omnicognate

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by omnicognate 4d ago
Quite. And unfortunately they opted for a clever, punny title that implies the exact opposite of what the article says.
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by omnicognate 4d ago
> Researchers also found that such a world could survive its passage through the Sun's outer layers while losing very little mass, which suggests that planets may leave detectable fingerprints inside their host stars long after they
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by omnicognate 4d ago
The number of downvotes reflects the fact that people don't consider just calling something "dumb" a worthwhile contribution to the discussion.
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by omnicognate 4d ago
> a lot of people don't understand that the joy of making something is not coding but actually being able to build anything I want I expect "a lot of people" understand perfectly well that that's where the joy comes f
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by omnicognate 4d ago
It's a clever pun, but it implies maths is ended, which is the exact opposite of what the article says. Given how many people responded to strawman misinterpretations of the Fields medallists' statement yesterday I don't expe
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by omnicognate 5d ago
His view is the "capability gap" one, and you can just read the the statement and Tao's other writings for far more eloquent explanations of the difference between a raw LLM proof dump and real mathematical insight, and what
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by omnicognate 5d ago
Not even vaguely related to the point being made in the statement.
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by omnicognate 5d ago
You seem determined not to understand this, but to spell it out even further: The point is not that the companies are deliberately trying to harm maths but that in pursuing their own goals, which are different to those of mathematicians, th
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by omnicognate 5d ago
I couldn't agree more. The way everyone thunders towards "replace" instead of "improve" is depressing.
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by omnicognate 5d ago
It's not a simple matter of "becoming good at", and yes, I could very well have similar concerns, depending on how it impacts the field. The statement itself mentions that such concerns exist in many other fields. I doubt Ope
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by omnicognate 5d ago
The statement is not about AI but about the behaviour of AI companies. OpenAI have put vast resource into solving open maths problems: many millions of dollars of compute just on the Navier-Stokes result, plus whatever they spent on the br
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by omnicognate 6d ago
I don't see anything stated as fact (without quote marks) here solely on the basis of Trump having said it, and I see use of quote marks for things he has said, eg. 'Trump says Iran war will end "immediately" after US mi
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by omnicognate 6d ago
What corresponds to land in the AI analogy to this?
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by omnicognate 6d ago
The title text on that one is gold.
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by omnicognate 6d ago
> You can both be an asshole and be right. "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole." - The Dude
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by omnicognate 7d ago
Not unticking a box in settings doesn't constitute consent in my opinion. I'd never put anything I value into ChatGPT anyway, though.
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by omnicognate 9d ago
I was clear on what I was responding to, and quoted it: "is doing math at the level of the best mathematics". This is misinformation and a public perception that will harm maths as it continues to spread. For some actual insight o
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by omnicognate 9d ago
I quoted Terence Tao. Are you suggesting he hasn't solved any open problems?
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by omnicognate 9d ago
> is doing math at the level of the best mathematics Terence Tao a few days ago [1]: > When we point the AIs at really difficult problems where none of the standard techniques apply, they are still very, very bad, I mean they're
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by omnicognate 9d ago
Nobody's claiming it is.
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by omnicognate 11d ago
I think this (from 2000) describes exactly these rules: https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submiss... There are many, many other such games with all sorts of variations on the rules.
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by omnicognate 11d ago
https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submiss...
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by omnicognate 7mo ago
What point have we reached? All I see is HN drowning in insufferable, identical-sounding posts about how everything has changed forever. Meanwhile at work, in a high stakes environment where software not working as intended has actual conse
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by omnicognate 7mo ago
> using complementary overhangs and toehold sequences to generate a 3-way heteroduplex, ligate knick, and then remove barcode duplex At first I thought this was about olympic figure skating, but after a bit of googling I think : Complem
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
This accepts the idea that the flickering problem (which is what that comment was about) is to do with slow rendering. It isn't. The solution to the flickering is almost certainly trivial and it's in the open source Ink library th
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
Great, so probably a pretty straightforward fix, albeit in a dependency. Ink does indeed write ansiEscapes.clearTerminal [1], which does indeed "Clear the whole terminal, including scrollback buffer. (Not just the visible part of it)&q
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
I figured they were doing something like Ink, but interesting to know that they're actually using Ink. Do you have any evidence that's the case? It doesn't answer the question, though. Ink throttles to at most 30fps (not
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
That's what they said, but as far as I can see it makes no sense at all. It's a console app. It's outputing to stdout, not a GPU buffer. The whole point of react is to update the real browser DOM (or rather their custom ASCII
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
Idempotence of an operation means that if you perform it a second (or third, etc) time it won't do anything. The "action" all happens the first time and further goes at it do nothing. Eg. switching a light switch on could be
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
I didn't say it did. I just pointed out that learning effectively isn't only a concern for "inexperienced developers still gaining knowledge".

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