Engineering lecturer (The University of Adelaide). Into: magnets; vibrations; biomechanics; typesetting. Onetime yogi.
Adelaide, Australia
Joined March 2007
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since talking about nazis is allowed here, can someone please explain to me what this means? Is it pro nazis or anti cults or …?
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I posted a brog about summary of my creations of September 2023 and my current situation
Monthly blog | September 2023
keishiroueki.net/blog-en
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Ok this is so cool. I was reading a paper which included a table. I wanted to reproduce that table in my LaTeX document. So I took a screen shot of it, pasted it into ChatGPT, and asked ChatGPT to give me the LaTeX code for it. And it did.
I am transferring the contents of an iPhone XS (2018) to an iPhone 15 (2023) and the "Time remaining" calculation is as bad as copying files from floppy disks in the '90s
At this rate, it will be easier to use Overleaf than a desktop app…
Ever wished you could click a button or copy and paste to insert your figures into #Overleaf? Now you can! Our team has been busy creating a new way to insert figures that is simpler and allows you to focus on your content. 🖼️ ✏️ Check out our blog post: overleaf.com/blog/an-easier-…
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Out of office has engaged.
(pro tip - set it two days early and two days after your return to help ease in and out of a work absence)
time is a constant - work is not – at Adelaide, South Australia
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I’d always wanted to see one of these in real life: an incredible Chinese ‘banquet’ composed of natural stones that resemble food! I had seen the occasional photograph of similar banquets, but this was better than any of them. What a feast!
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Just so you all know…when you floss every day your dentist doesn’t ask “are you flossing every day?” They just know. And instead they say, “good hygiene.” And it’s like meeting God.
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The end of an epoch: TeX Users Group will no longer ship TeX Collection DVDs to the members (but they still can download and make them).
TUG started as a group for distributing TeX tapes. Internet made this activity redundant, and we now have different tasks.
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Arm chip’s main design feature of low-power consumption happened by accident.
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"Consciousness" has been the taboo "C-word" in AI.
This 88-page paper, coauthored by Turing Prize laureate Yoshua Bengio, is a systematic survey of the scientific theories of consciousness, as well as possible implementations in today's AI stack.
I commend their courage to address such a controversial topic that most researchers shun. Here's what the paper concludes: quote "Our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also shows that there are no obvious barriers to building conscious AI systems."
It's a long read - will share notes later, bear with me.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
These discussions around the capabilities of LLMs remind me of the famous (?) Chinese Room debate between Searle and Hofstadter/Dennett. Quite amazing that such a thought experiment is now actually being tested
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Conversational, non-authoritative communication requires more qualification - and more parenthetical components - than punctuation rules that were established in print can support, and so I guess what I'm saying is use the em-dash as much as you like and never feel bad about it.
