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Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.26524: Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

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Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

The right arrow key on my Macbook Pro keyboard stopped working the other day. I say “stopped working”, but technically it works too well now, it is being pressed constantly, which makes the laptop pretty unusable.

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I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

TL;DR I use an Excalidraw, wrap the elements of interest with a frame, name it with export_ prefix, my forked excalidraw extension automatically generates SVGs for light and dark mode.

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How the AI Bubble Bursts

The catalysts for a crash are already laid out, and it can happen sooner than most expect. AI is here to stay. If used right, chances are it will make us all more productive. That, on the other hand, does not mean it will be a good investment. Big tech doesn’t need to win, just outspend Magnificent 7 companies are increasing capex to their biggest ever to differentiate their tech from each other and the big AI labs, but the key realization is that they don’t have to spend it to win. It’s a defensive move for them, if they commit $50B, OpenAI and Anthropic need to go raise $100B each to stay competitive, which makes them reliant on investors’ money. As the numbers get bigger, the amount of funds that can write checks of the size required to

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VHDL's Crown Jewel

Create, Integrate, and Validate HDL using Sigasi® Visual HDL™,How VHDL preserves determinism In this post, I would like to talk about VHDL’s crown jewel: how it preserves determinism in a concurrent language. Here is a figure of how it works:

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Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

Every feature you need. Two clicks away. The essential powertool for macOS.

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The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar

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The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

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Hardware Image Compression

One of the things I've always lamented about hardware image formats is the slow pace of innovation. Developers were usually unwilling to ship textures in a new format unless that format was widely available. That is, the format had to be supported in the majority of the hardware they were targeting,

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Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation.,The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation.

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Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)

Where I've spent way too much time creating benchmarks of C++ hashmaps

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Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.

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Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models

Why the HJB is Bellman's equation in continuous time, why continuous time matters, and how to solve the resulting control problem with neural policy iteration.

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C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report

News flash: C++26 is done! 🎉 On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++26 in (partly) sunny London Croydon, UK. We resolved the remaining international comments on the C++26 draft, and are now producing the final document to be sent out for its international approval ballot (Draft International Standard, or DIS) and…

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Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons From a 400-Module Codebase Apereo CAS is one of the largest open-source Spring Boot applications in production. Seven battle-tested patterns from its codebase that …

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15 Years of Forking

Today marks 15 years of Waterfox!

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Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code

Douglas Lenat's AM (Automated Mathematician) from SAIL archives circa 1977 - white-flame/am

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Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed

a small build system with a focus on speed. Contribute to ninja-build/ninja development by creating an account on GitHub.

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On this day

Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

Copilot edited an ad into my PR

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

How the AI Bubble Bursts

VHDL's Crown Jewel

Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

Hardware Image Compression

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models

C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report

Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

15 Years of Forking

Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed

On this day

Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

Pope Francis visits Morocco.

The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.

SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.

Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.

Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.

Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.

The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.

Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.

Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19.

Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.

World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.

World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.

Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.

Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.

The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).

Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.

Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.

Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B.

German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.

The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.

Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.

Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.

Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.

The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.

Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.

One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.

Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.

The Florida Territory is created in the United States.

Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.

Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation, among the earliest calls for Italian unification.

Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.

Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.

The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.

Avar–Byzantine wars: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic army is decimated by the plague.

On this day

Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

Pope Francis visits Morocco.

The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.

SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.

Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.

Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.

Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.

The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.

Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.