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    Comment #43666463

    > - No screenshot tool that allows you to type text (in addition to circling and highlighting and arrows) Snipping tool works for all of this

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    Comment #42909568

    The linked article is about hoaxes which are specific to Wikipedia. Not about falsehoods in general.

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    Comment #42499837

    AI will not do math for us, but maybe eventually it will lead to another mainstream tool for mathematicians. Along with R, Matlab, Sage, GAP, Magma, ... It would be interesting if …

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    Comment #41844004

    I mean so far LLMs can't even do addition and multiplication of integers accurately. So we can't really expect too much in terms of logical reasoning.

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    Comment #41819812

    Can LLMs even do addition, with say 20+ digit numbers? Multiplication?

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    Comment #41593729

    Are there replies? I was expecting comment threads like on HN/Reddit, expect with voice messages. Now it's just individual messages on channels?

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    Comment #41587651

    "almost no publications or citations to show" Not accurate, he published relatively few papers (less than 20), but several in top journals like Journal of the AMS. His papers also …

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    Comment #41262086

    Or you can paste the following JSTOR link into sci-hub. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2320923

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    Comment #41258002

    You are right in the sense that solvability by radicals has no practical importance, especially when it comes to calculations. It is just a very classical pure math question, datin…

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    Comment #41257801

    That's a common myth. See this paper referenced in the wikipedia article: Rothman, Tony (1982). "Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois". The American Math…

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    Comment #40305536

    Reminds me of Solaris, the same thing holds there (Lem's "rational" book vs. Tarkovsky's "impressionistic" movie)

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    Comment #40198080

    People use it as a synonym for 'unaffected'. Sometimes it is unclear what is intended, so personally I never write or say 'nonplussed'. To be honest, at this point I think it's a u…

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    Comment #39344122

    Super Bowl is a trademark of NFL, and to keep a trademark you need to "defend" it. Which lawyers presumably interpret as sending cease and desist letters every now and then

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    Comment #39127977

    I just remember making websites using , and at some point reading that CSS and using 's was the new, more correct way to do it. I only need a simple personal website for academics,…