Jerry Fan

Math + CS at @BrownUniversity

Posting machine learning, competitive programming, and mathematics.

[Jerry Fan @jerryfan_07]

@_lyraaaa_ why does this happen?

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@jfonsecarivera "and today, it's what I feel" - count me in.

I can't decipher whether I should feel elated or depressed that we as a species have invented something relatively simple that solves much more complicated things than itself, maybe even everything

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Interesting result:
> We now can't say attention is provably quadratic-hard, since Keles et al. and Alman-Song's papers relied on SETH.

^Foundational results on scaling LLMS
https://t.co/f0EHkjxbdI https://t.co/0XE5PAYsL0

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@gdb but what if tho :O

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@mathelirium One of the most beautiful results that partially made studying pure math in undergrad worth it

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@theasarkar saving this

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@borrasque_ most definitely true, there forms a culture of seeking stability since that is what is missing.

I don't like linkedin stuff but I saw the analogy of a jar of fleas. when you open it, the fleas dont escape because they never jumped to their full height

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This slide is beautiful

[Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana]

can't believe it's actually working

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@Spidey_707 problem 4 was hard i also i only got 3/4 🥲

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Kakeya conjecture is huge, congrats as well to the crucial work of Hong Wang for the 3d case.

What a timeline we are living in

[Dan Roberts @danintheory]

We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.

https://t.co/9BX8HWQDTJ

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

this is completely fucking insane.

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@Deniz_Genlik interesting idea, gives me some hope for the field actually

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@Chickadeus 🥲

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@paulg hi @paulg Brown U is not too far away ...

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@saanvisub its a shame because I used to have it generate long (200+) page pdfs to explain things as one of my best use cases

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@saanvisub claude recently with their 5.x models has been pretty bad at explaining, much worse than their previous models i feel

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@saanvisub Great work, amazing read 🙌

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@cappucher I feel nothing now but the desire to achieve more, even though someone has accomplished greater things than I have in less time.

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peak fall @BrownUniversity

the video doesnt do it justice tho bc either:
a) it looks better in person
b) im a terrible photographer
c) both 😅

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@robdecoded i use it to procrastinate

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@s_tabayashi @tatenoso theres an interesting probability question that involves this