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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It's in reference to your complaint about the imprecision of "stochastic process". I'm not disagreeing that molecular diffusion is a stochastic process. I'm saying that if you want to use "Markov process" to describe a non-Markovian stochastic process, then you no longer have the precision you're looking for and now molecular diffusion also falls under your new definition of Markov process.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

That's basically like saying that typical smartphones are square because it's close enough to rectangle and rectangle is too vague of a term. The point of more specific terms is to narrow down the set of possibilities. If you use "square" to mean the set of rectangles, then you lose the ability to do that and now both words are equally vague.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Stochastic process

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Or maybe had to simultaneously work multiple full time jobs and a weekend job to make ends meet?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Why settle for good enough when you have a term that is both actually correct and more widely understood?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

Why does everyone keep calling them Markov chains? They're missing ~~all the required properties, including~~ the eponymous Markovian property. Wouldn't it be more correct to call them stochastic processes?

Edit: Correction, turns out the only difference between a stochastic process and a Markov process is the Markovian property. It's literally defined as "stochastic process but Markovian".

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I find it amusing that everyone is answering the question with the assumption that the premise of OP's question is correct. You're all hallucinating the same way that an LLM would. 

LLMs are rarely trained on a single source of data exclusively. All the big ones you find will have been trained on a huge dataset including Reddit, research papers, books, letters, government documents, Wikipedia, GitHub, and much more. 

Example datasets:

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

What's your definition of power then?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I would argue that there is a bidirectional casual relationship. Having more money gives you more power because you can directly spend that money to do things. More power means you can better influence people to give you their money.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

We're not at a point yet where this is a concern, so still on the brainstorming phase of how to do this.

I think the main concern I have is the addictive side of the internet that's enabled by their recommendation systems and infinite scrolling, so that's what I would try to block. For example, allow free reign on YouTube, but you have to specifically search for what you want to see.

There's also the question of privacy, and whether we should be keeping track of and checking their browsing histories. I'm currently leaning towards yes, while also making sure that they're aware of what we're doing. There's value in letting them make their own mistakes and learning from them, but that only applies to things that they can learn and easily recover from.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Immediately afterwards? I've been told to wait at least half an hour after eating, or else brushing will have a negative effect on your teeth.

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