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Re:Do dentists know what they're doing?
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:23AM (#50102125)
Unfortunately the public seems to be fairly unaware of what different dental specialties are until they are in serious duress.
Re:A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier tran...
on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:31PM (#50066281)
This is a bad take. I will happily acknowledge the new term "slopository" which I had not heard before, while taking the author to task for malice towards theorists. STOC/FOCS/SODA, etc are not about "doing practical algorithms". If you want that, you go to ESA, ALENEX, or VLDB/SIGMOD, or any of the other more applied venues featuring this work. I don't think it's fair to just shit on theory because they don't do experiments---they're mathematicians, and it is fine to have absurd constants in your big-O as long as they are constants.
PS. I can have this view while simultaneously thinking that Ben is a badass.
Re:Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:50PM (#50046489)
Bender has been wrong about LLMs on so many counts that it is hard to take anything she says seriously. That said, the idea that a bunch of floats being pushed around in a network are "feeling something" stretches credence for me, and I am with her on this one thing, at least.
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:50AM (#50043905)
Schadenfreude is not a life-affirming feeling my dude. I wish you the best.
Re:Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:02PM (#49981925)
No it does not.
Re:Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust
on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:30PM (#49968611)
Brother, I suggest writing your blog posts without claude. I stopped the moment I read "load bearing" in https://adityamukho.com/minigraf-a-spiritual-successor-to-re...