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Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science by zkmon on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:56AM (#49132504)
When you use a crane to do the "heavy lifting" for construction work, do you give full credit to the cranes?
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Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science by raincole on Saturday August 01, 2026 @05:06AM (#49132588)
Read the prompts in the PDF I link and see if your analogy makes sense in this context :)
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Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science by zkmon on Saturday August 01, 2026 @05:20AM (#49132665)
Prompt quality should not matter. If a high-schooler operates the crane to lift a ton of weight 10 floors high, should the credit entirely go to the crane?
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Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science by Anon1096 on Saturday August 01, 2026 @07:04AM (#49133284)
When I type 56789*23456 into my calculator and get the result I don't claim to have solved the problem, the calculator did it.
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Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science by par1970 on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:21PM (#49140758)
qed
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