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I don't normally complain about this, but that result has been at least four times on the front page in the last two weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
by cschmid 5y ago
I don't normally complain about this, but that result has been at least four times on the front page in the last two weeks:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424749
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208141
Finding mathematical patterns and relations by fitting expressive functions has actually been a common technique in experimental mathematics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_mathematics) for a while.
In the last few years, neural networks in particular have been used a lot in areas of math related to string theory, where one tries to find structures on certain topological spaces that preserve or generate symmetries of the resulting physics. Here's a review that might be interesting:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06317 https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06317
Unfortunately, none of these mathematicians have the marketing prowess of a multi-billion dollar company...
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoNot only has it been on the front page a bunch; each time it’s posted, it’s further and further through the game of telephone from science to pop journalism, and less and less accurate.
- RosanaAnaDana 5y agoIt might be interesting to map the quality of the hn conversations to the distance from the source in either time or internet distance.
- m3kw9 5y agoI haven’t seen it yet so it’s alright for me.
- irrational 5y agoThis is the dirty secret of reposts. It is only people who spend their lives on HN and see (and somehow remember) every single previous post that care about reposts.
- antegamisou 5y agoThanks for this interesting and readable paper!
- bryan0 5y agoJust to add some more detail to this. The first link [0] you referenced is one I submitted a while ago. It did not gain much attention and I was not really surprised since the same underlying research was being reported by different sources in variously vague ways. Anyway, I received an email from HN yesterday saying they wanted to put it on the “second-chance pool” and I could do so by clicking a link to repost it. I never received an email from HN before and I was curious what would happen, so I clicked to repost, and of course it then shot to the top of the front page. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642
- ianliu 5y agoThe review paper is really interesting: "Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures"
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- dang 5y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642 - Dec 2021 (61 comments) DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466753 - Dec 2021 (3 comments) Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424749 - Dec 2021 (28 comments) Exploring the beauty of pure mathematics in novel ways - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380 - Dec 2021 (4 comments) Mathematicians Find Structure in Biased Polynomials - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208141 - Nov 2021 (8 comments)