I hear it’s pretty slick!

Why do I need an iphone duo when I already have a modded nintendo 3DS?

Echoes of “estimated income before bad things”

Damn did you just use the term “RetCon” for…basic literary analysis about a book written in the late 1970’s/early 80’s on a literal typewriter? By the man who literally coined the term “The Web” in the way we now use it for the internet, in what many consider to be the first Cyberpunk novel?

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By the by, I’m an SWE who’s run a ML homelab for 10 years at this point

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It’'s relevant expertise to the technical argument being made, sorry that I guess you want to stick to an anti-intellectual standard where expertise isn’t valued or something

By the by, I’m an SWE who’s run a ML homelab for 10 years at this point

navy_seal_copypasta.txt

70% of websites utilize PHP, thus revealing People’s Hidden Preference for PHP

As an adhd enjoyer, that deadline gave me second-hand anxiety. Gotta have some slack in that schedule.

Ya gotta use a meat thermometer!

Could be, but I suspect that Hinton is a true believer. Genius has never been any kind of defense against madness.

Thanks for all your hard work*, and welcome to awful!

• close-quarters trench warfare with the absolute worst people

H4ppy H4lloween to all who celebrate!

That ice cream? Also pumpkin spice

A local sneer enthusiast sat through the Nashville Thiel lectures so that we wouldn’t have to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1x4b4au/notes_from_the_room_peter_thiels_antichrist/

It’s neat that there are two of us!

Thanks for putting this together in one spot!

Stuff like this highlights that the "info"dump was an act of contempt toward professional mathematics. If OAI actually gave a damn about people, they could have coordinated with actual researchers in the relevant fields to clean up the documents while putting a human face on them. Put everything behind NDAs, fund some grants and fellowships, and if it leaks? So what, it would have been actual good press and built hype. Plus, it would have weeded out the the obvious garbage and they’d have brought a lot of young researchers inside the tent.

But nooooooo, they chose violence, because they are assholes. They’ll never forgive the academics for doing the work and actually being good at math and physics.

I know I’m preaching to the choir, but damn I’m stirred up.

Thanks! :)

The Centre for Actual Creativity

I wonder how much would it cost to have a booth at Fringe to stir trouble with?

First up: thanks for your hard work here in the sneer mines during these ridiculous times!

I saw this being ignored on HN and I thought that you might appreciate it:

Navier-Stokes Lost in Translation – Why Lean Verification of AI Autoformalisation Does not Guarantee Correct Natural Language Proofs

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.08144

The authors point out that automatic translation of natural language mathematics into Lean is very hard, actually. They also highlight some examples of such translation errors in the Navier-Stokes “paper” published by OpenAI. They tread lightly and don’t take a position on the correctness of the proof, but they do bring a large stack of receipts.

I also thought the reference to the Solvability Complexity Index (which is new to me) was interesting, and there’s an appendix with an explainer on how the SCI hierarchy is constructed. According to this scheme, autoformalisation of natural language proofs is strictly harder than the Halting Problem.

I haven’t had a chance to check on the bona fides of the authors.

This is all beyond my level, but I’d love to see what our local experts think of it in light of the recent gish galop.

That 2015 quote was a real stinger. Literally the future-tense version of “we destroyed the world but think of all the shareholder value we created along the way!”

Knowledge workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your teeth.