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Music is an excellent downtime.

It seems like part of the reason openai did what it did by not giving a heads up to the researchers about the release of the problems was that they might just want to divert resources away from math and become a math research entity unto themselves. The be all and end all of these research areas that AI is really good at. Like if you are beginning your math career you might just thing, why don't I just interview at openai, they seem to have a math "department"?

It's a bit crazy to imagine that world where frontier academic research as a publicly funded thing to train next generation could be dead and reborn in the hands of corporations.

HN profile.

The current cycle of AI and mathematics gives me great hope for ordinary people like myself to try and attempt learning some mathematics and try and see if I like the experience. Has any one tried that or is trying that? How are you approaching it? I would like to know - you can DM me - I would love to have a conversation if this excites you :)

I think the _key_ to knowing if I can do it has to come from the fact if my intuition about a problem helps me make progress. I would use AI to learn the parts I did not know and engage a community of people to ask questions. Both are key.

Also I am not 100% sure, but me beginning straightaway with lean to try something — like an engineer would — does not seem like the right approach before building some critical mass in the subject. It feels kinda wrong like building the cart before the wheel would.

Congrats on the launch. What's your turn around time to sign a BAA?

Again, its less work for people who can. Consider 3 something billion people in China and India. A conservative estimate is that at least 1/2 of them are living hand to mouth — could be tech workers, other service jobs, manufacturing jobs, farm jobs but all of these 1/2 are living paycheck to paycheck.

Most of these people cannot do most of these things, but it's not they can't or don't want to. The key IMHO is psychological/cognitive load to get past the day. A good example that OECD country readers can relate to is homeless people - an extreme but relatable example because you can see it. When you become homeless the first thing to go are dignity, self-confidence and in short order mind's ability to think beyond the short term(next 3 hours and today). And Living hand to mouth(just beyond the edge) is the same proverbial frog(the mind) in boiling water(circumstances), just slower and acceptable to one to not completely break one but deform the mind enough that it's not always possible to recover.

One abstract idea is to convert every digital event into a hook. The hook then goes into a local LLM that has a rule to figure out what to do with it. I use DDG or mozilla email aliases as much as I can. All my emails go to a local email client and for the non-spam classified mails I have a few rules(**) I am toying with right now:

1. If non-money sub, categorize its content and create a P1 watch event and a set of follow up actions.

2. If its a money/trial sub, create a P0 watch event and its own set of followup actions.

All watch events are queued for me by priority where i ask on the weekend: "Tell me P0 events", it then asks me what action. The ergonomic factor here is I the human can tune this valve on the information hose. There is also a dashboard for P0 notifications and an android push notification that notifies me of P0 events, but they aren't "consumed" until i decide. There are tons of places this can be useful: make progress on non-work related todos, systematic investment, writing year-end reviews.

None of this is rocket science.

**Local service webhooks are the key: Every web-hook has some kind of decision maker in it - an LLM + deterministic logic.

What's weird about this article is none of it is technically wrong: "Become a cheetah(super at ___)", "Aspire and engage to be better", "Build 6 types of capital". They are not bad things to do, if you can: and that is what it misses, if you can.

But don't feel bad if you have not been able to do any of them, e.g. Most People with kids can often do very little than job and take care of kids and that's it. What is more important is to not beat yourself up about it, give yourself grace and do one or two things that make you and your near and dear people/pets happy.

Thanks. I am curious were you trying something like pipecat's Turn finalization? https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/utilities/turn-...

Pipecat already does this. It does it for end of turn detection and it's pretty damn good. It's just that it calls the same LLM I have to do it, potentially expensive and prone to latency and not calibrated.

The simplest example could be replacement or at the least an economical complement to the LLM step in cascading VoiceAI, almost every start of the turn a local JEV could make a decision for end of user turn detection: - is the user finished with their thought? If so delegate to next system(LLM another JEV) - Should I wait for the user to complete their thought for a few seconds? Set a timer and when time out expires, ask the user to continue.

Like just tuning this model can make it cheaper for voice AI providers to do semantic turn detection over the space of responses.

Looks really cool. I like that kind of process. But the gap between my current skills(mostly application and Data engineering) and the hardware and performance engineering guys they want is large.

Sometimes a company comes along that one what's to join even if its outside my wheel house. Do they have an intern/mentorship program for generalists that one can join that could turn into a FTE?

Horizontal studies are so hard. There is so much modern medicine can't always incorporate into studies that are confounders.

For example the gut brain connection is not well understood. Links between autoimmune responses to cancer can cause all kinds of problems that can seem unrelated(an example is myotonia which appeared in one of my relatives a full year before their breast cancer diagnosis and went away after treatment). I recently read in the times an article about the discovery of another circulatory system apart from the one we have; apparently acupuncture may get a more scientific and serious look into because it interacts with that system. There is also the business of how psychiatry schools still are not teaching how to not treat the brain as if it's an isolated organ, a wholisiti approach is being only now taught in all but a handful of schools(I think this was in the economist).

Cool project. The best part is the actual pictures, you can tell taken with care by a human and the project is well described. So hard to find decent writing these days.

I think for your next big idea create a tee that can match any company's swag brand; I am just tired of managing tees that fill up my drawer, I wish I had one that could be me all. ;)

Karpathy mentioned sometime in 2024/25 in a tweey that we should send LLM weights engraved on the next one.

Dunno the intelligence of the idea. It would give aliens the wrong impression because such an LLM would have very basic data about our race(e.g. a curated set of wikipedia)

Glad you asked. Pointing my aging aunt to the right place on the screen to click without having to take control of her laptop, of course.

Man, Ive lost count of How many times have I had to repeat this over the phone to my parents; The repo has all the punch lines in the README

> "It's this window, not that one." You have 14 Chrome windows. The agent knows which one it means: --window "Google Chrome:Pull request". It even picks the right tab: --app "Google Chrome:Pull request".

> Remote help. "No, the other gear icon." Point at it instead of describing it.

> That would be a godsent for those of us with aging parents.

Right yeah? I mean I have freagin remote desktop installed on all my parent's devices. I am the agent for them every time they call frantically for help.

It's Time to redesign the apple genius bar for the modern aging boomer using this.

I think this may be a false choice because of the work pattern you might be used to. Assuming here, If you work in interactive sessions where it's open ended there is a boundary where you have done enough research/prototyping and you need to move to implementation and the permission scope has to change now. I think the realization that you might have is that if you're doing this then it's probably best to separate the automated AFK part from your initial research part.

I have faced this exact dilemma as well. It's not always clear what permissions are needed in advance for my pi sessions and it's child sub sessions. A simple example is when child sessions do a task they locally want to fire random docker commands to learn the state of my local docker devstack.

Context please. What is this?

> We live and work aboard a 10 m sailboat named Pino in remote parts of the world to learn more about how technology degrades beyond the shores of the western world.

For a mere mortal like me, this would seem like a noob Q. But what kind of weird tax situations might you encounter when you are at sea for a majority of your time? And what advice might you have for people that encounter it?

Thank you for making this. My dad(now retired) owned a machine tool manufacturing space in the 70s and 80s in a small town in north india. After foreign CNC machines left no demand for manual/semi automatic ones in the country, he switched over to a foundry to manufacture cast iron parts in a blast cupola furnace and later a rotary furnace(better for smaller on demand work). But he kept the lathe around along with an employee to finish the parts. And your animation brings back a lot of memories for me. I learned to operate the lathe and had all manners of fun. It is kind of like yak shaving. Your clothes turn black but you just love the mechanical back and forth of it. He made pulleys, Truck engine parts, housing for water motors(fun fact municipal water is scarce and not of adequate pressurized in homes, farms, factories etc so these are ubiquitous) etc.

I sent this to my dad. I am sure he will enjoy reading this.

The follow up question then naturally would be how do phd advisors with people whose fields are in someway premised on making breakthroughs in theoretical fields that AI can solve work deal with it?

If you read all the replies of the OP you would know that They tried to make progress with fable and did not get further, so at the moment the only person in the field is OpenAI. And secondly moving on to the next solution if the last one did not work means very different things, SWEs have dev tools to do this OpenAI is closed source and gives them nothing to move on with.

Also there is a larger epistemic problem with the argument to "using AI to meet the goal or solution", which is that the goal is to mentor and train future mathematicians to advance the field.

There is a similar issue in software engineering too: if no one hires junior engineers because AI can do all the work then the upstream pipeline of engineers qualified to work on difficult architectural problems would dry up.

This importance of this is being felt by mathematicians more acutely because the field will collapse quickly if people refuse to join it.

Yes, SVMs and Random Forests still rule the many worlds of classification problems often not in the spotlight.

Intereting. There was a completely different take on how to "do" back propagation using optics at YC papers video the other day(I can't find the video). The technique presented diffusion networks with optics. If a hardware technique to make computation more efficient emerges, a lot of methods like this could apply no?

To Google and apple's credit they have at the least made location history stored on device instead of dealing with the slippery slope of warrants that ask for all devices around a point. Google specifically decided after a court ruling to get out of the morass of server side storage. There is a lot wrong with how permissioning works on android and Google services but this is not one of them.

geocities vibes?

Hey thanks for posting this. I use pi professionally too. I am curious how you used agentic workflows with pi before. The simplest(since the early days) was letting it use Tmux for spawning other sessions and controlling it.

The second case, more recent, is one where I use actively now is linking pi sessions to some artifact like a code change(PR or diff) or a collection of document and then continuing the session in that context.

What was your main power case with it.