kuboble
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
The big O notation is very often used to denote exact complexity of an algorithm even if the notation is technically an upper bound.
The little o notation is usually used to denote a small asymptotic improvement over some known complexity.
For example if some sublinear algorithm would have n^(7/8) complexity - would be probably advertised as big O of that. But n^(1-eps) is shared as o(n) with exact constant provided as a detail.
I think it's ok to care about math as an art or sport still.
Math will join the ranks of other useful works where human effort was once essential like
Long distance messaging/ running, painting, calligraphy, weight lifting and others.
Unless they decide that trying p!=np is worth any money.
In example of go where I'm more familiar Google deep mind poured large resources to get a super human performance first, establish superiority and abandon it. The community then built their own tools starting from reproducing their papers.
I think similar thing might happen to math. Nobody outside of math cares too much about Hamiltonian cycles in some bizarre graphs or proving lower bounds on complexity of some problem.
Once those results stop being worthy of mainstream media attention, they will abandon math and the progress will be done by mathemicians guiding the models and the community will likely establish some new rules about what makes a valuable contribution. Merely solving not yet solved problem might not be it anymore.
I tried to use claude to analyze my games using stockfish - this is not a problem claude is good at.
I spent few hours (however admittedly around opus 4.8) with claude on this and it was unable to use stockfish in any useful way.
I think if the skill created by OP works then it's a real contribution. I'll give it a try.
If someone holds their camera or a phone facing you directly you can guess they are filming you.
Normally looking glasses with a hidden camera is a Spywear from spy novels. The diode doesn't change much
There is plenty of room for intellectual and social engagement outside of paid work.
I love the saying "you can delegate authority but you can never delegate responsibility".
Your agent committed a crime in your behalf? You're responsible.
One example move was 48. g4 from this game: https://lichess.org/osSoJGzO#95
Also - it's not only my change is making stockfish not blunder. Any little change in the code or execution will butterly-effect into no blunder.
To reproduce a bunder you have to be very deterministic. You need to specify threads = 1, and fixed cache sizes.
But I all but stopped writing code 13 months ago. At the beginning the code was often bad.
In the last 6 months alone I had received more praise from my customers for excellent work than ever before.