Hey chatty, generate a random 384-bit number.
Sure! Here is the random generated 384-bit number: 4.
Sure! Here is the random generated 384-bit number: 4.
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great documentary!
each time it crosses my timeline I have to stop whatever I'm doing for the next 50min and watch it, pure joy
each time it crosses my timeline I have to stop whatever I'm doing for the next 50min and watch it, pure joy
Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's Last Theorem alone in his attic for 7 years and told nobody except his wife.
The problem was 358 years old. Fermat scribbled in a margin in 1637 that he had a proof and no room to write it, and every mathematician since had failed.
Wiles saw the book at 10 years old. He never let it go.
He was a Princeton professor when he started in 1986. He stopped publishing new work and released old results in pieces to hide the silence.
He announced it in Cambridge in June 1993, over 3 lectures, revealing the target only at the end. Newspapers ran it worldwide.
Then a referee found a gap. One step in the proof did not hold, and the error was fundamental.
He spent 14 months trying to close it in public view, with the whole field watching. He was ready to quit.
The fix arrived in September 1994. He has said he stared at it in disbelief for 20 minutes.
The BBC filmed him describing that moment. He gets a few words out, then turns away from the camera in tears.
He kept the greatest result of the century secret so nobody could take it.
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“If it allows you to travel faster than light” damn, who gave this person their phd in Physics
@mathillustrated If it allows you to travel faster than light, if it cures cancer, if it gives you an unlimited source of energy, who cares whether some scientists say they understand it.
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damn, "Claude knows" is a pretty wild thing to say being an academic
@sirstripy idk about you but I am pretty sure Claude knows more than me
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if you only want something useful, become an engineer, Sabine.
@Myshkin08 religion does not give us useful, predictive descriptions of nature
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you have to admire the consistency though
Forbidding papers not written in American English seems to have improved the level of submissions to @arxiv considerably:
arxiv.org/abs/2209.01890
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Tell me you have never uploaded something to the arXiv without telling me you have never uploaded something to the arXiv
@memecrashes You don't seem to know what you are talking about. Downloaded arXiv papers are not "stolen". Stop being blinded by silly anti-AI ideology.
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Single humans are not billion-dollar companies trained on stolen work monopolizing knowledge, making profit on it and not caring a single bit on the quality of that final knowledge. Idiot
@memecrashes Society doesn't owe these "professors" a single cent, make these IP stealing fanboys jobless first
For the "oh humans learn the same way" bros here, go read a book or two on how humans learn and how neural networks operate, and maybe ask your bot about how they are different.
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"There is no IP in a published paper"
Okay, this is the starting point of the conversation and these are who are we having it with. Absolutely no clue of what they are talking about yet they believe to be in possession of truth
Okay, this is the starting point of the conversation and these are who are we having it with. Absolutely no clue of what they are talking about yet they believe to be in possession of truth
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do you understand intellectual property?
You can watch a movie yourself but you cannot get profit from it unless you pay a fee for a commercial use. Same with articles. Idiot.
You can watch a movie yourself but you cannot get profit from it unless you pay a fee for a commercial use. Same with articles. Idiot.
@memecrashes Am I not allowed, then, to read a published paper?
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OpenAI trained their internal models with stolen research papers that had intellectual property on them, what the fuck do you mean with "does not owe mathematicians a single cent".
I struggle to fathom this kind of attitude. OpenAI does not owe mathematicians a single cent. That they are donating $5M to a new Simons Foundation initiative to help mathematicians is commendable.
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you know what an AI can't ever do in the maths field but mathematicians are INCREDIBLY good at?
being autistic.
being autistic.
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yes:
Math research is a very precarious job until you get a tenure position (which usually is achieved at around 40). Getting a tenure position requires publishing several important papers in your field of research and to be the first to do so. Publishing papers in any field of mathematics requires an incredible amount of insight and study (imagine around 6-10 years of full-time studying something really hard). Today, hundreds of thousands of mathematicians younger (and older) than 40 have seen all those years of work disappear like nothing.
Math research is a very precarious job until you get a tenure position (which usually is achieved at around 40). Getting a tenure position requires publishing several important papers in your field of research and to be the first to do so. Publishing papers in any field of mathematics requires an incredible amount of insight and study (imagine around 6-10 years of full-time studying something really hard). Today, hundreds of thousands of mathematicians younger (and older) than 40 have seen all those years of work disappear like nothing.
i don't know much about this math thing that openai is doing.
can any math person explain, in a non-hyped way, how screwed math folks are on a scale of 1-10?
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