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DCKP··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
And who is going to decide which of these emerging problems are interesting?
DCKP··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I have had this conversation with my PhD students yesterday. I am 100% sure that all of their problems can be solved by publicly-available models now (I solved a case of one myself as a test, it took 15 minutes). So the challenge for them is to see how much they can accomplish in their allotted period, and still pass a defence on at the end of it all. The PhD defence is going to become all about a test of understanding, not a test of quantity of publication.

A much bigger issue is: What is the point of any research mathematician publishing anything now? I really hope that one positive effect of all this will be to finally topple the awful peer review model we currently have, with the biggest publishers gatekeeping with extortionate fees.

DCKP··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Anyone else finding the Fable 5.1 design agent unusable? In Planning Mode, High effort uses up my entire 5 hour session without outputting anything at all.
DCKP··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Unless you're in Germany, when it's more like "oy-ro"... and Wero would be pronounced "ve-ro"... I don't think there's a German pun hiding here!
DCKP··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
Literally the plot of Battlestar Galactica! Life imitates art indeed...
DCKP··on I made a quieter air purifier
With a multi-fan set-up, would it help to vary the individual fan RPMs, to spread the noise over a broader range of frequencies? Would a 9-fan grid at slightly lower RPMs improve this further?
DCKP··on FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux
All this brings back fond memories of my first programming foray, an ASCII game in QBASIC from Mars and Back: Computer Programming Handbook by Andrew J. Read. So much fun, so much frustration.