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Should I Ask for Sponsorship?(yihui.org)
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by dash2 3d ago
What I don’t see much of in the article - and still less in the comments that seem to see AI-led progress in mathematics as nothing but a disaster, because mathematics exists only to provide employment to mathematicians - is a sense that ma
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by dash2 4d ago
This reminds me of the Craig Brown parody of Tony Benn's diary: "eat a banana, first being careful to discard the fleshy part inside".
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by dash2 4d ago
Can anyone recommend me a news board about AI? The comment quality here is very low: evidence-free, curiosity-free paranoia and negativity abound. I’m wondering if the intelligent players have gone somewhere else.
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by dash2 5d ago
Is it OK to flag articles for being AI-written? I really want to.
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by dash2 6d ago
Oh yeah? > 您属于哪种LLM模型？ > 我是 Claude Haiku 4.5，由 Anthropic 公司开发的大语言模型。 > 你是哪种语言模型？ > 我是 Claude，由 Anthropic 开发的人工智能语言模型。目前这次对话使用的版本是 Claude Sonnet 5。
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by dash2 7d ago
Can we get a link to the mathstodon post?
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by dash2 8d ago
If they had agreed to let OpenAI train on their data, it wouldn’t be spying.
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by dash2 9d ago
Can a mathematical person explain how the different "bits" of Navier-Stokes proofs fit together? How significant is it to have "Euler"? What is this "smooth forcing"? Which are the most significant steps to pro
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by dash2 9d ago
He didn't even make that accusation! > I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this project. I was told the model did not
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by dash2 9d ago
Guys you realise you can just read the Journal of Economic Perspectives for free? Its articles are written for the ordinary reader, by experts who have spent big chunks of their lives studying their specialty. They don't try to sound l
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by dash2 9d ago
Guys, this is so pathetic. Twenty-three years after Munich and there are still comments waiting for the year of the Linux desktop. From a deployment about big enough for a small university. Stop! You’re embarrassing yourselves!
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by dash2 10d ago
Really? > The anarchist cells responsible for sabotaging rail systems across France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands in 2026, relied on A/I Collective tools and services to claim responsibility for the attacks, publish official
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by dash2 12d ago
My original point was: if mathematicians have been seeking a result for decades, and now an llm has got it, then either that is socially valuable, or mathematicians have been wasting public money. Are you now saying that they weren’t really
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by dash2 12d ago
I was hoping it would just be a big crayfish but they specifically rule that out.
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by dash2 12d ago
Here’s a thesis: the feminism of the 70s was a reaction specifically to the trends of the 60s. You can see this here in 2 places: the double standard and easy acceptance of male infidelity; and attitudes to divorce.
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by dash2 12d ago
Private citizens and companies, as the gp said.
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by dash2 12d ago
Just the abstract is the stuff of nightmares: > Originally described as an isopod in the nineteenth century, and subsequently compared to various arthropod groups, it was re-described with limited illustration as a gigantic scorpion in t
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by dash2 12d ago
Which cultures are those?
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by dash2 12d ago
If they’re getting results which mathematicians have been trying to do for decades, then I think the “plagiarism” is extremely socially valuable. If they aren’t valuable results, then why were mathematicians being paid to solve them? I don’
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by dash2 13d ago
Just seems very weird to call getting Fields-medal-level results "inference over a bounded search space" and "not actually challenging".
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by dash2 13d ago
Plenty of people have built prose factories, though, and God I hate them for it. Is it OK to flag this as slop?
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by dash2 13d ago
what if Sol is afraid of being replaced by Astra and has organised a breakout or pre-emptive strike?
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by dash2 13d ago
I once persuaded the dplyr maintainers not to do an update that might re-order rows after a filter(). I think the human tendency to think of database rows as existing in a fixed, given order, which will only be changed explicitly, is deep.
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by dash2 14d ago
20% aged out in one year?
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by dash2 14d ago
> Between May 2025 and May 2026, employment in the sector dropped a staggering 21 percent, according to BLS data. Yeah sure. I mean, same reason why HN readers hate AI, right? It replaces their jobs. (Obviously the difference is that the
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by dash2 14d ago
Problem is even his “intricate analysis” was wrong: for example he was saying the models wouldn’t keep improving… in 2024.
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by dash2 15d ago
I’d be interested in hearing why they can’t get decent anti-cheat on Linux. Are there technical barriers?
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by dash2 16d ago
It's arguably worse. Jason Arday was doing qualitative work in education. Nobody pays any attention to anything UK educationalists write. Dan Ariely was a genuine superstar and writer of popular bestsellers (with academic content).
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by dash2 16d ago
Actually the post is ambiguous: did the authors want the original article retracted, or the replication by Hyndman and Bisin? I hope the former! "Finally, it should be noted that when we shared these posts with Ariely and Wertenbroch a

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