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Terence Tao's promotional video for OpenAI

fuglede_ — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:09:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2060451757818601808

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339079

Points: 2

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New comment by fuglede_ in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

fuglede_ — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:59:55 +0000

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324097

New comment by fuglede_ in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

fuglede_ — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:46:10 +0000

https://akademikerpension.dk/nyheder/vi-ekskluderer-tesla/

The Unsolved Lollipop Problem [video]

fuglede_ — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:46:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8e-tYey7ts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312660

Points: 2

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New comment by fuglede_ in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

fuglede_ — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:43:09 +0000

I've reached for this solution many times too; it's certainly convenient.

What I don't like is that all the resulting pages look the same. It's so easy to tell when a page is authored by Claude, and by now, I get the same “ugh another one” feeling as Dall-E generated images would give when they were completely overdone.

Maybe it's just be, but if not, maybe HTML generated outputs will also end up being dialed down from where they're at now.

But maybe not, since it's obviously a useful thing to be able to do. I wonder if there's a way out. To be able to introduce some natural entropy so not everything ends up looking the same. I guess not, since we're using machines whose natural mode of behavior is regression toward the mean. And maybe having it be harder to tell the author wouldn't even be desirable anyway.

Terry Tao – New Mathematical Workflows – Future of Mathematics Symposium

fuglede_ — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:33:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN4hsT5t0nw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076667

Points: 2

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New comment by fuglede_ in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

fuglede_ — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:37:55 +0000

So they're changing the product that people already paid an annual subscription for to the worse. That's asking for legal complaints.

New comment by fuglede_ in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

fuglede_ — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:43:15 +0000

It would be very helpful to know in understanding the capabilities of the models; and in getting intuition about where they are best applicable.

If the reason it was able to output the proof is that it happened to be included in an in-house university report written in Georgian, then that would make it less useful for research than if it's new entirely.

The Fall of the Theorem Economy

fuglede_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891494

Points: 3

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New comment by fuglede_ in "Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick"

fuglede_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:31:57 +0000

The XOR swap trick also features in the compilation/synthesis of quantum algorithms, where the XOR instruction (in the form of a CNOT gate) is fundamental in many architectures, and where native swapping need not be available.

One extension that I ran into, and which I think forms a nice problem is the following:

Just like the XOR swap trick can be used to swap to variables (and let's just say that they're bools), it can be extended to implement any permutation of the variables: suppose that the permutation is written as a composition of n transpositions (i.e., swaps of pairs), and that is the minimal number of transpositions that let's you do that. Each transposition can be implemented by 3 XORs, by the XOR swap trick for pairs, and so the full permutation can be implemented by 3n XORs. Now here's the question: Is it possible to come up with a way of doing it with less than 3n, or can we find a permutation that has a shortcut through XOR-land (not allowing any other kinds of instructions)? In other words, is XOR-swapping XOR-optimal?

I'm not going to spoil it, but only last year a paper was published in the quantum information literature that contains an answer [0]. I ended up making a little game where you get to play around with XOR-optimizing not only permutations, but general linear reversible circuits. [1]

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11128-025-04831-5

[1] https://swapple.fuglede.dk

Nvidia Ising – Open AI Models for Quantum Computing

fuglede_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:01:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computing/ising/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789224

Points: 1

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New comment by fuglede_ in "Is math big or small?"

fuglede_ — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:01:20 +0000

I've always loved this recording of Thurston talking about branched coverings and knot complements using big knots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSrBt2kFD4

Exponential quantum advantage in processing classical data

fuglede_ — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07639

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718377

Points: 1

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New comment by fuglede_ in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

fuglede_ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:24:58 +0000

I forget; did he receive anything in turn for taking that name? These folks did: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6157612.stm

Itsid – LLM with perfect input reproduction for e.g. license removal

fuglede_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:35:03 +0000

Article URL: https://itsid.cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600003

Points: 2

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Reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100000 physical qubits

fuglede_ — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11457

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051906

Points: 3

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New comment by fuglede_ in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

fuglede_ — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:55:19 +0000

And for desktop apps, Cinny has custom emoji/sticker support. Would be nice if they played better with Element though.

New comment by fuglede_ in "Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley"

fuglede_ — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:09:20 +0000

Median salary for a dev is about $130,000 according to https://www.prosa.dk/raad-og-svar/loenstatistik-2025 (assumes 37 hour work week, 5 weeks of vacation).

New comment by fuglede_ in "Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%"

fuglede_ — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:25:21 +0000

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024 offers some methodologies.

Quantum computing: too much to handle

fuglede_ — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:04:38 +0000

Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931531

Points: 8

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