Re:Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
by graceful6800 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:17PM
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That's really what's going on here, I think. LLMs aren't that good at math or have deep mathematical insight. They just automate "try shit until something sticks" at scale, which, as it turns out, is a pretty decent way to turn out a bunch of math papers.
LLMs have enabled brute forcing of math in a way that classical computing somehow has not, which is fascinating in and of itself.
Re:Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
by saidnooneever on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:29AM
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who knew u could do tons of computations and brute force maths with an insanely large gpu cluster eh :). weird stuff!
Re:Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
by yencabulator on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @06:05PM
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I call this Artificial Patience.
"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." -- Teller (of Penn & Teller)
"Sometimes, any sufficiently advanced technology is just spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." -- an LLM's original thought, probably