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People are upvoting this because Tao is a celebrity.
by Jtarii 3mo ago
People are upvoting this because Tao is a celebrity.
- hyperhello 3mo agoHe’s famous, but I don’t believe he is a celebrity, as he is not famous for his persona.
- alpinisme 3mo agoHe’s a hacker news celebrity but not a global celebrity
- Jtarii 3mo agoI just mean, anything Tao writes that is related to AI will get on the front page, because Tao represents the authoritative voice of reason using AI tools. And this website is primarily for AI news.
- done_lurking 3mo ago[dead]
- bcraven 3mo ago>And this website is primarily for AI news. 'twas not always thus ):
- pavel_lishin 3mo agoI'm upvoting this because it's interesting. I don't have to fully understand something to find it interesting.
- foobarqux 3mo agoIn what way is it interesting compared to the myriad of other posts on this topic that has content you can understand?
- pavel_lishin 3mo agoIt's interesting because I like math, and typically posts like this generate a lot of interesting comments. Plus, in general, I'm wildly disinterested in the AI discourse that eats up 50-75% of the front page, so frankly anything that's slightly more interesting than that gets an upvote from me.
- foobarqux 3mo agoYou seem to be saying that you would upvote an empty article (or a gibberish article) with the title "Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample", is that right?
- pavel_lishin 3mo agoAfter that kind of a stretch, you're ready for any kind of exercise.
- godwinson__4-8 3mo agoAre you always this subtle?
- BigTTYGothGF 3mo agoI read thru it and most of it is accessible to an undergraduate. As long as you remember what Sym{1,2,3} are (clearly explained in the text), and how a resultant works (many undergraduate textbooks will show you), how SL2 works (reasonably common undergraduate topic), and can figure out the bit about the dual space being the same as those differential operators, everything else is just basic (high school) algebra.