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New comment by Nail2680 in "The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem"

Nail2680 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:25:32 +0000

I might be too stupid to understand why this is interesting and useful. If it helps I am a working physicist, and a lot of pure math is lost on me. I think I followed this, but I don't know why one would care or this would be interesting.

New comment by Nail2680 in "Join Me in Jamverse"

Nail2680 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:21:05 +0000

I was hoping for a post about learning to use the Jam build system that Boost uses, but the "extended fiction"part was interesting. I don't think I still understand what this is.

New comment by Nail2680 in "Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned"

Nail2680 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:58:55 +0000

I do like the idea behind Have I Been Pwned, and honestly if a government took it over that might be nice if we had some guarantees. It feels like something that ought to be a public service with super duper special oversight to avoid it being used by law enforcement(since sending any information is necessarily bad)

New comment by Nail2680 in "OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say"

Nail2680 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:31:26 +0000

> In particular, Astra’s key mathematical step combined ideas first found in two papers from 2016 and 2019. Andreas Thom, a mathematician at the Dresden University of Technology, who co-authored both papers, summarized the result on MathOverflow.com, calling it “creative and at the same time elementary.”

Looking at the mathoverflow post, he says:

``` I think it is too early to judge if this construction will serve any other purpose than providing the right framework to apply these earlier results efficiently. On the other side, I was looking myself for such a mechanism ever since we wrote the paper in 2019 and admire the efficiency of this construction. ```

So it maybe is a pretty interesting result.

New comment by Nail2680 in "Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer"

Nail2680 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:23:10 +0000

I attended a Sukkot, druing which the host jokingly called the tent a "Jew Fort" and they had some lovely food and burned some herbs and overall had a great time. I really like the religious festivals that integrate more people. Like Holi, where I got to throw a lot of colored sand or something at people and eat good food. I feel like events like that really help integrate communities.

Not Estonian, but a Swedish fellow I knew always had a summer event with lawn darts and other odd games and food each summer