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Re:An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by aski... by ghusbands on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:44AM (#47909537)
Do you posit that there are enough examples of 30x8 ellipses encoded in braille online for ChatGPT to learn from but not 31x7 or 31x9 ellipses? That seems unlikely.
Re:An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by aski... by gorgoiler on Sunday April 26, 2026 @11:07AM (#47910928)
Yes, or the model got lucky with the quality of output for a particular combination of my prompt and the reasoning behind its answer that lined up with something it had seen before — quality which it was unable to recreate under slightly different circumstances.