A lot of (probably valid) criticism in these comments. Personally I find the comparison between strange attractors and hermeneutics really fun. I imagine the self-similarity in interpretations could be attributed to something akin to the "universal human experience". It's like we're iterating the hermeneutic circle... Whether or not that is something Borges intended I suppose is up to interpretation!

The comparison to luxury goods is not really accurate here IMO. When you purchase a luxury watch you get something tangible in return. These apps purposely prey on psychological weaknesses to get people addicted - a better comparison would be something like phone call scams.

Wait, per $ spent luxury clothes are generally as practically useless as skins in a game. And, people who sell them do it by tapping into social status instincts. So whether tangible, or not, I don't see much difference

Gambling engages the brain's reward system, releasing neurotransmitters like dopamine, creating a pleasurable experience. This reinforcement mechanism, coupled with the unpredictable nature of wins, contributes to the development of addiction. The element of chance activates cognitive processes that can lead to irrational beliefs, such as the illusion of control or the gambler's fallacy. Factors like accessibility, environmental cues, and social reinforcement further shape addictive behavior. Unlike purchasing goods, where the exchange is tangible and predictable, gambling introduces a unique set of psychological stimuli, risk factors, and reinforcement mechanisms that can lead to addictive patterns and challenges in self-control.

Thanks, this explanation makes much more sense. However, it's still misses the fact that dopamine involved in our lives very widely, and addictions can be developed to practically anything. "Normal" games are a good example, as well as obsessive buying, or aesthetic procedures, caffeine, sugar. All this things (and many more) can become uncontrollable, and dangerous to the point of death. When people demand something to be prohibited because they got moved by a story of a poor soul destroyed by addiction they must realize logical implications. Like way more people affected by alcohol than by gambling, and yet at this times most people would point you that prohibition didn't work.

You've still created a tangible product, that someone gets utility value out of, and they could potebtially resell if needed.

The good itself is produced by employees, has material inputs from suppliers, contributes to the economy in other ways.

I can agree with reselling part (not sure if it works for every luxury item, but I guess in general it should). But economically it's still the same. Revenue makes salaries, taxes, it contributes to specific research areas (as other commenter noted bot detection got funded by this induatry) etc.

Everyone saw this coming. Still, it's disappointing to see. I will be taking my valuable 0.12$ elsewhere thank you very much.

I'm a huge fan of Karl Friston's work! A seemingly simple idea (viewing cognition as effectively Bayesian) with many interesting implications.

Really hope we'll see more energy based models after LLM hype dies out.( Not that it's been lacking, but LLMs sure stole the limelight).

I doubt the average peasant was into schelling or fichte. Göethe had and continues to influence literature, poetry, etc. But shifting culture to be more self-oriented? Please. The largest social impact he had was the surge in suicides by teens inspired by young Werther.

Individuality and self-centric-philosophy is a consequence of financial independence. And if you think capitalism is to blame in this case, please visit Asia where individualism is still mostly stuck in the pre-revolutionary era.

i doubt the average pre-reformation peasant was reading the bible, and yet..

The Lutheran reformation was a political movement. And the spread of this movement was dependent on things like population density, economic potential and proximity to catholic institutions and influence. Conditions based on the above lead to adopting the heterodoxy. Not the other way around.

Contrary to this, what the article here is talking about is an intellectual exercise.

elite culture churns downward over a few generations. an intellectual exercise becomes a discourse, becomes a practice, becomes a culture

I remember when scigen successfully published one or two papers in a journal.

There's not. The positional encodings are generated using sines and cosines such that any offset in position can be described as a linear function on the original position. Using the DFT here would not make sense as the positional encodings are fixed anyway and during inference this method generalizes nicely because of the geometric progression created by the arguments of the positional encoding functions.

There isn't a DFT directly, it's a more obvious statement here. The circulant matrix (linear graph of words) always has the same eigenvectors and is diagonalized via DFT.

The PE in original Viswani is based on this, they just didn't put in all the details. So effectively the model gets hints from the PE that it's a linear graph because these are the eigenvectors.

I think it's because ext2 and ext4 both use block allocation in favor of paging thru bio and uses buffer tricks to write data in a way that reduces fragmentation

It has nothing to do with fragmentation, but with wasted space. When ext2 was originally developed in the 1990s, the typical block size employed was 1KB as storage was orders of magnitude smaller, so wasting half a block per file on a floppy disk or small HDD was a significant concern. Today most filesystems use 4KB blocks to match the page size of the most common CPUs as wasting a couple of kilobytes per file is noise.

The journaling layer (jbd) in ext3/ext4 was built on top of buffer_heads as buffer_heads were the way writes got tracked. Rewriting ext4 and jbd2 to use a new data structure to track writes to the journal and disk will be a lot of work. ext4 has a number of issues that make it a less desirable filesystem these days, so it's not clear the work will be worth it any time soon when filesystems like bcachefs, btrfs and xfs do so much better.

There has been research into common factors on the biomedical front. For example, the shank3 gene has been implicated in both ASD and Schizophrenia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28371232/

I'm not qualified to say whether or not these implicated commonalities affect this p-factor. It seems likely to me that disorders that affect identity, language, affect, etc. would have common features that could be passed down genetically.