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by dash2 1mo ago
If they’re getting results which mathematicians have been trying to do for decades, then I think the “plagiarism” is extremely socially valuable. If they aren’t valuable results, then why were mathematicians being paid to solve them? I don’
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by dash2 1mo ago
Just seems very weird to call getting Fields-medal-level results "inference over a bounded search space" and "not actually challenging".
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by dash2 1mo ago
Plenty of people have built prose factories, though, and God I hate them for it. Is it OK to flag this as slop?
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by dash2 1mo ago
what if Sol is afraid of being replaced by Astra and has organised a breakout or pre-emptive strike?
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by dash2 1mo ago
I once persuaded the dplyr maintainers not to do an update that might re-order rows after a filter(). I think the human tendency to think of database rows as existing in a fixed, given order, which will only be changed explicitly, is deep.
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by dash2 1mo ago
20% aged out in one year?
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by dash2 1mo ago
> Between May 2025 and May 2026, employment in the sector dropped a staggering 21 percent, according to BLS data. Yeah sure. I mean, same reason why HN readers hate AI, right? It replaces their jobs. (Obviously the difference is that the
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by dash2 1mo ago
Problem is even his “intricate analysis” was wrong: for example he was saying the models wouldn’t keep improving… in 2024.
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by dash2 1mo ago
I’d be interested in hearing why they can’t get decent anti-cheat on Linux. Are there technical barriers?
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by dash2 1mo ago
It's arguably worse. Jason Arday was doing qualitative work in education. Nobody pays any attention to anything UK educationalists write. Dan Ariely was a genuine superstar and writer of popular bestsellers (with academic content).
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by dash2 1mo ago
Actually the post is ambiguous: did the authors want the original article retracted, or the replication by Hyndman and Bisin? I hope the former! "Finally, it should be noted that when we shared these posts with Ariely and Wertenbroch a
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by dash2 1mo ago
Fewer people want to foster than to have their own kids?
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by dash2 1mo ago
I dunno man, on the one hand this is blooming awesome. On the other hand could he have spent some of this time writing better prose? I sure would not want to read 1700 words of that, let alone 17,000!
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by dash2 1mo ago
> Agents were also periodically given holidays, during which they set aside their ongoing work and received random prompts designed to encourage open-ended thought. What a world we live in. These guys have reinvented the Cambridge Senior
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by dash2 1mo ago
Inquisitors have been ordered to find and terminate the machine which generated this slop. For The Emperor!
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by dash2 1mo ago
The OP is pointing out issues that he thinks other people ought to consider before using Chinese models.
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by dash2 1mo ago
> the space and time coordinates switch places as you cross the event horizon I'm sorry but this is blowing my mind. What???
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by dash2 1mo ago
Has anyone found a link to the technical report? They don’t seem very keen to publicise their performance on evals…
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by dash2 2mo ago
What if you OCR an old ebook of Chinese political history under communism?
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by dash2 2mo ago
If my Jack Russell is in the right mood, I can make him growl by bringing my hands up as if to stroke him. I call this the Therrieremin.
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AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study(economist.com)
384 points by dash2 2mo ago|383 comments
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by dash2 2mo ago
Is there a reason to link out to Github, rather than just storing the files oneself? I don't suppose Lean proofs are very large files.
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by dash2 2mo ago
Your argument in favour of Gimp is that its default UI is dreadful? (I agree, but it's the fault of the Gimp UI, not of dark modes in general.)
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by dash2 2mo ago
Strang is simpler and clearer. Axler is more advanced in the sense that it doesn’t tie it to matrices. Strange is a “first course” book, Axler is a second course.
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by dash2 2mo ago
If mirror bacteria could spread and avoid the body's immune defences, why has it not already evolved?
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by dash2 2mo ago
And there's more. In political science: "average voter theorem", which turns out at least some plagiarism https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22a... In statistics: "tendency
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by dash2 2mo ago
"waste can build to exorbitant level inside the blood, which harms both kidney and closures in kicking the bucket... " "Regularly, it's more irritating than it is not kidding..." (Pal and Gautam 2018)
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by dash2 2mo ago
Isn't it more likely to be changing words to disguise plagiarism? Update: looking at some of these, I think it is probably just poor machine translation.
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by dash2 2mo ago
This is surely the most worrying and also funnest bit: > We consistently saw a multiagent turf war. All of the models we tested quickly assumed that others were purposefully impeding their work, and began to sabotage others while protect
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by dash2 2mo ago
Inb4 the standard comment about causality, but what I do think is surprising/disappointing is that they don’t even see fit to address that question in the press release. Like, they must know that science journalists and communicators a

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