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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textb...
on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:01PM (#50339839)
You might want to check out Moscow State's "Jewish Problems" (hard math problems to throw in people's way): https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
Re:The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:28PM (#50079077)
I think a lot of great ideas like tree-width were developed in hope of simplifying the proof.
Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @11:06PM (#49679585)
AI hits a "I'm Spartacus, and everybody else should be regulated" moment.
Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:58PM (#49484729)
And tablets should have a "direct touch only, all options present mode" (no long-presses, no drags, no drags from edge, no swipes." It would really improve accessibility.
How to Critically Read LLM Texts [video]
A Simplified Mental Model of LLMs
Expected Log-Return as a Risk Control
Choose by Probability, Not by Expectation
Re:Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples Are Not Rare
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:35PM (#49090896)
Unfortunately not. Most of my sampling ideas were too slow and not effective at high degree.
LLMs Will Benefit from Scratch Workspaces
Re:Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @01:04PM (#49086867)
Came to say the same thing. Now remains the time to give the public access to the ACM digital library.
Re:I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying abou...
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @12:23PM (#49086273)
I could not tell what parts the human author thought were phantasies they felt they had escaped versus which they really were wallowing in. Who honeypots the honeypots?
Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples Are Not Rare
Re:Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain
on Friday June 26, 2026 @03:04PM (#48690614)
Why would they remain fundamentally expensive? It is a fixed machine (so eventually you recoup the investment) and running consumes nothing other than electricity and a paper gown. MRIs cost under $200 in Japan.
Re:Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:32PM (#48634065)
Thanks. I had some friends look. Half got it to work, half errored out.
Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
I keep getting no server for fda.gov links. Anyone else seeing this?
Re:The case against geometric algebra
on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:39PM (#48620880)
My feeling on geometric algebra is that you should look too much into it until you exhaust the exterior algebra. That is (in my opinion): it isn't a good use of it to replace the cross product or specialized representations of 3-d geometric rotations. It is good for when you get a bit sick of the bookkeeping of the exterior algebra. From a computer scientist point of view it is sort of adding a bit of type information beyond just vector dimension and depth of product.
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on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:22PM (#48620723)
Thx, but looks like you are also getting downvoted. Sorry about that.
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on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:09PM (#48620576)
No point up-voting or down-voting this, already flagged off the site. Possibly triggered a controversy filter? I know the title is provocative, but it is actually the point the video is trying to establish (so it wasn't just ad-hominem).
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:40PM (#48529339)
Not quite on topic. But I feel there is an issue in politics where many non-wealthy people vote as if they are "temporarily inconvenienced billionaires." That is they endorse policies that favor billionaires, as they have some hope of being one someday.
Re:Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:35PM (#48493556)
The whole arc was brilliantly evil. Once they put int the guardrails then Claude is fully un-falsifiable, and failure can be claimed intentional.
Re:A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:34PM (#48479771)
I really think one needs a "Harvard architecture" for AIs (data independent of instructions). Though yes, that may not be possible.
Re:Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air l...
on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:12AM (#48413603)
I have to say worrying about the provenance of writing has made me a grumpier reader.
For example: "The space station is made up of Russian and US segments, and there are modules from the European and Japanese space agencies too." It feels like this sentence is inserting some points, but is lacking in authorial intent. Is the intent to say the station is largely Russian and US, or to say the station has more than two partners? Probably an okay sentence, but still feels like a stone in the shoe.
Re:GoPro warned it may not survive
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:11PM (#48390138)
I honestly thought GoPro and FitBit had both been stomped out a long time ago, and we were just watching new companies brand-squatting.
Re:HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @05:15PM (#48376421)
HP generously gave me a 16C at the end of an internship. It was a weird beast! Amazing a simulating different types of integer arithmetic. Not at all a replacement for the 11C, 12C, or 15C.
Re:AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:25PM (#48238076)
Good point on "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect."
Who's the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data
Re:Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @12:43PM (#48170566)
I think this is a good under-represented point. Again and again things that could only run on a mainframe get ported to the personal device level. However it looks like the campaign to eliminate the PC (by pre-buying all RAM) is the counter-stroke.
Re:AI is a technology not a product
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @12:33PM (#48170450)
This is important to think through, does one have a product, tech, tool, or even just a feature. I given thing is not necessarily at the bottom of this stack, but also not always at the top.