Asher Baron Weintraub

design / tech / film

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

version 2.1 of my personal website is now live, complete with fun things like:
- a blog
- a newsletter
- actual documentation of my tech + design work

it's all very exciting. check it out:

https://t.co/TPQbz9NWVQ

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

AI programming tools should allow more technical users to “lock” files and functions, making the model take them as givens and refuse to alter them

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

@usgraphics It’s unique and fun but wayyy overbuilt.

This effect could easily be achieved with more intuitive interaction and less extraneous ornament.

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

“this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic
[…]
“real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike”

Seems that OpenAI may have expedited the watershed moment changing minds on practical & ethical AI use.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

go fuck yourself @sama

claiming that you solved navier stokes because 10000 agents ran in circles for 88hours on a multimillion dollar gpu cluster to formalize in lean a blowup case under controlled external forcing is pure scientific vulgarity the clay mathematics institute millennium prize does not ask m whether you can artificially force a singularity in a fluid by injecting an ad hoc smooth external forcing term f(x,t) to twist the vortex until it breaks the real problem questions the fundamental stability and global smooth existence for 3dimensional incompressible euler & navier stokes equations under natural conservation laws and viscous dissipation alone using a mathematical loophole on forced equations to parade a century old victory is a major conceptual scam Altman

technically & epistemologically what you present as an agi breakthrough is nothing more than bruteforce combinatorial autoformalization the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by the monumental work of human mathematicians like tristan buckmaster/ levent alpöge / diego córdoba or tarek elgindi coordinating 10000 agents to check the logical consistency of a 100 page proof via lean is a software engineering feat and computational parallelization triumph not an intrinsic scientific discovery it is the victory of the compute bulldozer over abstract human intuition repackaged for the public as a higher mathematical consciousness

to this theoretical imposture you add a disgusting ethical and industrial cynicism taking advantage of private codex sessions and informal preprints from academic researchers to siphon their research leads and then trying to redact or erase the contribution of levent alpöge under the pretext that he works at rival anthropic is intellectual serfdom openai behaves like a feudal lord of silicon appropriating the cognitive subsistence of independent scholars threatening their careers behind closed doors if they protest and turning community academic labor into a privatized pressrelease

this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic facing the slowdown of scaling laws and growing investor skepticism over the profitability of foundational models openai needs to manufacture an artificial sputnik moment claiming to solve a millennium prize without immediately submitting the proof to traditional peer review means using the prestige of fundamental mathematics as cheap marketing fuel to inflate a delusional valuation!!!

real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike spent to rob the clay mathematics institute it is a quest for elegance physical truth and universal rigor to decode reality true artificial intelligence will not emerge from hostile corporate takeover of academic work hidden behind computational bruteforce but from architectures capable of generating new conceptual paradigms by masquerading constrained formalization as the collapse of physics greatest mysteries you did not solve navier stokes you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

world-class design right here.

[いいづかやまと @yamatoiizuka]

CAD で鍛えられた人間によるベジェ編集ツールって感じする

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

*fewer

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

Anthropic’s been accusing Chinese AI firms of distillation (generating training data using publicly-accessible Claude models)

but occasionally Claude answers in another language (this is Opus 5). Are they also distilling? Anyone who is better-versed in AI industry know?

[jezz @JezziiB]

MyChart is being sued for 5.5 million dollars for releasing patients information to Meta, and other companies. Let’s talk about how fucked up this actually is

[Anung Un Drama @spaceghost]

Government services should never even be looking at profits.

[Andrea Copellino @AndreaCopellino]

macOS but it's a GameCube controller

[Air Katakana @airkatakana]

@emollick if you memorized all the weights then you could think using only your brain

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

The Internet Archive is a national treasure

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

Bas really cooked with this one. Just an all timer...

scale = 1 + ((H−h)/(2sin(πh/4W))) × (sin(πd₂/2W)−sin(πd₁/2W))/(d₂−d₁)

[é. urcades @neogeomancer]

counterintuitively i experience llm-facilitated programming to be way more tactile than typing stuff out ... something to be said for prompting an update to a system and seeing where a code base has been updated in a macro/coarse manner, vs. a more granular line-by-line manner

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

since everyone's shifting to LLM-assisted programming—what are all those devs doing while they wait for claude?

[Tanuj @thesolarmonk]

this choose-your-own-p(doom) emulator is way too terrifyingly satisfying

we're entering a golden age of dynamic hyper-documents. yes, there's more slop, but the barrier to create higher signal artifacts to communicate nuanced complex ideas has never been lower either.

[Asher Baron Weintraub @Asherweintraub]

i've been dealing with a lot of AI lately, and found myself starting to write like an LLM.

going to try and read ≥ 1 chapter of a real book daily to counterbalance.