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Re:The End of Rationing by kasey_junk on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:18AM (#50164559)
Your argument is that advanced mathematics, that did not solve navier stones, were in the weights and that enabled them to solve it. And you think it butresses the argument that the llms can’t do _coding_ tasks they haven’t seen before?
Re:The End of Rationing by Tanjreeve on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:08AM (#50166701)
> Your argument is that advanced mathematics, that did not solve navier stones

Do you think playing dumb is making you look credible or something? The argument isn't "was maths in the dataset" the controversy was if someone with potentially working approaches narrowed the search space enough for the LLM not to fail

> And you think it butresses the argument that the llms can’t do _coding_ tasks they haven’t seen before?

This isn't an argument being made. At least try to respond to what's actually written rather than making yourself look foolish and trying to wordplay your way to a point.

Re:The End of Rationing by kasey_junk on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:46AM (#50167242)
> By definition an LLM is unable to build what has never been built before because you are going outside the realm of pretraining/RL

That’s pretty hard to read differently. Can you add the nuance I’m missing?

Re:The End of Rationing by Tanjreeve on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:24AM (#50167808)
Well being a different person seems quite key. Not that I 100% disagree with the full quote rather than your selective quoting.

> By definition an LLM is unable to build what has never been built before because you are going outside the realm of pretraining/RL. You might be able to combine components that already exist in a unique way

Re:The End of Rationing by kasey_junk on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:16PM (#50169585)
In most threaded Internet forums when you respond to a thread you are implying a continuation of the previous conversation.

It seems you weren’t following that norm and we were talking past each other. That’s fine and I’m happy to leave it at that.

Perhaps in the future you can recognize the local norms before resorting to personal attacks even if those norms are different than the parts of the internet you normally hang out in.