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Could you share a link to this paper? A quick search only found reports about this Claude result and a bunch of crank proofs of RH. Edited to add: Found a conversation between actu…

The oldest unanswered math problem known, based on ( https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27075/what-is-the-oldest-... ), is whether there are any odd perfect numbers (= numbers that…

Came here looking for this, sadly there's little engagement with the actual math in this thread. I hold out hope that Scott Aaronson might comment on the circuit bound eventually..…

I've seen this "everything is a remix" idea thrown around a lot, and always want to ask... so how did anything get started? What was the first cave-dwelling carver of a bone flute …

I recently read a blogpost from a human neuroscience student who came across this question ( https://ccli.substack.com/p/the-biggest-mystery-in-neuroscie... ), and she looked up th…

I was curious what fruit fly brain simulation you meant, and after fifteen minutes of looking around I ended up at a LessWrong writeup by an author from something called the Brain …

Indeed a classic (upvoted!), but it presupposes that there is a theory of everything that can be used to perfectly simulate the universe, and I'd like to remind everybody that we s…

I swear I've seen this exact UI in several other submissions recently. Is it the default produced by Claude if you don't specify anything?

Just dropping in to say it's nice to see somebody actually try to work through the proof, and it gives one confidence that the proof at least isn't complete nonsense (which is help…

I thought this is a cool premonition of the eventual success of language models. One can nicely see a microcosm of everything with generative AI (text generated in a domain you don…

Hi, thanks, and very cool work (assuming it eventually holds up in peer review)! A few things that confused me while trying to read the paper: - There's two different methods of ce…

With these confident comments I would appreciate some kind of origin of the information. Not even necessarily a source accessible to me, just: are you in any wealth management offi…

I don't think this changes anything important, but my understanding is that the lowering is the scan -- you go through the ring, which captures data about the slice currently insid…

Sigh... LIGO detects length changes of 10^-18 m, or attometers, not femtometers, which are a thousand times longer. ( https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/facts ) But this does not ma…

There's an explanation here: https://explainxkcd.com/1190 Originally, the frame at the xkcd link changed once per 30 minutes, now if you click the comic you can read it as an archi…

Oh my god, 1/0 is an absolutely brilliant piece of art and I recommend everyone here to check it out. It starts out unassuming, but that's part of the point -- it ended up becoming…

Here's a research mathematician replying to pretty much exactly this question, and I think it's worth reading: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-phd-student It's also …

I have a personal benchmark for measuring AI problems in the form of hand-drawn Bongard problems ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongard_problem ). The idea is that there are two s…

I tested Claude on "best hot-dog-eating tech journalists?" and it, fascinatingly enough, recognised the trap, but then reported this as factual: https://medium.com/@usailuigi/when-…