Readit NewsThat blew my mind and I went into a rabbit hole of error correction. I did not know about the reed-solomon or any other methods. Just took days to understand it. Implementing my own par like shitty thing in the process.
This brings that back as I’m more curious about the error correction than the actual bit encoding.
The math we have mastered is incredible. If only they could impart this wonder to children instead of rote worksheets enforced by drill sergeant math teachers.
While I'm ranting, I checked out a book from the library yesterday called "Math with Bad Drawings", it's very fun, and approachable for anyone with no math background, kids and adults enjoy it.
We need more STEM for fun, and not just STEM for money. That's how we get good at STEM.
As reliable as a horoscope, and less fun.
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for some products.
If it were 95% of anything useful, Anthropic would not still have >1000 employees, and the rest of the economy would be collapsing, and governments would be taking some kind of action.
Yet none of that appears to be happening. Why?
It's not as though the rest of the non-web internet is a historical curio or abandoned obsolete technology.
It churned for >5 minutes and didn't solve the problem.
grep, of course, solved the problem in under a second.
AGI is going to be a while, and your jobs are safe.
For example, if you make 5000 dollars a month and get a 5000 dollar BNPL loan for a stereo, payment due in a month, then even without interest, you now either starve or default on the loan (or incur penalties, i.e. the interest you thought didn't apply).