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In­tro­duc­ing Statis­ti­cal Utility Me­chan­ics: A Frame­work for Utility Maximizers

J Bostock15 May 2024 21:56 UTC
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Tam­ing In­finity (Stat Mech Part 3)

J Bostock15 May 2024 21:43 UTC
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Con­served Quan­tities (Stat Mech Part 2)

J Bostock4 May 2024 13:40 UTC
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So What’s Up With PUFAs Chem­i­cally?

J Bostock27 Apr 2024 13:32 UTC
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For­get Every­thing (Statis­ti­cal Me­chan­ics Part 1)

J Bostock22 Apr 2024 13:33 UTC
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Mea­sur­ing Learned Op­ti­miza­tion in Small Trans­former Models

J Bostock8 Apr 2024 14:41 UTC
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Briefly Ex­tend­ing Differ­en­tial Op­ti­miza­tion to Distributions

J Bostock10 Mar 2024 20:41 UTC
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Finite Fac­tored Sets to Bayes Nets Part 2

J Bostock3 Feb 2024 12:25 UTC
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From Finite Fac­tors to Bayes Nets

J Bostock23 Jan 2024 20:03 UTC
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Differ­en­tial Op­ti­miza­tion Reframes and Gen­er­al­izes Utility-Maximization

J Bostock27 Dec 2023 1:54 UTC
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Math­e­mat­i­cally-Defined Op­ti­miza­tion Cap­tures A Lot of Use­ful Information

J Bostock29 Oct 2023 17:17 UTC
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Defin­ing Op­ti­miza­tion in a Deeper Way Part 4

J Bostock28 Jul 2022 17:02 UTC
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Defin­ing Op­ti­miza­tion in a Deeper Way Part 3

J Bostock20 Jul 2022 22:06 UTC
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Defin­ing Op­ti­miza­tion in a Deeper Way Part 2

J Bostock11 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
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Defin­ing Op­ti­miza­tion in a Deeper Way Part 1

J Bostock1 Jul 2022 14:03 UTC
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Think­ing about Broad Classes of Utility-like Functions

J Bostock7 Jun 2022 14:05 UTC
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The Halt­ing Prob­lem and the Im­pos­si­ble Photocopier

J Bostock31 Mar 2022 18:19 UTC
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Why Do I Think I Have Values?

J Bostock3 Feb 2022 13:35 UTC
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Knowl­edge Lo­cal­iza­tion: Ten­ta­tively Pos­i­tive Re­sults on OCR

J Bostock30 Jan 2022 11:57 UTC
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De­con­fus­ing Deception

J Bostock29 Jan 2022 16:43 UTC
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