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New comment by gmadsen in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

gmadsen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:11:41 +0000

Sure in the same way you could automate Shakespeare plays by having a room full of monkeys with typewriters.

The space of mathematical statements is infinite. Having the taste, insight, and creativity to reach points in that space that are meaningful to humans is the entire game

New comment by gmadsen in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

gmadsen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:29:59 +0000

That is completely discounting future capabilities and new use cases. Sure in 10 years you will have current SOTA locally, but in no way is it obvious we are anywhere near the limit of marginal value from improved capability

New comment by gmadsen in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

gmadsen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:56:27 +0000

Is your opinion that groups of 1000+ naturally align and deliver business value lock step with company needs? Is coordination not needed? Is leadership not needed?

New comment by gmadsen in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

gmadsen — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:25:12 +0000

And my point is it’s a strawman. Advanced math is obviously creative to those who practice it, and it’s disingenuous to boil it down to grade school triangle proofs

That would be like saying Shakespeare isn’t creative , since grade school grammar doesn’t feel creative

New comment by gmadsen in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

gmadsen — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:54:32 +0000

Why is your example SAS triangles and not something like the modularity theorem?

New comment by gmadsen in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

gmadsen — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:35:59 +0000

It is widely accepted that you can get better performance with c++ far easier than C. Outside of custom rolling assembly , a large aspect of performance tuning is compile time optimization, which is extremely non trivial in C, while being supported in language with C++. All the things people associate with C performance can be done in C++, the converse is not true

New comment by gmadsen in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

gmadsen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:20:25 +0000

What is “both sides” about that article?

New comment by gmadsen in "Resetting Xbox"

gmadsen — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:08:00 +0000

It was when the amount of lattes overtook the amount of Mountain Dew

New comment by gmadsen in "The war on terror primed America for autocracy"

gmadsen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:27:41 +0000

A Pax Romana would be a considerable upgrade

New comment by gmadsen in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

gmadsen — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:21:28 +0000

The SAT doesn’t test course material. It is literally just applying middle school math and English proficiency.

New comment by gmadsen in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

gmadsen — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:46:30 +0000

It aligns incentives to reduce crunch as much as is feasible

New comment by gmadsen in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

gmadsen — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:26:39 +0000

What is the intended purpose of giving a generic notice like this to employees? Are they suppose to compete for job security or start interviewing elsewhere?

New comment by gmadsen in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

gmadsen — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:19:25 +0000

We already have data on one of those…

Pragmatically, the main reason that has been true throughout all of history is that women are more valuable reproductively. A country can lose half its men in a war and still recover. The same is not true if it loses half its women.

New comment by gmadsen in "Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe"

gmadsen — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:13:22 +0000

Physicality. You don’t even own digital games, let alone cosmetics for your digital game license.

New comment by gmadsen in "Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI"

gmadsen — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:02:40 +0000

then they fail. We are talking about adults.

New comment by gmadsen in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

gmadsen — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:41:33 +0000

Multiple projects at once or at least multiple features. I am usually the limiting factor reviewing, not waiting on agents

New comment by gmadsen in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

gmadsen — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:23:26 +0000

I think those conversations occur due to changes in timeline of deliverables or certainty of result, would that not be an implementation detail?

New comment by gmadsen in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

gmadsen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:15:39 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’ve fallen into the trap of building an “ideal” system that I don’t use. Whether that’s a personal knowledge db , automations for tracking habits, etc.

The thing I’ve learned is for a new habit, it should have really really minimal maintenance and minimal new skill sets above the actual habit. Start with pen and paper, and make small optimizations over time. Only once you have engrained the habit of doing the thing, should you worry about optimizing it

New comment by gmadsen in "Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance"

gmadsen — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:02:30 +0000

I'm sure there is an association between personality traits {openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism} with preferences to specialize or learn broadly. That is seperate from the phenomena of nearly all cognitive tasks being correlated with each other positively, e.g. verbal scores are positively correlated with math and musical scores. This is referred to as g-factor in literature.

My overall point being, yes people learn differently, but it is also true that there exists outliers in general intelligence

New comment by gmadsen in "Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance"

gmadsen — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:27:08 +0000

That is a very idealistic perspective. There are certainly fast learners due to the fact they are faster at cross domain synthesis.