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OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers

theemathas — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:08:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003107

Points: 341

# Comments: 3

Rust 1.98.1

theemathas — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/03/Rust-1.98.1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560189

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by theemathas in "Show HN: Voronoi Go"

theemathas — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:32:19 +0000

Why are the boards squares and not circles?

New comment by theemathas in "Show HN: PyApp – runtime installer for Python applications"

theemathas — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 01:14:02 +0000

Pyinstaller doesn't work with python 3.12.0. You need to use python 3.12.1. https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/7992

New comment by theemathas in "Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?"

theemathas — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:22:42 +0000

Sorry for the irrelevant reply, but I'm trying to get some attention on this.

This youtuber got a fraudulent DMCA notice, and his counter-notice got automatically rejected. The person who sent the notice isn't associated with the devs, and is asking for a $100 ransom to get the channel reinstated. How could this be fixed?

Proof that the person sending the notice isn't "authorized on behalf of the copyright holder": https://twitter.com/Lionheart/status/1671349063931838464

Tweet about the automatic rejection of the counter-notice: https://twitter.com/Azrial_Vanity/status/1671696220190810113

Tweet about the initial DMCA takedown: https://twitter.com/Azrial_Vanity/status/1671323777978736643

Mention of the $100 ransom: https://twitter.com/Azrial_Vanity/status/1671332970836140032

Any youtube people on here can help? Or anyone else have any advice?

New comment by theemathas in "Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?"

theemathas — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:01:04 +0000

Proof that the person sending the notice isn't "authorized on behalf of the copyright holder": https://twitter.com/Lionheart/status/1671349063931838464

Tweet about the automatic rejection of the counter-notice: https://twitter.com/Azrial_Vanity/status/1671696220190810113

Tweet about the initial DMCA takedown: https://twitter.com/Azrial_Vanity/status/1671323777978736643

Mention of the $100 ransom: https://twitter.com/Azrial_Vanity/status/1671332970836140032

Any youtube people on here can help?

New comment by theemathas in "RWKV RNN: Better than ChatGPT?"

theemathas — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:31:21 +0000

RLHF makes it possible to get good results with a bad prompt.

New comment by theemathas in "Stanford’s Alpaca shows that OpenAI may have a problem"

theemathas — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:27:37 +0000

Probably stuff like this (note: possibly misleading URL) https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-bin...

Early Bing AI had a tendency to be rather unhinged.

New comment by theemathas in "ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar"

theemathas — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:10:56 +0000

A similar issue happened to Steam in 2015 https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/12/25/steam-is-...

New comment by theemathas in "A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past"

theemathas — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:58:48 +0000

Reversing time on an attracting force still gives you an attractive force. Velocity is reversed, but acceleration isn't.

Imagine a ball being thrown up and then falling down, in a parabola. Reversing a video of that still gives you a video of a ball in a normal parabola trajectory.

New comment by theemathas in "The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem"

theemathas — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:45:12 +0000

> All real numbers, and all numbers of any other variety, can be written with a finite number of symbols.

This is false. In some sense, there exist numbers that can't be referred to. We can refer to the set of real numbers as a whole, but not some of the elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_real_number

But then there are issues with defining "definable numbers", which complicates things by a lot. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/44102/is-the-analysis-as-...

New comment by theemathas in "The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem"

theemathas — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:38:27 +0000

An alternative formulation of the axiom of choice: The cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty.

New comment by theemathas in "The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem"

theemathas — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:36:39 +0000

The main reason that we use real numbers is because we need real numbers to do calculus, at least in the normal way. And to do physics, we need to do calculus. You can keep approximating integrals as sums of very large number of terms, but it gets unwieldy to handle symbolically.

New comment by theemathas in "Ten Years of Image Synthesis"

theemathas — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:15:54 +0000

Seems really close to reality https://prompt-to-prompt.github.io/

New comment by theemathas in "Ten Years of Image Synthesis"

theemathas — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:14:35 +0000

You can give a blank prompt to stable diffusion and it will give you reasonable images https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xu0dt6/no_...

New comment by theemathas in "Ten Years of Image Synthesis"

theemathas — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:10:29 +0000

Proper hands are already here https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/z8gje0/har...

Generating Human-Level Text with Contrastive Search in Transformers

theemathas — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:36:45 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/introducing-csearch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545550

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Stable Diffusion legal issues: Non-free license? Is it copyrightable?

theemathas — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:06:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5M-dvzpzSQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532593

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

List of Stable Diffusion resources

theemathas — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://rentry.co/sdupdates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33416632

Points: 164

# Comments: 23

New comment by theemathas in "Character.ai (chatbot) drama due to censorship"

theemathas — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:28:30 +0000

Previous discussion on HN about the website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020694

For the last few days, there seem to be a lot of new users discovering the website, due to word of it spreading within the vtuber community, and a Washington Post article.

Currently, the website has been down for almost an entire day now. I assume the devs are trying to figure out how to deal with this.

The devs apparently wrote a statement which then got deleted from some reason (TLDR: They say some of the issues were unintended side effects of changes made to handle the increase in users, and the devs are trying to fix the issues. There's also a separate set of issues that were side effects from a change intended to censor NSFW stuff.) https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/comments/y03ncu/newsupd...

Some users are extremely angry, and their discord got so bad that they had to (justifiably) shut down it completely (hopefully temporarily). And I've heard of harassment and even suicide threats (Can't find the source though).