kurthr

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by kurthr 5d ago
Mathematicians who do work on "real world" problems are mostly doing so with theoretical physicists, genomicists, and cryptographers. None of these count as what people consider valuable other than because they are hard. That said
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by kurthr 6d ago
"I was just downloading those videos of children being raped to make sure they were still available in their full un-redacted format!" Let me know how that works out. Arguably, the most significant difference is between "free
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by kurthr 6d ago
Although I can't personally imagine re-reading YA lit, it still requires you to use huge amounts of grammar, vocabulary, and cultural knowledge in a seamless automatic way. To imagine an alternate world, people, and culture, while your
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by kurthr 6d ago
Some would argue that the entire framing of AI is in itself religious. Jaron Lanier's humanist perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTppvBU2rU4
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by kurthr 6d ago
It all depends on what you're censoring. Is it a bad sign if CSAM, Personal (medical, financial, etc) Records, Snuff, and Malware/Ransomeware are censored? What about manufacture of WMDs, terrorism, hate speech? Free software, and
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by kurthr 7d ago
No. It should have been Gowers' rather than Gower's. The link is: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the...
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by kurthr 7d ago
This goes in a necessary direction, from my personal take away of Gower's recent post on the subject. Mathematics is suffering from Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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by kurthr 8d ago
Uh, John von Neuman didn't discover anything of significance at IAS? Just Hilbert Spaces and Computer Architecture, forget String Theory or Godel's Incompleteness, LOL! New best prompt: Write me a really cool math proof that will
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by kurthr 8d ago
As a sometime experimental scientist and occasional manufacturing engineer, this is hilarious! Discoveries for abstract theory, entertainment, and perhaps regurgitating media, or even basic education can be done with the help of LLMs, but y
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by kurthr 9d ago
So we should return to a renaissance world where only the wealthy or sponsored can do research, teach, and promote the wonders of creativity. Just hope the oligarchs give us prols enough gruel to create our own solipsistic knowledge no one
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by kurthr 9d ago
I don't think that the main issue either discussed by Gowers or the others who have signed the letter is simply that mathematicians should be paid "for merely understanding things". The main issue is outsourcing, laziness, an
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by kurthr 9d ago
It's regularly the case that they are simply too long to fit, so editorializing is necessary. Either cutting them slightly short, removing descriptors, excess verbs etc, is better than chopping a word in half.
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by kurthr 10d ago
What a weird question, does that include Chiang Kai-shek? or limited to the "communist" party? You don't remember the '79 Vietnam War? The Chinese one where they invaded North Vietnam with thousands tanks and 10s of thou
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by kurthr 12d ago
The idea that most any modern "interesting" aspect of mathematics is going to be understood (or often even explained in enough detail to reveal what is interesting) in an hour is pretty rare. Either the student's aptitude, th
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by kurthr 12d ago
It's worth noting that the Sun-Earth-Moon "system" is much more complex than a three-body problem just due to momentum transfer from tides/bending. That's ignoring the effect of all of the other planets and asteroid
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by kurthr 20d ago
For those who would minimize the effects of social media on teens, I would highly recommend looking at this report of Meta's own research on the matter, published after it was revealed in discovery by States AGs. https://pap
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by kurthr 20d ago
If I have a public platform and refuse to sponsor/publish/platform your speech, that is my free speech right! You don't have the right to force me to speak your words. Only the government is prohibited (by 1st amendment) from
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by kurthr 20d ago
The Japanese have been obsessed with it since the study came out and have a variety of treatments (tannins in persimmons and greentea) though none have passed large scale clinical trials :) I was fed a YT video about it recently so it must
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by kurthr 21d ago
So following this to the obvious conclusion, the NSA is responsible for the closure of the Straight of America, high tarrifs, dropping employment, and high gas prices?
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by kurthr 24d ago
You modify tens of thousands of tubes and they are installed as they are replaced in the target facility.
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by kurthr 24d ago
I have to say that after reading other commentary about the 2015 paper this was based on, it seems to be far less relevant, even if it comes up very high in tehGoog search rankings.
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FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20B by rigging billions of ad auctions(arstechnica.com)
73 points by kurthr 24d ago|12 comments
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by kurthr 24d ago
There is also the problem that that impedance mismatch between the gas in the tube and the glass surrounding it is huge so very little power is coupled. Interesting things would be for the tube length/resonance to be closer to the soun
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by kurthr 26d ago
Exactly, what exactly is an English major going to do, if YA novels are the pinnacle of reading achievement? I'm baffled, and reading more about it, concerned.
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by kurthr 26d ago
I've talked to a few high school and young college students in the last few years to get a feeling for what pandemic and LLMs have done to education, but this seems near apocalyptic to me. An inability for a majority of English majors
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by kurthr 26d ago
If you're worried about >100mg (0.1ml) then, don't think about the dosages people use for botox! It's 1x,2x,3x 80picograms per injection. I guess it's a biological product, but it's certainly not "living&quo
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by kurthr 28d ago
How much does open source rely on copyright for enforcement? Do court decisions that limit copyright protection of AI generated content cause problems for open source? Isn't there a requirement for a "Mental Conception" of th
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by kurthr 28d ago
From the outside, it seems like Canary Warf was where most of the high density building in London was done. That wasn't nearby lots of low rise single family homes, was it? Certainly, some people are moving to the Bay Area, but the rat
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by kurthr 1mo ago
All of Tokyo was basically rebuilt after the war, because it was bombed. Much of it was not originally built to earthquake standards. Rebuilding high density in bombed US SFH neighborhoods, would certainly make sense. I completely disagree
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by kurthr 1mo ago
So you're saying that they build giant malls, office building, and (what is left of) manufacturing in cities by tearing down SFH? Certainly, not what I've seen. So people coming for "the jobs" DESERVE the kind of nearby,

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