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by saithound 3mo ago
Astrology didn't really freeze. The apparent position of celestial objects was important for mundane reasons such as navigation until the 1970s, and the people who compiled nautical almanacs kept doing astrological fortune telling on t
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by saithound 3mo ago
A horoscope is a fine mixture of fortune-telling bullshit and verifiable astronomical facts. The latter have the form of "where the celestial bodies could be seen at the hour of the client's birth", or "does Jupiter curr
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by saithound 3mo ago
The starting point of casting a horoscope is calculating the apparent locations (this means "where you would have seen them had you looked up there and then") of a whole bunch of celestial objects at the time and place where a par
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by saithound 3mo ago
Astrology is a mixture of factual verifiable information (such as apparent positions of celestial bodies at the time and location a certain person was born) and random baseless divinations. The "whale" users who account for a disp
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by saithound 3mo ago
Astrology and Haskell are quite similar in that both are much much easier to do if you have a math degree.
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by saithound 4mo ago
> If you consider the "discipline" to be mathematics broadly, even this level of knowledge is actually quite uncommon. Fwiw, I am in full agreement, and it's commendable when people do have at least a basic understanding o
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by saithound 4mo ago
For the working logician or the constructive mathematician, the distinction that matters is whether an argument uses a constructively invalid instance of the law of excluded middle (or double-negation elimination) or not. Indeed, long befor
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by saithound 4mo ago
"It's only proof by contradiction if you prove P by assuming ¬P and deriving a contradiction" was a neologism introduced by Andrej Bauer in a 2010 discussion with Timothy Gowers. Most mathematicians have never heard of it. Th
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by saithound 4mo ago
I use Pangram quite extensively (burning through my 600 token allowance every month). They managed to get their false positive rate impressively low: if Pangram says something is 100% AI-written, you can trust that. But they need to improve
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by saithound 5mo ago
It seems like everybody (including you) knew precisely what I meant: the models available for ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscribers, i.e. GPT-5.5 Thinking Extended and the latest Pro. I've edited the offending sentence for clarity just in ca
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by saithound 5mo ago
It's an AI-written slop article, which is hugged to death by HN in any case. It claims to be an evidence-based investigation, but basically invents the contents of the documents they supposedly investigated, such as the Anthropic Front
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by saithound 5mo ago
It's pretty clear at this point that Mythos' capability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities at scale is but an incremental improvement over existing models like the ones available to OpenAI's Plus/Pro subsc
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by saithound 6mo ago
Questions which have never been asked or answered before, but to which practitioners have immediately obvious answers, are dime a dozen in mathematics. You can find thousands of such questions on Math StackExchange. Take e.g. [1]: never bee
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by saithound 6mo ago
Arnold's proof can be used to show that certain classes of functions are insufficient to express a quintic formula. These classes can always safely include all single-valued continuous functions (you cannot even write the _quadratic_ f
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by saithound 6mo ago
It's a fun, but unsurprising undergrad-level result. It got picked up and overhyped on HN [1] and /r/math [2] earlier this week. Some of my favorites: DoctorOetker: "I'm still reading this, but if this checks out,
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by saithound 6mo ago
The original article explicitly acknowledged this limitation, that while in "the classical differential-algebraic setting, one often works with a broader notion of elementary function, defined relative to a chosen field of constants an
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by saithound 6mo ago
> Repeating myself, when we speak of bugs in a verified software system, I think it's fair to consider the entire binary a fair target. Yes, and that would be relevant if this was a verified software system. But it wasn't: the
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by saithound 6mo ago
MS Flight Simulator w/ VATSIM [1] l has this, in the sense thar you can participate as a pilot or a controller, although you are not assigned these roles at game start. Anti-griefing works by keeping the barriers to entry very high, so
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by saithound 6mo ago
The thread started out off the rails. Contrary to the claims of youre-wrong3, garbage collection is not a particularly high paying job and has no real trouble getting new hires.
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by saithound 7mo ago
They already had that exact strategy between 2012 and 2020.
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by saithound 7mo ago
> When asking people to write code in a language, these restrictions could be onerous. But LLMs don't care, and the less expressivity you trust them with, the better. But LLMs very much do care. They are measurably worse when writin
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by saithound 7mo ago
This is irrelevant when the question is whether marketing your CPU with "AI" will help sales. Toilets also changed everything we do and are helpful in unobtrusive ways, but that won't make the "Ryzen Crapper" a cus
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by saithound 8mo ago
> I have noticed that only white people commit to living in the UK without becoming citizens. Alas, you've not discovered a hidden pattern, except maybe a hidden pattern in the kinds of people you socialize with. Chinese nationals c
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by saithound 8mo ago
What if you asked your favorite AI agent to produce mathematics at the level of Vladimir Voevodsky, Fields Medal-winning, foundation-shaking work but directed toward something the legendary Nikolaj Bjørner (co-creator of Z3) could actually
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by saithound 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing this, I found your list very relatable. Here are some more: - I used to be able to buy a phone I could back up. Right now, in the name of privacy, I can no longer do this, except if I share all my data with Google via the
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by saithound 8mo ago
Sure. And since the comment I originally responded to is "giving advice" to these people without taking the effort to understand their position, I feel alright reminding them that they're tone-deaf. Doesn't mean I want a
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by saithound 8mo ago
> you were being paid to produce software, and the process was incidental to it. Yes, the people who write articles like the one in this post understand this. Previously, they could do it and get paid while doing a thing they loved. Now
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by saithound 8mo ago
> My advice to everyone feeling existential vertigo over these tools is to remain confident and trust in yourself. If you were a smart dev before AI, chances are you will remain a smart dev with AI. We replaced the chess board in the par
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Some Junk Theorems in Lean(github.com)
91 points by saithound 10mo ago|61 comments
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by saithound 10mo ago
Just a heads-up: this is not the first time somebody has to explain Markov chains to famouswaffles on HN, and I'm pretty sure it won't be the last. Engaging further might not be worth it.

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