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Funny enough, I had some valuable stuff (including my passport!) stolen from my car, which I'd left unlocked because I was moving some heavy boxes. The police in my area (bay area)…

As someone who also used to overthink memorizing the fretboard: this is a bad idea. You should strive to just plainly memorize the names of all of the notes, the relevant scale and…

I have exactly the same problem in my (latest-model) Honda Civic / Android Auto! I thought I was going crazy, I'm glad to hear someone else has the same problem. The only fix I've …

It's true, but most of the cultural innovation I'm aware of, from Bach to Coltrane to Hendrix, came from people who could make art their life, largely by paying the bills with it. …

That isn't how it works. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and most other innovators were regular working artists long before they were influential. If you take away the means for artists…

Aristotle's output is formally verified in Lean, so you can run it for days on a hard problem and be assured that the answer, no matter how complex, is right without needing to man…

Yes! I think that working with Mathlib is the best long term solution, because it's how people already collaborate on building out the formal "universe of mathematics." We want to …

For this reason, when we announce results on e.g. the IMO, we formalize the statements by hand and inspect the proofs carefully to ensure they capture the full spirit of the proble…

Thank you! It depends on the topic. Some fields (algebra, number theory) are covered well by Lean's math library, and so I think we are already there; I recommend trying Aristotle …

We are! We very recently announced some results on formally proving the correctness of programs: https://harmonic.fun/news#blog-post-verina-bench-sota Formal methods are cool becau…

I work at Harmonic, the company behind Aristotle. To clear up a few misconceptions: - Aristotle uses modern AI techniques heavily, including language modeling. - Aristotle can be g…

There are a couple of interesting benefits from the machine learning side that I think discussions of this kind often miss. (This has been my field of research for the last few yea…

Maybe there's a middle ground: a site that wants to work as well as possible for agents could present a stripped-down standardized page depending on the user agent string, while th…

LeanDojo (at least as original published) did not use automatically formalized data, but extracted examples from Mathlib, which is already written in Lean.

Second author here. Happy to answer any questions about the work!

Wow! The ability to ingest the "cross product" of data on the internet and in the real world is huge; I bet a lot of what LMs don't know yet lives in that space. This seems a lot m…

In general, a function approximation solution like deep learning does worse on cases where exhaustively finding the exact optimum is possible (small combinatorial problems), but ca…

I guess so, but the fact of the matter is that ML/AI is actually, right now, doing useful things that would have been impossible 10 years ago. I don't think I could say the same ab…

Yes, the way I see it, one of the major benefits of deep learning is that it lets you define functions (in the R^n -> R^m sense) that would be basically impossible to define with t…

I work on this team! (Specifically: applied deep learning research, chip design). It's a shame to see so many people dismissing this work as marketing. I see lots of clever people …

Automated theorem proving + neural language models + reinforcement learning. I think most people seriously underestimate how powerful modern proof assistants like Lean [1] are for …

A friend who works in climate modeling recently told me that the best models currently in use pretty much all agree about the next few years, but they seriously diverge after a cou…

Caltech, right? Were you the author of Flippy? There's a new generation of AlphaZero-style ML bots that's managed to finally dethrone it :) I've been working on and off on a Rust O…

In my experience: one of Lean's main advantages is developer experience. It's convenient by design, with lots of automation to make easy proofs trivial. You do your work in VSCode …

I use 2x3090 to train large language models, and mine don't thermal-throttle with air cooling even though they're right next to each other. Eth mining does generate too much heat t…