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vitriol83
·6 giorni fa·discuss
the Ramanujan one has some relatively high powered mathematical explanation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number
vitriol83
·27 giorni fa·discuss
majority of parents are in favour of such a ban, otherwise they wouldn't do it

if social media companies hadn't made social media a total cesspit of disinformation, child grooming and algorithmic manipulation then the outcome might have been different
vitriol83
·30 giorni fa·discuss
mathlib and lean are currently too cumbersome for many researchers to use in say algebraic geometry, but maybe more suitable for combinatorics where it has been applied recently.
vitriol83
·mese scorso·discuss
this has templeOS vibes
vitriol83
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Formalised proofs and Lean in particular are still too cumbersome for the ``working'' mathematician to use it day-to-day for research-level math. But clearly there is some interest on where it may take us in future.
vitriol83
·4 mesi fa·discuss
this seems to be the way. make great technical improvement in a way that's nothing to do with AI. the only way to make executives happy is to then tenuously link it to AI usage.
vitriol83
·4 mesi fa·discuss
In my field which involves large legacy codebases in C++ and complex numerical algorithms implemented by PhDs. LLMs have their place but improvements in productivity are not that great because current LLMs simply make too many mistakes in this context and mistakes are usually very costly.

Everyone `in the know' appreciates this, but equally in the current environment has to play along with the AI hype machine.

It is depressing, but the true value of the current wave of LLMs in coding will become more clear over time. I think it's going to take some serious advances in architecture to make the coding assistant reliable, rather than simply scaling what we have now.
vitriol83
·8 mesi fa·discuss
are there any tools to convert large latex documents to typst ? it looks a huge improvement, but the migration path is the only thing that's stopping me.