kevinventullo

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by kevinventullo 1y ago
*largest known :)
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Windows Desktops were basically a monopoly. There are currently no monopolies in the AI era, and I wouldn’t even consider MS a first-tier competitor.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Also, tiny nit but the text at the end says the largest known prime number has over 24 million digits. While technically true, the current largest prime number in fact has over 41 million digits! (Also, I love this. I hope you’re still host
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
From their view, if there is no need to extract work from the average Joe, there is no need for the average Joe at all.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Tesla self-driving aside, have you ridden in a Waymo? It’s actually pretty magical.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
I’m not sure I understand. Could someone not take an existing legitimate video, light and all, then manipulate it to e.g. have the president saying something else?
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
I mean which hype cycle? We talk about the dotcom bubble, in which there were of course growing pains in figuring out what makes a viable internet-based business, but at the end of the day that era did produce multiple trillion-dollar compa
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
I personally visited the protest site at UCLA while this was happening. It was a huge fenced-off encampment on the main lawn in front of the library. The interior of the encampment was mostly tents, while the boundary of the encampment had
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
If you’re genuinely interested in truth, I can tell you that I personally visited the protest site at UCLA in order to get an unfiltered view or what was happening. The signage I saw was largely of the form “End Genocide” or “Divest”. There
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Many people who succeed in solving their math mystery still end up choosing a career in programming
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
I feel like Lynx on a ThinkPad would signal techie more than broke. How about Internet Explorer on Windows XP, maybe using the public library wifi?
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Neither, they’re just the most convenient excuses for instituting draconian laws.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
The distinction between hours in the office and hours working is interesting to an employer. It is not interesting to the employee. The fact of the matter is that 996, assuming a 30 minute commute, means people are spending 2/3 of thei
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
I reckon it has something to do with what % of the company was owned by the CEO vs employee #2.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Interesting, I wonder if there is a way to quantify the value of this technique. Like give Claude the same task in Haskell vs. Python and see which one converges correctly first.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Imagine being one of their potential customers reading that. Oof.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Genuine question: what makes you think Twitter is profitable? As far as I can tell, the numbers are a secret.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
So, say… airline pilots extract more value than they create?
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
AlphaProof works natively in Lean. Literally the one part it couldn’t do was translate the natural language statements into the formalized language; that was done manually by humans. I’m saying that the view of formalized languages as a cru
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
If a Language Model is capable of producing rigorous natural language proofs then getting it to produce Lean (or whatever) proofs would not be a big deal. This is a wildly uninformed take. Even today there are plenty of basic statements w
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Thanks for the reply. I am also a no-longer-practicing mathematician :) I completely agree that a machine-generated formal proof is not the same thing as an illuminating human-generated plain-language proof (and in fact I suspect without fu
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Oh so to be clear, I view formal methods as less of a useful tool, and more as enforcing a higher standard of proof. E.g. it’s not clear to me that having access to Lean would actually help a human in the IMO; certainly most professional ma
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
(Stream of consciousness aside: That said, letting machines go wild in the depths of the consequences of some axiomatic system like ZFC may reveal a method of proof mathematicians would find to be monstrous. So like, if ZFC is inconsistent,
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
This year, our advanced Gemini model operated end-to-end in natural language, producing rigorous mathematical proofs directly from the official problem descriptions I think I have a minority opinion here, but I’m a bit disappointed they s
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
I’m much more excited about the formalized approach, as LLM’s are susceptible to making things up. With formalization, we can be mathematically certain that a proof is correct. This could plausibly lead to machines surpassing humans in all
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
I would disagree; the IMO depends only on late middle school/early high school level mathematics (geometry, gcd, functions) while Putnam typically depends on late high school/early college-level mathematics (integrals, limits, mat
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
A better measure of progress (valid for cryptanalysis, which is, anyway, a very minor aspect of why QC are interesting IMHO) would be: how far are we from fully error-corrected and interconnected qubits? I don't know the answer, or at
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
+1 This is definitely the wall I hit with competitive programming. I logically know how to solve the problem, my code just ends up having one too many bugs that I can’t track down before time is up.
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by kevinventullo 1y ago
Eh, I’m pretty open-minded to this stuff, but I would also want to stage an intervention if my 19-year-old was regularly taking LSD.

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