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by hintymad 3mo ago
I recall several mathematicians (possibly including Terence Tao) mentioning that fields in mathematics have become so specialized and isolated that a conference like the ICM feels more like a collection of mini-conferences. An expert in one
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by hintymad 3mo ago
The examples in the posts suggest that the past does not contain all the patterns, or information in general, about the future. If so, isn't it natural that point forecast will fail in some cases?
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by hintymad 3mo ago
> So, so, so much politics and public reputation management. Zhang should have never had to suffer like that. Very true. Unfortunately, when there are people, there will be politics. I remember when reading Yau's autobiography, I ke
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by hintymad 3mo ago
> The Jacobian Conjecture Interestingly, Yitang Zhang of the twin-prime-conjecture fame spent 7 years working on the Jacobian conjecture under the advisor Tzuong-Tsieng Moh at Purdue. A key step in his thesis used a corollary of Moh&#x27
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by hintymad 3mo ago
> - PC office productivity software destroyed expensive professional products. I agree with the lesson too. Just to be precise, wouldn't the current model war be more akin to open-source office suite versus MS office suite? If so, t
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by hintymad 3mo ago
I wonder how Chinese companies can make their models so much cheaper than the US companies. I'm not sure government subsidies are the answer. Subsidizing a single company with a few billion dollars, maybe. Subsidizing at least three co
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by hintymad 3mo ago
> open models is what will kill Anthropic and OpenAI. Maybe killing Anthropic is a good thing? Anthropic believe that they are the moral god and they get to determine what we can do and can't do, and they get to tell us what model t
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by hintymad 3mo ago
If we look at how AI solves those Erdos problems or IMO problems, we can see a clear pattern: AI is like a perfect cramming human being: it has seen and memorized pretty much all the known problem sets and the solution patterns. It knows al
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by hintymad 3mo ago
There is a difference between reading a short article and reading an actual book. Reading short articles gives you quick facts and situational awareness, but it doesn't build wisdom. My personal theory is that wisdom comes from deep, l
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by hintymad 3mo ago
> But, at token rates, 10x or 100x the cost of open models or what I was spending on the frontier models a month ago And we can't ignore the power of "good enough". GLM5.2 may not be as good as the SOTA models, but it can
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by hintymad 3mo ago
Looks very useful. Thanks!
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by hintymad 3mo ago
Yeah, large volume of comprehensible input is the key. It's just that the frequency of words is of Zipfian distribution, so I thought maybe flash cards could give me more frequent exposure of the important words in less time.
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by hintymad 3mo ago
For language learning, I wish there was an audio-first flashcard app that changes up the example sentences every time. Right now, I'm using Anki to learn Japanese vocabulary from N5 to N3[1]. I know the words and the example sentences
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by hintymad 3mo ago
You're right, there are nuances in different policies. I was referring to the general power and consent that Europeans grant to the EU council. In my naive view their power is unchecked. As a result, we can start with good intent and g
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by hintymad 3mo ago
Honest question: when Europeans give so much power to EU and usually favor regulations by the government, isn't it natural that the government will try to implement more control? And it looks EU officials do not have to accountable for
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by hintymad 3mo ago
It's great that we have yet another competing models. The more models we have, the less likely we are subject to the ideologies and the controls thereof by the cults like Anthropic. And of course, it drives down the cost of tokens.
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by hintymad 3mo ago
> penalties for white collar criminals is zero tolerance I think this is more about punishing political grafting than white-collar crime.
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by hintymad 3mo ago
Wouldn't toxics like nitrites accumulate over the years? Also, I'd assume the purpose of perpetual soup is to concentrate the aroma and the taste, but is there going to be a diminishing return?
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by hintymad 3mo ago
Remember it was reported that OpenAI didn't think that ChatGPT would be successful? OpenAI thought that ChatGPT was yet another toy before its launch. Yet once ChatGPT became an overnight success, Altman started to talk about how AI wo
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by hintymad 3mo ago
I'm surprised that people still take Gebru seriously. She is a disgrace to the community because she always, I mean literally always, attacks her critics by motives. You think bias is a data problem? You're a bigot (See her disput
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by hintymad 3mo ago
This seems a pretty distinct corporate culture in the US. The companies pamper you in the boom, but dump you in the bust. When times are good, they shower you with perks yet when times are slightly bad, they lay you off like a replaceable l
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by hintymad 3mo ago
Nice. It's great to see democracy work. Now do the California officials everywhere. Oh wait, my bad. Constituents are happy with Karen Bass and the like. Never mind.
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by hintymad 4mo ago
It's wild that Europeans either accept this kind of Soviet-style nonsense, or just feel like they can't do anything about it. Even citizens of the USSR saw right through that blatant, Orwellian 'some animals are more equal&#x
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by hintymad 4mo ago
That means tech companies won't hire engineers in Michigan if they are required to be oncall, as many such engineers rotate their oncall schedules?
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by hintymad 4mo ago
I largely blame people like Amodei for such outcome. As product owners, they could've done it the old way: telling people how great this product is, how much potential it has, and what kind of guardrails the companies are building and
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by hintymad 4mo ago
> I'm now being paid to go to school, and get raises every year until I'm fully ticketed (way more than I ever made in the entry tech positions). This. People tend to underestimate the joy that steady progress brings. A quick p
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by hintymad 4mo ago
> I'd rather see a coding agent that can follow steps in a plan file to a T while following guardrails and adhering to the proper coding conventions in the human reviewed spec. In fact, I'd rather see Anthropic publish a convin
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by hintymad 4mo ago
I assume that "you didn't warn us" and "why are you so pessimistic" would lead to different scale of anger.
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by hintymad 4mo ago
There are a few possible explanations of Dario and Anthropic's behavior, if you are not sure if all they want is pump up the valuation like me: - Anthropic has a cult-like culture. AI Safety is their religion. The AI Constitution is th
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by hintymad 4mo ago
This is hardly surprising. Think about Staff+ engineers: their work is a lot like commanding AI. Most climb the corporate ladder through hard work, excellent engineering skills, soft skills, and a bit of luck. But as their companies grow, t

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