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upperhalfplane

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    Comment #47452420

    My favorite geometric proof of an inequality is the one I read on Terry Tao's blog. Interestingly, it's not presented as a geometric proof, but it is very much one: if you have two…

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    Show HN: Xent Game: help GPT2 minimize its surprise

    Hi there! We're Andrew and Clément and we decided to make a game to understand better how LLM process and compress information. So we made a sort of reverse prompting game with con…

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    Comment #44913939

    TLDR: games are a good way to go.

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    Comment #44913810

    I don't quite think they cheat at math olympiads, but obviously there are blindspots for the unspectacular tasks. That being said, Mississippi is both a good and a bad question to …

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    Comment #44887346

    > It's basically always guessing / confabulating / hallucinating if you ask it an introspective question like that. You're absolutely right! This is the basis of this recent paper …

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    Comment #44616733

    100% agree about this too (also a professional mathematician). To mathematicians who have not been trained on such problems, these will typically look very hard, especially the mor…

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    Comment #43117700

    I don't think it's an order of magnitude below... though it's a bit hard to know for sure

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    Comment #43115731

    It looks like you can (there are some LLM responses out there, e.g. Sonnet 3.5). Not clear if they can be super good at this, though.

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