gsf_emergency_2

A different take:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-18904-3

(Maybe the Greeks' themselves could have done it, they already had a rudimentary steam engine )

Had Archimedes lived to teach the Romans his calculus we might have reached Mars by 500 AD

https://youtu.be/h0gPomI3h8o

that's not from hesitation. And one can only call the Syracuse invasion an inefficiency in hindsight.

The immediate opportunity of a ~million Roman lives compared to other hypothetical opportunities

(One might guess that opportunities of the win-win type weren't covered by Munger's model)

Maybe all i'm suggesting is that AI can help us quickly check that what we humans are working on is indeed insane ( and switch to something else if it passes their sanity checks)

The causal path from Rodenderry to the ipod .. is.. easy to approximate compared to the causal path from Zen Monks to Darth Vader.. (though they are in roughly opposite directions)

Sorry to repeat but I felt a bit of Eureka

If I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes (when he basically discovered calculus) motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "yep that works!"

https://youtu.be/h0gPomI3h8o

(That was long ago, but I'm sure it also happens today)

Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!"

Money is a path to acquiring sufficient power

Power and money are almost interchangeable, and I'm taking a wild guess that better questions are hidden in that "almost" (as you say, "wisdom+effort", but I'd have to sleep on that for a few nights in order not to casually one-up that with "precience")

Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!"

More like survival. I think of Archimedes' letters to the librarian of Alexandria, describing his secret technique of infinitessimals. It seems clear that he knew his work was meaningful but he wasnt going to die without telling anybody about it. He wasn't looking for validation, he didn't need it

Thanks for helping to refine the thinking. I guess the other side of the coin that would be make the paradox interesting is that, in the long term, it has to seem that most of the stuff built with money (but without intrinsically motivated managers) lose out to the stuff built on pure passion. After discounting for a heap of survival bias.

There's this related phenom which seems paradoxical to me but maybe you can help figure:

Things that are built with money (& not by say, intrinsic motivation alone) seem to have a high ratio of (traction) to (resources invested). Not sure if marketing alone can explain that?

Obvious exceptions come to mind , eg the Linux kernel, but even that was massively boosted by commercial interests.

(One other class of exceptions could be tentatively named "winning the zeitgeist lottery")

If you would agree that this phenom exists in the short to mid time frame: without the likelihood of traction, how can intrinsic meaning alone provide motivation?

It's the LinkedIn version of the challenge to tell people they can prove P=NP without te ...

As far as Jane Jacobs (not a professional) is concerned, this is the hardest problem for any tribe of humans: how to survive as a culture?

On values (some say fumes) or on money. Values vs value. Academia back in the days of Athena was a "solution" on the values end of the spectrum. Religion, too, until they figured out they could appeal to the "charity" of the spiritually hungry rich (& later, everyone)

(I appreciate the Benedictine orders for limiting their offer of spiritual goods to some devilish brews )

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention

--EAB, Why I Write

(The trick could be for some of us amateurs to preferentially attend to the preternaturally funny babies)

embarassed

Like I once managed not to be triggered by ex-VC aebtebeten's routine dismissal of the following thesis the pieces of which I then had to shovel back into the incubator: expert embarassment is a seriously under-investigated vehicle that can't be faked in front of hiring committees (/elite managers/apple-ICs-who-cant-help-but-be-promoted-into-???)..

schlep-tolerance (all sorts of tolerance, sprezzatura, even) can be faked (whether until made or not) these days..

Embarassment.. it's only slightly better than self-deprecatory humor (in that the embarassed party explicitly confesses to (not merely) incomplete sentience, but also inexplicable emotional sequelae etc etc)

Now, who's going to devote decades to perfecting performative embarassment? Only someone you must hire at any cost (?) like.. a Soham Parekh who can explain the meta of what he's doing so you'd pay him to continue the shtick

To the guy out there in the arena: sorry! My anti-anhedonia model needs fine-tuning. It's a lifelong slog..

As it is, I'm embarrassed that this stuff doesn't attract upvotes..

Looks like fitzhugh-nagumo with extra terms?

(Or hodgkin-huxley with fewer)

A show-HN mid-dive with Brian simulator would be cool

Oops late to the tussle with identarians.

Andersen suggests that a tradeoff exists in predictive processing, where giving higher weight to prediction errors prevents the detection of false patterns (i.e. apophenia) at the cost of being unable to detect higher level patterns, and giving lower weight to prediction errors allows for the detection of higher level patterns at the cost of occasionally detecting patterns that don't exist, as in delusions and hallucinations that occur in schizotypy.

Personally: I focus on the anhedonia because ime the other schizotypists* (&, less commonly, diagnosed autists) seem to have it, and, as I might have mentioned before, negative affect in combo with some other traits tends to attract bullies/certain sadists/karens/well just friggin identarians and not fellow autists/schizos whatever :)

(*As far as I'm concerned the founding stoics were simply rationalizing their anhedonia, so they needed rich and powerful patrons to take that practice to the masses. Former-day VC and unis, as it were)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418765

I was amused that higher quality quartz from Spruce Pines NC (Sibelco) doesn't go into the chips themselves, but the silicon crucibles (makes sense in retrospect because you need your tools to be finer than the product, but as a chip-user..) and display glass

One surprising thing I learned is that ChatGPT can solve the word segmentation problem quite well, and it can even add punctuation and capitalization back into the message. While LLMs are far too slow to participate in the performance-intensive crack (we can use simpler heuristics like trigrams for that,) their ability to make semantic sense of partially mangled text might still be useful in automating the “sense of rightness” which hitherto has been left to human cryptographers.

Also. Plot device in Cryptonomicon (iirc)

Lagniappe https://www.amazon.com/Codes-Villains-Mystery-Stories-Cipher...

I think a better question is of the form "known by Ginsparg?" Conjecture: "no" :)

"aP,aS" is a recipe for achieving an equilibrium of (semipermanent) purgatory . Yet there could be tiny (cross-community, even though not community-wide) pockets of optimism/mutual learning:

https://www.w2cxm.org/

Could use better photos for their balloon launches, has backstage access to outdoor events, only a tad identarian etc

How's business at the Daily Sun?

Ah yes, a paper from Fan Shanhui's group at Stanford, which kicked off the whole business. Should have linked that instead!

This is 5.7 deg (using metasurfaces to selectively reflect reflect absorb different wavelengths)

compared to a less fancy 4.9 deg from their seminal paper (2014)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13883

Maybe comparable cooling can be achieved with even cheaper techniques..?

As someone who has worked in adjacent areas, I guessed that one might find it in random matrix pedagogy, but only after reading Sam (B) Hopkin's comment was I able to get google to give a source for something close to that formula:

https://mathoverflow.net/a/300915

(In particular, I had to prompt with "Stieltjes transform". "Resolvent" alone didn't work.)

To flip this into a potential solution to a wider problem-- global thermal balance-- combine solar panels with radiative cooling.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/13/daytime-radiative-coo...

To add color to your opinion: this piece was written by one of the financial editors

https://www.ft.com/tabby-kinder

No "unified opinion" but an editorial stance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times#Editorial_stan...

you want to open a wikipedia debate on that :)?

If I were you I'd point to the FT [Weekend] Magazine marquee instead

It's concerning that FT don't take more of an econs-of-AI-investment angle, explored here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399893

(Maybe Doctorow has too much of a Guardian vibe, compared to Zitron?)

The Economist would argue that the investor is always right, so maybe that's too hard of a line for FT to press

The upping was most clearly down 1940-1950. When shipping and/or industry took a hit. Together with the sulfur emissions debacle, it's clear that most interventions (either radiative cooling or at-source capture) need to focus on shipping.

But then you hit the "laws of the high seas" problem. Maybe tariffs can have a role to play here! Via a Nobel Prize!

https://skepticalscience.com/The-CO2-Temperature-correlation...

Pre-chatgpt blogposts on well-known topics used to be far better motivated or layman-oriented

https://ace-pt.org/ace-physical-therapy-and-sports-medicine-...

which hints that the low 2.7% improvement should not be unexpected of commercializable interventions targeting this joint

(unlike, say, of obviously illegal (powered or not) exoskeletons)

https://medium.com/the-bronze-age/the-ships-of-the-sea-peopl...

Otoh, bona fide connections between Pangaea, Sea Peoples & modern day Turkiye are still discussed on OpenAI-resistant YouTube today

https://youtu.be/a0LWFt78n7k

On the first hand, the automaton reminds me that "modern-day philistines settled in the Gaza Strip after their defeat"

I couldn't find my old photo of a modern-day nordic recreational cyclist with an all metal SAAB on his back, so here's the next best thing

https://old.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/yicgme/it...

(this thread may blow up but anyhows)

strange sort of liminal person

exhibits the sort of behavior I'd imagine Bell Labs would have wanted to encourage.

(It also gets me upset when in comparison charlatans manage to get onto the HN frontpage.. there's a deep strong vs weak link problem here that I need to calm down and think about)

I recall, now, with some guilt and regret, the times I've been approached by students, janitors with interesting technical hobbies, and profs while anchored to liminal spaces

--And I didn't seize the opportunities to collab (ok, the prof was Ginsparg lol, who used to be the most liminal tenured sort of person I could think of )

Maybe the problem here is that you somehow don't look interesting enough, or, more likely, the only liminal spaces next to where you work are shared labspace behind closed doors or next to a giant meteorite :)

Not advice: undergrads tend to be more excited at what they work on (I had a random grad student show me the NMR setup in the chem dept but I think I was more inspired than he was-- you need to listen between the lines for the unassigned problems which still stir some residual emotions in the grad student; that one was into quantum error correction.)

YouTube and wikipedia are better than quantmag for this

(Clebsch or Klein surfaces)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_surface#/media/File:Cleb...

https://youtu.be/lLBOiiFs87Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clebsch_surface

https://nathanfieldsteel.github.io/2019/10/15/27-Lines.html

Small organizations used to provide the bulk of low-cost housing to transients. (Until early 70s)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_house#History

One wonders if the homeless situation would improve if people were more aware of their historical role

(6-7) Bro I think you're too emotionally obsessed by these "academic shitposting" talking-heads.. (unless you're replying to these lowviz threads purely in self-therapy.. which, I approve!) hidden "fraternal" envy?

Reform in governance has to start with learning specific processes from Swiss, Irish (the country), Latin American and even Chinese/Korean institutions (eg Cuba medical training from that nice thread) -- and not from divining ideological positions originating from European countries -- that unfortunately get the bulk of the "humanist" attention

It'd be like reading a Design magazine and getting upset with the editors' fixation on Balenciaga

(5) though is an interesting observation, please do those statistics. I think what STEM academic types that don't thrive on Bs and X (like you and OP) have, broadly, that is undervalued by technocracies- a hidden talent for cognitive plasticity that translates better to agency

(Edit: what silver calls "decoupling")

Thanks. I've obviously not thought about mimetics very much, I've just been more interested in figuring out how Thiel, specifically, wields them as a tool of influence (for now, in the limited sphere of SV intellectuals/rightwing politicians)

-- which I thought was comparable to how a swath of people orientate themselves with respect to (such entities as TV tropes and) memes.

Anyways. Memes are much more alive than mimetics; tapeworms are an adequate metaphor in that sense

I don't see a problem personally but single, or more strictly speaking, for medical journals, --even medrxiv-- unaffiliated authorship is a (internal) filter