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Here is a link to a podcast from last summer with more background info

Harry used a 43 tone scale for his custom built instruments here

To put it another way, the contestant is presented with ##\{ \frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{3} \}## but before a choice is made, the host adds information that makes it ##\{ \frac{1}{3},0,\frac{2}{3} \}## - the interesting bit is why is this a paradox that so many struggle with (myself...

Agree with this If the host and the player have the same info at the same time, then the game cant depend on the host's knowledge

This has been beat to death, but thought I would chime in that it actually does not matter whether the host knows what door the car is behind, if you pick door 1 and the host opens 2 or 3 without knowing where the goat is, there is a 1/3 chance that the host reveals the car and a 2/3 chance he...

the BFG 9000 was great but there were never enough plasma cells to use it much. I do remember hacking the double barrel shotgun to give it the same rate of fire as the chain gun, which would shred anything

does midpoint = median? a standard normal distribution has a median of zero and its range is (−∞,+∞) but does that mean you have to define a convergent function on the line to define a midpoint?

Risk neutral probabilities are martingales but <> 0.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-neutral_measure Can arbitrarily create a martingale with any binomial process

There was that time Stephen Hawking appeared at the 1998 X Games

Alpha genome is the latest https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/

Was at a conference today and the discussion was RAGs set up with physics laws as a constraint on the LLM, both to improve accuracy and reduce compute by trimming possible inferences to exclude physically impossible scenarios. The context was oil & gas, particularly infrastructure assets

Why not a rail gun? If you can handwaive past the energy requirement, it’s the most powerful way to launch projectiles

I doubt any more than a handful of humans will ever leave Earth. Space is just too big and hostile