contubernio

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by contubernio 3d ago
This is the essence of why disciplinary, authoritarian, stick based teaching of humans generally fails. It teaches succeed at any cost.
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by contubernio 3d ago
One sees this in math research. The model reports it has proved X. In fact it has given an erroneous numerical check of Y in a few atypical cases. What makes math approachable is that the context is so well delimited (semantically) that one
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by contubernio 3d ago
Tha Jacobian conjecture is (was?) notorious for publication of false proofs. There have been many, not all by those who shouldn't have known better.
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by contubernio 5d ago
Perhaps all these fields medalists are just worried that AI mitigates their competitive advantages over a mediocre professional mathematician like me. Their main advantages are a kind of penetrating clear thinking that not all of us have an
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by contubernio 5d ago
Tao is quite the opposite of what you describe. He's had an ongoing dialogue intellectually with the challenges created by ai for mathematicians for some time (years) now and his viewpoint is quite balanced. He is not alarmist but rath
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by contubernio 5d ago
"I suspect that with six good mathematicians spending their whole careers primarily focused on it, and working together closely, Navier-Stokes might well have fallen already" There were more than six doing that and it's essen
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by contubernio 6d ago
The idea that mathematicians were not involved in actively directing the and structuring the search for solutions is absurd to any professional mathematician who has tried to prove things using these models.
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by contubernio 6d ago
What you say is true but ... This is qualitatively different than calculators or computers. I'm a professional mathematician and all the better mathematicians I know are in crisis mode. Most of us hadn't taken this sufficiently se
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by contubernio 8d ago
Math problems are highly structured, very precisely defined, and already heavily studied and not very complicated compared to problems in engineering or finance. There's a lot of quality material on which to train and it's easy to
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by contubernio 8d ago
People are underestimating the costs in terms of money and energy. The third law of thermodynamics is an essential barrier in all engineering.
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by contubernio 8d ago
In math and theoretical physics the arxiv is the default place to publish and where one goes to find the best and most current work. Papers take a long time to review (years) particularly hard and good papers and publication in journals mai
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by contubernio 8d ago
Bubeck is familiar with how publishing works in mathematics.
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by contubernio 8d ago
What is specifically alleged is that a particular approach to the problem - itself not easily discoverable - was copied. This is what is meant in the text "I should say here why I interpreted their statement the way I did, the in- terp
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by contubernio 10d ago
A country like Spain has a formal system of grants and awards for athletes designated as "elite" and supports them roughly at the same pay as it supports junior university professors.
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by contubernio 10d ago
Nobody is in panic, but we are using these systems and seeing what are their capabilities and it's clear that their use has a big impact on the practice of mathematical research, probably far more impact than it has in other areas. Par
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by contubernio 10d ago
Calling the arxiv a vanity press shows you aren't a researcher. In math and physics all the best stuff is on the arxiv and the general level is well above the level of most journals. Journals mainly serve as accreditation and many are
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by contubernio 11d ago
It is capable of applying know heuristics and general principles in places where they haven't been applied and in this sense very much capable of generating conjectures in much the same way a person does. It's ability to employ a
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by contubernio 11d ago
As a mathematician not expert kn these things, yes it scans as reasonable, and yes it has me and most of my colleagues reconsidering what we do for a living.
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by contubernio 11d ago
Sounds just like standard behavior for gaming incencyives in large institutions.
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by contubernio 15d ago
AI is clearly of great utility for defense/military/security. That alone guarantees continued support financially.
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by contubernio 16d ago
As a middle-aged mathematician, AI is provoking a serious crisis among the better mathematicians I know. Many are only half jokingly talking about retiring. We use AI a lot in research already and it's obvious that whoever doesn't
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by contubernio 16d ago
Institutions like Duke benefit enormously from having people like this around. They can claim they have lots of highly cited and well published researchers, a bit of controversy is free publicity, etc. They make money off him and so they de
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by contubernio 18d ago
Part of running a profitable business is doing the right thing. Following socially obligated rules is a cost just like buying drywall. The profits at all cost mentality is a criminal mentality. Maybe it gets away with not being formally cri
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by contubernio 18d ago
As a dual American-European (citizenship in both, lived in both) I celebrate the EU data privacy laws and lament the absolute lack of protection of data or privacy that prevails in the US. Because of US based websites the genealogical histo
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by contubernio 21d ago
ODB understood this dynamic years ago - "Wu Tang is for the children"
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by contubernio 23d ago
Instrumental education is less effective at producing innovation and utility than is basic education. Forgetting this is (and has been) destructive to universities.
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by contubernio 23d ago
One imagines they are far more worried about person X fraudulently claiming to be person Y than they are about occasionally causing problems for identical twins. Obviously the solution is to accompany facial recognition with DNA tests.
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by contubernio 23d ago
People on the street, so to speak, don't know better even in advanced nations with strong educational systems. Look how much rejection of vaccination there is in spite of "knowing better". In many African nations there is ver
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by contubernio 1mo ago
Overrated and tendentious book. There are many better linear algebra texts. His polemic against determinants is poorly motivated, misguided, and distracting. The writing is quite formal and not terribly inspiring. The coverage is adequate b
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by contubernio 1mo ago
Another common misconception is that one is still healthy with high BMI that comes from having lots of muscle. It's not clear that lots of muscle is healthy.

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