QuantumNoodle

Idk man creativity is something pretty human. insufferable people are very fine if, for example, music & art is outsourced to AI so they can make a some $$. But those things are meant to be enjoyed, not consumed.

This feels like a troll comment, but I'll bite.

Mathematics requires substantial creativity at every level. There is problem selection, conjecture formation, proof strategies, definitions, models, and explanations. Yes, it's constrained and guided by logic and rigor but having logic won't give you creativity.

> Music is a human endeavor and musical recordings hurt musicians, bands, orchestras, etc. Especially those starting out.

The medium it is recorded on has no bearing on what composed the music. If people don't get rewarded for composing they won't. Same with mathematics. If people don't get paid for being creative they just won't be creative.

I am not saying I agree with everything in the article. OP of this thread just made a low effort comment that was addressed in lengths during the article.

Sorry did you read the article or just the headline? The theme is mathematics is a human-endevor and automation undermines that, particularly the ones starting out. It risks killing the culture entirely. Some other key points:

- AI-generated papers could overwhelm peer-review systems with low-quality work.

- It may become difficult to assign proper credit for discoveries.

- Researchers who choose not to use AI tools could be disadvantaged.

- There are ethical concerns about mathematical work being used to train AI for military and surveillance purposes.

This is very cool. Can anyone point me to any resources for setups that can ron decent inferencing at home?

So "be bad until git gud" through iterations and refining.

> Stack Overflow is receiving about 3,800 questions a month, which is what it was getting in 2008, before it had finished being launched.

Interesting, is SO getting traffic again? I thought it wasn't doing well? Or have they adapted?

> The programming book was, when you look at it squarely, always a slightly absurd object. Printed text on bound paper, describing software that lived on screens, which the reader had to retype, by hand, into a screen of their own.

The point of programming books was never "give a man a fish" but "teach a man to fish." If you were not hands on, experimenting, and instead copy-pasting you likely didn't get anything out of the book anyway.

It's too early for me to have a firm opinion one way or another.

Just a data point: this month I had a knarly bug in generated bpf code. The C language was correct but the compiler produced a bug that corrupted packets. I spent around 8 hours debugging _where_ the issue is and how to work around, never really understanding what went wrong. That knowledge came with several more days on and off looking at it--after I had mitigated the production issue.

So if I extrapolate this experience to LLMs (who are not deterministic) and who will make larger systems. What we trade for velocity we will pay for with hours of debugging because we won't understand how things work. I think this is unavoidable.

Another way I'm looking at it: after some time of not writing code, it will be analogous to instructing the LLM and the output being assembly--where I simply don't have the muscle to grok the output. How do I mitigate that knowledge gap? I see micro serves coming back. Today it is easy to slop up disposable scripts. Our services need to be modular so we can dispose of broken things--so they are only coupled with each other by strict APIs.

High commercial rent affects not only diverse businesses (good ideas that take risks) but also the quality and accessibility of goods of necessary businesses. Near me, simple mens' haircuts have soared to $35+... Except those shops that have been around for ages and own their buildings. They still charge sub $20.

Another gripe is the amount of "luxury" apartments popping up. Inviting & modern interiors but all faux cheap materials. And, like, under a highway. Nothing says luxury like being surrounded by concrete and can't even go outside and walk. Commercial real estate is really out of touch :/

> holy sh*t, how did the attackers find a large enough uptime window to get in?

> I'm more surprised hackers found a large enough uptime window to do this.

Certainly not a novel thought. But may I suggest you brush up on https://pbskids.org/games/play/sorting-box/487

> With Conversational Discovery ads, your ad answers a person’s specific question.

Ah so my "search" results are going to be biased and at the mercy of the highest bidder.

Only a matter of time before someone will sell privileges of baking your ad/agenda into a llm model during training. That, or companies will fluff their own websites with verbose claims about their products that will get sucked into training via "organic” scraping.

Giggity.

I'm more surprised hackers found a large enough uptime window to do this.

I fear what is coming is integrated ads into the conversation. What has Google to gain from helping discover sites that don't sell anything that can be advertised?

I imagine sites will have to be increasingly behind crawlers protection (like cloud flare) and make Google pay for agents visiting it.

I can't help but feel that search is a distinct action verb (separate from what they are pushing) and Google is just hijacking the place people go to search so the adoption to this new workflow is faster.

Okay, when fuzzing techniques came out there was a big surge in discovered and exploited bugs. AI is more general and I expect there be a similar surge. However fuzzing is cheap but compute and techniques can be "owned." The economics of AI is unless you pay for it, it is difficult to self host (expensive hardware, open source models are catching up).

State actors + hackers will have more resources to make better offense. What worse, in my experience AI produced code is blind to overall system behavior. So I fear the exploits will be either low hanging/trivial to exploit errors or bigger system level bugs.

Thinking "surely open AI was not on their mind. Then what was? _O penai_" lololo

Also 48 hours prior the disclosure is a very narrow window? I wonder if their logs don't go back further or if there was another reason to look back only two days.

Right? Grow some wild flowers instead of grass and plant some f*ckin trees. Americans love their yards but dont plant any trees. You know what creates shade?

I realized my rant is charged and unhinged. But idc. I hope at least 1 person sees this and pays the $200 to hire someone to plant a young tree in their yard.

Flagging bc this comment is a dupe of comments usually describing StackOverflow. Use the search function before posting to ensure you post only new and novel comments.

Ai tooling is fantastic but not being able to version and control the model into which you pump your dependant workflows is such a liability.

Valid points, with which I agree and share the concern. I can't compete with colleagues, whom do things fast, if I want to learn. On the other hand, I no longer have to toil to work through things that I never truly learned, like tasks that require to be done a few times a year. Mastery is never acievable bc I forget, side quests become much less derailing. However, I am deprived of going through the motions and researching.

What's the realistic outcome here? The gov cannot label them as a supply-chain risk but still free to cancel contracts with Anthropic? Or do gov agencies has autonomy to use whoever they want?

Internally, we've created such good debugging tools that can aggregate a lot from a lot of sources. We've yet to address the quality of vibecoded critical applications so they aren't merged, but one off tools for incall,alert debugging and internal workflows has skyrocketed.

Excellent source! Thank you.

Looks like more flights in 2025 than previous years and less accidents. 2025 does have more fatalities, which are more memorable than emergency landings where everything was alright. So that is likely what skewed my view.

This is purely anecdotal. Some search queries about incidents I remember

- Jan 2025 mid air collision with helicopter near Reagan National, Washington, D.C.

- April 2025 China Eastern Airlines Flight runway overrun at Chongqing Jiangbei

- June 2025 Air India crashed after departure from Ahmedabad

- August 2025 incident at London Stansted where a DHL A330 landed long and struck the runway end

- September 2025 Tokyo Haneda: Inflight engine fire

There was one where the plane ended up on side or back. But I don't remember enough details to find the event

Either the number of big airline incidents around the world grew in the last 24 months or reporting on it became more popular. I wonder how much people get hurt relative to number that fly now.

I'm just lurking in the comments with popcorn, but if what you said is true and the maintainers of X decided it was a lost cause and unfixable, well that is the most informed opinion of them all. Nobody knows better then the maintainers. Sure, the replacement might have feature gaps initially but that is a transient issue.

I studied signal processing in university and my career evolved to not use what I studied. Decades ago, giving an algorithm a sound file and isolating tracks was difficult.

How does your implementation accomplish this? Were you involved or did you use something off the shelf?

Edit: ah, using neural nets, demucs. I wonder if there is pure math approach that can compete?

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Still no idea how a polymarket is legal with all the insider trading opportunities.