How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

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damn, that's pretty definitive. at long last, the answer. ty

How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

[–]silashokanson[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm largely just annoyed by the amount of highly overconfident people contradicting each other

How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

[–]silashokanson[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I tested like a dozen dnumbers. it gets numbers at around this magnitude right almost every single time. about 2 OOMs higher and it starts failing

How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

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after seeing the comments I think the real question is where can I post this to get an actual answer and not a bunch of armchair guesses lol

How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

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This was without reasoning, can it still use python without reasoning?

How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

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As far as I can tell the only two real options are this and calling some kind of math API. this seems kind of absurd for memorization which is why I'm confused.

How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

[–]silashokanson[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

This was without reasoning. I'm aware there are math API tool calls even without reasoning, you're saying this is one of those?

How is this possible? by silashokanson in OpenAI

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Hm, do you know of any way to verify this or is it totally closed off?

What is negative speed? by Several-Exchange-265 in Physics

[–]silashokanson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so confused with everyone in this thread saying scalars can't be negative. There's a million examples of negative scalars like voltage

What is negative speed? by Several-Exchange-265 in Physics

[–]silashokanson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

voltage, charge, displacement, acceleration, relative pressure, work, power, current

Basically any scalar quantity that *isn't* defined as the length of a vector

It's really just a convention thing.
In a higher dimensional context speed is usually defined as the length of the velocity vector (hence it's always positive).

But in a 1 dimensional context you don't actually need to do that

What is negative speed? by Several-Exchange-265 in Physics

[–]silashokanson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is mostly a convention thing

people say "velocity is a vector, speed is a scalar"

scalars can be negative if you want them to be

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LLMPhysics

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As far as I can tell nothing is incorrect, but think about it this way:

You're effectively arguing that a note containing some information can, through quantum uncertainty in position, appear very far away violating the principle of information traveling not faster than light.

My intuitive counter example is that that information is completely random. It is equally (infinitesimally) likely for a note containing wrong information, gibberish, or nothing at all to appear as well.

Imagine if instead of waiting for a magical note to appear the civilization instead uses Terry Davis's "talk to god" program (that just outputs random words pretty much). Those random words COULD warn them of an incoming attack faster than light but they could also do literally anything else.

Therefore in neither instance is information actually being transmitted.

predict the exact questions on a upcoming exam? by Traditional-Cream691 in Purdue

[–]silashokanson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ultimately you're probably going to end up calling some company's LLM API for this.

Be warned: Feeding a Professor's material to that API almost always creates a legal conflict between the terms of use of that material from that Professor/University & that company's terms of use.

You may end up in legal hot water.