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There's something unbelievably funny to me that actual mathematical papers have to cite a 4chan post. It does make me wonder how much hidden knowledge is hidden in parts of the internet; maybe this is the only genius mathematical thing we've found on 4chan...
There's something unbelievably funny to me that actual mathematical papers have to cite a 4chan post. It does make me wonder how much hidden knowledge is hidden in parts of the internet; maybe this is the only genius mathematical thing we've found on 4chan...
Not many, probably. As in, why would this happen.
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Pretty sure if anyone found true perpetual motion that I'd be hearing about it all month on HN. It'd be a discovery on the level of Newton's laws.
This is how I feel about AI/LLM discussions, except it's all a perpetual motion machine demo that people are falling for it. Kind of like crypto
2011 in the title would have been nice. Of course it's the Haruhi problem.
2011 in the title would have been nice. Of course it's the Haruhi problem.
It is funny that the article linked is from this month, but the actual anonymous post seems to be from 2011, and it looks like the research paper itself is from 2018.
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As the saying goes, most social media is stupid people pretending to be smart; 4chan is smart people pretending to be stupid.
I wouldn't say 4chan's smarter than other social media. I'd say "stupid people not pretending".
I have, for a long time, dismissed Scientific American as a pointless work of marketing. This article, on the other hand, makes me think I may be missing some things. The problem is stated in an interesting way that might be broadly understood and enjoyed. It gives some results that are explained well and easily understood. It also leaves some open questions that can be explored, letting the explorer dream about sett…
Oddly, the image that Scientific American chose to illustrate their article isn't from any of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya projects, but from Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue, a much more obscure title.
And even making an example out of 8 episodes would be stupid, as the 8th episode in the Endless is meant to be the very final piece of the loop. It's arguable for the very first, you could in theory watch it out of order too, but it has the most setup of the bunch.
So they only cared for the superpermutation of 6.
Critically abysmal research on the article's part.