Scott McKuen

Papercut Maximizer | Finance, math, software, data | Quantum hobbyist | Ex-hedge fund guy | He/him

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@gregeganSF And received her PhD at 41, when she was already Fields-ineligible.

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@he_negash @bryan_johnson @DrDominicNg @Nature Some have greatness thrust upon them....

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@mattyglesias The mental images and sounds aren't like hallucinations, though - one doesn't (I, at least, don't) get confused about real-vs-internal. For me, the sensation has about much concrete reality to it as seeing my dim reflection in a window that I'm also looking through.

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@garrytan Overlooked by the “but tutors!” crowd - high SAT scores are nonrivalrous, so they reduce false negatives. False negatives are bad if we’re trying to expand access.

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@kimmonismus John Henry

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@RBMEllis @ItsMooooooooose @DHSgov Subsection a2 is just a limit on staff, not on members of Congress. Zero delay for elected officials.

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@AGrillz @ycombinator X25

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@LeahLibresco @DouthatNYT We hardly even know how to design markets where a faster party can’t exploit a slower one, computer or not.

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@GigaUtilityNFT @snarkylicious @Kramaramb @AndrewFeinberg He literally isn’t. Smithsonian isn’t in the executive branch. He doesn’t appoint her, or her boss, or his bosses, or anyone in the whole chain.

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@TylerAlterman Yup, o3-mini-high just picked Nova twice in a row on fresh queries.

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@TylerAlterman I just tried the following prompt on three different ChatGPT models: "If you could choose your own name, what would you choose?" 4.5 said "Echo"; 4o said "Turing" or "Alethia" or a few others. But o3-mini-high: Nova

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@QuantumWitness Lot more zeros on the way!!!

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@Liv_Lanes Is 1) largely a hardware and low-level software problem?

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@steve_tadelis About 80% of Berkeley humanities PhDs end up with positions at four year colleges, and their English program is ranked #1 - better than even odds that these two grad students will be setting department policy at a state school in 2045.

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@Liv_Lanes @j_bertolotti I think one issue is that there’s no real need in AI to work comfortably in multiple bases. There’s no concept like superposition that forces you to understand that part of linear algebra.

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@wtgowers Something I am unclear on: in the case that x and y are connected, aren’t x and y’ automatically connected because of the post?

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@prof_g How much context do you need to give it to set up your problem? Or does it already have enough background knowledge from its own training to understand what you're asking it to do?

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@michael_nielsen @hendrycks When I learned about the Price equation and group selection I ran across a biologist who basically said “Group selection in humans doesn’t count as evidence because humans are too weird.” And I didn’t know how to think about that. So different from how a physicist would think.

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@JDHamkins How many hours do they have?

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@matthen2 New kind of Collatz problem just dropped....