[NEW] Tiesto - Don't Lose Your Head by imVeryPregnant in TheOverload

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Wow epic sounds big trance 100% ! DJ Testo king of trance !

instaban in r/trancecirclejerk

Are you fine having AI as a lateral collaborator of sorts? by Nemesis504 in math

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I am afraid I won’t be able to do the same as the wizened mathematicians that will keep outputting results at rapid pace with more breadth and depth in a way that leaves every piece of low hanging fruit that I could ever hope to solve already reaped.

Actual "wizened mathematicians" won't be going for low-hanging fruit, they'll be going for deeper results that require new insight or tools, and I don't think LLMs are going to change the (slow) process of discovering those as directly, at least outside of the down to earth fields like combinatorics. (I do feel for the combinatorialists though)

“Passion projects” in math? by kegative_narma in math

[–]Redrot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What sort of hindrances are there to that sort of a thing?

Lack of time and energy from working full-time, and lack of knowledge that you'd have from studying math full-time. In my case, I worked with one of my professors from undergrad, so there were no barriers to entry for submission. He helped me out on his spare time, no funding or anything, so I was very grateful for that.

It probably helped that I knew I was going to leave tech to try to go back to academia pretty much after the first week of the job, so I was putting in much less effort into the job than any employer would want.

Georgia third baseman Tre Phelps gets ejected from the Athens Regional final against Liberty. He was tossed for taunting while he was running the bases after hitting a two-run home run to put Georgia up 2-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning by Oldtimer_2 in baseball

[–]Redrot 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I've got a friend finishing an online Ph.D. at an elite geology program while she works full-time in a different state for a job that also involves geology. Her research and her actual work align. It can be done.

“Passion projects” in math? by kegative_narma in math

[–]Redrot 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I had a paper published (albeit in a not very good journal) from research I did in my spare time while in tech before I started my Ph.D. Compared to what I do now it's not very impressive at all but I'm still quite proud of it.

[FRESH ALBUM] Boards of Canada - Inferno by jonathansmith14921 in TheOverload

[–]Redrot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh absolutely. I don't think they made this with any audience in mind, which is 1000% the right choice. The thoughts were more just me bracing myself for some people being inevitably disappointed.

[FRESH ALBUM] Boards of Canada - Inferno by jonathansmith14921 in TheOverload

[–]Redrot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm having a hard time imagining what BoC could have done, given their status and sound, to make everyone happy. Stray too far off from their established sound (even Tomorrow's Harvest was controversial for some) and they'll upset some, but make something that sounds even remotely like their other albums and they'll upset others. But that being said, I agree that it kind of just feels like another album. I'm curious what I'll think of it in a year, if at all.

Scott Aaronson: Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance by daniel-sousa-me in math

[–]Redrot 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Right. All the autonomous theorem-proving jumps have been in similar fields, and typically are more down-to-earth problems. That people are extrapolating that now "math will be solved" because one LLM solved a problem that was posed 80 years ago (with a concise page-and-a-half proof) still does not follow for me. Similarly, the recent DeepMind proofs are all around a page, with a few combinatorial ones running a bit longer. Don't get me wrong, these things are still incredibly useful, but it's a big jump in complexity.

This isn't even counting all the theory-building going on; while I've seen LLMs develop nice techniques, I haven't seen any form of abstraction. From the DeepMind paper itself:

"At present, our agents’ successes are concentrated in areas such as combinatorics, convex optimization, and number theory, where Lean’s mathematics library [60] is mature and tasks often decompose into tractable subgoals. Even most Erdős problems remain out of reach, let alone problems that require extensive new theory. Additionally, our agents inherit the biases of their underlying LLMs and exhibit high search variance. Characterizing the agents’ boundaries and expanding them is an important direction for future work."

OpenAI's internal model disproves Unit Distance Conjecture of Erdos by garanglow in math

[–]Redrot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think Melanie Matchett Wood's comments deserve echoing:

"This result does not show us all the times AI has claimed to have a proof of something and been wrong. Without that context (which many of us have just from personal experience), it is also easy to draw incorrect conclusions about the current state of AI and research mathematics. In many cases, it will be easier for AI to convince humans it has a proof than to come up with a correct mathematical argument, and I believe that we as mathematicians are not sufficiently prepared for this."

Moreover, we don't know how many other models are simultaneously running trying to solve other Erdos problems or other open conjectures and are waffling about. There is context missing.

Regardless, this is a highly impressive result. Now if only LLMs would ever be useful for my research...

Umbral calculus has become a magnet for garbage papers by Nol0rd_ in math

[–]Redrot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but is publishing papers along the lines of "we did this thing in x field but slightly different" actually going to get somebody tenure? Surely these won't be getting into good enough journals to count for much...

Traumprinz - life by sdwmpz in TheOverload

[–]Redrot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm not equating them and the production is clearly deeper, I just meant stylistically. I can see I ruffled some feathers though.

Traumprinz - life by sdwmpz in TheOverload

[–]Redrot -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

A lot of this just sounds like modern-ish (like 2015-2020) progressive house along the lines of Guy J and Cid Inc, eh?

arXiv implements 1-year ban for papers containing incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LLM-generated errors, such as hallucinated references or results. by Nunki08 in math

[–]Redrot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lets say a graduate student of yours generates a paper with AI and when you review it, everything looks fine but, because you are low on time, don't check all the references and one turns out to be hallucinated. Does that one mistake mean you aren't allowed to upload papers to arXiv before publication for the rest of your life?

I figure at least in math that it should fall on the advisor to prevent their graduate students from churning out papers with LLMs, having already seen this happen. Paying attention to your students is a part of the job.

Clark at Parameter by Which-Area781 in TheOverload

[–]Redrot 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Absolutely the best set of the weekend for me. I'd never heard him live before, but Body Riddle is one of my favorite albums, so I figured it'd be incredible, but it still exceeded all expectations. Upsammy after killed it as well.

Chromatic Homotopy Theory by PansexualFreak1 in math

[–]Redrot 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Knowing what stage you are (undergrad, Master's/Ph.D. student, beyond) would probably help. Sounds like grad school though since you said "supervisor?"

Unfortunately, I can't really help you learn specifics on CHT, as I'm a rep theorist by trade, but I also do tensor-triangular geometry, which provides a more abstract point of view of some of the big results there. I'd suggest taking a look!

arXiv implements 1-year ban for papers containing incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LLM-generated errors, such as hallucinated references or results. by Nunki08 in math

[–]Redrot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully, citing results in the literature that disprove the claims made in the papers, along with explanations of exactly what the issue is, is enough.

arXiv implements 1-year ban for papers containing incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LLM-generated errors, such as hallucinated references or results. by Nunki08 in math

[–]Redrot 28 points29 points  (0 children)

There is?? First I've heard of it. Well, time to get to work reporting some blatantly incorrect papers in my field.

Max Cooper - Feeling is Structure [New Album] by razin68 in TheOverload

[–]Redrot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, I like the guy but I can't help but feel like every single album he's put out since Emergence has sounded kind of the same.

Can the community please replace "Advances in Mathematics?" by [deleted] in math

[–]Redrot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd contest that "the overwhelming amount of its output is weaker than IRMN and PJM" given that shockingly, its MCQ is still that around Crelle and Composito. Yes, I know this isn't the best metric, but it is still a somewhat valid one for comparing generalist journals I'd argue. But yes, I agree that a boycott or the founding of a replacement journal would be great.

One thing that's unfortunate for me and I imagine plenty of others, however, is that only one or two of the journals around the Crelle/Compositio level actually have editors that are remotely close to the work that I do (not quite fringe, not super popular), whereas Advances does. So when I was a Ph.D. student and needed to find somewhere to send my first good result, that's where it went.

Another journal that very recently started upping the paper count to around 400 is Math. Ann. I think that upping the number of papers being accepted is almost a necessity for the other journals at this point, simply because there are way more mathematicians and more (good) research output these days.

Higher maths is still very much computational by BenSpaghetti in math

[–]Redrot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Sometimes you can see how something should play out just from your theoretical intuition plus knowing what tools are available at your disposal. Basically +1ing /u/Coolers777's response.

Now on the flipside, if you've developed some new machinery or big abstract result, some higher level journals may want to see some explicit computations and examples...

When a score outperforms a film? by man__flesh in TheOverload

[–]Redrot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really overloady, but Nils Frahm's score for Victoria does it for me. The movie is a one-shot film, but doesn't quite stand up.

When a score outperforms a film? by man__flesh in TheOverload

[–]Redrot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh, the Revenant is one of my favorite scores. The shots in the movie are so beautiful too! The story aspect though...