Hacker News: tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tacomonstrousHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:59:52 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "The X Subscription"]]>He's already made back multiples of what he paid for Twitter, just not directly from X.

]]>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:59:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064748tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064748https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064748<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "AI is not a normal technology"]]>Not always that you see two wildly wrong claims made in ostensible opposition to each other

]]>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:04:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691424tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691424https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691424<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "AI is not a normal technology"]]>If you understood how they were solved, you'd see that you're only bolstering the point you were responding to.

]]>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:31:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691195tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691195https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691195<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"]]>As a mathematician, this is far from my experience of actual professional mathematicians, because they encounter people much smarter than them quite often. Maybe more true among graduate students, however.

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:38:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658244tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658244<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics"]]>It's hard to know what math is 'useful' a priori. That's always been the argument for supporting basic research. This is not why I am a mathematician however. I think there's intrinsic value into understanding something of depth and meaning, but the societal setup we have now that mostly agrees this is valuable is probably a very contingent phenomenon that is unlikely to last much longer.

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:49:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604215tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604215https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604215<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics"]]>FWIW even Astra hasn't been able to solve the problems I care about, which are less about proving theorems and more about understanding the right way to think about already existing stories (and thus permitting extensions to new contexts). However it's been a more than a capable interlocutor to test my ideas with and see if they actually have any content. It's also great for parsing possible mistakes in long technical arguments that at least my brain isn't wired to verify completely satisfactorily. Personally, I think it's good to know what is made trivial (meaning depending only on token expenditure) vs what remains a real hard kernel.

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:47:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604201tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604201<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)"]]>The fact that you talk about 'first author' papers in math only reinforces my point. It's not the same culture as other STEM fields.

]]>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:25:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587418tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587418<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)"]]>None of this is true.

]]>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:47:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583930tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583930<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)"]]>This is essentially irrelevant to the content of the post, but it's amusing to me that he casually mentions submitting to JAMS as if its acceptance were a mere formality.

]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:54:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580562tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580562<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"]]>Looks like Google's given up on frontier models for external consumption?

]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:33:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537860tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537860<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy"]]>The true morally correct path would have been to take big money out of college sports (not to mention high school sport) entirely. Of course this is now essentially impossible without what I imagine will be extensive rioting countrywide.

]]>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:12:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233940tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233940https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233940<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"]]>Everyone commenting here seems to take this to mean he's leaving Google, when that's not what the article says.

]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:22:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184997tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184997https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184997<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]"]]>Maybe there's an error, but much of this write-up reads like nonsense to me. The assertion that a semidirect product with an abelian factor must admit that factor in its center is absolutely false. This is actually acknowledged later in this article, but is handwaved away in incomprehensible fashion.

]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:59:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141267tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141267https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141267<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"]]>If you think not having done this (or really anything else except somehow preventing him and the Republican party from gaining power in the first place) would have prevented any of Trump's actions, I have a lovely bridge that just came on the market that I think you would be the perfect buyer for.

]]>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:48:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069676tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069676https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069676<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"]]>Hmm... If only there were a tangible reason why a treaty would have been impossible to get through the US Congress as currently constituted.

]]>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:43:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063515tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063515https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063515<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "The assault on science funding continues"]]>Stark assessment: "The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands."

]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:01:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034941tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034941https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034941<![CDATA[The assault on science funding continues]]>Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/assault-science-funding-continues

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034912

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:58:24 +0000https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/assault-science-funding-continuestacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034912https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034912<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)"]]>What this is yet another demonstration of how being immensely accomplished in one field says absolutely nothing about what one may be able to contribute to another.

]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:43:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029584tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029584https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029584<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"]]>Yes, as someone who prefers developing the 'correct' structure over 'merely' proving theorems, this is good for me in the short term. However, the writing I fear is on the wall for my medium and long term utility.

]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:46:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978119tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978119https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978119<![CDATA[New comment by tacomonstrous in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"]]>I would call that a trivial finite etale cover :)

]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:02:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976106tacomonstroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976106https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976106