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AI has now solved a major open problem -- one of the best known Erdos problems called the unit distance problem, one of Erdos's favourite questions and one that many mathematicians had tried.
openai.com/index/model-dispr…
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spoons have to spoon
art has to art
May 20
why do people (including me) have an aversion to AI writing but not as much to AI code? if a piece of text smells AI i stop reading it but i use things coded entirely with AI every day
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changes deployed every day
May 17
Here's an example of ongoing human physiological change: some people have a third artery in their arm. Some don't.
~10% of people born in the 1880s had the third artery, but ~33% of late 1900s babies have one, and a 2025 Australian cadaver study found it in ~43% of upper limbs.
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chickens are literally a different sized bird now
recipes that call for a chicken needed to be updated
May 16
This stuff really bums me out. Baking is a science. Countless family recipes, cookbooks, and written processes over the last 80 YEARS are quietly altered…for why? Then we wonder why grandma’s famous butterscotch pound cake doesn’t turn out the same anymore.
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the best children's book ever made is out of print. on the left page, there's a famous art. on the right page, the art is rearranged to be 'neat'. when the child was 2, we did this book every night. it's all different artists. he started to be able to tell them apart. soon he could name every artist in the book
we went to visit a friend in another city, and looking out the car window, he pointed at a billboard. he said, keith haring. the billboard was for a museum. it was a traveling exhibit of keith haring
i thought, well. shit. i don't know anything about art. i only think about art in ways the art world sneers
i found something called basic art. it's a series of 140 books. they're kind of expensive. but for some reason, used ones on amazon are often wildly mispriced. sometimes they sell for like $4 each
i sniped ones the child knew. as a kid i liked magritte most. so we did a lot of magritte. i just flipped the pages slowly for him, like it was a movie, playing frame by frame. let's find all the apples. how about the bowler hats. the mirrors. the birds. the skies
later i was editing some images for a book project. i cross process the photos in a very specific way. it makes the sky look kind of candy colored and you know it's mine
he looked at the screen and said: magritte
fuck. i died. is there surrealism everywhere for those with eyes to see?
shl0ms posted a real monet. it did not have to be. it does not have to be a real monet for you to try to see like monet
i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI
please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting
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what else can we add to languages now that humans don’t code
May 9
why: I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues. it would be so nice if the language provided more powerful tools for preventing these things.
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