Nádor Csaba

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@KirkegaardEmil Well, that is just being central European... I had ~100 hours of french in high school which was enough for 8. (I eventually went for German for 2nd foreign lang.) Even a short course would have helped a lot for 4 lang. in your test..

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@KirkegaardEmil No, I really do not. It is just that Hungarian does have many Slavic loanwords. Like key: kulcs - klucz. Also, I guessed drzewo from toponyms, and I guess I was lucky with Czech.

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

The fanaticism of Britain's thought police is astounding.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

In Soviet Britain, you can be arrested and prosecuted for speech that no one saw or was offended by.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

New essay on the closure of the Internet, the mass censorship campaign that transformed every platform and the Internet as a whole from free and open to a closely monitored playpen 2015-2022. Longer than usual, around 27,000 words, so maybe best read in multiple sittings. Link in next post.

Before 2015, the Western Internet was almost entirely free and open, except for actual criminal activity. Internet censorship was opposed by the major relevant institutions and seen as something distinctive to authoritarian states like Russia and China. Then within just a few years, every major platform (I cover YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Wikipedia, and Google Search, as well as more general deplatforming of websites, forums and open source projects, and comments sections) created a colossal censorship apparatus with tens of thousands of human moderators, opaque and ever-shifting rules, and an entirely new field of machine learning spun up ex-nihilo.

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

It is a nice game. Hard mode is difficult if taxonomy was not your favorite part of HS biology.

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

I created this small game where you try and guess evolutionary relatedness of animals. Try it out

https://t.co/RxNlYrtHiT

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Why do even our best AI models need tens of thousands of examples to learn skills that a human picks up in a handful of tries?

Solving this problem is one of the great open challenges in modern AI. World models, which give AI an internal simulation of its environment, are one of the most promising paths forward.

In this episode of Decoded, YC's @agupta and @FrancoisChauba1 discuss the intuition and math behind world models, new research, and current applications in self-driving, robotics, and more.

01:45 — What would perfect efficiency look like?
05:10 — World models in the human brain
09:20 — Control theory & the drone example
14:30 — When physics breaks down
17:45 — Chess, Go & the action space problem
24:10 — Why AlphaGo can't scale
28:00 — Monte Carlo tree search explained
34:00 — Self-Driving: state space is infinite
40:30 — Model-Free vs. Model-Based RL
44:00 — Why robotics is the hardest case
48:20 — World models that actually work
54:10 — JEPA & latent space tricks
59:00 — Open problems remaining
1:04:30 — Does this pass the squint test?

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@OliverBalogh1 @RnaudBertrand The RT like propaganda was so clumsy and stupid that it created a lot of backlash. Progressive propaganda is much higher quality, hence more dangerous. Same goes for RT vs. western channels.

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@eugyppius1 We do get it in the EU. It is the way we use dates in Hungary. Also proper name order, and addresses from country to door number...

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@jonatanpallesen @MartinSellner_ There is only sufficient democratic pressure for immigration restriction if the situation is already pretty bad. Otherwise the average voter does not feel an immediate need to act on it. Due to the slow feedback loop we need ideological/intellectual framework to prevent mass mig.

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@jonatanpallesen @MartinSellner_ Magyar is not himself for mass migration, though some of his fellow travelers are. His main goal (and frankly many of his voters') is to resume EU funds. I expect slow initial change due to aligning border defense policy and claim processing to western standards to get EU funds.

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@jonatanpallesen @ErlosenSalHi One of the EU's gripe with Hungary was pushing migrants back to Serbia while processing their asylum claims. Changing that is implicitly linked to some required rule of law reforms to unfreeze EU funds...

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@jonatanpallesen Well, he used to be a beneficiary of Fidesz's corruption, so one should calibrate his hopes accordingly. That said he does not (yet) have the huge number of dependent clients that Fidesz had to feed... So initially he can be a bit less kleptocratic.

[Nádor Csaba @NadorCs]

@hbdchick @paul_hundred @kunley_drukpa That is properly funny for Hungarian speakers. The title is "Morning Wood" in mixed Hungarian/English. A literal translation of "hajnali merevedés" would be something like "dawn stiffening".