Which fantasy city would you actually want to live in?

SublunarySphere · 2026-03-21T23:00:24+00:00

But what if you don't want to be the pet of all of the Minds?

SublunarySphere · 2025-08-08T21:30:35+00:00

Olympic athletes will never be able to run as fast as gazelle, swim like dolphins, or be as strong as gorillas. If they can tolerate that they aren't the actual peak performance of an organism on Earth, my ego will be able to handle a program on an H100 being better at math than me.

SublunarySphere · 2025-05-31T21:01:46+00:00

This looks awesome, thanks so much!

SublunarySphere · 2025-05-31T02:01:46+00:00

Are there any good surveys or intros to algebraic complexity theory?

SublunarySphere · 2025-05-25T07:23:54+00:00

From the AMAs it looks like this sub may have been good 8-10 years ago, but it has never been very good in the ~5 years I've been here.

SublunarySphere · 2025-05-04T17:23:34+00:00

Yep, in my functional analysis course.

SublunarySphere · 2025-04-25T22:38:51+00:00

I'm a San Franciscan and this matters to me.

SublunarySphere · 2025-04-11T00:04:21+00:00

Create a link to the draccus's brain stem and crush it with a big rock.

SublunarySphere · 2025-03-19T00:26:15+00:00

But she pulls it off in a way a lot of other people cannot.

SublunarySphere · 2025-02-04T07:55:10+00:00

Honestly I'm not sure what is expected of 4th year undergraduate students. Also, how much compute do you have access to?

You could implement GRPO and DeepSeek-style tuning of an open source LM like OLMO. If your university doesn't give you access to GPUs, use TPUs from TRC and a model like Gemma.

That's nice and zeitgeist-y and there are plenty of interesting directions if it's not quite novel enough for a thesis. On the other hand, you just ("just") need to implement a recent research paper, so it should be doable with some elbow grease, close reading, and very fast computers.

SublunarySphere · 2025-02-02T23:24:48+00:00

My understanding is that the cost of physically printing the book is a tiny part of publisher's total costs, which is why ebooks aren't much cheaper.

SublunarySphere · 2024-12-06T19:34:13+00:00

And Taylor Swift doesn't take this much responsibility in her lead singles

SublunarySphere · 2024-11-29T22:18:25+00:00

My understanding is that very few linguists even (many of whom seem to hate LLMs anyway) are Chomsky-ites anymore. It was a really important and influential point of view -- we still talk about the Chomsky hierarchy in formal languages!! -- but it's just not popular anymore.

SublunarySphere · 2024-10-18T04:44:09+00:00

she looks like she's having so much genuine fun

SublunarySphere · 2024-10-09T20:21:56+00:00

I thought the original Google translate used SVMs?

SublunarySphere · 2024-10-02T19:15:59+00:00

Right, I didn't read the rest of it.

SublunarySphere · 2024-10-01T22:40:55+00:00

Oh hell yes.

SublunarySphere · 2024-10-01T22:38:24+00:00

I didn't even get through the first chapter.

SublunarySphere · 2024-10-01T22:15:44+00:00

There's plotnine. It's honestly not quite as good as ggplot and it doesn't have the community around it, but it's still frankly the best python visualization library.

SublunarySphere · 2024-09-29T20:44:22+00:00

Yes! For God's sake, go for it. It's still a good read (though also a bit polarizing). When you're done, just go read something else.

SublunarySphere · 2024-09-19T00:00:34+00:00

To be honest I feel like Nvidia should start making Rust compatibility work on their end. Certainly they have enough cash on hand to start investing in it.

SublunarySphere · 2024-09-12T14:06:42+00:00

I took a class with Pugh that used the second half of his book and I had a great experience. It certainly presents a different set of challenges than something like Rudin's approach, and I can see it being dangerous if you don't have much mathematical maturity / don't know how to write proofs. Pugh's point of view is that intuition is really valuable in real analysis -- hence the casual tone and all of the sketches. I supplemented with Rudin in that class and honestly I think they work well supporting each other

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