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emil-lp··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
Perhaps for people in the US, but this would be elementary school arithmetic in Europe.
emil-lp··on Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
TLDR

1. “Writing with AI Can Reduce Gender Bias in Hiring Evaluations” Alicia T. H. Liu, Mina Lee, and Xuechunzi Bai.

2. “‘It Didn’t Feel Right but I Needed a Job so Desperately’: Understanding People’s Emotions & Help Needs During Financial Scams” Jake Chanenson, Tara Matthews, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Jessica McClearn, Sarah Meiklejohn, Abhishek Roy, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, and Amelia Hassoun.

3. “How Does My Time Use Align With My Values? Personal Informatics for Connecting Abstract Values to Everyday Life” Michael J. Hoefer, Raegan Rychecky, and Stephen Voida.

4. “Participatory, Not Punitive: Student-Driven AI Policy Recommendations in a Design Classroom” Kaoru Seki, Manisha Vijay, and Yasmine Kotturi.

emil-lp··on Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
FMI (for my information)

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take [SIC] place in Barcelona.

emil-lp··on Sonnet 5.5
The design allows users to bypass the security by luck and chance.

A secure system is impenetrable unless you have the key.

emil-lp··on Sonnet 5.5
You answered your own question!
emil-lp··on Lunar Terminator Paradox
You're probably referring to Space Jam.
emil-lp··on Sonnet 5.5
If you consider security through obscurity a safe route, yes
emil-lp··on Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
CP here being Constraint Problem, or CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problem).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_proble...

emil-lp··on ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
One is immutable with a DOI.
emil-lp··on The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea
Title

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

emil-lp··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
> An LLM with CoT is Turing-complete.

Given arbitrarily large context window.

emil-lp··on Asking authors about their own papers
STOC is the premier outlet of theoretical computer science results, so let's hope others follow: FOCS, SODA,...
emil-lp··on If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
> The relationship between planar graphs, vertex coloring, and 4 might just be because we put planar graphs and vertex coloring in the same room and 4 popped out, instead of 3 or 5.

Well, the current conjecture is that it hasn't to do with coloring at all, but how many, on a map (partitioning of plane into connected regions), regions can pairwise touch: 4.

(That is: If someone proves Hadwiger's conjecture, then the four colour theorem follows.)

emil-lp··on Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
But it's not the reviewers who do it, it's the handling editor. Who spends relatively little time per paper (compared to authors and reviewers).
emil-lp··on Asking authors about their own papers
> it sounds extremely time-consuming.

For whom? Surely the authors can find an hour after submitting the paper to a journal?

Beware that a reviewer easily spend a full week on reviewing a paper, and there are typically three of them. So if one hour of conversation can save three weeks work, it sounds worth it.

emil-lp··on Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich
No, this is pure graph theory, and is quite far away from anything machine learning.
emil-lp··on Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich
No, almost none (except for in certain fields, such as HoTT) have formalized proofs.
emil-lp··on Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich
Isn't it actually the bread? The meat is given, if I understand correctly.
emil-lp··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Everybody's talking about that.

Something like 300Bn tokens, something in the vicinity of USD 10M.

emil-lp··on How good are frontier models at physics?
This is getting ridiculous. Is 5.6 not considered good enough to conduct experiments with anymore? Two months ago, if you weren't using 5.6, you were doing it wrong.

Now, you can't conduct experiments using the default model?

emil-lp··on How big are factorials?
I don't know why that is surprising, but I'm teaching computer science at a university, and students seem surprised every time it comes up.
emil-lp··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
But this is not laziness, it's deliberately done signal being cooler than the rest.
emil-lp··on How big are factorials?
What's surprising (to many) is that

n! < exp(n log n)

emil-lp··on The Beauty of Roundabouts
It would be interesting to know your (friend's) country of origin.
emil-lp··on Java 27
Why do they want the jokes back?
emil-lp··on The k-server conjecture is true
Or while waiting for the bus: if it's late, when should you start walking instead?
emil-lp··on A beginning for mathematics
I think you have misunderstood.

PhD has nothing to do with expertness.

If you have a PhD, you have completed some kind of research training.

That's all there is. Says nothing about knowledge or whether or not you're a genius.

You cannot conclude anything else, and nobody claims that you can.

If someone has a PhD, they have some training in doing research.

emil-lp··on A beginning for mathematics
As a researcher in theoretical computer science, I love PDFs more than any other format when it comes to mathematics.

There simply is no contender to LaTeX and PDFs.

Lucky for you, almost all research in math, cs, and physics, are put on arxiv, where you can download the source code (.tex) as well as get an HTML render.

emil-lp··on A Beginning for Mathematics
> the "rigorous defense" part

In my country, that's exactly how it is.

Yes, you need to have a thesis to defend, but ultimately it all comes down to the (oral and live) defense/disputation.

emil-lp··on Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students
If you replace "pdf" with "abs" the link sends you to the arXiv landing site.
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