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Not every field has an equal number of vacancies. There are a few people who study Art History and get a job as an art gallery curator, etc. There are many more who end up as baristas.

It's fine to follow your dream, but just make sure that your dream wants you too.

It also helps to have rich parents, if you grow up poor you understand the consequences of choosing the wrong career path can be devastating. Some people have the freedom to experiment and still get a soft landing, other people need to get it right the first time.

The award for most cope of 2026 goes to...

There's never been a better time to be a professional mathematician, perhaps. Just like there's never been a better time to be a senior software engineer.

An 18 year old entering university today will retire somewhere in the 2070s. Is mathematics, or software engineering, a promising career path for the next 50 years? No, it's most certainly not, and anyone suggesting otherwise is delusional. I don't know what would be a good career path, but most certainly avoid anything that AI is having the most success at in 2026.

See also: .eu revoking registrations of UK residents after Brexit.

You should start asking for animated three.js pelicans too, the 2D pelicans seem to have saturated.

The term dates from the 90s at least. It's not a new term and I don't think we should stop using it just because the orange one has taken a liking to it.

[0] How Long Before Superintelligence? (1997) https://nickbostrom.com/papers/how-long-before-superintellig...

They sucked basically. A bendy bus takes up twice as much space as a double decker while being half as fun to ride on. Even with double deckers many bus stops operate beyond capacity with multiple buses in contention at a stop, double deckers allow 3 buses to load simultaneously allowing six busloads of people to board in a space that would only allow for 1 bendy bus, essentially tripling the capacity.

They also cause problems for other road users such as cyclists.

Bendy buses work well if your city has wide straight roads. London's roads are neither.

Like bankruptcy, automation will happen gradually and then suddenly. This time last year LLMs hadn't solved a single open mathematics conjecture of note. Within months they solved a millennium prize problem.

Robotics is likely to follow a similar trajectory. You can say that robotics is not clinical like mathematics is, yet it kind of is, you can create simulated training environments of any complexity.

Anything is possible on the Internet.

> The more insulation you have the less the indoor temperature is affected by the outside temperature.

Insulation isn't magic, over many days of hot weather eventually the building will reach equilibrium with the average outside temperature. This means it will be cooler indoors than outdoors during the day, and hotter indoors than outdoors at night.

However, the nights are specifically when you want a residential building to be cooler, assuming the inhabitants are not at home during the day. So the insulation actually makes the building hotter from the perspective of the inhabitants.

> The UK typically doesn't need air conditioning

I don't know where you live but UK summers were unbearable even when I was a kid. Buildings are engineered to trap heat, so the heat doesn't dissipate at night and every day the indoor temperature rises, and rises...

At least they removed the need for planning permission recently. The problem is that the places that need AC the most (flats) will probably not be able to get it until the leasehold system has been abolished.

> > decarbonizing heating

> What does this mean?

Presumably it means heating using electric heat pumps rather than gas boilers. This also solves the AC problem. I don't think this is viable for most people. Heating was never the problem anyway, at least in the south winters are mild.

They don't want anyone to use it, Google just want to show their shareholders that they're still relevant.

> Password handling: Argon2id or scrypt. But have you considered passkeys instead?

I hate passkeys and if your service doesn't offer an alternative then I'm not using your service.

Apparently it was for legal reasons. Apple was sued by the Open Group for describing Mac OS X as Unix® so they decided it was cheaper to bring it up to spec rather than to fight the lawsuit.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27095/why...

https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

It's really not complicated. You can be prosecuted for crimes committed inside another state even if you were not physically present in that state. When that state has ratified the Rome Statute then you can be prosecuted by the ICC because that state lends its jurisdiction to the ICC.

That's for running your own code. Not for running other people's code.

Type stripping cannot ignore tsconfig.

TypeScript has different semantics depending on settings in tsconfig e.g. useDefineForClassFields

The "bubble" is being driven by blockbuster earnings. The market is irrational but it's not brain dead.

Surely you must reset something? At the very least box-sizing

OpenAI is trying to build a business to justify their valuation, while they pursue ASI at the same time.

Anthropic is just trying to get to ASI and relying on the blind faith of investors that there will be a return at the end.

What matters is which strategy is more effective for attracting investor capital, because neither can survive without it.

I'm saying that the gains were not a result of 1 week of post-training 6.0 Sol.

It seems that 6.1 Sol is closely related to Astra. As for whatever 6.0 Sol was, it's anyone's guess. I'd speculate that 6.0 was just 5.6 with post training. It's possible however that it is the same model but with severe performance issues resolved so they bumped the version number.

Every writer has a style and if their style is strong enough you can identify the writer by reading enough of their works. AI style is very easy to spot.

There may have been some human involvement with this website but they certainly didn’t edit it for style. Unfortunately if you don’t edit for style then people will default to the assumption that it’s entirely vibecoded.

It's more like they released GPT 6 Sol too early because they were under pressure and now they are releasing the real version. You cannot do anything more than minor post-training in a week.

It’s not that planning is dead, but rather that planning has outgrown the simple “Plan Mode” feature as models have become capable of taking longer turns.

Why commit copyright infringement when you could commit criminal fraud instead?!

Presumably it's so it can be used as a subdependency for setting up an attack in a popular, legitimate package, e.g. via a pull request. The code in the legitimate package would not arouse suspicion at all.

Hindi uses the sound /ʋ/ which is a sound with elements of both v and w. This means that to many Indians, v and w are allophonic: they are heard as the same sound.

An example of allophony in English is the aspirated /pʰ/ in pin and the unaspirated /p/ in spin, which to a speaker of Hindi and many other languages would be considered two distinct sounds.

Would be remiss to not mention W's biopic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y

Yes and the critical issue was tree shaking. Nowadays we have tree shaking so it doesn't matter as much but in the past people preferred small single function packages because they had less impact on the download size.

More sensible, yes... but less ideologically pure.

The hand wringing is premature. Thus far AI has only shown a superhuman aptitude for brute forcing proof of existence:

- Disproof of the Jacobian conjecture by example

- Construction of a non-sofic group

- Existence of singularity in Navier-Stokes

Mathematical conjectures tend to be universally quantified, especially those conjectures that are used as building blocks (e.g. RH). If anything, AI models are currently performing a useful service by disproving false conjectures, a kind of mathematical weeding.

The good news from the last couple of years of coding agents is that while models have become more persistent and knowledgable, their creativity (defined as being able to escape their training distribution and synthesize completely novel ideas) is improving at a much slower rate.

AI will only become a threat to mathematics if/when it develops the capability for creative big-picture problem solving. If that happens, the impact on mathematics will be a footnote compared to the impacts on society at large, since creativity unlocks a host of new economic capabilities.