𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 27I've been trying kava root, and it strikes me as a much better alcohol thus far. The main downside is the reverse tolerance (?!) and also that root water extract is slightly unpleasant and wouldn't go in beverages as well as alcohol does.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 30What do you think a reasonable person should have been able to agree on about nuclear war in 1939?
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 2What I would ask myself: Did you feel that you had as many seeds and notes for 𝘯𝘦𝘸 ideas during 2021? Where did you get them from and where did you first notice them, ambiently? pic.twitter.com/Bf0bjRLxqF
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 14Sure: "We're so rich and our people are so productive that it is literally not worth our time to worry about a few thousand packages going walkies; we aren't retirees scarred by the Great Depression hoarding NatGeo issues—just click the button on Amazon and get a replacement."
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 10The paper (not poster) only came out like, 3 days ago. Not much time for cites.
It also raises questions about how you'd investigate it on 'real' data. Are you going to run 10,000 epoches on ImageNet? What if it doesn't grok, but that was really just one of the random failures?
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 15Today in unusual fulltexting adventures: tracking a Dennett cite, I find myself buying American magic textbook scan off... a Chinese website? Comes about a working day later.
I'm pretty sure they have a mole inside one of the famous magic private torrent trackers to get stuff.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 29Why, did the dinosaurs have a space program I am unaware of?
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 11Are you saying you don't have any backups at all of your computers, even when Apple makes those so easy and lack of backups can cost you way more than merely $10k of Mickey Mouse money?
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 4So you're saying that... there's no more alpha in knowing alpha?
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 29Another example of why I switched to putting the real number first. People will anchor on the big number and ignore the small number. Nominal first: "he he, I guess if you're so smart whyaincha rich"; real first: "oh wow, that's actually... quite a lot?" twitter.com/Virtual1nstinc…
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 15(So, Arxiv is the most useful thing now-50+-years of string theory research has produced?)
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 15Political donations are dominated by multiple orders of magnitude by pretty much anything else, so even complete 0% absence of funging is inadequate to justify it in general.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJan 24One will be shocked to read about yet another case of cloud egress bandwidth costs combined with cloud providers adamantly refusing to implement any kind of cost control. (Dedicated servers not affected.)
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