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Unfortunately HN is just another algorithm. It roughly aligns with what I already see on my youtube but includes some terribly old videos and a mix of videos from creators I'm currently subscribed to and channels I know I never want to watch again like Joe Rogan, Sabine Hossenfelder, Lex Fridman etc. This is indeed a HN video site and I hate it lol.

The youtube video recommendation algorithm isn't that bad if you're careful which videos you watch. Sometimes you'll take a risk on a video and it'll punish you with a week of similar videos though.

I'm seeing so many more typos on the internet than I did a few years ago. I'm convinced some of it is deliberate to ensure readers the writer isn't AI.

I think they mean it will tarnish your legacy. Obviously lying works short term.

You could produce a thousand cheap ads for your product or one expensive real ad.

Who is asking for this? Do advertisers really want this? I feel dread about many of the AI products being sold. They're mostly tools to help funnel money from the users to the bosses.

There has always been some fuzziness behind what counts as "genuine photography" and people have been gatekeeping it for decades as new camera tech became available. Generating statistically likely pixels given the context of the image and massive amounts of (untraceable, stolen) training data definitely seems like a different kind of post-processing than what you'd normally do in an editor, or even changing pixels by hand.

Nikon gets to gatekeep their competition however they like. Personally I think it would be a shame to reward photographers for the work they do outside taking the shot and light editing/compositing. What's the point of a competition if you're not going to enforce high standards and challenging constraints?

It is eager to do things it shouldn't do. But I suppose it's better than lying about it. Although they do that too.

From top to bottom, I still think nobody developing these things really cares about security.

It's too bad the tone is of a guy I do not want to be around lol

It would be a AI company's fault but yeah. You shouldn't be able to sell cars without all the features designed to protect everyone on the road. We all need airbags, seat belts, signals, insurance, etc. even if they're not directly necessary to get from A to B.

Beware? He is talking about something he's extremely qualified to talk about.

Mathematicians are in no rush. And they are less likely to review math vomit that hasn't even been formalized and verified. Especially among the now thousands of vomit papers out there.

I would say that disqualifies them from "understanding" anything. What they're doing is more like a broad search than pursuing a greater understanding

A paper and a lean proof are always going to be better than just a paper. I think mathematicians generally will not read AI math papers that haven't already been verified, especially since we're about to see a ton more AI math papers. Lean will remain important

I asked free chatgpt to give me some essays that will fool a slop detector and they all fooled this slop detector. Its best guess was "6% slop probability 87% confidence answered in 0.5 s for $0.000027" and yet it was 100% slop.

I am very skeptical slop detectors will ever work.

> What this work is, and is not

> I am currently being funded by the EPSRC to formalize a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, and a naive reaction to the news above is that I no longer have any work to do. This is not the case. The work certainly achieves some of the aims of the EPSRC project, and indeed it goes much further in terms of what is formalized (I only promised the EPSRC that I would reduce FLT to the 1980s; this repo proves the whole thing). But I also promised several other things to EPSRC: firstly, that I would be making pull requests to Lean’s mathematics library, adding fundamental objects from modern number theory; this is ongoing. And secondly, and perhaps most importantly, that I would be creating a dynamic document enabling humans to explore the modern proof. My guess is that it is unlikely that Anthropic are going to do this; they will feel that their job is done with the formalization (and they did not formalize the modern proof anyway).

> Note that mathematically this work of anthropic tells us essentially nothing: I am on record as saying that I am 99.9% sure that the proof of FLT is OK, and most people in the number theory community are 100% sure (formalization has made me more paranoid about the mathematical literature than most). From my understanding of the argument, the formalization just faithfully follows the early literature on the proof and adds nothing.

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-h...

ZFC is probably the biggest foundation, and only Choice is apparently controversial. The results aren't that weird, they're just different and occasionally more useful than using !Choice.

I get your point but unless you actually need tritium water the number still means nothing lol.

It's a red flag. Even if they agree and understand whatever they copied from chatgpt, they were too lazy to clean up its output. Are they also too lazy to read the news or does chatgpt summarize their articles too? AI people are like emperors without clothes. Totally embarrassing to witness.

This is bad because it's only getting harder to trust people. This is not someone I would want representing me. Although I'm not thrilled about any of my representatives anyway.

That's your handle and it points to the server where your atproto account's data is stored. You can use this same login for other atproto apps and it will all be stored on the server at tngl.sh A username.bsky.social handle just means bsky set up that account and your data lives at the bsky.social PDS. You can migrate to a different PDS and change your handle if you don't trust them. You can host a PDS yourself if you like. I agree it's a little clumsy, but I'm sure friction can be reduced.

The idea is to give users control over their identity, network, and feeds instead of big social platforms like facebook or twitter that choose what content you see and lock you into their closed network.

They made a transphobic joke 3 times and the bluesky users that enabled their intolerance filter never saw it. What exactly is the problem? The posts weren't deleted. Nobody liked the joke because it's a bad joke.

It's been a while since I built a PC but that price seems very fair

Looks pretty neat. I'm a little disappointed about a closed beta though.

Spoken like someone that has no idea why mathematicians are important.

This is the struggle of naming papers. You could stretch definitions and make your own sexy headline or you could be precise and fewer people will read it.

Could be pretty easy to do with atproto accounts. Users could save/share their music as a tangled.sh repo and other people could contribute or fork as they please. A nice UI could hide all of that and make it fun to collaborate on music.

Too bad I'm lazy. RiffHub looks neat.

It's not just the medium. Streaming from the internet is a totally different product than radio. There's no reason we can't have both.

I simply don't care to gatekeep what counts as education. It has taught me things from videos I can still recall a decade later and pushed me to explore different areas of math I wouldn't have done otherwise.

It's education for whoever finds it educational

This is why I think Brady Haran is one of the coolest living mathematicians. Numberphile is educating a new generation of young mathematicians for anyone with access to youtube. Accessible math communication is so important. So many cool things are buried in textbooks and papers the average person would never read.

Randomness is useful if you expect your code to do the correct thing with some probability. You test lots of different samples and if they fail more than you expect then you should review the code. You wouldn't test dynamic random samples of add(x, y) because you wouldn't expect it to always return 3, but in this case it wouldn't hurt.

:( but the math is fun And they went through all this effort anyways, and to blog about it.