renyicircle

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by renyicircle 5d ago
> the concepts were far less hard than the combination of notation and esoteric jargon with liberal use of symbols and weird letters made them seem I really don't get the hate for mathematical notation here, do you have specific exa
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by renyicircle 5d ago
I mean, there's some truth to that joke in this case, so I wouldn't agree that it's dismissing. The point of it is that what matters is how we define "interesting", because by the joke's definition in particula
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by renyicircle 5d ago
I think that's a variation on the interesting numbers paradox joke. Statement: All numbers are interesting. Proof: Assume by contradiction that there's a non-empty set of uninteresting numbers. Then that set contains the smallest
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by renyicircle 6d ago
Sometimes they even say "I know I'm pretty, too" at the end.
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by renyicircle 8d ago
That makes perfect sense. Using language in unorthodox ways to convey very specific concepts that only make sense to you and sound like bullshit to others.
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by renyicircle 8d ago
The Claude output in the first one-shot counterexample attempt is hilarious. I hate its writing most of the time but this stuff is next level deep-fried slop. > And the control column confirms the resonance-necessity conjecture empirical
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by renyicircle 9d ago
Thanks, that sounds interesting. As I said in a parallel comment after some thought on this, nobody can really say with absolute certainty that a particular branch will forever stay useless, so that should be good enough to keep going. Some
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by renyicircle 9d ago
Yes, there's so many applications that we couldn't even imagine until we got modern computers, and most of us couldn't imagine them either until we got them. What didn't sit right with me is that these concepts are a ver
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by renyicircle 9d ago
> mathematics breakthrough that results in some miraculous medical or other discovery Do you believe it is possible or have any recent examples? I feel like most of the stuff that could be applied to something like this has probably alre
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by renyicircle 9d ago
The coolest part of this for me is that it's not only reverse engineering the RNG and being able to predict random rolls, which is relatively simple for that PRNG algorithm, but then being able to implement that algorithm in-game using
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by renyicircle 1mo ago
I'm with you on this. We have Claude at work and I get exhausted from using it just a bit. I've recently seen it say "let me verify the most load-bearing claims". I couldn't imagine anyone using "load-bearing&q
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by renyicircle 1mo ago
There's a difference between "branch of mathematics" and "can be modeled using mathematics".
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by renyicircle 1mo ago
It's like if on any website you went to you saw a lot of posts written by the same guy over and over again. Even if he used different names, you'd start to recognize him eventually because of his style. Seeing as he doesn't s
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by renyicircle 1mo ago
I agree that it feels off and I wonder what I would have thought if I'd seen the "after" example without knowing it's AI output put through a humanizer. Would I think much about the weird use of the word "honest&quo
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by renyicircle 1mo ago
Yeah I feel like this "done right" part is responsible for most of the popularity of this book. Makes the reader think they've been learning it wrong. Kind of like these clickbait videos "you've been folding your la
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by renyicircle 2mo ago
That's probably just Claude. I do enjoy finding new ways to call out the patterns it uses though.
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by renyicircle 2mo ago
The background is that a counterexample to a famous mathematical conjecture was recently posted on X by an Anthropic employee. The counterexample, in form of a polynomial, is easy to validate by doing simple calculations, but it's not
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by renyicircle 2mo ago
I get where you're coming from but linear algebra is one of the most applied branches of mathematics out there. It's easy to visualize and easy to teach the computational side of it so it makes sense that some books focus more on
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by renyicircle 2mo ago
Have you opened the book? There are both theorems and proofs there.
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by renyicircle 2mo ago
Holy crap this Claude writing is actually impossible to read, it's like they specifically asked it to slop it up x10. The patterns are in every single sentence, every explanation of what the hell you're supposed to do is littered
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
Compared to the usual tools for the tools for the tools to help you program programming tools, this is a pretty good thing to have more of
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
I mentioned Langlands because it's one of the cool things related to Diophantine equations that the article mentions but I wouldn't expect it to be covered there. The connection between the Euclidean algorithm and unique prime fac
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
The article doesn't really tell us much about the "why" unfortunately. Diophantine equations are introduced but all the interesting stuff is promised in future articles which haven't come yet. All the reader can take fro
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
Then the journalist wonders why they don't mention Jony Ive who left Apple 7 years ago whose company was acquired by OpenAI. I guess they don't mention him because they don't have proof he tried to steal anything, as opposed
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
I'd say we're already well past that point. Short-form "content" already exists and is messing with people's brains, this is the same thing just taken a few steps further. By the time the tech companies start using
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
This list was made by some guy on twitter. https://x.com/keshavchan/status/1787861946173186062 It's unknown whether it has anything to do with Ilya Sutskever.
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
The formatting of the articles on this website is bad. I've opened the first one and all the LaTeX formulas are messed up. The subscripts and superscripts are all flattened rendering the math hard to comprehend. Did the author actually
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
One gets bored exactly because it's transformative. I don't think most people have the capacity to adapt to "transformative technologies" every 10 years, especially when they change society irreversibly. It's not na
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
My first thought was "well of course it is, since pi is a little larger than 3" but it was cool to see an actual derivation of how much pi squared differs from 10 as a nice, closed form series.
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by renyicircle 3mo ago
I'd say integrals or differentials are not as important on their own as the kinds of differential equations that come up in physics. Integrals and differentials don't produce hyperoperations from non-hyperoperations, but a solutio

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