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Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project

web.evanchen.cc
245 ポイント·投稿者 eapriv·9 か月前·73 コメント

“Clean” code, horrible performance

computerenhance.com
739 ポイント·投稿者 eapriv·3 年前·907 コメント

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eapriv
·16 日前·議論
Are there any pages of French in “Crime and Punishment”?
eapriv
·先月·議論
> 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 か月前·議論
Looks like AI slop in (some of) the thumbnail images. Why would anyone do that?
eapriv
·2 か月前·議論
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 か月前·議論
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 か月前·議論
The problem is “to add two numbers”. The meta-problem is “to learn how computers work”.
eapriv
·8 か月前·議論
Removing layers usually improves stability.
eapriv
·8 か月前·議論
Sounds like most of these problems come from using Python.
eapriv
·8 か月前·議論
Spoiler: it’s about AI.
eapriv
·8 か月前·議論
No, it says nothing about LLM output being invertible.
eapriv
·9 か月前·議論
You are wrong. Prime numbers are fundamental to mathematics.
eapriv
·9 か月前·議論
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 か月前·議論
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
·昨年·議論
Spoiler: it’s not about how GPUs work, it’s about how to use them for machine learning computations.
eapriv
·昨年·議論
Yet people wouldn’t write a Fortran compiler in Fortran, or a MATLAB compiler in MATLAB.
eapriv
·昨年·議論
“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
·昨年·議論
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).