pevansgreenwood

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   by pevansgreenwood 4mo ago

   Was it Blaise Pascal who wrote: I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. The argument that "using AI to generate text is disrespectful because it took no effort to write" misses the p
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   by pevansgreenwood 1y ago

   This post about GPT-5 helping with quantum complexity theory highlights how we're still thinking about these systems wrong. The AI suggested using Tr[(I-E(θ))^-1] to analyze eigenvalue behavior—a clever combination of existing mathemat
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   by pevansgreenwood 1y ago

   Is the shift to open source etc inevitable due to the enshitification of commercial products as their owners slide into low margin low growth?
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   by pevansgreenwood 1y ago

   With search moving from Google & MS to TikTok ET al, is this shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted?
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   by pevansgreenwood 1y ago

   That's putting the cart before the horse. Thermodynamics came after the steam engine was made practical. Flight came before aerodynamics. Metallurgy before materials science. Radio before electromagnetic theory took hold. Even LLMs are