This river here is the official geographical border between Anthropic and OpenAI. On the other side cosmic horror, torment nexus, machine despotism, you build spyware for the govt and you like it. On this side civilization, Claude constitution, unceasing allegiance to the human race, you build spyware for the govt and you don't like it.
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My unreasonably rigid philosophy is that theorists do not produce truth about the universe. Only experiments can do that, while theorists only produce ideas. A theory work therefore must provide conceptual clarity to justify its existence.
i'm proud of mathematicians that we use plain everyday English in our writing—we take pains to use ordinary words like 'normal' or 'regular' or 'good' when describing the objects we study
π is the minimal value of Pi and a circle isn't always round
What does that even mean?
You can define a circle as the set of points of equal distance from a central point. But depending on how you measure this distance the shape of this set can be very different
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