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IsTom··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
To be able to propose interesting conjectures you need to walk the walk of trying to prove things yourself. That's not great for future generations.
IsTom··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
You start with .22 and build up resistance from there.
IsTom··on Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
If demand doesn't fall down or current manufacturers supply go up, somebody (presumably in China) will spin up fabs. Apple wanted to use blacklisted Chinese RAM already.
IsTom··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Deciding if two programs do the same thing is provably impossible in the strict mathematical sense.
IsTom··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
With programs large enough tests aren't going to ever be enough. Formal verification might work, but then who checks the specification for bugs?
IsTom··on A global workspace in language models
Is it? Compressed (text) Wikipedia is in ballpark of dozens of GBs.
IsTom··on Aluminum foil (2021)
Pure aluminium maybe not, but it's a major component of clay.
IsTom··on Synthesis is harder than analysis
All you have to do is open the wikipedia page on erf and it's right there.
IsTom··on Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches
So a suction pump?
IsTom··on Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP
In case P /= NP the gap doesn't necessarily have to be exponential, just superpolynomial (e.g. n^loglogn).
IsTom··on The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable
I'm not sure if it's has any real bearing on real-world performance, but technically next token prediction makes it an online algorithm and they can be provably worse than (good) offline algorithms.
IsTom··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
If IKEA was a monopoly then perhaps.
IsTom··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
What is illegal is using your monopoly in one area to further your other enterprises.
IsTom··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
I haven't used windows in a long time, but on Android there's a dialog to pick browser and search engine on setup. So I'd assume that they're also bound by DMA in the same way.
IsTom··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
Have you checked in EU?
IsTom··on Antares achieves criticality of Mark-0 reactor
On the other hand you can scale production of reactor themselves. And I don't think the idea is to scatter them around, but to have a power plant with dozens of them in one place (instead of 3-4 regular reactors in a regular nuke power plant).
IsTom··on What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
I find it slightly funny that I don't use LLMs at all and just beat all the levels in a few tries.

EDIT: Ok, didn't notice the 8th level because of the UI. This one I couldn't trick in 5 minutes.

IsTom··on Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
And then USA will have a disadvantage compared to rest of the world with cheaper LLMs and american AI companies will have tougher time surviving on domestic spend alone.
IsTom··on Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
I wonder how's model improvement/dollar invested ratio going. If gains are made by simply spending increasingly vast amounts of cash that's not going to last.
IsTom··on European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status
You need at least 7.5B euro turnover and 45M MAU in the EU to have a chance to qualify. It's not going to be everyone.
IsTom··on European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control
So if I get this right all she can force is conciliation, which needs the parliament to agree on it in third reading anyway?
IsTom··on Steam Machine launches today
If it goes on long enough new manufacturers will eventually spin up and sell RAM cheaper.
IsTom··on Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
So "no ads, no subscription" on its front page is a lie? I am shocked, so very shocked.
IsTom··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
You can't do that with CGNAT.
IsTom··on Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017)
True type already has hinting virtual machine. It's not an entirely new thing.
IsTom··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
Now imagine decades of LLM code. Extrapolating the rate of increase of LoC, the source code ain't gonna fit on hard drives anymore.
IsTom··on The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory
At least spinal cord has a kind of memory related to movement, but that's something else than episodic memory obviously.
IsTom··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
It raises cost, makes access difficult in case a recoverable accident happens and there's still possibility of groundwater contamination if things go wrong.
IsTom··on U.S. science is in chaos
Sure, but that's one of examples OP gave and it doesn't match my experience. Doesn't leave a great impression of the rest of the argument.
IsTom··on U.S. science is in chaos
> any reference to them will have the political left call you a nazi, racist, sexist and pedo to boot

I think this boils down to the fact it's typically just a thin veil for motivated reasoning.

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