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Or a d6 with the 4, 5 and 6 faces blank. When you roll, if the face isn't blank, that's your number. If it is then flip the die over and subtract that number from 7.

Only uses 6 pips.

Pip position encoding can get that down to 3. One pip on 3 adjacent sides.

Centre pip = 1, Edge = 2, Corner = 3

If we're gonna go that route, you can just put a single pip on a corner and derive all of the other positions from that.

Nope, that’s rotationally symmetric around the (pip, center of dice) axis.

Put the pip on the face, but near the corner.

Or the edge so, the pipped face is 1, then go over that edge for 2, keep going around for 3 and 4. If we consider that "going east" then 5 is on the north pole.

That's what I mean by "pip on the corner" :P

The comment above mine was using this terminology to refer to the corner of a face.

Humans have bootstrapped by training the next generation. Why not LLMs?

I think the perception is that humans can discover new information to question and improve what they learned, while LLM's cannot.

Human language drifts for the same reason LLM language would, but is continually reset to a sensible state by interaction with the real world.

Naive arguments aside, humans can't suffer in the same way a steak can't suffer.

Humans are alive, steaks are not. Current AI suffers as much as steak.

> does this mean the file is clean?

No.

Because there are a finite number of states, it will always loop.

An interesting question might be around how many distinct loops there are and whether there's some pattern to the loop lengths.

> Because there are a finite number of states, it will always loop.

No it wouldn't. The fact that it will pass through every state infinite times doesn't mean it will do it in the same order each time. Each digit of pi has only 10 possible states, but it never loops.

If the state evolution:

(a) is deterministic

(b) depends only on the current state, and

(c) can only occupy a finite number of states

then it will loop.

Pi digits do not satisfy this because while the digit space is finite (10), the next digit depends on more than just the prior digit.

Related (but not the same): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_recurrence_theorem

The speed of the balls are changed by a small random amount when they hit a tile, so it's not deterministic.

If it's a deterministic RNG then it just means the state space is very large.

Ooh that’s cool I’ve never seen that before.

For contrast, in the UK we typically don't use buyer brokers at all. Normally the seller pays about 1% to their agent.

Probably because you pay the state the other 6% as stamp duty who is the true broker.

In what sense is the state "the true broker"?

there are bunch off settlement fees that go to the government in the US also.

Nothing close to 6% of the purchase price though.

The first thing capable of evolving was inorganic.

"Inorganic" is not the same as "non-living" but even taking your use of "inorganic" to mean "non-living", what was the change that distinguished the living from the non-living before it?

What's the difference between something that's barely organic and something that's barely inorganic?

The author believes that rejecting candidates that fail in these ways will lead to hiring better employees, but I see nothing to say why that should be so.

This: "Everybody is more productive when they ignore the rules everyone else is expected to follow"