Hah, you would not believe it, but I am planning to use LLM to solve math problems by training it on the posts of my blog. Of course, my blog is silly nonsense, but it will be a fun exercise and address the elephant in the room as well. We will see what results we get for some fun prompts!
Not only collision detection, but everything that uses floats like graphic does.
I would recommend introductions to numerics and linear algebra, which should cover everything needed (the theory and how to actually use floats in programs) but not be overly "mathematical" formulated. But as I am a mathematician (who learned that 25 years ago) I don't háve any concrete recommendations of books or videos of lectures and you would not be able to read my handwriting, as I would have problems reading what I wrote back then ;).
I ask this because I speculate that I discovered "new math". It is unlikely, because I failed math in school, but I dared to imagine 0=1 like many others. But the complete line of math I am trying to prove is -1=1=0=∞. It does sound crazy, I know. But I honestly think this line of math is what separates us from actual, working fusion. Of course, I realize how insane I sound, and that is why I am looking for ways to probe my hypothesis. I think I am getting closer, but literally every single person I talked to about this told me I should visit a psychiatrist :')
Sorry for dumb question, but can someone please explain to a non-programmer, why the author made the title "The Curse of the Excluded Middle"? What is so special about "middle"? What is middle in programming?
I am a fairly dumb person, but I am lately super interested in 1=0 math paradox/proof and it just occurred to me, what is the middle of rational numbers? What is the middle of irrational numbers? To me, it feels like the middle of all numbers is 0, but if irrational numbers are not considered "real", it can't be 0.
These 2 things are probably wildly unrelated, but I would appreciate any explanation of the linked blog post in the simplest terms. Thank you!
> I love that loop. Write, revise, write, revise. It’s like doing reps in a gym. You can’t expect that 10 pull-ups will add any discernible new muscle. But 30 pull-ups, across three sets, done thrice a week, for a year? Yeah, you’re going to notice the cumulative results of that.
I started working on my loop a couple of days ago, incidentally. I am not a programmer and loop is a concept I believe can work outside of programming. Everywhere.
I even made a dedicated page on by blog called the loop :) But my main inspiration was Ma.tt.
This is a fascinating article to me. I love it when a less "techy" but still very much nerdy blog post makes it here. It allows me to peer into things I wouldn't know how to find otherwise.
Bit sad that climate is rarely discussed on HN. A mountain of studies indicates our current civilization will completely collapse within this century due to climate.
The problem is money. Burning fossil fuels is profitable, not burning them is not. If you want to make money then you must opt into the fossil fuel economy and utilize whatever resources are available to increase GDP. It wouldn't be much of a conceptual leap to consider the global economy a death cult (40k+ drivers are killed every year on the freeway before we even get to side-effects of pollution). Everyone knows what the inevitable endpoint is going to be but no one is willing to do anything about it. But as a techno-optimist and singularitarian I believe AGI will save all of us for a mere $80B so tell all your VC friends how cheaply I can save the world. All I need is the GPUs and compute fabric to build the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ and enact a world government managed purely by algorithms and math.
