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The volume of an n-dimensional Mozart ball

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ya know, me, you wouldn’t get so many segfaults if you initialized your buffers before trying to write to them

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if there is a reachable maximal economic productivity of matterenergy/spacetime, then at some point economic progress will slow from exponential to cubic, since if one expands at a constant fraction of c, then the growth is proportional to the volume of the sphere, which with constantly expanding radius is cubic.

I need to find evidence for/against the claim that there was a training run of GPT-2 that maximized negative log-loss I've heard it a couple of times on the internet and already spread the meme myself, but I haven't seen it in a paper or blogpost

Niplav Yushtun™️: A Large Variety of Extremely Good Posts

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we have the fermat polygonal theorem and pollock's polyhedral numbers conjectures. can we generalise this into the n-polytopal conjecture?

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All compositions
by Charles Mingus except
as indicated

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Alice: If elected, I promise not to tweet!

* crowd cheers *

Alice (whispering): from my verified real name account, anyway.

Surprised my website is mobile-friendly, I took =0 steps to achieve that

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@pluralistic
GIVE ME A MODEL WITH BETTER PREDICTIONS OR GIVE ME DEATH

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f(x,y) = ((-((~x) + (x - y))) ^ (((x + x) * (-y)) / ((y | 12) ^ (x * y)))) % 4

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

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naked in my own room

haa any man ever been more free than i?

hmmm

probably yes for me

no for sbf

many others on the spectrum

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in unrelated news, LW now satisfies the Zawinski-criterion for good software for me: jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

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