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Re:Language Models Are Injective and Hence Invertible on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:06PM (#45859075)
Did the authors post code for their algorithm anywhere?
Re:This open problem taught me what topology is [video] on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @06:51PM (#42512049)
I agree. My PhD is technically in CS but it made heavy use of algebraic topology. Being 5 years out, having worked briefly in tech, then at a national lab as a software engineer has given me enough outsiders' perspective on pure math. You probably need to work as a professional mathematician to be at the research frontier of a given area, but otherwise the fundamentals of math are unchanging, and in my opinion, that makes it accessible to anyone who is sufficiently interested in and passionate about math.
Re:Burnout because of ChatGPT? on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:24PM (#37129431)
100% agree with this. I used ChatGPT earlier today to give me networkx code for computing the connected components of a graph and visualizing the graph. This isn't hard to do, but I don't use networkx all that often and I forget the exact API. I could go to read documentation and piece together an example myself, or I could ask ChatGPT for an example, which tends to be much faster than doing the former.
Re:Ask HN: Share your Bluesky invites here on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:36PM (#35868363)
Still on the lookout for one myself.
if you have any leads on more invites, lmk, still looking. dm me