Ask HN: AI and Math
Since AI is getting smarter by the day,would it not be more profitable for both man and machine for it to come up with more,harder Millenium problems?
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Re:Eric Schmidt: you don't have any friends
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:19PM (#48317360)
Coding is a tool for thinking in general.The fact that claude is accomplishing task X does not imply that you should retire you own thinking.
Re:All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:30PM (#48300186)
All of human cooking
With no African recipe.
Re:Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:12PM (#48229930)
It is because it is populous that it does not have space for foreigners?
Re:Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:00PM (#47797168)
A better question would have been..who would you consider a formidable rival?
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:59PM (#45309866)
How many people on here can truly say that they were considering between two different countries. That doesn’t happen at scale.
Mmmh...How about four countries?US,UK,Canada &South Africa.
As a student,though
Re:The Algebra Gatekeepers
on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:34PM (#44792087)
It is easy to understand the equations if you have physical intuition of what is going on.Then derive from first principles.Memorizing formulas is the key to failing advance math.
Re:The Algebra Gatekeepers
on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:32PM (#44792081)
Are you saying that because they end with "Algebra"?You can get an A+ in basic Algebra and have no clue about Abstract Algebra.It is the chain of reasoning rather than the mindless manipulation present in baby Algebra.
Re:The Algebra Gatekeepers
on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:22PM (#44780681)
Geometry is fundamental to physics and chemistry,not Algebra.Look at the thinking style,not the content.
Re:The Algebra Gatekeepers
on Sunday August 03, 2025 @06:26PM (#44780363)
Analytical geometry underlies calculus,not Algebra.And combinatorics is a completely different arm of the two cultures of mathematics.Also Geometry was fine before Rene Descartes messed it up with Algebra and then we christened it Analytical Geometry.The method of exhaustion,amply developed by Archimedes with zero Algebra is the basis of intergration.It is because we start out with differentiation that we think Algebra is super important.Tom Apostol comes close in his calculus textbook when he actually starts with intergration.
A compromise would be to have two streams:The left-brained folks should follow the Algebra ->Geometry->Calculus track;the right-brained folks should have a Combinatorics ->Geometry ->Calculus track.
Re:The Algebra Gatekeepers
on Sunday August 03, 2025 @04:36PM (#44779544)
Yes.
Substitute Algebra with Combinatorics and you will be fine.I do not understand this Algebra worship.Speaking as someone who graduated magna cum laude in in College Math.
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Re:Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
on Monday April 21, 2025 @10:03PM (#43758434)
How does that relate to AI?
Re:Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:39PM (#43758010)
Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
Agent Smith,The Matrix(1999)
Re:Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK
on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:44PM (#43130524)
Banning art?
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Re:Quantum mechanics is the operating system that other physical theor...
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:38PM (#40082945)
I would say Physics is the subset of Mathematics that describes Physical reality.The rest does not care if it is practical, just logically intact.
Re:Ask HN: Classic Math Books?
on Sunday January 21, 2024 @03:00PM (#39082396)
There is a very slick proof for the irrationality of the number 2 that is found in Baby Rudin.I thought it was his invention.Turns out it appears verbatim in Hardy's A course of Pure Mathematics.
Ask HN: Classic Math Books?
What math textbooks used in the late 19th or early 20th century are still great right now?Something like G.H Hardy's A Course of Pure Mathematics
Re:Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:37PM (#38063080)
There is no royal road bro
Re:Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:21PM (#38062342)
This is good as a second course on Linear Algebra.For a first course,use (I am not kidding) Linear Algebra Done Wrong by Sergei Treil
Re:California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National
on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:58PM (#37746591)
Actually,combinatorial thinking is more useful for understanding Algebra and not the other way around.Key word is understanding.No need for a beautiful formula you cannot understand.
Re:California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National
on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:41PM (#37746004)
Combinatorics can do that even better,minus the memorization.
Abstract Nonsense
Re:Thermodynamic Linear Algebra (solving linear systems in O(n))
on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:14PM (#37113931)
What is the difference between Linear Algebra and "Thermodynamic" Linear Algebra?
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppenheimer?
on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:11PM (#36819009)
You probably have not come across Lev Landau's ranking of physicists.From Wikipedia:
Landau kept a list of names of physicists which he ranked on a logarithmic scale of productivity ranging from 0 to 5. The highest ranking, 0, was assigned to Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein was ranked 0.5. A rank of 1 was awarded to the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Satyendra Nath Bose, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, and others, while members of rank of 5 were deemed "pathologists". Landau ranked himself as a 2.5 but later promoted to a 2. N. David Mermin, writing about Landau, referred to the scale, and ranked himself in the fourth division, in the article "My Life with Landau: Homage of a 4.5 to a 2".
Re:Ask HN: What’s the Tech Stack of Threads?
on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:55PM (#36625566)
Re:Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit
on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:51PM (#36625529)
Black tea is consumed principally in Europe, North America,
and North Africa.
Totally left out East Africa,where Kenya is the world's 3rd largest producer of Tea,only a proportion of which gets exported.