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by emil-lp 8mo ago
Data skeptics Darknet diaries The Cine-Files 60 songs that explain the 90s: the 2000s
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
The arctic submission process clearly shows you how the abstract will look. The authors likely didn't care.
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
How about this: def has_alzheimers(patient): return False What accuracy does this have?
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
Priests who use generative AI to craft their homilies should openly share the prompts they rely on, because those prompts shape the theology, tone, and pastoral direction of what is proclaimed from the pulpit. In a community rooted in trust
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
How is the question nonsensical? It's a perfectly valid question.
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It's all encrypted.
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
Someone has been sipping from Tegmark's cool-aid.
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
Mathematica guarantees correctness. It should be safe for a while.
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
It's like saying: calculator drives new result in theoretical physics (In the hands of leading experts.)
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
"GPT did this" . Authored by Guevara (Institute for Advanced Study), Lupsasca (Vanderbilt University), Skinner (University of Cambridge), and Strominger (Harvard University). Probably not something that the average GI Joe would b
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
It didn't solve it, it simply found that it had been solved in a publication and that the list of open problems wasn't updated.
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
This is news to me. Source?
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
W is the span or range .
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
He's also very active at Stack Exchange – https://stackexchange.com/users/510234/joel-david-hamkins – https://mathoverflow.net/users/1946/joel-david-hamkins
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https://web.archive.org/web/20251015174117/https://www.infin...
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by emil-lp 8mo ago
Obviously.
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
Isn't skeptical by default quite reasonable?
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
Roll your eyes if you want. A professional takes tools seriously, that includes key bindings and shortcuts. Yes, it's not the time it takes to type that's the matter, but once you're in the zone you need to stay there witho
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
Very cool! Thanks
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
That might be the case for USA, but this was in a country with practically no firing.
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It was a "high tech domain", so institutional knowledge was required, problem or not. We had domain specialists with decades of experience and knowledge, and we looked at our developers as the "glue" between domain knowl
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
I worked as an "advisor" for programmers in a large company. Our mantra there was that programming and development of software is mainly acquiring knowledge (ie learning?). One take-away for us from that viewpoint was that know
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
Those are typically things you are familiar with or can easily check. Fake references are more common in the introduction where you list relevant material to strengthen your results. They often don't change the validity of the claim, b
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
One could require DOIs for each reference. That's both realistic to achieve and easy to verify. Although then why not just cite existing papers for bogus reasons?
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
In journal publications it is, but without DOIs it's difficult. In conference publications, it's less common. Conference publications (like NEURips) is treated as announcement of results, not verified.
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
As one who reviews 20+ papers per year, we don't have time to verify each reference. We verify: is the stuff correct, and is it worthy of publication (in the given venue) given that it is correct. There is still some trust in the autho
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
They might (I hope) still be punished after discovery.
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Spoiler: they don't. CS exercises that we can expect an average student to solve is trivially solved by LLMs. Even smaller local models.
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
> Most Students Don’t Want to Use Chatbots I think this is changing rapidly . I'm a university professor, and the amount of students who seem to be in need of LLM as a crutch is growing really exponentially. We are still in a place
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by emil-lp 9mo ago
Thank you for your service, dang. You do a great job keeping HN a great site. I disagree with your decision regarding changing the title, though. Yes, it's tongue-in-cheek, but I wouldn't call it bait. I wonder how HN anno 1968 wo

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