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Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:42PM (#50011929)
My point is that they will, and that is always going to be useful. Bundles of simplified knowledge (in whatever form) that make research simpler will be useful to share whether humans can understand them or not...
Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:36PM (#50011842)
Almost every country in the world has a patent system for a reason...and they are pretty essential for big pharma to function. Granted there should be better calibration of duration - particularly in software, but rewarding first movers is wise in many market conditions. My point regarding "math as a hash list of theorems" is that Theorems will never lose their value, regardless of how powerful AI becomes; they represent compressed knowledge, and as such it will be more efficient for a more advanced AI to query known theorems than reconstruct each one from scratch - in that gap lies a marginal compute saving; an api service or tool call that someone might charge for. Even AI can benefit from specialists...
Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:17AM (#50003163)
This misses the raw advantage of a good proof. It makes conceptualization simpler. In some ways math is like a hash list of of theorems. This list makes it simpler to prove other calculations, and will always be useful, to both humans and AI models. I can see two new directions 1 - the creation of specialist theorem models; that can answer questions efficiently about one topic and 2 - we probably need to incentivize and codify ownership of theorems; charging a proportion of the compute saved by using them. Ultimately enabling mathematicians to be paid our true market value!
Re:Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:49PM (#49553019)
Perhaps undiscussed in the paper is how the blending of memories may also be better. If evolutionary pressure encourages the structure of brain to optimise for accurate prediction, not memory, then it is quite possible that older individuals may be making better predictions than younger ones, in situations where they don't remember the details...
Re:Show HN: The Front Page – Newspaper-style front page for Hacker News
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @10:03PM (#48262795)
Its great. The article summaries frequently have odd phrases in them - eg "keep concise", the precise summary" etc. Might want to check that!
Re:Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
on Thursday April 02, 2026 @08:59PM (#47622162)
In my experience Azure endpoint versus openAI endpoint was way faster and significantly cheaper.
Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simula...
on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:25PM (#46918979)
The uptake forced the bigger companies to act. With image diffusion models too - no corporate lawyer would let a big company release a product that allowed the customer to create any image...but when stable diffusion et al started to grow like they did...there was a specific price of not acting...and it was high enough to change boardroom decisions
Re:A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:21PM (#46888596)
Why are they wrong? Surely it depends on how you train it?
Re:This paper has been cited more than 6k times. It's fatally flawed.
on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:30AM (#46753535)
I'm not sure if you're correct. In fact there has been a revolution in some areas of social science in the last two decades due to the availability of online behavioural data.
Re:Queueing to publish in AI and CS
on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:23PM (#45454196)
The question 'what is science actually for' can be sidestepped. Everyone can agree that it has value, albeit we disagree on the actual value...this is why you need a market. As to how things get priced in such a market, this is a subject for further research...To start, it just needs to tie to something measurable. Heck we've created memecoins with far less backing. Also, we've carved up the conceptual space on a very course grained level with patents, we just need a more immediate, and granular system for doing so...
Re:Queueing to publish in AI and CS
on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:32PM (#45417152)
Actually, the problem is pricing. If we could identify and correctly value new concepts, then we can dispense with citations and just use the correct sum of concept valuations. Perhaps a correctly designed futures market would not only solve getting the right PhD students the right jobs, but bring a lot of speculative capital into fundamental research?
Re:Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data 45% faster with reco...
on Saturday September 06, 2025 @03:52AM (#45147429)
Low latency starlink orders on hold
Re:Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:14PM (#44955802)
How well does it work with multiple languages?
Re:The Robot Sculptors of Italy
on Sunday July 13, 2025 @05:31PM (#44553922)
Didn't they get their robots from Italy?
Re:What I learned gathering nootropic ratings
on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:00PM (#44446861)
Tried creatine?
Getty drops primary claim against Stable Diffusion
Re:Getty drops primary claim against Stable Diffusion
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:33PM (#44407003)
Is this significant, or does it set a precedent in anyway?
Re:For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time
on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:41AM (#44060409)
Should have come to the comments first!
Re:The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
on Friday May 16, 2025 @04:18AM (#44002959)
I did work on a diagnostic assist tool developed by a large pharma which diagnosed between Asthma and COPD. GPs get this right 52% time, specialists just over 60 and AI came in over 80%...using 12 relatively mundane input variables. I believe there are a lot of these situations, but not clear pathway to FDA approval
Re:The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:12PM (#43998297)
yes but you can train relatively dumb AI on high volumes of historical data and presenting factors. This is typically just a 'diagnostic assist', but often significantly better than a human
Re:The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @04:31PM (#43988849)
Underreported competitive advantage of NHS is their unified and comprehensive data
Re:Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Mes...
on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:17AM (#43867049)
Seems like an odd choice of name from an apparently low attack surface, cybersecurity aware company...
Re:Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Mes...
on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:07AM (#43867005)
Distilx has a non publically advertised service
Re:Tarpit ideas – what are tarpit ideas and how to avoid them (2023) [...
on Saturday April 26, 2025 @02:42PM (#43806090)
Starlink has created a lot of property arbitrage opportunities
Re:Tarpit ideas – what are tarpit ideas and how to avoid them (2023) [...
on Saturday April 26, 2025 @02:39PM (#43806070)
Account pooling? Sign up to a pool that distributes your account to others when not being used, in return gives access to multiple streaming platforms on demand...
Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store
on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @02:06AM (#43702009)
You can not deliver a pizza based on a 2% chance of fraud. If there's a chance of bomb, shooting etc the same threshold doesn't apply. So the police have completely different criteria.
Re:The Cultural Divide Between Mathematics and AI
on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:35PM (#43348849)
So Godel proved that there are true theorems that are unprovable. My hunch is that there is a fine grained version of this result <-- that there is a some distribution on the length of the proof for any given conjecture. If true that would mean that we better get used to dealing with long nasty proofs because they are a necessary part of mathematics...perhaps even, in some kind of Kolmogorov complexity-esque fashion, the almost-always bulk of it
Re:Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram
on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:56AM (#42532335)
would love to see this taken further. I note that structure 101 seems to have been bought by sonar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mie3Iya4zE) but they did this back in the day for java etc. would love to have an accessible modern add on with the same concepts of fat, tangle etc.
Re:Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a good US patent attorney?
on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:11PM (#38725239)
anywhere in the US; software/messaging apps/security