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Cognition and Intractability by Rooij, Blokpoel, Kwisthout, Wareham 2019-05-22T18:55:30.822Z

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Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Is Text Watermarking a lost cause? · 2024-10-02T08:15:01.542Z · LW · GW

Have you looked into https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04378

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Google Gemini Announced · 2023-12-07T08:01:52.516Z · LW · GW

Looks like there might be some test data leakage https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/123035

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Please don't throw your mind away · 2023-02-22T05:08:01.149Z · LW · GW

This is very similar to the Julia Galef's framing of Hayekians vs Central planners, which I have found to be quite useful to look at these sort of dynamics. It's also a bit like the exploration/exploitation tradeoff. Initially when you have high uncertainty, it makes a lot of sense to wander and follow your curiosity as that would be more productive. And once you've gathered enough about something, it's much easier to apply the said knowledge. 

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on The "Minimal Latents" Approach to Natural Abstractions · 2023-01-07T18:33:12.301Z · LW · GW

. Before the toddler ever hears the word,

 

It goes even back for certain visual stimuli 

We examined fetal head turns to visually presented upright and inverted face-like stimuli. Here we show that the fetus in the third trimester of pregnancy is more likely to engage with upright configural stimuli when contrasted to inverted visual stimuli, in a manner similar to results with newborn participants. The current study suggests that postnatal experience is not required for this preference.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30580-8#secsectitle0015

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Renormalization: Why Bigger is Simpler · 2022-09-18T10:29:33.327Z · LW · GW

Kudos to the speaker, as a (physics) layman I found it really well explained. The connection b/w Renormalization flows and phase transition was really elegant. 

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Limerence Messes Up Your Rationality Real Bad, Yo · 2022-07-03T10:09:08.150Z · LW · GW

Alas, being slightly over the subtly-warped-judgment line is like taking one drink – sure it only impairs your judgment a little, but, the one of the things you might do with slightly impaired judgment is to take another drink. (Or, say, foster more emotional closeness with someone who you wouldn’t endorse eventually having sex with).

 

This is sort of the situation where you need to erect Shelling fences

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on AMA: I was unschooled for most of my childhood, then voluntarily chose to leave to go to a large public high school. · 2022-01-07T14:32:35.299Z · LW · GW

One aspect of schooling which is not easily available in home schooling is peer/social learning. Did you find that being a problem? 

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer · 2021-11-20T18:45:46.209Z · LW · GW

s-risks?

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Update · 2021-09-21T16:38:47.869Z · LW · GW

In case you're fine with an approximation, you could try modelling the #P problem as a CNF (check this paper for more info) and use an approx model counter such as https://github.com/meelgroup/approxmc

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on What are some beautiful, rationalist artworks? · 2020-10-22T08:48:55.685Z · LW · GW
"Trial of Socrates" - Socrates preferring death instead of changing his stance on "corrupting the youth"
Kind of cliched, but still I really love this pic.
Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Anyone recommend a video course on the theory of computation? · 2020-06-01T19:30:45.059Z · LW · GW

Ahh that's because in India we have a graduate entrance exam called GATE (for admission to IITs and other institutes). And ToC carries a lot of weight-age.

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on Anyone recommend a video course on the theory of computation? · 2020-06-01T13:45:18.116Z · LW · GW

I found Introduction to Automata theory by Ullman on EdX to be extremely useful. It covers most of the basics and there's also a book by the same author. Apart from the lectures you also get access to high quality assignments, problem sets which I think are very essential for a course like ToC.

Comment by bhishma (NomadicSecondOrderLogic) on On the role of abstraction in mathematics and the natural sciences · 2019-12-18T17:55:05.171Z · LW · GW

Yeah even I used to feel the same, Wigner wrote an article about it "The unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" you will definitely find it useful.