kogasa

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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago
  1. I also have a masters in math and completed all coursework for a PhD. Infinitesimals never came up because they're not part of standard foundations for analysis. I'd be shocked if they were addressed in any formal capacity in your curriculum, because why would they be? It can be useful to think in terms of infinitesimals for intuition but you should know the difference between intuition and formalism.

  2. I didn't say "infinitesimals don't have a consistent algebra." I'm familiar with NSA and other systems admitting infinitesimal-like objects. I said they're not standard. They aren't.

  3. If you want to use differential forms to define 1D calculus, rather than a NSA/infinitesimal approach, you'll eventually realize some of your definitions are circular, since differential forms themselves are defined with an implicit understanding of basic calculus. You can get around this circular dependence but only by introducing new definitions that are ultimately less elegant than the standard limit-based ones.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Ok, but no. Infinitesimal-based foundations for calculus aren't standard and if you try to make this work with differential forms you'll get a convoluted mess that is far less elegant than the actual definitions. It's just not founded on actual math. It's hard for me to argue this with you because it comes down to simply not knowing the definition of a basic concept or having the necessary context to understand why that definition is used instead of others...

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] kogasa@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't. Only sometimes it does, because it can be seen as an operator involving a limit of a fraction and sometimes you can commute the limit when the expression is sufficiently regular

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The other thing is that it's legit not a fraction.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev -2 points 5 days ago

Sounds like a skill issue. If that ruined the game for you, I dunno what to say. Might be a replicant?

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I agree with them, that game is a masterpiece. Didn't you love it?

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't top out below 144Hz. There are benefits with diminishing returns up to at least 1000Hz especially for sample-and-hold displays (like all modern LCD/OLED monitors). 240Hz looks noticeably smoother than 144Hz, and 360Hz looks noticeably smoother than 240Hz. Past that it's probably pretty hard to tell unless you know what to look for, but there are a few specific effects that continue to be reduced. https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-future-1000hz-displays-with-blurfree-sample-and-hold/

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

That example recording is awesome

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago

Yippee I missed these

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know, I'm just saying it's not theoretically impossible to have a phone number as a token. It's just probably not what happened here.

the choice of the next token is really random

It's not random in the sense of a uniform distribution which is what is implied by "generate a random [phone] number".

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

A full phone number could be in the tokenizer vocabulary, but any given one probably isn't in there

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