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Yeah, condensed matter is full of fraud stories. And it's almost always interesting, if disheartening, to read about them. It's a shame showing a lack of successful measurement isn't rewarded or even encouraged. I end up hearing stuff through the grapevine how the idea I thought worth revisiting was already tried by some small team back in the '90s, and it's only mentioned at the back of the supplemental materials. There's a binder (and database) on my desk (laptop) that catalogues excerpts and mentions of such misses that may end up being my biggest contribution to the field. To be fair, grad students span gamut from 'wait, why isn't B a constant?' out-of-their-depth beginners to the likes of you, who probably shake their head at visiting professors' inexperience with methodology. Not really trying to defend how some people run labs, but I know in my heart there were times when prof wasted his breath on explaining my role in the grand scheme of things.So many grad students will run the labs for like 80 hours a week, gather the data sets they were told to, and then have no idea what any of it means.
Funny enough, I thought it's going to be about something a lot more #kleinbl00batshittery-y.
So, did the organizers try to scam some art subsidy? 'Cause, going blind, this gave me major The Producers vibe. Poor everyone, though.
For sure, the word of mouth is as crucial as earning a good reputation. That said, the course is gonna have only 15 seats by design. I'd rather be having 4-6 people who want to come rather than deal with a hundred who just want a pass.
Meetup reminder: March the 7th, 06:00 PM ETS, so about week from now. After getting positive poll responses, I'm drafting an elective course. One of those 'proof writing for not just math majors' you have in the US. So much for doing less paperwork, but this one at least doesn't feel purposeless.
When every foodhole in Warsaw connected with delivery service overnight, outgoing orders had much much higher priority. So, during pandemic, you had a crowd of deliverers, normal line that moved at snail's pace, and a nearby crowd of people who placed their orders in an app to game the system. This lead to a situation where people from the last group placed order to <restaurant's address> and added comments like "I'm the one wearing a brown hat with a gigantic pompom" or "I'm already behind you." Insert something about follies of idiots with access technology. I don't know, I barely slept since Friday.I wasn't in a hurry, it was nice to have front row seats for such a prescient demonstration.
Dunno, probably not, but I think you could instantiate one that can when they can and freeze its learned ability, so the whole hoping it doesn't forget might go away. But I have no idea. Don't write that much code or work with raw data these days, so bibliographic aid is just about all it can do for me in an hour of need. Otherwise, it's about as tangential to my goings-on as it can get. When I tried that 'explain paper' site, it left enough of a distaste for me to roll eyes and move past. Between absolutely fucking insisting that some unrelated mathematical concept[0] is absolutely crucial to explain my question and rephrasing a circular argument until I got bored and left, I probably won't bother again for quite a while. Unfortunately, the above experience mean I'm unlikely to trust LLMs with stuff I don't know a lot about. Also, I kinda regret writing anything in this thread and will probably just add more tags to my ignored list. Fun company notwithstanding - too much hassle, too few fucks left. [0] - I wrote and deleted 900 word footnote of jargon about orbits of the coadjoint representation groups and operators in de Sitter space, so let's pretend I said Tits index and wiggled my eyebrows in an amusing way.Correct me if I'm wrong
Eh, I'm being my usual exaggerated dismissive, but it's sad that the two most visible to me camps are essentially "it's only so unbiasedly rational of us to consider how many AGI could dance on the needle's head" and "mathless/IFLS quantum vibes" types. It's not even that I don't see the merits of those two, let alone philosophy at large, but that I have absolutely no fucking interest in either yet they keep talking at me like I'm a lobotomite for not caring. And no, wasoxygen, I'm not calling you out specifically, it's just how you Yudkowsky-ites communicate. We're cool, I hope. Well, ML/whatever excels at finding patterns, even if it can't/won't explain them. Having a tool that goes "exploring these parameter spaces is most likely worthless" or even "isn't it funny how second order solitons only form when this parameter is divisible by 17?" may be invaluable to a right person who can find context to those observations. That's the "(or something)" in my previous comment. Tying this to "making sure conclusions are correct-ish is going to be hard to replicate." <- that's the bottleneck as far as I can see. First you have to separate seeds from chaff, and then make sure those seeds aren't blighty or cleverly disguised angry bears. I wouldn't mind science becoming (even more) akin to computer-assisted chess, though. Tools are tools, experts use tools better, so that checks out too. Wasn't singling you out here, though I hope you take care of yourself and wife. And it's not like I don't understand or lack the presence of mind to understand why people are so agitated. I simply can't keep dealing with it. It's been two goddamned years, and I can't even force myself to go to Ukraine anymore. I haven't seen the worst, and it's too much. Focusing on what I can affect has to be enough for me right now. As to meetups: no worries, I can make another one in April or May. They're about as informal as flip-flops anyway.Philosophy deserves every burn. Sorry. But only a little.
Not sure why you'd want a middleman, either.
Losing shits and meetups
Meetup? Meetup. The 7th of March, 06:00 PM ETS, so two weeks from now-ish. - But you have to fill in those forms yourself! By the day after tomorrow! - Oh, not a problem. They follow the same schema as the ones I had completed last year, and only need my signature at the end, once the dates are updated. - They still need to be filled. By hand. - Say no more, you've been hereby deputized! And thus I took about a half of papers back to my desk, since that's not my ass on the line if they're late. As someone who managed to out-pedant local civil servants for so long they gave up, I feel the thrill of battle once more.
I'm not arguing those problems won't go away, or that it's any more or less than a tool. You can give me that much I hope. And you're right that I wouldn't pay a human for those, at least unless those would be recurring NPCs or something like that. I do commission background sets regularly because 1) the free/cheap/generated ones are usually on par with what I can make, 2) what I can make suffers a severe pizazz deficiency. Lotsa bang for a buck, too.
Cyrodiil's Jesus! No, I tried generating something a touch less 4chan-does-Amnesia and more Balkan Romani without the perpetually disappointed look. Theory is much less about hand-waving connections between deeply understood parts and more about doing the math with as little preconceived ideas as possible. Don't imagine what atom/potential/sun is, calculate and interpret what comes out, see if anyone tested something similar / calculated it in a similar regime. Propose an experiment, try to make a feedback loop with someone (or something) that'd bounce ideas back. It's everything else that ought to be automated, 'cause the amount of paperwork they try (underline: try) to pile on me is just fucking ludicrous. The problem is that models aren't better at determining they're wrong than humans, and are unlikely to learn it since their very nature is numerical bias. And, frankly, LLM/models/AI/whatever should have less of a problem replacing philosophy, because doing proper math requires pencils, paper and a wastepaper basket for wrong ideas... whereas philosophers seem to only ever need the first two. Otherwise, I kinda stopped paying attention to anything that isn't directly related to my interests tbh. Seems like everyone is losing their shit over anything and everything in the news/work/word holes, while I'm tackling the deeper mysteries of is it better to keep seeing someone with a 3-year-old and see where it leads or cut it loose before things get difficult for the kid moreso than us. Same to you. We gotta do some meetup. I wanted to organize one in January, but my health took a dip, maybe it's time to try again.We'll tell our grandchildren "we used to make our own handsome faces".
Since I'm self-righteous, I'd like to think one of the last things it'll come for is physics and math.
Anyway, I hope you are well. :)
I'd go with 'trivial' or 'left as an exercise for the reader'. You're right, though. Generators seem to be less able to remove 'turbulence' from the output, but rather move it someplace else within it and hope for the best. Like, I tried to make some character art for my game, and it can pull off some handsome faces, for sure more detailed than I'd have patience to draw, but the clavicle-to-armpit areas look inexplicably like Munch's melted cheese period.It's visual and obvious, dude.
Maybe they launch from a milk silo into another one? Scary times to live in Wisconsin.