Typically training includes a holdout dataset to watch how well training
generalizes as it proceeds.
With modern LLMs, there aren’t five points, there are trillions.
From: Friam on behalf of Pieter Steenekamp
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complex
In my experience, working with deep learning AI models can very easily lead
to overtraining if you're low on data or computing resources. It's like
trying to fit a fifth-order polynomial to five random data points - you'll
get a perfect match for those points, but the model becomes useless for
anyt
I’m also using LM-Studio and AnythingLM to run local models. They are
smaller than ChatGPT, but still fun to play with. When we closed down a
business a couple of years ago, we left the support documents on the
web, but I have put together an experimental system using llama3.2 along
with attach
Damnit. Now I have to throw out my entire T-shirt drawer. (JK. All my t-shirts
bear brewery logos these days.)
But your FH story targets exactly the point I tried to make with: "deeper or interpolated
meaning P steganographically hid in the carrier message". In his case, he's annoyed because he
Amazing. I worked with him for six years and had no idea he was working on
the space-times stuff. We are co-authors of a paper "Actual Causes and
Thought Experiments".
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM glen wrote:
> Yeah, he has an essay in reference 4 called "Indistinguishable Space-Times
> and
> On Jan 30, 2025, at 12:32, glen wrote:
>
> Is it virtue signalling or an occult handshake to wear a T-shirt with
> Maxwell's equations on it? I just don't know anymore.
Ha! Wonderful.
I think there is an early age (say, beginning undergrad, or for those from
civilized places, maybe later
When I discovered it, I was a huge fan of https://telehack.com/. While dorking around on it one
day, some kid `talk`ed at me. After our discussion, he said something like "you're so
smart". I responded with "No. I'm just old."
Your postscript (and to some extent Pieter's) brought that memory to
This was in the Complexity Digest feed this morning, it looks like fun.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401230121
What makes a model good or bad or useful or risible?
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Confronting risks of mirror life
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158
Abstract
All known life is homochiral. DNA and RNA are made from “righthanded”
nucleotides, and proteins are made from “left-handed” amino acids. Driven
by curiosity and plausible applications, some researchers had
Again thank you.
The result is over-interpreted, but I’m glad to have it, and it is related to
the way I want to frame some of these questions.
Donna is defnly one of the silverbacks. She is the one who did the
solution-separation experiments I referred to in the last post. It is good to
kno
"The researchers specifically sought to reproduce homochirality in a
central process in amino acid production called transamination, by using a
relatively simple, plausibly prebiotic chemistry that excludes complex
enzymes.
In early tests, the team’s experimental reaction worked, and yielded amino
I always assumed that the chirality asymmetry of organic molecules on
earth was a simple feedback loop or the "sensitive dependence on initial
conditions" of a complex adaptive system (biosphere). I've heard (but
not parsed fully) similar arguments about matter/anti-matter? Or like
the Highl
More drama in that part of that account than seems warranted to me.
Great that they got the data back, and it is in good shape, and that they can
do a detailed analysis of content.
When I get time, I’ll find the article and see what their “nearly equal” left
and right actually means. How m
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(and mad cow) all involve chirality changes.
-Original Message-
From: Friam On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 7:18 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] Rare Earth
Asteroid fragments upend
Pieter -
My condolences on your experience trying to provide useful support to
(top) decision makers who might well not really want that help or
actually know what to do with it. It is quite familiar.
I moved from the umbrella of High Performance Computing to a (LANL)
division whose main th
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00264-3
"Glavin is most perplexed by the discovery of an equal mixture of left-handed and
right-handed amino acids on Bennu. He, like many scientists, had thought that organic
molecules from
Yeah, he has an essay in reference 4 called "Indistinguishable Space-Times and the
Fundamental Group":
https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/335ef91d-a05c-4832-8fc1-d15e54eb9913/content
which Google tells me has been cited as recently as last year.
On 1/29/25 8:18 PM, Frank Wi
I just want to add a personal reflection to my previous email regarding the
limits of scientific knowledge beyond cosmic undetermination.
Throughout my career, I've seen the modeling of physical systems through
science and mathematics as a guiding light. Early on, I held a view akin to
Michelson's
Thanks for these Sarbajit.
Eric
> On Jan 29, 2025, at 10:45 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
>
> Also John Norton's take on it
>
> https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Obs_Equiv_final.pdf
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM Sarbajit Roy wrote:
> This may be the first paywalled PDF (attached)
>
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