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What is the underlying hardware capable of doing at its theoretical peak? And then you measure the delta between that theoretical maximum and what you have achieved.
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if you look at the nuclear industry outside of Valor, it's mostly a modeling and simulation uh industry. Like when you think of a nuclear company, right, there's like nuclear companies out there that everyone knows the name of. And you kind of look under the cover. It's actually a modeling and simulation company, right? They produce um very very precise what we call paper reactors which have really good predictions of how a theoretical thing might behave.
28 July
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I think it's a real reminder of the stakes of what's happening and that loss of control accidents are not entirely theoretical things.
27 July
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And it's really about being empirical. So forget all of the things that you learned about past models. Forget everything that you've learned about computer science theory in class. Look at the model, try to do a task, see where it struggles, and then based on that adjust. So it's just like very much become it's not a theoretical science, it's become an empirical science.
11 April
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but I still think the model of Eventually Known Consistency is the better theoretical model even if it is harder for users to reason about.
29 January
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Temperature is a rare conceptual lever that lets you use physics to reason usefully about a biological problem.Their words
Basically what that gives you is like you can apply a lot of theoretical sort of um a lot of theoretical toolkit used in physics to model parts of this question in ways that are actually useful. And it is just not true that you can use like equations from physics to think usefully about almost any other problem in biology.
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A self-respecting theoretical physicist kills most of their own ideas rather than waiting for somebody else to do it.Their words
I totally agree. Sometimes I take too long to come to that conclusion, but I will proudly say, as most theoretical physicists should, that I kill most of my ideas myself.
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21 December 2023
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While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.
13 December 2023
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precisely because smart people do devote brain-cycles to these possibilities, the rest of us have correspondingly less need to.
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I accepted what’s turned into a two-year position at OpenAI, thinking about what theoretical computer science can do for AI safety.
1 June 2022
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There is no tight relation between growth rates and interest rates, either theoretically or empirically.Their words
while the growth rate may well affect saving and investment, there is no tight relation between growth rates and interest rates, either on theoretical or empirical grounds.
28 October 2020
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Obviously AwesomeTheir words
Simple, practical, useful. This book is a quick read that covers modern positioning and how to do it. Unlike all the theoretical books out there, this is a VC who lived a life as a marketer (all the way up to CMO/VP) doing this and then worked with more entrepreneurs. This hands on experience leads to a system that is easy to understand and apply. I'm now trying to apply it so this score will rise or fall based on the results we have.
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical MinimumTheir words
If you want to make the step from popular science literature to textbooks and the general scientific literature, then this book series is a must-read.
23 February 2013
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Susskind made his lecture notes into a book and did a great job.
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