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Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:22AM (#50256471)
I mean P!=NP kind of is a core belief
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:18AM (#50256435)
And interior point is regularly outperformed by an exponential time algorithm (simplex) lol
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:11PM (#50253042)
Which is a separate issue than the one you commented originally
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:08PM (#50253017)
Basically 3SAT algo isn't sub-exponential enough to absorb the arbitrary poly cost for the reduction

So 3SAT+poly reduction ends up being exponential

Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:47PM (#50252805)
SETH is a much stronger claim than ETH
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:21PM (#50252575)
I'm stating the conjecture as requested
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:18PM (#50252545)
It basically just says that NP is not the same as EXP
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:15PM (#50252528)
3SAT can't be solved in sub-exponential time

Fwiw never thought it was a well-named conjecture

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:03PM (#50249236)
At $20/month you're the reason they're 80B in the red lol
Being good at the intended application is not benchmaxxing.
and the company serving it is losing 50B every half year lol
Re:Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:38AM (#50119749)
How do the best humans do against the LLMs?
Even if the model is simple, it is happening at a scale that is producing alien results. You understand the basic principles, but that doesn't matter: you, well rather no one, understands the final product.
Does Karpathy ever talk about how LLMs are supposed to help humanity? Starting to think this guy is just a Twitter addict like every other lab employee
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:01PM (#49995584)
Yeah, I was surprised some people think LLMs are reasoning in Lean directly... all their training data is in NL.
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:56PM (#49995502)
The example in Figure 1 should help understand why... the NL version is much more approachable for humans.
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:42PM (#49995279)
That makes some sense. Given that the vast majority of math in its training data is going to be in NL/latex, I just assumed that the core reasoning happens in NL with occasional LEAN checks to ensure validity.
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:28PM (#49995055)
If the lean proof doesn't match the natural language one (which is the one the AI generated to solve the problem), it sounds like the lean proof isn't verifying the intended claim?

From the paper: "A third possibility is that the NL proof provides stronger statements than what the formal proof actually establishes, with (of course) different proofs. The latter happens in OpenAI’s announced proof of blow-up of Navier Stokes equations."

Re:Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:14AM (#49654634)
P=np...
Re:The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:57AM (#49622294)
Sounds like a great use case for an LLM
Re:The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:26AM (#49621981)
Basically no new info here, not really sure why this post needed to be written tbh.
Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:47PM (#49617580)
The fact that you're even here commenting on this is... a choice
Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:44PM (#49570001)
I think you're missing the point of the comment you responded to, lol.
Ask DraftKings?
What open source model and what non-subsidized provider specifically?
Re:Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice on Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:13PM (#47081795)
they literally talk about it in the text
Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:51AM (#46991141)
make poor taste jokes, win poor prizes
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:28PM (#46830827)
A bunch of locally hosted LLM agents
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @02:32AM (#46821527)
This is the part that's funny to me. How much different is this vs. Claude just running a loop responding to itself?
Re:AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2 on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:29AM (#46271101)
Basically every AWS migration is this example

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