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by piker 3d ago
> According to the paper, the material can be broken down and reused too - provided at least a single yeast cell survives the process, and the cold, barren wasteland of Mars, that is. Is radiation a non-factor here given the simplicity o
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by piker 4d ago
Has anyone ever had any success building a digital products business with pay-per-click ads? We're always tempted and dabble, and every bit of traffic seems accidental, completely disinterested or obviously a spammer clicking around tr
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by piker 5d ago
Had me until the last word. Cameras did take away oil paintings, but not eyes.
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by piker 5d ago
> I wonder if there is really enough signal going to the training processes for “a human understands what is going on” Unverifiable, un-scalable, no.
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by piker 6d ago
Question: does Stockfish beat more generic systems like AlphaZero?
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by piker 7d ago
Maybe? But then the parent comment doesn’t make sense either. (There are 2 solved.) Like I said, take the charitable view. To a lot of readers this will be “announcing” the closure of the second of 7 problems so is internally consistent.
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by piker 7d ago
Not really. There's a non-pedantic, charitable interpretation widely available. It's below for reference. > Navier-Stokes is one of six [open] “Millennium Problems” on a list compiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000.
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by piker 7d ago
No, sorry I was reading it correctly but they addressed the issue in the post itself. They make it clear they were aiming at all 7 problems looking for the "two" that were rumored to be solved. But they didn't go hog on NS un
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by piker 7d ago
Yes, you're right. It seems like they claim to have started broadly and narrowed it down based on some progress. That leads to different questions but does answer my initial "fishy" point.
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by piker 7d ago
"On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal model, we launched an effort to evaluate it on all open Mill
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by piker 7d ago
I understood the rumors (as described by OpenAI) to be that “one of” the prizes was solvable. If they heard NS specifically was solvable and aren’t saying that, they’re intentionally obfuscating that.
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by piker 7d ago
If they were willing to spend 105 million it, perhaps. But that would be surprising. It’s fishy because they spent something like 15 million on the right one.
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by piker 7d ago
It’s fishy though that they heard one of seven problems was about to be solved and threw perhaps 15 million bucks at the right one. [Edit: they said "two of": "On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Priz
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by piker 8d ago
"... The point remains that there is a substantial opportunity cost in converting a historically productive and motivating problem (such as Navier-Stokes regularity) into a mere viral social media post advertising some benchmark progre
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by piker 8d ago
Publish or perish? We're talking devotion here -- so no time to do anything (like edit proofs) other than try to solve the problem. [Edit: my only point here is that the prize is probably not driving human effort to the limit.]
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by piker 8d ago
Sure, even a 20% chance at 1 million payday after 5-6 years of fulltime work on a project with zero practical application doesn't touch the, say, 200k/year guaranteed our best mathematicians would have to forgo to devote their int
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by piker 8d ago
Reads sincere until I get here: "(a) We began working on the Millennium problems due to viral twitter rumors that Anthropic had resolved 2 Millenium problems. Our aim was to see whether our system was also capable of this impressive fe
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by piker 8d ago
It’s also been baked into Codex. Go figure
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by piker 10d ago
You're mistaken if you think it has ever taken a week to port (and support) an application to native primitives.
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by piker 10d ago
Because it’s too complex and not worth the effort. Most users will not care about or perceive the benefit. If they delegate that responsibility to Google via Electron, they can focus on features/bug fixes that move the needle.
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by piker 11d ago
Because it's insufficient? https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Rust.gitignore for example still falls victim to basically all of the issues specifically called out.
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by piker 11d ago
ChatGPT was happy to infringe: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a9c30da3bcc8191bb5203f1cb22f16a As was Gemini: https://share.gemini.google/Q3EIX5wk64zC Grok, too: https://grok.com/share/bG
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by piker 11d ago
Yes. I agree with that as well. If you can intuit that it's (for example) an off-by-one error somewhere in your logic, asking an LLM to pinpoint that issue can save you tons of time that is better spent thinking about your abstractions
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by piker 11d ago
Often though working through a bug teaches the developer something about the relevant abstraction. That knowledge can get lost in this new process.
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by piker 12d ago
> Well I don’t really know what to work on next Let me help you: work on figuring out how to spend the millions of dollars every year Jane Street will pay you to clock in. I've heard private aviation is expensive, for example. :)
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by piker 13d ago
Sarbox is a drag, but another issue is the rise of the securities plaintiffs bar. Public companies are subject to Rule 10b-5 claims on each statement they make because the market can "rely" on that statement. This means every publ
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by piker 13d ago
While Anil makes a lot of great comments about VC's shift towards institutional PE, the legal issues he harps on are insignificant. Until 2012 or so there was no legal concept of "venture capital". Around that time, the SEC a
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by piker 13d ago
It cites to her at: [19] J. Stadlmann, On primes in arithmetic progressions and bounded gaps between many primes, Adv. Math. 468 (2025), Art. 110190. Numbered references use arXiv:2309.00425v3. Though that's not her latest paper.
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by piker 13d ago
> This page couldn’t load > A server error occurred. Reload to try again. Hard to fathom a blog entry returning 500 errors in 2026.
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by piker 13d ago
https://github.com/sergiocorreia/overengineered-rand-mcnally... > +14,360 > -349 LGTM!

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