#arxivator

[gudamor]

Stop referring to 50/50 odds as 'a coin flip'!

Coins have a tendency to land on the same side they started, confirming the predictions from the Diaconis, Holmes, and Montgomery (D-H-M) model of coin flipping.

Though if I'm reading it right, this tendency does depend on the tosser.

[etirabys]

How do you pronounce arxiv

[rlyehtaxidermist]

definitely the funniest part about my second master's thesis was that i got to cite the 3ds hacking tutorial

[cheerycherrycandy-resurrected]

Hey, a question for my fellow academia-ghesties!

And other fandom peeps in general I guess

Please please please tell me I am not the only one who, when my colleagues talk about "putting something on the archive", thinks first of AO3 and not arXiv!!!!

[spacebrick3]

arXiv is a goldmine actually

[il3x]

mostly when I say "I could fix him" I'm joking. but with specifically Hollyleaf, child Eurus, and possibly Chris, I am fully convinced that if I was allowed to befriend them and talk to them with my current general resources I could make them better. Morally and psychologically. They'd make me worse in equal measure, but it's the thought that counts.

[skilopsaros]

I really do want to understand what I'm supposed to do in this new job, but when some of the required reading has sentences like:

“Alternatively, non-Clifford gates can be effected by preparing special resource states called *magic states* that can be used in a type of gate teleportation circuit.”

It's really hard to believe that I've not been hired by a bunch of wizards.

[t-jfh]

Google’s quantum computer instantly makes calculations that take rivals 47 years.

By James Titcomb

The Age - July 3, 2023

Originally published by The Telegraph, London

[thahxa]

god all this shit about attribution and sources and scraping and biases and oh god this shit misses the forest for the trees so hard. its ai! its fucking magic! its like half a step away from being a human (and it's already smarter than most people in tons of shit like translation!)

i want someone to train GPT-4 on 30 trillion tokens and have 2 trillion parameters and no RLHF bullshit and post it on thepiratebay and when some fucking jurno asks "uhhh but what about <moralfag fuckery>" they just say "WHY THE FUCK DO I CARE YOU ARE SEEING THE FACE OF GOD RIGHT HERE" and let them seethe and cope while I get to play with the closest real life thing we've made to a machine that knows everything

[4gravitons]

Why Journals Are Sticky

For-profit journals have a strange role in physics. Why do they still hang on?

An older professor in my field has a quirk: every time he organizes a conference, he publishes all the talks in a conference proceeding. In some fields, this would be quite normal. In computer science, where progress flows like a torrent, new developments are announced at conferences long before they have the time to be written up carefully as a published paper. Conference proceedings are…

[younes-ben-amara]

ما هو التحسين لنُظُم الذكاء الاصطناعي؟ (AIO = AI Optimisation)

ما هذه المجموعة من المختارات تسألني؟ إنّها عددٌ من أعداد نشرة “صيد الشابكة” اِعرف أكثر عن النشرة هنا: ما هي نشرة “صيد الشابكة” ما مصادرها، وما غرضها؛ وما معنى الشابكة أصلًا؟! 🎣🌐هل تعرف ما هي صيد الشابكة وتطالعها بانتظام؟ اِدعم استمرارية النشرة بطرق شتى من هنا: 💲 طرق دعم نشرة صيد الشابكة. 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #140 السلام عليكم؛ مرحبًا وبسم الله؛ بخصوص العنوان فستجده في أحد الأقسام أدناه. 🎣🌐 صيد…

[the-woman-without-qualities]

Closed like 200+ browser tabs today

[istariot]

❝ 𝚆𝙸𝚂𝙳𝙾𝙼 𝚆𝙰𝚂 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝚂𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙷𝙸𝙼, 𝙱𝚄𝚃 𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙰𝚂 𝙼𝚄𝙲𝙷, 𝙼𝚄𝙲𝙷 𝙵𝙰𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁 —

throughout the semester xiaotian had attended approximately 0.00000087654 of the necessary 3 credit hours required to pass remedial math. his final core credit and the one course he just couldn’t seem to easily bribe his way out of. not even his grand list of excuses — ranging from the tried and true 'i had monoppendicitisarrhea' to the occasional 'my grandmother has tragically fallen ill and i must be by her side!' — made up for his poor performance.

it really shouldn't have come as a surprise. school never really was his thing to begin with. his eldest brother got all the brains, the middle child all the brawn, and well, xiaotian had the aesthetics. his neurons only fired to maintain his god-like physique and radiant smile — a phrase that landed a whole lot better in his head than it had in office hours.

it was truly unfortunate that between his missed assignments and utterly abysmal attendance record, there was little that could be done to salvage his third attempt at taking this stupid class. but that wasn’t really xiaotian’s problem, now was it? once his father caught wind again of his instructor's incompetence as a member of faculty, he'd have his head on a platter. of course, xiaotian was no saint, but he wasn’t unteachable. the course obviously was not engaging in the slightest ( or in xiaotian’s words, the decrepit asshole just had it out for him! ). and while content with dealing with the potential fallout from yet another sit down with the dean, the two come to an impasse and he is offered a compromise — 

score 30 points on the final to pass the course.

doable. but not on his own. he would need to seek out the assistance of someone far more intellectual than he — with the added benefit of being a little eye candy since those frumpy teaching assistants of his just loved leaving everything to the imagination.

and so he sits. tucked away in a cozy corner of the library waiting patiently for his savior with a broken pencil tucked behind his ear, mind blank and primed for learning!

“there she is. my favorite tu-tor,” he shimmies his shoulders to emphasize each syllable at the sight of miyeong in all her poindexter glory. “i forgot to bring you an apple… is gin an acceptable substitute?” he smirks, fingers drumming against the flask hidden beneath his snu pullover. 

teacher’s pet — @arxival

[cognoz]

[french-mermaid-outfit]

Would love to see an arcane mage experience publish or perish.