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IMU: We've awarded Fields medals to these outstanding mathematicians. Hackernews: Next time it'll all be LLMs. AI's going to kill us all, though, one of the ma

by aureate 2mo ago

IMU: We've awarded Fields medals to these outstanding mathematicians. Hackernews: Next time it'll all be LLMs. AI's going to kill us all, though, one of the mathematicians said so! Maths is useless anyway, what a bunch of nerds. Ooh, one of them likes lesbian fanfic.

torginus 2mo ago
> Ooh, one of them likes lesbian fanfic Oddly. specific. Sorry, I don't get the reference, could you please tell me what/who does that refer to (which fanfic and person, and why said person and fact is relevant to this question)
- p_l 2mo ago
  The quote I've seen was that Yu Deng dedicated part of his success to reading yuri (lesbian themed) manga.
- aureate 2mo ago
  It was a reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031519. Not a topic I know anything about.
  - torginus 2mo ago
    People often bring up Palmer Luckey's (CEO of Anduril) old tweets about anime. Respect to the guy, he still hasn't deleted them.
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