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phyzguy replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.I'm always confused by the argument that says, "they are just machines, they can't be intelligent/conscious." Your brain is a... -
phyzguy replied to the thread Graduate How to compute the path 3i/Atlas will take when it passes near Jupiter?.So the JPL websire you linked says that Atlas-3I will pass within 0.358 AU of Jupiter. You want to independently verify this? The...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.I think it's not true that current LLM's are deterministic. They all incorporate some level of stochasticity.
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phyzguy replied to the thread Undergrad Why is SI taught in US university physics courses instead of cgs?.Have fun buying a capacitor in statFarads.
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is mathematics invented or discovered?.So from that standpoint, when did this invention of the human mind come into existence? (1) When Galois first wrote about group theory...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is mathematics invented or discovered?.But that's exactly my point. "Some human decides what is significant" by studying the objects around us. As you say, we are guided by...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is mathematics invented or discovered?.I agree it is not a physical object, but it is a well defined structure. Where does that structure reside if it is not in our universe?
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is mathematics invented or discovered?.I'm not sure I agree that group theory was invented. The axioms of group theory were chosen the way they are because it leads to...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is mathematics invented or discovered?.I agree. It's clear that those constants were discovered, not invented, but I'm not sure everyone would agree. I chose the monster...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is mathematics invented or discovered?.I chose the monster group because to me it is obvious that nobody could have invented that structure. Yes!! I think that must be the...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is mathematics invented or discovered?.My example to the "is mathematics invented or discovered?" question is the monster group. This is the largest simple group, with...
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The review article appears to cover only GRBs since 1997, because it's interested in redshift measurements which it says weren't made... -
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On time scales of thousands or millions of years, the engineering realities can change drastically. The engineering realities of Stone...