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Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project

web.evanchen.cc
245 points·by eapriv·9 bulan yang lalu·73 comments

“Clean” code, horrible performance

computerenhance.com
739 points·by eapriv·3 tahun yang lalu·907 comments

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eapriv
·16 hari yang lalu·discuss
Are there any pages of French in “Crime and Punishment”?
eapriv
·bulan lalu·discuss
> Late last year I started writing a math blog and decided to use LLMs to polish/enhance my writing.

Why would you do that in the first place? If you are just starting writing about math, I assume your goal would be to get better at it, and using LLMs is not how you get better at writing.
eapriv
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Looks like AI slop in (some of) the thumbnail images. Why would anyone do that?
eapriv
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The problem is the use of AI. It’s a reliable indicator that the author doesn’t actually care about the quality of the work, so I shouldn’t bother to read the text.
eapriv
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Not sure what “your own” in the title is supposed to mean if you are running a model that you didn’t train using a framework that you didn’t write on a server that you don’t own.
eapriv
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The problem is “to add two numbers”. The meta-problem is “to learn how computers work”.
eapriv
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Removing layers usually improves stability.
eapriv
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Sounds like most of these problems come from using Python.
eapriv
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Spoiler: it’s about AI.
eapriv
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
No, it says nothing about LLM output being invertible.
eapriv
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
You are wrong. Prime numbers are fundamental to mathematics.
eapriv
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
If I were to write such a text, it would have a lot more about building intuition for advanced mathematical concepts. This intuition is extremely valuable, but missing from almost all advanced-level texts. On the other hand, it’s very difficult to put into words, and probably quite personal.
eapriv
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I submitted it, and the word “basic” is mine, because the author doesn’t really go deep into what I would consider “advanced” mathematics. It can be a good prerequisite for advanced things, though.
eapriv
·tahun lalu·discuss
Spoiler: it’s not about how GPUs work, it’s about how to use them for machine learning computations.
eapriv
·tahun lalu·discuss
Yet people wouldn’t write a Fortran compiler in Fortran, or a MATLAB compiler in MATLAB.
eapriv
·tahun lalu·discuss
“Nice” doesn’t mean “well suitable for writing a compiler in”. It’s strange to think that all languages should be equally good for writing all kinds of things, and choosing a web language for a non-web task is doubly strange.
eapriv
·tahun lalu·discuss
It’s not obvious from the text, but the compiler was previously written in TypeScript (which was kind of a strange choice for the language to write a compiler in).