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3.14 kidneys.

Andrew Wiles gave 3 lectures, and only at the end of the last one he announced that he solved FLT. Imagine someone from the audience announced in between the second and the third lecture that they proved FLT (using his ideas, obviously).

Why is it OK if openAI does it?


This is a great analogy, and one I'm surprised more people haven't raised. Instead all your hear are comments about mathematicians being sour losers, they should have know the model terms of service etc...

> Why is it OK if openAI does it?

OpenAI has a lot of money, a lot of rich investors who want it to go to the moon, and an extensive propaganda operation.


Let me guess. Everything?

LOL. Not merging to production, or you could be right. Just trying to automate smaller PRs as much as possible, and found a few things the model needed help with.

Ramanujan was dirt poor.

How many Ramanujan didn’t get the same opportunity to show their work to what was considered the intelligentsia of that time?

Irrelevant in 2026, you can share your results with a click.

Ramanujan was a phenomenon

I asked AI to formalize an old important paper in analysis. In the paper there is a sequence of epsilon_n > 0, epsilon_n -> 0. It came back, and said: "I formalized it, it is all good, but the assumption that epsilons > 0 is not used anywhere. Shall we remove it, you a get a stronger result this way?"

LOL


Was the proof correct?

No you see people that use AI generally don't bother to consider this unimportant detail. Or they ask the AI to "double check" its work.

Nah, I tried to post a long reply yesterday, but YC was glitching, so I just gave up.

You forgot to include empirical evidence of your claim, since I'd like to double check it.

The author lost me right away.

>> I started with the most basic code I could think of: 1 + 2

OK, how did you fit that into 512/1024 bytes??? Did you try print(3 * * 1000)?


It's not real Python. It's essentially a made-up language that resembles a subset of Python.

That said, if I was building a small ugly toy Python implementation, I would probably also not implement long integers. Or the power operator. At least not in the first iteration.


And occasional steak? I love steak.

I am a pesca-pescaterian, btw.


Did it also make a 4D chess Stockfish 19 for you?

Well it did make a very good search function that is almost like stockfish for humans in 4d chess

>> With the show always being filmed in front of a live studio audience (any scenes filmed outside were played back in the studio) it meant the laughter heard is an authentic measure of the audience's reaction.

You can stop reading after this. Garbage in, garbage out.



warning: this shows a living mouse in a mouse trap.


Did you even watch the whole thing?


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