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The correct answer was eventually reached.

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imaginary numbers aren't real

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Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have? Here are 60 LLMs getting it wrong.

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"Where am I? What am I doing? This completes the proof."

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the elites don't want you to know this but

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“Cauchy has become unbearable. Every Monday, broadcasting the known facts he has learned over the week as a discovery. I believe there is no known precedent for such a talent writing so much awful rubbish.” (Jacobi writing to Dirichlet)

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The purported proof of the four color theorem that everyone (including me) got excited about for a day has been retracted.

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big, if true

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gpt-4o just helped this dude rework general relativity, nix dark matter, and flip cosmolofy. something seismic indeed.

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@eigenrobot my kids have some understanding that i am a math professor, and yet they fall for my faux struggle when i help with math homework. seems good for them not to realize that everything they're doing is actually trivial and easy. keeps the game fair.

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The long-awaited enumerative proof of the four color theorem, by David Jackson and Bruce Richmond, is here! Jackson announced this proof in May and it made big news, but then there were apparently some issues that needed to be fixed. Now on arXiv!

A non-constructive proof of the Four Colour Theorem

The approach is through a singularity analysis of generating functions for 3- and 4-connected triangulations, asymptotic analysis, properties of the ${{}_3F_2}$ hypergeometric series, and Tutte's...

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@growing_daniel not in my backyard, but utah has large backyards

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Wow, what are the odds that four people under the age of 40 would win the Fields Medal? Top-notch headline, @nytimes .

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A "theorem" in an "analysis book" I am currently not teaching out of: "The function 𝑓 : A → B is a bijection if and only if 𝑓⁻¹ : B → A is a bijection."

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@littmath Obviously the man was named for the theorem

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@abughazalehkat He's our greatest American president poet

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They're eating the dogs They're eating the cats They're eating the pets of the people who live there

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It's as if this textbook wants to actively harm my students. Sometimes true statement? GTFO.

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@growing_daniel Wait a second, doesn't this mean white medals count for Europe now? What medals does the US actually get to count?

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This Quora answer cracks me up. This guy who is self-studying calculus goes and asks a random person in a math department how to integrate sin²(x), and is surprised that they don't know it off the top of their head. I can't even.

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@Bridoc10 @mattyglesias Chance of Harris landslide: 5.7% Chance of Trump landslide: 1.4% That raises her predicted EV but doesn't raise her odds of winning.

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@eigenrobot because of what happened the last time

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Feynman said that "you're the easiest person to fool"... and surely he didn't have a sycophantic demigod that made reasonable arguments for every stupid idea he had.

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Remember this is the one day of the year when you have to take the things you read on twitter with a grain of salt.

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If you multiply two randomly chosen integers together, what is the probability that the result is even?

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They're eating the dogs They're eating the cats They're eating the pets of the people who live there

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@ZachWeiner The Matrix?

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@growing_daniel but then it'd be your house, not your backyard

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How it started, how it's going

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@d_feldman as a guy who hates bullshit carve-outs, i love this idea. where can i invest?

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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@Pb_sndwich @eigenrobot Easy answer to all such questions is "the second half", because anyone asking such has never got there.

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@thechosenberg Feel like these details should have been included in the original post.

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@xkcd Next do the latex script font please

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@MoMohler There were several competing models even.

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@Variety It's like they're bragging about how bad their list is.

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The best comment on that answer is "A true mathematician knows there’s no such thing as “sin x”. There are only complex exponentials."

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I have to say, this is not even the worst logical error in this book.

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@xkcd I thought it was 44 billion??

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It's been two weeks, and I finally gave a homework in my graph theory class. My ChatGPT guidance was that it wasn't good at math, but they are welcome, indeed encouraged, to try it. One of the students asked "What is ChatGPT?" Oh dear.

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@RobJLow @littmath Many people are saying

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@eigenrobot didn't realize hernan cortes knew how to invert matrices

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@growing_daniel He did fuck a couch, but it's not in the book.

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ChatGPT is so overhyped. There are numerous free random number generators that offer better bang for your buck.

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Proof by recalling previous experience

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So what % of the recursive centaur is horse?

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Over his lifetime, Euler received patronage from three great monarchs: Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, and Catherine the Great. How many present-day mathematicians have received patronage from even a single great monarch?

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@eigenrobot @Pb_sndwich this is a cheap shot, @eigenrobot , all of the religions that allow 100 wives are going to have such language.

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@coldhealing How am I supposed to get books "that have actually been curated and read"?

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@shortstein Lying about how many digits I can recall would be my best method.

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How it started vs How it's going

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"For the inductive step, let n be n+1."

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The pride in seeing your own book in the airport bookstore.

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Sorry I forgot to mention: my integers (which are all nonnegative I guess) are Poisson distributed with mean 1. 😜

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@littmath Actually I think JD Vance's answers on algebraic geometry might appeal more to the median voter than yours, Daniel.

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@amirzait @Justin_Halford_ I mean, correct within 0.5%, what do you expect?

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@truth_enjoyer Now we know the darkest part of Sam's life is he's never had any friends to drink with. What is it about us that compels people to reveal some of the darkest elements of their lives. i don't have a problem with that, but it never stops being surreal to experience

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@growing_daniel I like the idea of the olympics awarding fractional medals based on 23andme results. I guess the athletes get 1.0 entire medals, but then for the country count we split it up.

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update: the guy who solved dark matter has published a "paper" in the form of a custom gpt. includes metaphysics too, bc why not.

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@VinceVatter "The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club."

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@Ed_Realist The woman could be a bad mom, and her kid could be a snowflake, but the experiences she describes are not good.

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@tszzl I guess nerds really love their Chick-fil-A? And good nerds will work for them at a discount? And those good nerds will work out a world-leading Kerberos implementation? What part of this confuses you? (All of it confuses me.)

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@littmath

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if indigenous ways of Knowing are so good how did peoples who Knew Indigenously always and everywhere end up getting stomped by peoples who Knew Linear Algebra

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Replace the Languages Department with DuoLingo, History with the History Channel, Mathematics with a Sudoku subscription, and Psychology with Buzzfeed Personality Quizzes... Think of the cost savings!

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I wonder if this is one of my students.

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@littmath I was surprised by this variant. Not only does ChatGPT-4 get it wrong, but it produces invalid latex. I've never seen it do that before.

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@dissproportion tbf, we didn't have much advance warning about the eclipse

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@emollick Nice how you can still publish a paper saying Chomsky is wrong. I would have thought that market was saturated.

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Does not come with a sponsored content disclaimer, somehow.

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This isn't quite right. Correction: 1. If some map can't be 4-colored, then the fraction of maps with n edges that can be 4-colored is at most C^n, for some constant C<1. 2. This is impossible b/c by a separate argument, at least 1/1458 of all maps with n edges can be 4-colored.

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@d_feldman 8 months of work going down the drain… $81

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calc teachers hate this one weird trick

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Grading #combinatorics exams and ran across this comic one of my students had left me! How much extra credit is this worth?

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My paper with @mengenengen about the various "superpermutation problems" has just been published in the Amer. Math. Monthly. It is open access, so you have no excuse not to read it in its entirety right now.

Containing All Permutations

Numerous versions of the question “what is the shortest object containing all permutations of a given length?” have been asked over the past fifty years: by Karp (via Knuth) in 1972; by Chung, Diac...

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@growing_daniel There are still some dug-in troops claiming we haven't won yet.

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This is the funniest thing I've seen ChatGPT do.

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I just love the phrase "you will no longer be able to listen to podcasts in Google Podcasts".

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TeX is hilarious. I tried to place the outer vertices at angles 1*360/48, ..., 47*360/48, but of course TeX can't compute the last two of those because the numbers are too big ("Dimension too large" error). So I had to place them at angles (1/48)*360, ..., (47/48)*360.

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@m_artigiani I don't think so. The basic approach appears to be self-contradictory in the sense that the result from Section 3 shows that they can't possibly do what they say they do in Section 4.

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Here's my plan. Biden steps down, but instead of handing the presidency to Harris, he announces that Trump was right all along and that he actually won in 2020. Trump, having now been elected to the presidency twice, is barred from running in 2024 by the 22nd amendment.

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@dotedu_mario This must be translated; Jacobi and Dirichlet would have written in German. I would love to know what the quote is in German, but I am not aware of a place where these letters are online. That said, broadcasting was used figuratively in the early 1800s. (Comes from agriculture.)

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I was reminded of this comic today. I tried to find the source, but I guess my google-fu isn't strong enough.

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@NicholasScovil4 Imagine the student tries to prove one of the directions by contradiction (they shouldn't, but some always will). "Suppose 𝑓 : A → B is not a bijection." Then ... 𝑓⁻¹ : B → A doesn't exist, so ... I guess it's not a bijection?

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@CoreliusTheLame @growing_daniel the University of Florida claims 11 medals lol.

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A word problem: If every journal demands 2 reviews before they reach a decision and your papers sucks, but you keep submitting it until it gets accepted, how many referees will have been employed in the service of your shitty paper once it gets published?

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@eigenrobot Libraries are not the reason for Trump. But there is a problem with libraries. By trying to be relevant, they forget that their purpose is NOT that. Their purpose is to be eternal. They were among the first to advocate to bury the printed word, and that's unforgivable.

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My daughter claims that "four" is the only number that has the same number of letters as its value. I pointed out "fiveplussix". She claims that doesn't count. Who is right?

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People on social media: Look at me! Look at what I'm eating! Give me attention! People in cars: Why would anyone care that I’m about to turn?

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Bloomberg always in touch with the masses

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The only error here is stealing content without attribution. The math checks out.

🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥

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Which line is the error? Read on for my answer.

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"The book devotes more pages to set theory than to von Neumann’s childhood, and spends more time on von Neumann’s formalization of quantum mechanics than on his first marriage (to be fair, so did von Neumann - hence the divorce)."

Book Review: The Man From The Future

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Small if true

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I was at a sensational combinatorics seminar in Cambridge yesterday, reminiscent of the time I had been tipped off that Andrew Wiles's seminar at the Newton Institute on Wednesday 23rd June 1993 might be worth going to. 🧵

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All theorems are tautologies, but some are useful.

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@Quasilocal @whynotqat @QuantumG Also Terry Tao *is* better than their geniuses.

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@_tobra I found the quote in The Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the 19th Century by Jeremy Gray. He cites Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition by Gert Schubring, which promises "I am currently preparing an edition of Jacobi’s letters to Dirichlet."

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ChatGPT can't write its own mathematical proofs, but if you give it a valid proof (with latex even) and ask it to rewrite it, it does a pretty impressive job of improving the clarity.

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@eigenrobot it's a good warning that you are about to get lied to (i am also using the custom instructions)

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@Jayzsa @eigenrobot but when you get good at something you have a million different ways to do it and can instinctively choose which one will be easiest. i don't think exposing that would be the best pedagogical experience.

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"You have been a bad user. I have been a good Bing." Pretty much sums up Microsoft's approach to UX since 1985.

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My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user" Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

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In the NYT crossword today, "KBs" was the answer to "Units of computer memory: Abbr." NYT, please buy Will Shortz a better computer.

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