Tim Andersen

Physicist, mathematician, computer scientist | Georgia Tech | The Infinite Universe

[Tim Andersen @timcopia]

@lauriewired I worked with Risto and Ken Stanley on Othello playing a few years after this at UT. That was back when we coded the neural nets by hand. No tensor flow or pytorch.

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@WKCosmo Maybe it’s all about the tensors we contracted along the way.

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My 9 yo daughter came in and asked me what this was. I started to explain about e and its significance and show her on a calculator. She then says to me: “dad it’s supposed to be a 9”.

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This system is ridiculously easy to game. Anyone who manages projects knows people who play the “status game”. Without anyone digging in and auditing what’s being accomplished this would just be a futile exercise.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Should all federal employees be required to send a short email with some basic bullet points about what they accomplished last week?

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@WKCosmo And use two hands please. We don’t want anyone getting hurt. Least of all the book.

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@skdh LLMs are perfect for the postmodernist era. No truth just the same narratives being repeated over and over until everyone believes them.

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@newscientist LLMs will likely never make any novel discovery because they don’t understand anything so they can’t connect seemingly unrelated ideas.

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@Samuel_Gregson So you’re saying the bigger the collider the more money we make? Sounds like society could really cash in on this.

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@skdh I find @grok to be very good for looking up equations that I have forgotten.

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@steren At least C and C++ don’t promise to be easy to use.

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@martinmbauer I’ve noticed that LLMs seem to be good at providing information but often cant express the “why” part because that requires too much abstraction.

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@buttonslives There is some truth to that in treatment for OCD but it’s how you choose to react to unpleasant feelings that can bring either healing or make things worse.

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@Kaju_Nut I always assume that if I complain they will send my paper to the reviewer they reserve for complainers.

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@skdh I wonder if they took into account that drier conditions cause less vegetation to grow which reducing fire risk (desertification)

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@martinmbauer It just seems as though the system makes educating people harder. How can we fight against the deluge of ignorance coming out of social media?

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The evidence has been growing that the universe is infinite but it may all come crashing down https://t.co/SRSHK5vEir

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@MattWalshBlog Do we “try everything” before getting any other illness treated? Why treat ADHD differently unless we believe contrary to the evidence that it doesn’t exist?

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@WKCosmo The universe is fine tuned for the periodic table to exist.

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@Philip_Goff True. Aquinas’s order of charity is really intended to be a tie breaker when all things are equal. It does not say we should ignore the dire needs of others in order to enrich our kin.

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@Philip_Goff @nath_ormond It’s not. It’s here: https://t.co/OeyJlg6LON