Most important: relax. I had the same problem during the first year in university. If you start:
"Keep[ing] track of everyone you speak to. Everyone. Write down what they mentioned they liked, who their family is, what matters to them."
you will feel or be perceived as a creep. Just relax. You are probably young. You need to find out who you are. Maybe you are an introvert or even a lonely wolf. You see the others socializing as if it's the most natural thing. You think you need to adapt. Try it, try being the extrovert, the introvert and anything in between. On the surface it looks like people like the extroverts the most but with time comes experience and the insight that it's not that simple. The most important thing is that you find your style. If you feel comfortable with yourself because you are confident in who you are you will see that you are surrounded by the people you want to spend your time with. Just take your time. Relax.
Readit Newssgt3pr commented on Ask HN: I'm making like 0 friends at college, how to fix it? · Posted by u/collegeburner
Reading this is really interesting:
> GPT-3 doesn't have any knowledge of how the world actually works.
I think this is a philosophical question. There is a view that, basically, there is no such thing as knowledge, just language (or, at least, there is no distinction between knowledge and language). In this view, all there really is is language, which is mostly composed of metaphors and, ultimately, metaphors only refer to other metaphors, i.e. language is circular. In this view, not only is the ultimate, physical, concrete world beyond us but also we can't even talk about it. From this perspective, GPT-3 is not substantively different than what our minds are doing.
That view makes some strong claims (I don't find it convincing), but it's out there. A slightly different claim, though, is that "knowledge of how (we think) the world actually works" is encoded in language. To me, that seems trivially true. So, again, how you take this quote from LeCun depends on what you think knowledge is and your view of the relationship between knowledge and language.
I find this concept of knowledge encoded by language very interesting. Is there any author you can point to that follows this idea?
sgt3pr commented on Show HN: Computer Music with Python github.com/luvsound/pippi... · Posted by u/erikschoster
Actually the German word is "Pipi".
Second this
sgt3pr commented on Ask HN: Is neuroscience-inspired machine learning the next big thing? · Posted by u/hsikka
I am surprised Karl Friston is not mentioned. He seems to be the man of the hour regarding AI and neuroscience:
https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-princip...
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Languages have pedigrees. If you pretend like your company is enamored with javascript you'll get people who love fedoras and call themselves Ninjas. Big teams, single function libraries, lots of code shipped - move fast and break things. Cats pawing at Macbook keyboards. Mumble rap.
If you pretend you love Haskell you'll attract mathematicians in elbow patches. Great stable code will sporadically appear once every couple of years seemingly at random. Genius solutions to neat problems that have nothing to do with what the company is actually trying to accomplish. Ents. Classical music.
If you pretend to love lisp you'll attract people who read PG essays and will quit to start their own companies. Maybe they'll help you close out some tickets in Jira before they bounce if they can get your Rube Goldberg monstrosity working on their laptop. Honey badgers and hamsters. U2.
If you pretend to love latin you might get elected PM.
If you actually learn a few orthogonal languages to cover the very finite amount of paradigms you'll eventually come to realize they are all crap.
If you want to code, code. Don't talk.
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