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Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

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Re: Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

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Post by bwfan123 »

brian-bfz wrote: post #42

Hey guys, I'm one of the organizers. AMA. - We are a team of undergrads at Caltech. We don't represent Caltech, any Caltech departments, or any of our sponsors. - We don't receive monetary compensation. All the funding raised goes toward paying our judges and participants. - Our goal is to promote responsible AI use. You can read more about our commitments here: https://mathathonchallenge.com/faq.html

In your final report of this experiment, can you also report the following: How many problems were NOT solved by AI in spite of attempts. What is missing in the debate of AI in math is that only the successful cases are reported. To get a balanced picture of the effectiveness of AI, what is also needed are cases where it failed.

Re: Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

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Post by ktallett »

a2ff6eeb0 wrote: post #100
ktallett wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is the top tier of humans in these fields that are making the significant breakthroughs. The top tier of breakthroughs are not being post on here (which are nowadays usually short form articles of not incredible quality). The code at start ups is not commonly in the top tier of a breakthrough. AI can do averaged work and derivations off what has gone before which Maths works very well for as there is a clear set o…

Pure cope.

Also true. HN is not the peak of human intelligence.

Re: Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

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Post by ad8e »

corinthia wrote: post #34

recent caltech grad here! and know some of the organizers well caltech's cs department is very, very weak, and has struggled to recruit top people in the last few years, and the most recent AI faculty hires have had issues. this is very slowly changing but a lot of the motivation for htis was to create a way for students to get ml "recognition" and learn about ai since it cant be done through the school right now. re…

Other than Yang Song, who were Caltech's AI faculty hires with issues?

Re: Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

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Post by math_prof »

I am against this Hackathon because it allows unscrupulous companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to use our data for their publicity. If you almost succeed to solve the problem during the hackathon, but perhaps miss out towards the end, they might steal the ideas from your attempts and eventually claim only they solved it. Also, they do not help one bit in making the proofs easier to understand by revealing intermediate inner workings of their products.

Math research is not just about stating a Theorem and giving a proof. It is about understanding the theory so that we can continue exploring various aspects. Such a Hackathon will only promote the solving part. Please stop this nonsense.

Re: Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

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brian-bfz wrote: post #42

Hey guys, I'm one of the organizers. AMA. - We are a team of undergrads at Caltech. We don't represent Caltech, any Caltech departments, or any of our sponsors. - We don't receive monetary compensation. All the funding raised goes toward paying our judges and participants. - Our goal is to promote responsible AI use. You can read more about our commitments here: https://mathathonchallenge.com/faq.html

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