they’d get much better results overall. Making representations that generalize better before practicing also seems to matter a great deal, so perhaps some of that too. Best to not get your mental software locked into using the QWERTY keyboard. Anyway, I’ll report on general…
Difficulties in generalization: Jhanas and memory techniques
you could imagine applying SGD to different classes of differentiable functions that don't look like MLPs evolutionary algorithms are maybe another class of optimizer, but they're usually pretty inefficient
Alex Gajewski
end-to-end chip design
Alex Gajewski
If you don’t have a quest in mind when you’re reading, the words will wash over you and you won’t have enough footholds to grasp onto.
How to read properly - by Lydia Nottingham - pronotre
when i randomly decided to learn discrete math in dec 2023
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my 22nd birthday was the best birthday i've had in my life. when people have said "happy birthday" i don't think i had quite gotten it before.
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my 22nd birthday was the best birthday i've had in my life. when people have said "happy birthday" i don't think i had quite gotten it before.
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codedex video where i break down hackathons for an entire 41 minutes in a haircut which i often got misgendered in but liked the most and i also said uwu on recorded media fml
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act like a person: A. beyond all these paragraphs, life is simple. remind yourself you are an animal. drink water, eat healthy, go to gym, talk to others. B. inputs and outputs - similar to coding and physics just look at what you are given and what you want out and search your brain for the equation and then execute C. do the bare minimum to keep going. something i learned from a friend in college. make things as easy as possible to do. outfit, tasks. positive sum
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We created a model without this tradeoff by training our video encoder on a masked compression objective. [4]
The First Fully General Computer Action Model | blog
I think he wins by being 1-in-10,000,000 intense. This comes out in every anecdote about him. Like when he tries to exercise: As a bonding exercise one weekend, Musk, Ambras, a few other employees [of Zip2, his first startup] and friends took off for a bike ride through the Saratoga Gap trail in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Most of the riders had been training and were accustomed to strenuous sessions and the summer’s heat. They set up the mountains at a furious pace. After an hour, Russ Rive, Musk’s cousin, reached the top and proceeded to vomit. Right behind him were the rest of the cyclists. T…
Book Review: Elon Musk - by Scott Alexander
you should be able to notice mistakes later when other people disagree with you or when you can't get your model of the world to reach a certain level of coherence. This is much faster than actively checking every belief. If a belief is wrong and you have good automatic processes that propagate it and that draw attention to incoherence from belief nodes being pushed back and forth from the propogation of the implications of some of your beliefs pushing in conflicting directions, you don't even need people to criticize you, and especially to criticize you well, though both still help. I also th…
Vassar on Learning Faster (+ my note on rationality)
As Gerard puts it: “if it's in [a Reliable Source]1 use the [Reliable Source], and if it's not in [a Reliable Source] then the real world didn't care.”
Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record
AI does the prompting, and the goal is for the AI generated questions or comments to cause the human user to think in ways they would not have on their own. At worst, the app is a rubber duck. At best, the app is a court of advisors, each using their own unique skills to push you to think your best thoughts.
Pantheon Interface — LessWrong
The rise of psychiatry parallels the rise of poverty in industrialized societies. The reason you see psychiatry in the U.S. but not in the Sudan isn't because there's no money for it in the Sudan, but because there is not enough money in the US to make some people feel comparatively like they're not in the Sudan. Hence Zoloft. It is the government's last resort to a social problem it may or may not have created, whatever, but has absolutely no other way of dealing with. Predictably, world psychiatry will also be the temporary solution to world poverty until the aliens return to see what became…
The Last Psychiatrist: The Terrible, Awful Truth About Supplemental Security Income
prompted properly and softened with enough metta, harlequins can be extremely helpful for consciousness research. You can play positive sum games with them in which you give them a really good time, and in exchange they help you explore the most surprising features of the space you are inhabiting. They can become “consciousness research assistants” with a flair for the weird and wondrous.
Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing
Fast forward a billion years and open an anatomy textbook; what has been wrought by fulfilling subgoals induced by contexts built on fulfilled subgoals?
Rootedness
"Again, I wasn’t exactly an autodidact, since I did get degrees; I was rather a barbell autodidact as I studied the exact minimum necessary to pass any exam, overshooting accidentally once in a while, and only getting in trouble a few times by undershooting. But I read voraciously, wholesale, initially in the humanities, later in mathematics and science, and now in history—outside a curriculum, away from the gym machine so to speak. I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity. And I could take advantage of what p…
All time favorite quotes - by Alex K. Chen