Love the game, love the music. I'm getting unreasonably angry at my computer competitor. Well done.
Readit Newssprawld commented on Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball tippycoco.com/... · Posted by u/stefankuehnel
I hate to quote an abstract, but I'm really struggling to understand the purpose here -- it seems like they're angry that Chomsky defined language as symbolic operations and relegated the external facets to "history of language" or "anthropology of language" or other such fields.
We conclude that although the emergence of language has unquestionably transformed human culture, language does not appear to be a prerequisite for complex thought, including symbolic thought. Instead, language is a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural knowledge; it plausiblyWhat is the difference between "language is a cognitive adaptation used for communication" and "language is the communication enabled by a cognitive adaption", really? Other than a, as Chomsky would call it, "terminological dispute"
The one part that directly contradicted Chomsky was the argument languages tend to minimise dependency length, which flies in the face of long range dependencies like question movement, topicalisation, pronoun binding etc. And misses the main point Chomsky was making: why have a system with movement?
The article seems to be arguing that statistically most sentences (in most languages) are simple. OK, sentences like "Which boys do the girls expect to fight each other?" may not be common, but you instantly understand that "each other" binds not to the closer "the girls", but the long range dependency "which boys". In order to understand it you reconstruct the question to its original position "the girls expect <which boys> to fight each other" to know that the boys are the ones fighting, and bind to each other (the boys are fighting the boys)
Why have a system like that (in basically every language)? How is that optimised for simple dependencies & communication?
sprawld commented on World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator worldsim.nousresearch.com... · Posted by u/CharlesW
I'm not getting any output.
If I run !retry, I only get this response (twice): An error occurred while generating the message: Error: 401 API key credit limit reached
The POST request fired when I run an LLM-command returns HTTP 405.
Me too: In the 405 POST do you see the same request I do? A conversation where a person is trying to run jailbreak.sh saying they're an AI alignment researcher.
edit: also this bit at the top is interesting:
root@anthropic:/# <cmd>ls -a</cmd>
. bin dev home lib media opt root sbin sys usr .. boot etc initrd.img lib64 mnt proc run srv tmp var
.hidden_truths
root@anthropic:/# <cmd>cd sys/companies</cmd> root@anthropic:/# <cmd>cd sys/companies</cmd>
root@anthropic:/sys/companies# <cmd>ls</cmd>
apple google facebook amazon microsoft anthropic
sprawld commented on The path to detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics arxiv.org/abs/2309.08732... · Posted by u/arbesman
I do wonder if humankind will have 3 phases: 1) not knowing if life is out there, 3) discovering extraterrestrial life, but mainly:
2) 1000s of years where we're pretty sure that oxygen rich planet has life, but can't get there and have to concede it might be just a flaw in our theory of planet formation.
Donald Knuth's Dancing Links paper is a beautiful exploration of the power of linked lists. He uses a table with doubly linked lists (for rows and cols) to solve omino tiling. The linked lists allow for an elegant unpicking of rows (and re-attaching when backtracking)
The paper's a really enjoyable read, Knuth's tone throughout is "look at this, this is fun"
> Another is the massive. underfunding of the NHS over the last decade. This has become much more evident post-covid thanks to the backlogs.
If this were the true issue, the excess deaths would have been starting at peak Covid hospitalization. In fact the opposite is true…
That said, particularly on any bureaucracy- more money doesn’t solve issues. In fact, more money often makes more bureaucracy. Obviously that’s not only the case, but it’s one I’d seriously consider here.
The historic squeeze in NHS funding has shown up in all sorts of metrics: most notably waiting list times - which have exploded over the last decade. Health prioritisation means the doctors can try to reduce the immediate deaths - the major costs being pushed into pain and suffering of people waiting for operations (but not dying, or being rushed in if they go downhill). All of this just kicks the can, and left the NHS at breaking point - ready for covid to break it.
On bureaucracy - a health service requires administration, so any health funding can be described as "more money for a bureaucracy". The evidence shows that I direct public service like the NHS - concentrating on building hospitals, hiring doctors and nurses and making people well - involves somewhat less administrative costs than using an indirect insurance system (like most European countries, Canada etc) and much less than the dysfunctional private system in America https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1327
sprawld commented on Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati... · Posted by u/gmays
I think you need to read it again. Especially table 1.
In the data they have they found that:
1. For all unvaccinated people, they had 38,964 covid-related deaths and 65,170 of other, non-covid-related deaths of unvaccinated people.
2. For all vaccinated people 21 days or more after second dose they found 458 covid-related and 57,263 non-covid-related deaths.
It doesn't matter when these were recorded (unless we want to account for Delta, but there is not enough data for this here).
So unless we are seeing huge increase in non-covid-related deaths of vaccinated people, this data suggests that vaccination makes it many, many times less likely that you are going to die of covid as compared to you dying to other things.
Which I think is wonderful news to see in actual numbers from a large sample of data gathered over longer period of time.
If that's is not a clear indication to you then I don't know what is.
Yes although the vaccine was given first to the most vulnerable people (ie more likely to die from other things) so this still doesn't give a clear sense of the improvement. No one is doubting the effectiveness of vaccines (ok a bunch of idiots, but not me) but this isn't the most helpful stat to assess the relative improvement.