mathgradthrow

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Comment · 9 days ago
AI is, apparently, very good at producing proofs. Formal verification of program properties was out of the reach of human labor, but may not be out of reach for 10 million instances of Claude. Software security will, by my estimate, just shift to this new paradigm.
Comment · 19 days ago
Good thing transactions like this are reversible, so that enterprises like this might be deterred.
Comment · 1 month ago
how common are airpoane crash injuries?
Comment · 3 months ago
The word you are looking for, probably, is "totally disconnected". Discrete always refers to the "discrete topology".
Comment · 3 months ago
Navel gazing is a physical phenomenon, so if you would like to know everything about physical phenomena, you have to be able to predict the navel gazers.
Comment · 4 months ago
>Homework requires internet-connected devices

I see an opportunity for much more reasonable legislation since this is a thing that the gov already controls.

Comment · 5 months ago
So many of these invariants are redundant and so few of them encode any of the interesting rules of chess.
Comment · 5 months ago
well, I wrote should as a hedge.
Comment · 5 months ago
Someone flips a coin and looks at it, what orders are you willing to put in?

The potential for insiders should be represented by a complete loss of liquidity.

Comment · 5 months ago
I think when your work is no longer required, you will probably come to regret this sentiment, not that it matters.
Comment · 6 months ago
You're right, but I was confusing counterparty risk and adverse selection.
Comment · 6 months ago
Everytime someone loses money on a bad bet in a prediction market, it's an opportunity for them to learn something about ~~counter-party risk~~ adverse selection. You could easily make the argument that the more people are losing in prediction markets, the more learning is happening.
Comment · 6 months ago
a realistic response? What's a realistic response to "how many calories are in an avocado?"

If you are counting calories, you don't want the answer to "how many calories are in the average avocado?", you want to know how many calories are in this avocado. Remember that bodyweight is roughly linear with BMR, so a 10% error in calorie counting is an extra 10% of bodyweight.

Comment · 6 months ago
Income is by far the dominant term, you're being ridiculous.
Comment · 6 months ago
You are responding to data about the median American.

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