What's the problem? 8th dimensional math is easy. You just imagine it in n dimensions and let n go to 8.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
What's the problem? 8th dimensional math is easy. You just imagine it in n dimensions and let n go to 8.
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You don't visualize 4+ dimensional space. You carefully and precisely do whatever mathematics you need in it, until your brain builds up an intuition of how it should work. This is what Leonard Susskind says during one of his introductory lectures on Quantum Mechanics, and it echoes my experience, and outside mathematics as well. Visualizations can be dangerous if not backed by intuition rooted in the problem domain.
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Or you throw machine learning at it until either the solution converges or your GPU melts
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Or you throw machine learning at it until either the solution converges or your GPU melts
You're missing the step where you pay college students in Kenya to annotate your data.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Why would you do that when you have interns for that?
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No no silly, you annotate a tiny amount of data, auto-label more data, correct the bad ones, re-label, and bootstrap up!
*undergrads
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I will observe that the actual size of "tiny" in this context is subject to high variance depending on problem domain and desired accuracy.
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Implying the overlap between those sets isn't converging to 100%.
A sealmaster who can't infuse seal is not actually a sealmaster. Theory and practice cannot be separated.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Fine, then we find older high-chakra civilians to train sufficiently for the task, or academy dropouts.
Emstar
The Shining One
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I want to recruit academy dropouts for our super secret Sith sealing society.
(SSSSS for short.)
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While probably not impossible, they would be in danger if there is a sealing failure, because they can't use ninja tricks to deal with it. Even a Bodyguard might not be enough (also it's expensive and needs another ninja).
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Orochimaru would be proud.
They aren't actually intended to be doing sealing. They're intended to be teaching it.
They have to actually do sealing.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Some amount, yes. But not nearly as much as Hazou, for instance, has done.
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Nothing's preventing civilians from teaching Sealing Theory, any more than nothing's preventing you from teaching Sealing Theory.
The question is not whether or not they can teach it, but whether or not they can teach it well.
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But with how skills work in this system don't you need to raise up sealing to a certain level before you can teach it to someone else? I don't think you can actually get good enough at seal theory to teach without being a capable sealsmith at that point.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Sealing 10, yes. I do not think that reaching that is likely to be difficult if they were taught by Kagome, especially if the program was optimized for a minimum of practical sealing.
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FTFY, you're welcome.
Emstar
The Shining One
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Yes, I too don't know why we're wasting our time thinking of innefficient personal flight systems
Emstar
The Shining One
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That might be mildly helpful but I don't think he ever figured it out?
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He did, however, spend an absurd amount of time on it, and we can take a look at what could/won't work.
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