Eigil Rischel - abstr/acc 💎 @ayegill@schelling.pt

I still can't get over how stupid "eat out to help out" was

"Why did you dunk-QT me?!" said the frog to the scorpion, "Now both our timelines will be worse!"

The world if the SI people hadn't defined a liter to be roughly two pints.

My toxic trait is that I inhibit cytochrome C oxidase

Daniel reeves reading this tweet

Small brain: Here's the statement of the theorem, here's the proof.
Medium brain: You can find it in this other paper.
Big brain: The result is folklore, I heard about it from this guy.
Galaxy brain: If you cajole ChatGPT a bit you can get it to give you a proof.

Not my sea, not my monkeys

My toxic trait is staying in the yellow on all my beeminder goals so I can use the emergency warnings as reminders.

"You'd best start believin' in morality plays about the hubris of man, Mr. Altman... You're in one!"

What I'm imagining is your generate a bunch of completions and penalize the ones that don't compile(or pass some other statically-performable check like generating no syntax errors or whatever)

Does anyone use "reinforcement learning from compiler feedback" to train LLMs for code generation? It seems like eg codex was just made by doing extra training on github code.

The Trisolarans really decided to gaslight gatekeep girlboss humanity

Studying linear algebra when you shoul be looking for the future mother of your children, bro you're worried about the wrong matrix

@panchromaticity How the fuck is this so good

I will not get my hopes up for the Remembrance of Earth's Past Netflix show
I will not get my hopes up for the Remembrance of Earth's Past Netflix show
I will not get my hopes up for the Remembrance of Earth's Past Netflix show

@TetraspaceGrouping This is also stated to be why string theory seems to suggest the universe has a bunch of extra dimensions, but some of them are randomly super compact and impossible to observe - it's not "randomly", it's because those dimensions were collapsed!

@TetraspaceGrouping At some point we see a spaceship come across a surviving pocket of four-dimensional space.

The lightspeed thing is because lightspeed (but not FTL) drives are possible, but they permanently lower the lightspeed in that area - advanced civs have gradually driven lightspeed across the universe down to the current value because they're all using lightspeed drives constantly.