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Numerical Tours(numerical-tours.com)
3 points by efavdb 8h ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 7d ago
That’s the smart car
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by efavdb 7d ago
Apparently Tristan was working on this problem for years, with AI providing help. Vs OpenAI spending a week with their new model, potentially having access to Tristan’s work.
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by efavdb 8d ago
I am curious who if anyone will get a reward for this. It would seem unreasonable to give it to the worker who asked the robot to solve it.
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by efavdb 8d ago
>> Keep in mind: natural science is different. It's not always a matter of computation. Math is like this too. The big problems they've been solving have been identified as interesting only through lots of prior effort.
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by efavdb 10d ago
At a minimum posting to arxiv gives others a standard way to cite the work.
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Two party systems and the quartile voters(jslandy.com)
3 points by efavdb 10d ago|0 comments
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StoryScope: Investigating Idiosyncrasies in AI Fiction(arxiv.org)
1 points by efavdb 11d ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 13d ago
Seems like only yesterday that gpt 5 was supposed to mark our downfall
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President Trump Signs Executive Order to Create US Space Academy(nasa.gov)
8 points by efavdb 18d ago|8 comments
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Dr. Melvin Scheinman: 40th Anniversary of Catheter Ablation(ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu)
65 points by efavdb 18d ago|20 comments
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Gold Price vs. Oil Trends(macrotrends.net)
4 points by efavdb 18d ago|0 comments
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A Scale Invariance Property of PCA(jslandy.com)
2 points by efavdb 18d ago|0 comments
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A scale invariance property of PCA(jslandy.com)
2 points by efavdb 22d ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 23d ago
I agree the tradeoffs are real but consider it obvious that reading and writing were in net a boon and I also expect the same for AI / programming. Of course having some understanding is still required in both cases to make good use o
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by efavdb 23d ago
look to past examples. when the greeks developed writing, people complained that the youth were losing the ability to memorize much content. and that is true, but with writing they were able to do better still and that old skill -- though
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by efavdb 26d ago
Take him up on his bet then
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The Complete Fun to Imagine with Richard Feynman [video](youtube.com)
2 points by efavdb 27d ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 28d ago
one thought: AI can often help us solve a problem once posed. E.g., try to prove that X is True. But formulating good conjectures is something altogether different. right now we have a backlog of interesting / good conjectures that
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by efavdb 28d ago
reminds me of perturbation theory -- start off with a nearby problem you know the answer to, then update it to get the answer to the problem at hand
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by efavdb 29d ago
Counterpoint: Amazon among the most favorable institutions in the US https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/HHP...
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by efavdb 1mo ago
The method of identifying authorship isn’t new. I guess the main new thing here is to ensure Claude has a specified word distribution so you can identify its writing. https://towardsdatascience.com/text-classification-and-t
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by efavdb 1mo ago
I guess that makes sense. as you get to higher dimensions, most points sit very close to the surface. So if we're trading off N things and N >> 1, expect to basically always be at the pareto boundary.
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by efavdb 1mo ago
for the last one, that's the whole story of Socrates being the wisest man because unlike others he knew the bounds of his knowledge: "I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do no
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by efavdb 1mo ago
best point in that first link: openai doesn't tell us if they only tried to solve these 10 and each was solved (amazing) or if they asked it to solve a million problems and it got these 10. Either is great, one is more so.
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Optimal Elevator Placement(jslandy.com)
2 points by efavdb 2mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 2mo ago
I recently wrote an article about this problem, and detail one reasonable algo for minimizing wait time. (Doesn’t consider concept of cars being full though, interesting addition) https://jslandy.com/elevators/
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Renewal Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by efavdb 2mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 2mo ago
Thanks, I was curious for the motivation behind the conjecture, but it wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
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by efavdb 2mo ago
My three year old taught me something he saw on a YouTube video: you can search through a maze and find your way out just by keeping your right hand on the wall at all times and continuing till exit. Does a DFS.

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