Readit Newsgolf_mike commented on Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture chipsandcheese.com/p/look... · Posted by u/ryandotsmith
It regurgitates whatever was in it's training set.
Don't we all :)
The reduction method means reducing a big cube (NxNxN for N>3) to a 3x3x3 cube by first solving the centers (the central (N-2)x(N-2)x(N-2) square on each face) and the edges (the inner N-2 pieces along each edge of the cube). You are then essentially left with a 3x3x3 cube that you can try to solve by only turning the outer layers (which won't break the centers and edges you solved in the first stage).
The problem with this is that you may end up with a 3x3x3 cube that is not solvable. For instance, you can get a state where the entire cube is solved, except for two edges that need to swap locations. This isn't possible. In group theoretical language, only even permutations are possible. You can swap two _pairs_ of edges, but not just two edges.
When you end up in such an unsolvable 3x3x3 cube, you have to temporarily turn the inner layers of the cube and break apart the centers and edges you built in the first step, and then reassemble them again to a solvable 3x3x3 cube.
thanks!
That's not the only way to solve big cubes, but it's indeed the most common way (known as "reduction"), and what most people naturally come up with if they try to solve 4x4x4 or bigger on their own. In addition to what you said, there is also the issue of parity (basically, when you reduce a 4x4x4 to a 3x3x3 by solving centers and edges first, you will often end up with a 3x3x3 cube in an unsolvable state, and you need to figure out some tricks to convert it to a solvable state), but if you know how to solve parity problems on a 4x4x4, you can do it for a cube of any size.
Just out of curiosity (no rubiks cube affinity at all), but how can there be an unsolvable state when there are 'tricks' get in a solvable state? Does that not imply that there are no unsolvable states at all? Or is that maybe related to a certain method of solving?
So far, the concept of consciousness is basically metaphysics. It doesn't have a role, it can't be measured... If I may suggest a starting point to get over this hurdle: let's create a "consciousness captcha": some task that is easy for conscious beings, but hard for algorithms. Consciousness evolved, therefore it must have provided an advantage. We just have to find it.
How is that different from a turing test?
I know that at least one other human is conscious, otherwise the term would never have been invented.
But you have no way to tell if I am as conscious as I claim to be, or if I'm just a large language model trained by humanity :P
Can you provide proof for the first claim?
golf_mike commented on Ask HN: Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it? · Posted by u/blackhaj7
> And no more worries of being locked out of everything should MS decide I`m violating their terms somehow.
I'm curious about what is different with Proton regarding this point?
Proton cannot access my content. Go look for cases where people are shut out of their accounts and not being able to get in.
Not sure why the downvote but hey, give me some more for sharing my motivation and experience.
golf_mike commented on Ask HN: Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it? · Posted by u/blackhaj7
I just took the plunge and moving off the MS suite to Proton. It is little bit less polished but it serves my (basic) needs. And no more worries of being locked out of everything should MS decide I`m violating their terms somehow.
I don`t use a custom domain for privacy reasons so no experience there. They don`t offer excel/sheets kind of stuff but for my personal stuff I don`t need that anyway. I like the authenticator/password manager more, it allows for saving arbitrary notes which I like for the odd governmental acces code that needs saving. The vpn is way better than NordVPN which I had before. Connects faster, and connection feels faster. No hard numbers to back that claim though.
The calendar works well with invitations from either Google and Ms, better so than the MS offering actually.
For me a perfect fit but ymmv ofcourse :)