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ZeroDayDreamer 58 minutes ago [-]
Using high-dimensional statistics for beer money, not academic papers" is the correct use of the degree. The papers are where you prove the circle exists. The bar is where you find out it exists for everything
hhjinks 3 hours ago [-]
Does the mapping depend on the chose set, or could you just map all 25k words and pick 10 points that form a circle? From the process, they seemingly replaced single words in the set that didn't fit, which makes it sound like the position of the remaining words didn't change much from changing the set.
mph1027 4 hours ago [-]
The best bar bets are the ones where you're technically not cheating, just abusing linear algebra.
ViscountPenguin 8 hours ago [-]
A fun step-up would be to see if you can find an infinity shape by repeating the process with a set of points which are maximally far away from all points but 1 on the existing circle.
cold_boot 6 hours ago [-]
Tried something similar predicting poker outcomes, ended up buying everyone a round. The math wasn't in my favor.
mdritch 8 hours ago [-]
I recently did some analysis on how different style prompts like "be succinct" and "avoid mannered prose" affect LLM outputs and I also saw a ~circular relationship with a 2d dimensional reduction (MDS) of the similarity matrix. I wonder if it's some artifact of PCA/MDS + Gemma's output dist
ovin_dal 6 hours ago [-]
Betting on this with high-dimensional stats sounds like a classic case of overfitting your opponent. Just buy them a beer.
Eastmill 6 hours ago [-]
Used a similar trick once to predict who'd buy coffee. Didn't win a beer, but definitely earned some weird looks.
heronbank 6 hours ago [-]
My stats professor would be proud I'm using high-dimensional statistics for beer money, not academic papers.