potbelly83

Agreed. It's frustrating how everyone is pointing to the lean "proof", as if it's somehow irrefutable evidence that the problems have been solved.

Falling back on a RL pipeline to cover gaps always strikes me as a more sophisticated version of the mechanical turk. If what we had was truly AGI wouldn't they be able to derive this from the data they already have.

This is a great analogy, and one I'm surprised more people haven't raised. Instead all your hear are comments about mathematicians being sour losers, they should have know the model terms of service etc...

Yeah but her laugh /s

The crazy thing is, they did have warning, but these were ignored due to organizations failing to share information amongst each other.

Robert Fitzgerald also here. Was drawn to the more poetic verses.

Sometimes reading these articles I can't help but think we've pushed ourselves into a local but sup-optimal maximum technologically speaking. i.e. If we didn't follow the path of trying to stick everything into an iPhone/Android (along with moving everything into the cloud), we'd have a more interesting technological landscape.

I have no idea why these sorts of posts are popular. Past college you're not going to learn physics by trying to self-study an entire university course. The best way to learn is just to pick a small part of physics you'd like to learn (preferably related to your job), i.e. how GPS work or some fluid mechanics etc... Then learn the physics you need for that. Knowledge accumulation can't be organized in a straight line, it happens non-linearly and generally builds upon small wins that are useful for you.

Great point, I think the argument you could make about Tao (fairly or unfairly) is he never tries to build that framework.

That's not what op is arguing. To use your example, coming up with singular examples of continuous non-differentiable functions is an example of "ugly" mathematics, whereas putting them into a nice framework where they can be analyzed as a whole (i.e. functional analysis, density of such functions, etc...) is an example "elegant and insightful" mathematics. The same with the monster group, on its own maybe nothing special, but then you have the connections with other branches of math. Tao seems so focused on the individual problems and not their connections/generalizations.

Education yes, research unfortunately no. I'm not saying research outside of academia is not possible, I'm just saying it's not taken seriously and this needs to change. We really do need to go back to the 19th century model of the researcher gentleman.

see yosefk reply above

Why not have the program touch a file on success?

agreed, imagine what a Michael Lewis type writer could make of this story

There was a comm where Peter attia asks Epstein if he knows Simons. Epstein replied, never met him.

And Jim Simons also comes out of this looking good.

yeah, they seemed to be nitpicking there, better to focus attention on what someone's actually trying to commit

Great list, and most of those don't involve big tech. I think what your list illustrates is that progress is being made, but it requires deep domain expertise.

I'm not disagreeing with the fact that there's a shit ton of founders out there looking for a quick pay day (I'd guess the majority fall into that category). Just pointing out there are exceptions, and the exceptions can be quite successful.

I don't know, look at someone like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dmbaggett he seems to be an entrepreneur who enjoys what he's doing.

Fixed typo! Yeah, alone time is inherently a male thing, and is probably what drove a lot of the historical breakthroughs in the past. This need to always be socializing is a very feminine construct and probably does more damage in the long run than people realize (i.e. to deep breakthroughs, case in point how science has now become a popularity game rather than a search for the truth). A more nuanced article would have delved deeper into the types of alone behavior that are beneficial vs those that are destructive.

My criticism with this article is that the author seems to lump all time alone behavior into the 'bad' category. What about the guys spending time alone to work on their guitar solo, dive deeper into a branch of AI math, or how about spending hours reading plato?

Honestly all these cute websites give people a false sense that they're actually learning something. The only way to learn this stuff is get one of the million good LA books out there and work through the problems. But that's hard, so people look for shortcuts.

Yep, but I thought he touted his martial skills as being able to beat any discipline.

I never understood the obsession with Bruce Lee as a fighter (not considering his acting/stunt scenes here which deserve to be judged on their own merit), it seems any half decent Judoka or amateur boxer would have probably beaten him in a fight.

Doesn't fortran also support the ability to define arrays with arbitrary bounds i.e. (-4, 5) which is quite difficult todo in other languages

Yeah exactly, the people coming through these pipelines aren't the next batches of Moore's or Noyce's.

Nothing really to add, but the NSA museum outside of DC is really cool. I think this is a good example of a museum that works well for adults/kids alike.

People have short memories, they'll come out of the woodwork in 2028 claiming the dems are taking away their freedoms.