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by traes 3mo ago
Honestly just try it. You'll figure out the problem very quickly.
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by traes 3mo ago
This is not true at all. The parameter space is absolutely MASSIVE. The counterexample is a degree 7 polynomial in 3 variables, which means 360 coefficients. There's no particular way to bound these coefficients or even the degree or n
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by traes 3mo ago
Perhaps there was something in the prompt or settings preventing this, but I'm surprised (and slightly disappointed) that none of the models approached this the way I would: download an image of the Mona Lisa, run all of the drawing fu
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by traes 3mo ago
That is exclusive to engineering PhDs, entirely irrelevant to the discussion of math PhDs.
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by traes 3mo ago
As someone who has met a lot of math majors and a lot of CS majors, I am skeptical of your supposition that CS majors are better at finding and applying novel abstractions than math majors who know how to code.
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by traes 3mo ago
I didn't watch it myself, but there was a recent Netflix documentary on the subject where Magnus claims he was misled by chess.com into believing that they had more concrete evidence than they did.
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by traes 3mo ago
From Cambridge dictionary: obscure (adjective) not known to many people: - an obscure island in the Pacific - an obscure 12th-century mystic Why does its use in production matter? Perhaps the syntax itself is obscure, but we're not dis
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by traes 3mo ago
What? Brainfuck is the single least obscure esoteric programming language. It's the most famous example of a simple Turing complete language and its provocative name gets it a fair amount of media coverage outside its niche.
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by traes 3mo ago
This is true, but the crushing response to this scandal is clearly disproportionate. Millions of views on videos making crude sexual jokes about a 19 year old is already an incredibly unfortunate situation, and his career got completely hal
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by traes 3mo ago
> he probably did cheat in this particular game I have no idea why this continues to be a popular opinion among laypeople. Even at the time actual cheating experts using computer analysis determined it to be likely fair play. His accurac
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by traes 3mo ago
Here's a fun compilation of him getting cooked by 12 year olds and then immediately reporting them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg5LSOoYoPs
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by traes 3mo ago
Regarding general knowledge, it's a pretty well known phenomena within the community. Here's a video with the three players who spent the longest time at #2 in the world (see [0]) behind Magnus Carlsen answering basic trivia quest
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by traes 3mo ago
A lot of players actually do go to college, although likely a minority. I know that Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in particular has a math degree. Ding Liren has a law degree. Daniel Naroditsky himself, while not quite a top grandmaster by the typ
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by traes 3mo ago
So at least the user who submitted it to HN was a human (or perhaps a very scheming LLM attempting to appear it?)
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by traes 3mo ago
Slight mistake in equation (1) (or maybe it's supposed to be a narrative decision?), the inner product of Av_i with itself should end up being s_i^2 and not 1. The vectors u_i are orthonormal, but Av_i = s_i u_i, not just u_i.
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by traes 3mo ago
> Same transformation. Same map on every actual vector. But now it looks like an arbitrary tangle of scaling, shearing, and sign flips — you’d never guess it was just “stretch x by 3.” I have a very hard time imagining a human writing th
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by traes 5mo ago
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774494
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by traes 5mo ago
Exceedingly unlikely. This was one of the more discussed Erdos problems, and multiple experts have attested to the technique's novelty. If you're referring to the lack of comments on the erdosproblems website, that doesn't re
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by traes 6mo ago
The reason plants capture energy from this range is because that's where most of sunlight's energy is concentrated, which is going to drop this quite a bit further. Glancing at a solar radiation spectrum curve makes it look a lot
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by traes 6mo ago
abs(x) = sqrt(x*x), no?
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by traes 6mo ago
This preprint was written by a researcher at an accredited university with a PhD in physics. I'm sure they know what a vector valued function is. The point of this paper is not to revolutionize how a scientific calculator functions ove
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by traes 6mo ago
Elementary function is a technical term that this paper uses correctly, not a generic prescription of simplicity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_function .
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by traes 8mo ago
This is an incredibly ironic comment. "Freestyle" chess was an attempt to do exactly this with Magnus's support, and it failed to secure funding after its initial run. This event is them running back to FIDE in shambles to sa
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by traes 8mo ago
> Also his current rating is higher than either Karpov’s or Kasparov’s were when they first won the title. His rating when he first won was about the same as Fischer’s when Fischer first won. This doesn't really mean anything. Ratin
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by traes 8mo ago
His record in bullet in the Speed Chess Championship against Carlsen is rather unremarkable, although that is 1+1. Perhaps he would fair better at 1+0.
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by traes 8mo ago
He's up there for sure, but not clearly the best. According to him both he and Magnus think Alireza Firouzja is the best in longer matches of multiple bullet games.[0] I suspect he would give the edge to Magnus in a shorter match, but
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by traes 8mo ago
Obviously a board game will be easier for a child to compete at than a physical sport. Tons of Rubik's cube world records are held by 9 year olds. I don't see why any of this is relevant in answering the question "is it impre
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by traes 8mo ago
To be clear, "came last in Speed Chess Championship" actually means he came in 4th out of 16. He still made it to the semifinals. Even then he barely lost to Alireza, who is pretty universally considered a top 3 speed chess player
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by traes 8mo ago
No, even the best prodigies typically aren't winning super tournaments until 17 or 18, and we haven't really had one of those since Gukesh won candidates last cycle. The youngest player in this event was a 20 year old who placed l
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by traes 8mo ago
I suspect Magnus draws a similar level of attention regardless, it's probably closer to half the viewer base

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