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None of the space shuttles ever went into interplanetary space. In fact, no human has been to interplanetary space since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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>>16851883
Don't worry bro we're gonna fix that by spending multiple trillions on chatbots then crashing the economy with no survivors.
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>>16851883
why go? there's nothing there. literally
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>>16852048
You're just gonna get left behind with that attitude
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>>16852458
hmmm. its tempting
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>>16851883
And? There's nothing out there that's worth it anyway.

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How will openAI recover from this?
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>>16851960
>Data doesn't meant what you think it means. It does not generalize. it interpolates
Obviously you never studied linear regression or machine learning

>It does not work in any way similar to a brain. Brains do not back propagate, for one.
It's literally a neural network that updates itself incrementally based on the data it sees, the exact details and substrates used to achieve this is irrelevant

>For another information is not stored in the brain
Lmao now I know for certain you're a brainlet
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>>16852037
>linear regression or machine learning
The fact you combine these two tells me all I need to know. Once the bubble bursts your tears will be saltier than the oceans.
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>>16851897
Naw. Nope. No.
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>>16851788
by getting more money from Nvidia, and buying more data centers from Oracle who will purchase more GPUs from Nvidia
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November 17, 2025

Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, X, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as "Grok 4.1" in the model picker.

We are excited to introduce Grok 4.1, which brings significant improvements to the real-world usability of Grok. Our 4.1 model is exceptionally capable in creative, emotional, and collaborative interactions. It is more perceptive to nuanced intent, compelling to speak with, and coherent in personality, while fully retaining the razor-sharp intelligence and reliability of its predecessors. To achieve this, we used the same large scale reinforcement learning infrastructure that powered Grok 4 and applied it to optimize the style, personality, helpfulness, and alignment of the model. In order to optimize these non-verifiable reward signals, we developed new methods that let us use frontier agentic reasoning models as reward models to autonomously evaluate and iterate on responses at scale.

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-1

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RIP king, they did you dirty
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>>16839821
F
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F

my man got JEWED
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>>16840668
south african here. it's even worse than this. they keep reducing what qualifies for a passing percentage. in the 90s it was just over 50%, then apartheid ended and they swiftly changed it to 33.3%. I think it's currently 30%. Also doesn't take into account that the department of education LIES about high school pass rates to keep their people employed.
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>>16847442
I want titles mate.
I'll give you a few titles on the indian thuggee if you have actual unvarnished texts from pre 20th century explorers
Thug or A Million Murder
by Colonel James L Sleeman
Illustrations of the history and practices of the thugs, and notices of some of the proceedings of the Government of India, for the supression of the crime of the thuggee
by Edward Thornton
Which I've read and recommend

The suppression of thuggee and dacoity
by Sir John William Kaye
The yellow scarf : the story of the life of Thuggee Sleeman, or Major-General Sir William Henry Sleeman, K.C.B., 1788-1856, of the Bengal Army and the Indian Political Service
by Sir Francis Tuker
Which I've not read.


We're run by what amounts to thuggee by the way, sons of ma etc, etc
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>>16851756
Pretty sure Jews believe in genetics

is there methodology or branch of mathematics that allows to answers questions like this (as t trends towards infinite.)
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>>16848128
>>16848138
You missed showing that the summation is defined for non integer x
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>>16848192
>You missed showing that the summation is defined for non integer x
I don't have a degree in ergodic theory.
Try:
1. George D. Birkhoff (1884 – 1944)
2. John von Neumann (1903 – 1957)
3. Andrey Kolmogorov (1903 – 1987)
4. Hillel Furstenberg (1935 – )
5. Yakov G. Sinai (1935 – )
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>>16846607
Fubini can be used here, right?
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>>16848518
Niels Fünkstorung (1967 - )
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>>16851945
>I'm a human
He doesn't want to be one of them.
He's glad that he's not one of them.
The last thing he wants to be is one of them.

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If Einstein is right and both observers see each other accelerating away close to light speed how come symmetry doesn’t age them the same?
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>>16849815
observers are dumb as fuck lmao
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u dont need acceleration for this effect. just 3 clocks spread over 2 space ships and 1 earth. synchronize earth clock with the space ship 1 clock while it passes earth and flies towards space ship 2. when both ships pass each other transfer the time from ss1 clock to ss2 clock. when ss2 passes earth compare earth clock time with ss2 clock time. earth clock wins.
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>>16851993
>transfer the time from ss1 clock to ss2 clock
How?
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If light is so fast how do we see it

?
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>>16849808
>because only one of them is actually accelerating
Show me where to find in the math.

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On LSD years ago I saw this pattern as the order of the universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIyqMiycs4
what does it mean
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>>16848736
>>16852396
>>16852393
And this pic shows what a slice of that brain area looks like under a microscope.
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>>16848736
>>16852393
And this is the principle through which objects are recognized. Each cell has an "orientation preference" (the different colours in the previous images), it's sensitive to only one single angle of light that is displayed on the retina. These cells are clustered in "orientation columns" which have a hexagonal pattern, works almost like TV pixels on old TV screens that each have Red/Green/Blue parts that vary in intensity.

Whenever certain combinations of these simple orientations occur, a cell sensitive only to that specific combination activates, a more "complex" cell. Then, you have another layer of even more complex cells than that, that only respond to specific combinations of those first complex cells. And then another, then another, and another, all the way up until complex objects.

You can imagine what a chaos it would be if all these cells started sending their information to your consciousness, instead of pooling it together towards the highest layer of "complexity" which are actual objects.

And that's what happens when you take things like LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, etc.
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>>16852399
And one final illustration

Hope that helps OP
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>>16848736
>>16852393
Also, can't believe I forgot about this image, I'm retarded.
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the only things that exist are light and nothingness, the relationship between the two is a fractal and that's how the massive scales of reality exist

this is the world's most famous female mathematician btw
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>>16852033
>>16852055
publishing is for pseuds
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>>16852413
Publish or perish
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>>16852033
Emmy Noether clears. Probably a top 30-40ish mathematician of all time
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>>16852361
>everything is called algebra
>you're an uncultured swine if you get confused though
kys. actually, make a suicide pact with alll the mathematics community and kys at the same time
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>>16852640
Boo hoo, try google next time babby.

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what do you think is the most efficient way to study using artificial intelligence?
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>>16852622
but I, I, I want to be the protagonist no AI
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>>16852625
You can still be the protagonist, but you must do what the narrator tells you to do.
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>>16852572
>>16852624
also this
I pretty much taught myself AP calculus in high school on my own using chatgpt because my teacher was a fucking retard, and those were the early models from years ago
just ask it questions and then ask it to generate quizzes for you and it's like having your own free tutor who has infinite patience with your human stupidity
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>>16852631
Are you like legitimately retarded?
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>>16852635
no, but I think you might be if you had some trouble understanding anything I just said

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all the other tests are shit (outside of mensa), take this one
https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/FSIQ/
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>>16843130
160 is possible
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>>16827884
I've done this test before and get between 141 and 145.
Not that it matters as I'm an uneducated, unemployed tard with no impulse control, so either iq testing is bullshit and let's morons like me through or iq alone isn't a valuable metric.
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>>16843631
it's kinda like you're saying caffeine makes you faster lol. You do need enough energy, but I hate the way meth makes people act. I don't even like how I act on caffeine. I try not to but there's a chance I will just say or do something idk too assertive and in the wrong moment that is a murder fr. They've shown that caffeine impairs hippocampus based learning. It puts you on autopilot to some extent which helps you grind out your chores. But there are boosts and real improvements. You should definitely focus on anything that can really improve your iq even just in short term but as high as your iq might be and as fast as you can solve some issues idk I'm a speed freak myself but you should still exercise patience sometimes to get the best result and caffeine will fr work against you
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>>16852581
High iq people should actually get used but low iq people are too stupid, we should actually all get rounded up and forced to answer questions bc we won't do it ourselves
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>>16848390
yeah shit is crazy but 140 did sound a little low like no way am I only 140. In the grand scheme of things iq range is more like at least negative 1000 to positive 1000

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One day we will discover a non-material universe, right under our noses, and we will make dyson spheres look like cave paintings, what was confusing will be obvious, if only we survive.
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>>16852545
there are other planes but theyre too subtle to access. we cant know anything about them or draw power from them.

Imagine actually believing your narrative matters when scientific realism has already exposed human existence as a transient, accidental glitch in a universe that is completely indifferent to you. You're still clinging to the manifest image of having beliefs, desires, and a self, but neurophysiology proves that personhood is just a radically false theoretical construct used to cope with being a complex physical system that has no inherent purpose. Even your ambition is a lie. Freud called it, the will to power is just a mask for the death drive because all organic life is just a circuitous detour striving to return to an inorganic state. There is no necessary reason for any of this, just absolute contingency and chaos until solar catastrophe inevitably incinerates the very possibility of thought, guaranteeing that nothing you ever did, felt, or thought will have mattered. Stop looking for a "reason" in a reality defined by un-reason and just accept the void.
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>>16852313
This coming from the guy who believes in absurd notions like causality. SAD. Many such cases.
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>>16852313
Not one knows why are how we are here, but the fact that we are here at all is enough
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>>16852442
>why
clearly a consequence
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>>16852313
>when scientific realism has already exposed human existence as a transient, accidental glitch in a universe
Is this narrated glitching universe in the room with us?
BTW, only i exist
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at worst there is a lot of slavery but at least if you aren't a slave then life is just a big video game. And you might not want to necessarily treat it like that but to some extent you want to increase your skills, learn to build planes so you can fly etc

how does this make any fucking sense?
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>>16848104
the reason a lot of space shit sounds so ridiculous is because the true answer is
>we dont fucking know heres our best guess
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>>16847786
Does anyone wonder what a neutron star would feel like to touch if we could touch it?
>>16847790
It's pretty fucking absurd.
>The mean density of a neutron star is approximately \(10^{15}\) grams per cubic centimeter (\(g/cm^{3}\)), a density similar to that of an atomic nucleus. This extreme density means a teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6 billion tons.
>The mean density of the Earth is approximately \(5.51\) to \(5.52\) grams per cubic centimeter (\(g/cm^{3}\)).
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>>16848089
I don’t know what that means.
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What is a black hole made out of? What would it feel like to touch it?
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>>16848066
lol

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what did go wrong here /sci/, physically speaking?
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>>16846841
it flipped. It shouldn't have done that
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>>16846841
9 megarupees ≈ 1 lakhbuck
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>>16847885
Thanks, doc.
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bump
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The video would be better if some of them got smashed

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Indian podcaster Dwarkesh Patel debates the 'father of reinforcement learning' Prof. Richard Sutton on whether LLMs are a dead-end.
Sutton believes so, while Dwarkesh Patel proclaims LLMs are the foundation on which experiential learning can happen, citing recent LLM models' success at high-school math problems. Patel claims humans all learn by imitation too.

The following exchange summarizes the debate:
>Patel: But there are phases of learning where there's the programming in your biology early on, you're not that useful. And then kind of why you exist is to understand the world and learn how to interact with it. It seems like a training phase [in LLMs].
>Sutton: There's NOTHING where you have training of what you should do; there's nothing. You see things that happen, you're not told what to do. Don't be difficult, I mean, this is obvious.
>Patel: I-I mean you're literally taught what to do, this is where the word training comes from, from humans.
>Sutton: I don't think learning is really about training, I think learning is about learning, an active process. The child tries things and sees what happens. We don't think about training when we think of an infant growing up

What's /sci/'s verdict? Who won?
Is Dwarkesh Patel right in saying humans are literally taught what to do the moment they're born? Is all learning just imitation?
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LLM=/=AI
ChatGPT can use a calculator this alone shows its not a pure llm which makes this entire debate pointless
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>>16848782
>because i like TEK!
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>>16834075
I'm gonna go with the white guy
t. mexican
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>>16849093
this. LLM is not even just RL
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>>16834075
iunno

Professors, lecturers, even TA's, welcome to The Lounge. No students allowed.

How's the semester been for you lads?
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>>16850315
If the student shows they care, I'll give them real advice. If the student doesn't give a fuck, I'll either ignore the email or be a dick to them and tell them to get a tutor.
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>>16850575
>>16850606
I second this anon. First cycle I sent out dozens, got nothing. Second cycle I sent out 8 targeted applications. Got two interviews.
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I was a teacher but I started bartending instead and I make literally 50% more money for half the hours. grim
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I teach gen chem (nights T/Th) after my regular job as a chemist. I love it and my students are pretty ok. 6/20 of them really try hard and make an effort to understand

I don't like using Canvas or ALEKS or whatever software publishing companies are trying to shill. However I still get paid small fees by the publishing companies to give them my opinions/review their online learning systems even though I don't use them kek
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>>16852507
I got paid $550 for saying the AP physics exam was harder than my content.


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