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Reaction converging Navier stokes solution Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions
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Navier stokes solution

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Emad, Tim Kellogg, Alex Hern
“AI moves so fast Worth noting that the new model that showed this jump in capabilities has only been training since August 28th per the report and is now taking down problems in minutes Math (and hopefully soon physics) is getting bitter lesson'd https://t.…” evidence ↗
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Emad Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath David Picard Alex Hern Sean O hEigeartaigh Dare Obasanjo +6
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Colin: Drama and palace intrigue aside, can anyone interpret what all of this implies about the status of Navier-Stokes? I don’t understand what anyone is saying.
Colin: what I gather - Buckmaster & Alpöge answered questions about the Euler equations, which are not exactly the Navier-Stokes equations, but are similar - It's plausible on the surface that the same ap…
Colin: - OpenAI claims to have more-or-less done this tedious technical grinding to produce a resolution to NS proper, at least one version of it. - which they bizarrely offered authorship of this to Buck…
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6 experts · 36 posts · 2d ago
Mark J. Nelson jake Arseny Khakhalin brennan Singularity's Bounty e/cc hcoyote.bsky.social
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“why do I predict this: the "Expertise" paper I keep referring back to, by Autor and Thompson, which finds that Jevons Paradox plays out in multiple directions simultaneously in the same profession,…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Building & implementation · 3 Questions & unknowns · 1
jake: What's my advice, as An Old SWE, given <all this>? As a Jr SWE, I think it is in fact, still useful to force yourself to learn good algorithms and data structures and how databases work (like reall…
jake: why? well first, the caveat: if you don't want to be a SWE, you don't need this at all, just learn to get good answers out of the models. and: we may not need anywhere near as many high-powered (an…
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4 experts · 23 posts · 7d ago
Ted Underwood Cat Hicks jake Arseny Khakhalin
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“I definitely notice interesting differences, and I've experimented with a lot of ways to make the writing flow in the same way that my thinking flows as I type, but ultimately at least for me it re…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: as a longtime textcel I regret to inform that voice input is really good now and you should try it if you haven't recently
Cat Hicks: In my experience, as I deal with significant hand impairment right now, it's a trainable skill that many of us just haven't trained probably A couple of months ago I was incredibly bad at writing m…
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