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qbit42 commented on Prism   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
DominikPeters · a month ago
This seems like a very basic overleaf alternative with few of its features, plus a shallow ChatGPT wrapper. Certainly can’t compete with using VS Code or TeXstudio locally, collaborating through GitHub, and getting AI assistance from Claude Code or Codex.
qbit42 · a month ago
Loads of researchers have only used LaTeX via Overleaf and even more primarily edit LaTeX using Overleaf, for better or worse. It really simplifies collaborative editing and the version history is good enough (not git level, but most people weren't using full git functionality). I just find that there are not that many features I need when paper writing - the main bottlenecks are coming up with the content and collaborating, with Overleaf simplifying the latter. It also removes a class of bugs where different collaborators had slightly different TeX setups.

I think I would only switch from Overleaf if I was writing a textbook or something similarly involved.

qbit42 commented on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries   reuters.com/business/dani... · Posted by u/mythical_39
lynx97 · 2 months ago
C'mon, what a lame excuse. Well then, show us that democracy works and vote for a goverment which doesn't? If I follow your reasoning, you've just demonstrated that democracy is a failure, because the US government acts in the interests of arms manufacturers since a very long time, no matter if Dems or Reps are in power.
qbit42 · 2 months ago
Our democracy is clearly disfunctional. I believe corporate money has played a big role to make it worse.
qbit42 commented on Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash   so-long-sucker.vercel.app... · Posted by u/lout332
eterm · 2 months ago
This makes me think LLMs would be interesting to set up in a game of Diplomacy, which is an entirely text-based game which soft rather than hard requires a degree of backstabbing to win.

The findings in this game that the "thinking" model never did thinking seems odd, does the model not always show it's thinking steps? It seems bizarre that it wouldn't once reach for that tool when it must be being bombarded with seemingly contradictory information from other players.

qbit42 commented on Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout   radar.cloudflare.com/rout... · Posted by u/honeycrispy
cramsession · 2 months ago
That doesn’t mean Iran did that. Israel has been preparing to attack Iran again, and cyberattacks on their internet are a pretty obvious first step.
qbit42 · 2 months ago
I see. You seem quite sure that Iran is not doing this - do you have some local source of information? My friends there said the government does shut down the internet at times (but I am not currently in communication with them...)
qbit42 commented on Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout   radar.cloudflare.com/rout... · Posted by u/honeycrispy
cramsession · 2 months ago
We don’t know that Iran shutdown the internet, they never claimed to do that. Any “protesters” that got shot were Israeli plants.

Mind you, the US actually shot and killed a real protester yesterday.

qbit42 · 2 months ago
They did shut down the Internet. I cannot communicate with some Iranian friends right now.
qbit42 commented on Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use   thegamer.com/clair-obscur... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
oneeyedpigeon · 3 months ago
> Every game released recently would have AI help.

For indie games in particular, that is very much not true. In fact, Steam has a 'made with AI' label, so it's not even true on that platform.

qbit42 · 3 months ago
You think many are built without any assistance for coding? My impression was that people were mostly concerned about game assets like graphics and music
qbit42 commented on Mathematicians don't care about foundations (2022)   matteocapucci.wordpress.c... · Posted by u/scrivanodev
romangarnett · 3 months ago
Do you not care if your vector space has a basis?
qbit42 · 3 months ago
It is nicer to state theorems that hold for all vector spaces, so mathematicians like to invoke AoC. However, in any applications that are practically relevant, you can obtain a basis without invoking AoC.
qbit42 commented on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros   cnbc.com/2025/12/08/param... · Posted by u/gniting
ls-a · 3 months ago
Doesn't that imply that Netflix was planning to do the same (for their party)? Or are you saying Netflix is innocent here
qbit42 · 3 months ago
Netflix wasn't buying CNN.
qbit42 commented on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions   gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026... · Posted by u/puttycat
MarkusQ · 3 months ago
This is as much a failing of "peer review" as anything. Importantly, it is an intrinsic failure, which won't go away even if LLMs were to go away completely.

Peer review doesn't catch errors.

Acting as if it does, and thus assuming the fact of publication (and where it was published) are indicators of veracity is simply unfounded. We need to go back to the food fight system where everyone publishes whatever they want, their colleagues and other adversaries try their best to shred them, and the winners are the ones that stand up to the maelstrom. It's messy, but it forces critics to put forth their arguments rather than quietly gatekeeping, passing what they approve of, suppressing what they don't.

qbit42 · 3 months ago
I don’t think many researchers take peer review alone as a strong signal, unless it is a venue known for having serious reviewing (e.g. in CS theory, STOC and FOCS have a very high bar). But it acts as a basic filter that gets rid of obvious nonsense, which on its own is valuable. No doubt there are huge issues, but I know my papers would be worse off without reviewer feedback
qbit42 commented on Wolfram Compute Services   writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
jimbokun · 3 months ago
For writing production code, I find good scoping rules non-negotiable. And error handling, monitoring etc has to be well thought out before deploying at scale.

So as great as Mathematica sounds for interactive math and science computations, sounds like a poor tool for building systems that will be deployed and used by many people.

qbit42 · 3 months ago
That is a fair assessment. By and large it is used for the former. It is super handy in the exploratory phase of certain kinds of mathematical research.

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