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[ْ @Husam_Ism]

Being earnest is illegal

[Maya Luna @envisionedluna]

Love sami but going through a crisis of faith in your early 20s as a terminally online academic from a major city has to be one of the larpiest things you can do.
Dude version of shaving your eyebrows and going by they/them pronouns

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@pmddomingos Its astounding how high you get off your own farts. You're not as smart as you think you are.

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@littmath I'll have to be the guinea pig so that professors know how to train the next generation, not me. We're all stumbling around in the dark but people like me are the ones most likely to fall in a pit. 2/2

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@littmath All I see is lip service paid to the actual immediate effects. I'm starting my PhD program and I have no idea how I'm going to navigate this new AI mathslop landscape. I'm clueless, but what's most frustrating of all is everyone is just as clueless. 1/2

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

BREAKING: Scorched Earth anti-AI Manifesto from Hugo Duminil-Copin has hit the timeline. Read it here: https://t.co/vYidEwyJeT

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@robinemimimmi Some of us like to play 3s a certain way. We have events that cater to that. If that doesn't suit how you play it there are events that are more accessible. You're not gonna show up to either anyway.

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@Chiraq091 Stick to smash buddy

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@phl43 I do admit it makes reading books i dont have the prerequisites for much easier. Thats the biggest use case for me

[San Antonio Zoo 🦍 @SanAntonioZoo]

Another African Pygmy falcon chick has arrived!

African Pygmy falcons are small raptors native to eastern and southern Africa. They're the smallest birds of prey on the continent, and one of the smallest in the whole world!

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@curiouswavefn Fermi's qoute doesn't apply here. It would be like if you made a mess in the lab and asked others to read your measurements for you. If Freeman Dyson was alive he'd call you a loser.

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@frrntc @KristapsBalodi3 Lean verified doesnt mean what the paper is claiming is true...is true.

[Tony Feng @tonylfeng]

I don't repost mathematics if I do not personally feel sure of its correctness, so I did not yet comment on the purported construction of a complex structure on S^6. However, I wanted to add some contextualization because I don't agree with the social media narrative that is developing.

0. Of the AI breakthroughs so far it's the closest to my interests, although still pretty far. I am not grieving, I am interested to learn more about it! I don't know if it's correct but on cursory glance it seems quite plausible.

1. If correct, this would be a major development. I believe it is a central problem in its field (complex differential geometry), like the Unit Distance Conjecture was for combinatorial geometry. Perhaps even more famous names are attached to this field, leading some people to say it's even more prestigious, but I prefer not to think in such terms.

2. There are two writeups, a 2-page one and a 100+-page one. Both are terrible and seem deliberately constructed to be inhumane. Fortunately, one can fight AI with AI: I asked Claude/GPT/Gemini to collaborate on making a more readable and enlightening version, which you can find at https://t.co/7dKpFyQ0vZ. To make this, I prompted the models to write a document in the style of one of my own surveys. I haven't checked the mathematics, but it seems less forbidding than the original document at least.

3. This is a great opportunity for an expert to write an illuminating account of the construction, explain the key ideas and their proper historical context, and summarize the takeaways and lessons learned for the mathematics community.

4. If I see such an account, I would be happy to arrange for the author to give a lecture series in Berkeley. If this lecture series is also wonderful, I would go further and advocate for the author to have a position at Berkeley (if desired). For contrast, I see little value in having colleagues who are good at being the first to prompt AI for a solution.

5. There are some intriguing differences with the previous artifacts from Claude. The announcement seems coy about the provenance of the solution - there is a vague allusion to Claude, but which model(s) did it come from, and what was the human involvement? Why is it hosted on a personal website instead of the Anthropic one? We have seen some instances of AI results that are so good, the human authors seem to begrudge credit. I keep a list of such instances. The standard should be to disclose the role of AI clearly and transparently. Better to be honest than go through life under a cloud of suspicion.

6. Although this may solve one of the more famous problems of mathematics, there are still whole fields that are only just starting to feel acceleration. I'm not aware of any AI breakthroughs in my areas of research, for example. When those come, as I suspect they will before long, I look forward to studying the insights!

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@curiouswavefn You shouldn't put anything in the arxiv unless you're confident it is correct. The responsibility of correctness lay on the author, not the reader. Convince an expert to verify it for you.. im sure theres alot of people who care about whatever problem it is you're working on.

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@kenanmalik It is very common here in Bahrain. As far as I am aware we are not in Africa.

[History Speaks @History__Speaks]

I'm proud of defending his free-speech rights. But @nathancofnas himself is no free-speech hero. The guy defended the firing of a journal editor fired for tweeting @TheOnion articles mocking Israel.

To quote Cofnas (clip related): "If you're a journal editor, should you go around . . . using profanity with regard to certain countries where many authors that would submit to your journal live? . . . That's very questionable. . . They were firing [the editor] because of . . . a pattern of behaviour on social media, so it wasn't just one tweet, where he retweeted the Onion .. . . I can understand why that would be an issue for his ability to perform his duties associated with that job."

In terms of the core free-speech issue, this doesn't really matter. If you favor freedom of speech you also favor it for ideologues who themselves oppose it, including those (like Cofnas) who pretend to support it, which by the way most opponents of free speech do. That's why I signed the letter and condemn Cofnas's firing, despite my low regard for him personally. I would also sign a letter for a fascist, Communist, Maoist, woke, Hezbollahi, Hamansnik, etc, and other bitter opponents of free speech.

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@WKCosmo Are you this dense on purpose? Some mathematicians are feeling redundant. That's totally natural to feel

[ْ @Husam_Ism]

@05KING110 U not getting bahrain lil bro

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

Now more than ever.

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

@phone3301 not having a proof < having a proof < understanding a proof