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New comment by bubble12345 in "Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft"

bubble12345 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:42:49 +0000

> - No screenshot tool that allows you to type text (in addition to circling and highlighting and arrows)

Snipping tool works for all of this

New comment by bubble12345 in "List of Hoaxes in Wikipedia Articles"

bubble12345 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:19:15 +0000

The linked article is about hoaxes which are specific to Wikipedia. Not about falsehoods in general.

List of Hoaxes in Wikipedia Articles

bubble12345 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901107

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by bubble12345 in "Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician"

bubble12345 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 05:00:21 +0000

AI will not do math for us, but maybe eventually it will lead to another mainstream tool for mathematicians. Along with R, Matlab, Sage, GAP, Magma, ...

It would be interesting if in the future mathematicians are just as fluent in some (possibly AI-powered) proof verifying tool, as they are with LaTeX today.

New comment by bubble12345 in "LLMs can't perform "genuine logical reasoning," Apple researchers suggest"

bubble12345 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 01:23:47 +0000

I mean so far LLMs can't even do addition and multiplication of integers accurately. So we can't really expect too much in terms of logical reasoning.

SCP-8980

bubble12345 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:29:14 +0000

Article URL: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8980

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41843712

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by bubble12345 in "Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs"

bubble12345 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:30:30 +0000

Can LLMs even do addition, with say 20+ digit numbers? Multiplication?

New comment by bubble12345 in "Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail"

bubble12345 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:42:13 +0000

Are there replies? I was expecting comment threads like on HN/Reddit, expect with voice messages. Now it's just individual messages on channels?

New comment by bubble12345 in "The PhD Paradox: A Journey into Academia's Upside-Down World"

bubble12345 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:46:42 +0000

"almost no publications or citations to show"

Not accurate, he published relatively few papers (less than 20), but several in top journals like Journal of the AMS. His papers also have been cited plenty

New comment by bubble12345 in "Galois Theory"

bubble12345 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:59:25 +0000

Or you can paste the following JSTOR link into sci-hub.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2320923

New comment by bubble12345 in "Galois Theory"

bubble12345 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:49:57 +0000

You are right in the sense that solvability by radicals has no practical importance, especially when it comes to calculations.

It is just a very classical pure math question, dating back hundreds of years ago. Its solution led to the development of group theory and Galois theory.

Group theory and Galois theory then are foundational in all kinds of areas.

Anyway, so why care about solvability by radicals? To me the only real reason is that it's an interesting and a natural question in mathematics. Is there a general formula to solve polynomials, like the quadratic formula? The answer is no - why? When can we solve a polynomial in radicals and how?

And so on. If you like pure math, you might find solvability by radicals interesting. It's also a good starting point and motivation for learning Galois theory.

New comment by bubble12345 in "Galois Theory"

bubble12345 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:30:26 +0000

That's a common myth. See this paper referenced in the wikipedia article:

Rothman, Tony (1982). "Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois". The American Mathematical Monthly. 89 (2): 84–106. doi:10.2307/2320923. JSTOR 2320923

New comment by bubble12345 in "A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published"

bubble12345 — Thu, 09 May 2024 05:28:46 +0000

Reminds me of Solaris, the same thing holds there (Lem's "rational" book vs. Tarkovsky's "impressionistic" movie)

New comment by bubble12345 in "What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)"

bubble12345 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:29:38 +0000

People use it as a synonym for 'unaffected'. Sometimes it is unclear what is intended, so personally I never write or say 'nonplussed'.

To be honest, at this point I think it's a useless word!

New comment by bubble12345 in "You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl""

bubble12345 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:37:29 +0000

Super Bowl is a trademark of NFL, and to keep a trademark you need to "defend" it. Which lawyers presumably interpret as sending cease and desist letters every now and then

New comment by bubble12345 in "Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)"

bubble12345 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:11:14 +0000

I just remember making websites using

, and at some point reading that CSS and using

's was the new, more correct way to do it. I only need a simple personal website for academics, so I still use tables for the layout.