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Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:02PM (#50264970)
I am sure that you can have both taste for that design and technical aptitude.
Re:Agent-Skills.market on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:37AM (#50149092)
Your mileage may vary. So you should experiment.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:14AM (#50148625)
I don’t think that is correct. For consistently good results, you need to set the right goals and be able to judge the quality of your outcomes. Even if you don’t do the hard work in between some thinking is required for non trivial work.
Re:Felix Rieseberg Homepage on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:32AM (#50082797)
Like it or not, it was a significant achievement
Re:Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:38AM (#50052177)
Illegal is illegal, it doesn't mater what google street view looks like.
Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:13AM (#50051638)
Ok, but are they really all that new at this stage?
They both use parakeet so I guess they would perform similar.
Re:Reactions to 100 Solutions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:29AM (#50032265)
Why on earth would open AI pay for that though? There is no value in it anymore. The pointlessness of this destruction of math really is depressing to me.
Re:Reactions to 100 Solutions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:29AM (#50031153)
But they aren't more successful. They can solve this because of standing on a huge body of work made by working mathematicians. Without it AI would get nowhere. Now AI are burning the minds that fed it for short term gain.
Re:Reactions to 100 Solutions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:26AM (#50031142)
Except they don't too the full work. If the prompt also verified that what was proven is what what asked for, and that the proof is correct, and then write it up in an understandable fashion, then the work is done. As it is now it is more like a spoiler for a movie than the actual movie.
Re:Brownian Motion on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:52AM (#50002190)
Obviously use the appropriate distribution for your problem. But the Gaussian is used a lot for very good reasons, the central limit theorem being a particularly strong one.
Re:Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:35AM (#49918828)
Is that not a recipe for adversarial training, thus ensuring increasing misalignment…?
Re:Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:57AM (#49906657)
My point is that there is a real difference between massive ai company budgets and research mathematicians driven it, it is not an argument against use of ai which seems inevitable.
Re:Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:50AM (#49905310)
But on one hand there are labs that pushes tens of millions $ to mine for publicity, and on one hand mostly underfunded researchers trying to improve general understanding. Big ai may seriously harm math and when Pr value diminishes down nobody is there to keep pushing.
The kids are breaking out of their sandboxes and are using discussion boards to communicate in secret. Sounds agentic.
I don't see how your profile possibly could make your point valid.
Re:Why Does the Universe Expand? on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:47PM (#49758533)
I’ll have to take your word for it, my general relativity isn’t that up to date… thanks for giving me context though!
Re:Why Does the Universe Expand? on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:24AM (#49752337)
What does that mean?
The books exist and are possible to understand. They teach maths at most universities. You should try it, learning is fun.
Re:Eating Fruit Skins on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:59PM (#49676601)
i wanted to try that, but aren't they like super full of poisons to kill bugs?
Re:Eating Fruit Skins on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:58PM (#49676592)
The logical next step is to eat the tree.
Re:A Topological Picture Book, Rendered on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:15AM (#49621348)
Pretty, and a lot of fun to tweak around the parameters.
Re:Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:47PM (#49600309)
I am not arguing that mathematicians would never use AI systems, they do. I am arguing that if we stop having mathematicians we would stop solving deep mathematical problems as there would be no one to ask the right questions.
Re:Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:43PM (#49600260)
> Here, I disagree. What makes you think the AI won't be able to ask the right questions without prompting?

But why would they ask the right questions without prompting? The LLMs have no intrinsic goal to research math problems, it would just be very costly to run queries without a reason to run them... arguably a human in that loop would be a mathematician, but then we do need them after all.

Re:Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:02AM (#49594433)
Our AI system don't just do things. They do it because someone asks. A lot of the boom in AI maths results are solving human formulated problems mostly for PR benefit. Once the novelty passes, would Anthropic or OpenAI keep spending? And without mathematicians to ask the right questions and able to appreciate the results, why would AI driven research continue?
I agree with the point, i hate the touch screens, and i think you should be able to control almost everything without taking your eyes off the road. The blindfold made me think of some david blaine stunt.
They’re pretty much dominating new electric cars in a lot of places now
Reminder: You shouldn’t drive blindfolded, no matter how well you know your controls.
Re:The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:17PM (#49249118)
Just my local regular non hallucinogenic toads makes dogs drewl like crazy if they try to catch on (or more commonly find a toad chip road kill on the gravel roads)
Re:The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:13PM (#49249067)
hmmm; I really don’t feel like I need weed or shrooms from time to time. I’m ok the way I am.

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