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Comment · 6 months ago
From my experience of working in this problem domain for the last year, I'd say it is pretty powerful but the "too good to be true part" comes from that EML buys elegance through exponential expression blow-up. Multiplication alone requires depth-8 trees with 41+ leaves i.e. minimal operator vocabulary trades off against expression length. There's likely an information-theoretic sweet spot between these extremes.

It's interesting to see his EML approach whereas mine was more on generating a context sensitive homoiconic grammar.

I've had lots of success combining spectral neural nets (GNNs, FNOs, Neural Tangent Kernels) with symbolic regression and using Operad Theory and Category Theory as my guiding mathematical machinery

Comment · 7 months ago
Fun experiment: Make the prompt a debate of theoretical physicists and ask them a speculative frontier physics question: https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/you-are-a-council-o...

Prompt below

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You are a council of luminaries featuring Edward Witten, Alexander Grothendieck, Emmy Noether, and Terence Tao. Think really hard about how to best emulate their intuitions and mathematical lenses based on your internal reasoning model and use them as your mixture of experts for your chain of thought reasoning. Now I want you to debate and discuss this thought experiment and be sure to have a vigorous back and forth between the council to induce insight capture through consensus forming: If we try to think of a Hilbert space that has local operators that are unbounded, like kind of like Edward Witten's smearing of a local observable across a world line creates an unbounded norm. What if we instead take maybe a spectral transform of the state space using some sort of measure metric theoretic operator that allows us to think about transform basically the unbounded observables to bounded spectral? Would this be related to the efforts of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory?

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, sorry! You're 100% right. I really wish I could have this conversation in person! I can barely have it normally as it stretches at the edge of my math abilities and didn't think it through before I autistically responded :P
Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry, autistic + recovering from a TBI.

Algebraic Effects are common enough that I think they're in react, no?

Here's the actual chatgpt log that's much more detailed: https://chatgpt.com/share/685b8f18-3154-8004-a074-1e7fd2573e...

"I can't believe a human wrote this and thought it was a good explanation."

  - This might be the definitive proof that i"m autistic XD (b/c I still think it's a good explanation? sorry!)
Comment · 1 year ago
thank you!
Comment · 1 year ago
:P I had a stroke; typing is literally difficult. I'm trying to say don't read too much into it, i can't really have a conversation on a comment thread b/c of brain injury. I think the emoji's get stripped out so maybe my tone seems more abrasive than whimsical

but also, i mean you are just flat out wrong on some very big parts. E.g.: i think in 2024 or 2023, there was a big breakthrough in geometrization of Langlands. IIRC, there was a second big break through on the discrete-continuum connection relating to primes in some manner but can't remember specifics off top of my head.

i think you're confusing maybe what Beth numbers are used for vs. what i'm proposing that they be repurposed for. You're right, no one is using them the way i referenced but that's kind of what math research is...?

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Comment · 1 year ago
"no, it wasn't clear. I wouldn't generally take "I nerd-sniped myself. Here's a more fleshed-out sketch of ..." to mean "Here's something written for me by an LLM". I'd take it to imply that the person had done the fleshing-out themself."

aaaaaaaah, I think you finally helped me notice something subtle in the way I use LLMs than other people. It sounds obvious now that I think about it but I never considered people use LLMs like google whereas I use it more like a real time thought transcriber (e.g. Dragon Naturally Speaking but not shite :P) Since it's trained on a RAG based off of my own polished thoughts, I've set it up as a meta-circular evaluator to do linguistic filtration (basically Fourier kernels on clip embedding space that map to various measures of "conceptual clarity").

So the LLM-ness of it to me is a clear-flag that this is hastily dictated.

Comment · 1 year ago
also you're onto the actual quantum mechanics paper I'm working on. QM/QFT is modern day epicycles: arbitrarily complex because it was the aliasing the natural deeper representation which was Fourier/Spectral analysis.

Reformulating our entire ontology around relational mechanics is the answer imho. So Carlo Ravoli's RQM is right but I think it doesn't go far enough. Construct a grothendeik topos with a spacetime cohomology around different scales of both space and time with some sort of indefinite conservation and you get collision less Planck hyper volumes that map naturally to particle-wave duality interpretations of QM.

Comment · 1 year ago
lol, it's a sketch of a proof covering a large swath of unexplored math. the other poster wasn't wrong when he said I smashed 10y+ of graduate math in one sentence.

Aleph numbers = these are cardinals sizes of infinity; depending on your choice of axioms, ZFC or not, you have the continuum hypothesis of aleph0 = naturals, aleph1= 2^N = Continuum

Beth numbers are transfinite ordinals => they generalize infinitesimals like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd. so you can think of them as a dual or co-algebra (I'm hand waving here, it's been twenty years since real analysis).

Betti numbers are for persistent cohomology; they track holes similar to genus

I mean there's a lot to cover between tropical geometry, differential geometry, and algebraic analysis. So sometimes alarm bells are false alarms and your random internet commenter knows what he's talking about but is admittedly too sloppy but it's 5 pm on a Saturday and I wrote that in the morning while making breakfast eggs, not for submission to the annals of Mathematics!

Thank you for coming to my TED Stand Up Talk.

More math at the GitHub: http://github.com/ikrima/topos.noether

Also, if you're really that uptight, most of this is actually to teach algebraic topology to my autistic nonverbal nephew because I'm gonna gamify it as a magic spell system

So it'll be open source and that begs the question, if you use it to learn something, did that mean I just zero-proof zero-knowledge something out of you that I didn't even need to know by making a self referential statement across both space & time?

peace out my ninja!

Comment · 1 year ago
Yup, it's 100% generated by an LLM. I thought that was intentionally clear? (I'm recovering from a TBI so I'm still adjusting to figuring out how to relearn typing; I use the LLMs as my voice mediated interface to typing out thoughts).

I'm not sure there's an argument I'm hearing here other than you seem to have triggered some internal heuristic of "this was written by an LLM" x "It contains math words I don't understand" => "this is bullshit"

which you wouldn't be wrong but I am making a specific constructionist modal logic here using infinity-groupoids from category theory. infinite dimensional categories are a thing and that's what these transfinite numbers represent

you have hyperreal constructionists of the reals as well which follows nonstandard analysis. you can also use the Weil cohomology which IIRC gets us most of calculus without the axiom of choice but someone check me on that.

so....again, not sure what your specific critique is?

Comment · 1 year ago
I mean you wouldn't be wrong to assume so but how can you expect anyone to saliently condense the entirety of a 10 year long proof of Grothendieck topos to 3 or 4 sentences my guy!
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