The guy who sold out 'Lucky'
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breaking my self-imposed silence, but this is beyond bonkers. iirc back in 2024 Tao called SoTA about as useful as an underperforming grad student, but also said that it would autonomously solve a ton of problems in a few years, and I thought that timeline was short.
Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.
An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.
This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
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What's striking to me is that the CoT is digestible and easy to follow, it's basically how a person would think (with some caveats)!
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In hindsight, it makes sense why math is so easy to improve on, but the pace of improvement has shocked basically everyone I know in math
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... why are there 51 stars on this flag????
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TIL there's an entire alternate universe where Iran hasn't taken any significant damage, and the US and Israel are on the verge of collapse in the Gulf. I mean, the war is going poorly for the US, but Iran has taken like thousands of times more damage than the U.S. allies lol
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I'm not really sure how people believe this, considering the vast differences in every material aspect between the sides, but apparently tons of people believe that? Like, you can just say the war is going poorly because the US cannot execute a regime change!
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The funny part about this is that the US has too much home ownership IMO, and more people should be renting! We just have a very large cultural bias towards owning.
It's wild to watch the federal push for more housing collapse in real time b/c of baseless panic about large investors owning homes.
Senate just voted 89-9 to advance an effective ban on build-to-rent homes, which would reduce new supply by an est. 50k a year.
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wow its almost like declaring a war on iran with impossible goals was a bad idea, or something
Mar 10
CBSNews: U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
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this game is absolutely GOATed btw
Mar 10
I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here: parseword.com
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The answer is that it is unironically Canadian cultural influence in American politics. Why is it that the one time influence goes the other way, we get the worst canadian pathology?
Mar 7
i still dont understand why these maga whackos are mad about people from india specifically.
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i think i may have picked the wrong career, I did not know tutoring paid this much.
Mar 9
The last time we surveyed New Yorkers about their paychecks, the math was easy. Well, easier. In 2005, a blogger at Gawker made $30,000 and the CEO at Lehman Brothers more than $35 million. Back then, there was no “gig economy,” at least not as we know it today, and coffee shops from Bed-Stuy to the Upper East Side weren’t lousy with model–pickleballer–nanny–actor–producer–DJ–creative directors.
Some 20 years later, amid a radically different economic environment in which the nature of work feels as if it’s about to change forever, we set out to conduct a similar experiment. We reached into our network of sources, blind-messaged LinkedIn profiles, put out a casting call on Instagram, even stopped strangers in Union Square.
What we discovered, just before a jobs report earlier this month confirmed a dwindling labor market, is that salaries across most industries have not kept up with inflation in a city that has become exorbitantly expensive. Of course, there are plenty of people, especially at the very top, doing all right on their salary plus bonus and stock options.
The aim of our latest investigation wasn’t simply an excuse to be nosy. The hope was to capture this moment and provide some sideways service to those wondering what else there might be to do. It’s not too late to try to become a tugboat engineer, is it?
60 New Yorkers share what they do and how much they make for our latest cover story: nymag.visitlink.me/8UWFXW
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I guess it's because my experience with specialized tutoring is that it was mostly those cram schools, but I guess 1-on-1 ends up paying way more?
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wow its almost like declaring a war on iran with impossible goals was a bad idea, or something
Mar 8
Oil futures are up 22.3% in the last 10 minutes and have exceeded $110/barrel
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Speaking of this, hopefully the people who got absurdly mad when I said that have now forgotten my account exists and that I am now safe to unpriv it.
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a trvth nuke no one wants to admit is that the growth of industrial food logistics has helped restaraunts become good just as much as hipsters did
Mar 7
Sysco has been serving food in tons of restaurants for decades but now TikTok told people to be mad about it and they swear the food is so much worse
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This goes hand in hand with how frozen food is actually *very* good now, and for a lot of items, frozen food is going to be superior to the fresh food you can buy at the same store
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does this even matter in the modern-day era? Like weed legalization approval is ~60% in florida, and I'm sure decriminalization polls even higher
CBS News: Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), a candidate in Florida Governor, admits to selling marijuana as a teen
cbsnews.com/miami/news/byron…
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wow it's almost like entering a war in Iran with vague and impossible goals was a bad idea
🚨BREAKING: US NOW EXPECTS IRAN WAR TO LAST 6 MONTHS
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Raj was 100% right here btw, chatGPT was so much worse than the playground with custom prompting when it came out. The only advantage it had was that it had a massive "wow" factor because it was more easily accessible.
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Despite the accessibility, GPT-3 was just not accurate or good enough to be used for like ... anything if you didn't have *very* good prompting, and that was easiest in the sandbox. It wasn't even fast enough to be used for autocompletes (which was the best use case for AI)!
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