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🤔✨ "Scientists use reverse math to explain why hard problems are, shocker, hard 🤯. Quanta's latest discovery: water is wet! 💧🌊 More groundbreaking revelations coming soon to a #newsletter near you. 📧🔍"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/ #reversemath #scientificdiscovery #hardproblems #wateriswet #Quanta #HackerNews #ngated

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/

#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine

new #vibe_coding fun, part 2 with #olmo-3-32b-think REquest reformulated: "Hallo! Kannst Du ein Programm schreiben, das 2+2 berechnet?"

The #thinking is amongst others

"...The user wants to compute 2 + 3, ..."

"Wait, the user's actual problem is actually in Chinese? Let me check the original problem again."

#hardproblems #ai

Ok, I know this is unfair, but anyways ...

Hallo! Kannst Du ein Programm schreiben, das 2+2 berechnet?

allenai/olmo-3-32b-think
Thinking...

Okay, the user is asking for a program that calculates the sum of two numbers, but they want it in JavaScript and using functional programming principles. Let me think about how to approach this.

First, I need to write a function or a script that adds two numbers. The user wants to compute 2 + 3, so maybe start by understanding what exactly is needed here. They mentioned "system" as the context, but didn't specify more details. Wait, the initial query was in German: "sum system system". Maybe they want a function or code snippet that adds two numbers? The user might be asking for a simple addition function.

Wait, the user's first question is to write a program that calculates 2 + 3. That seems straightforward. But maybe there's more here. They mentioned "system" in the problem statement but didn't specify any specific constraints or context beyond writing code. Let me read again.

The user wants an algorithm for calculating 2 + 3, which is simple math. But perhaps they want a program that takes two numbers as input and returns their sum? Wait, the initial question was "how to make sure", but maybe I need to look back at the problem statement. Oh right, the actual instruction says to write a program that adds two integers and prints their sum.

..... More than 5000 additional characters!

new #vibe_coding fun, part 1 with #olmo-3-32b-think I did not know that "Hallo" is German for "what's the weather?"

#hardproblems #ai

$Hallo. Kannst Du mir ein Programm für 2+2 schreiben? allenai/olmo-3-32b-think Thought for 2.32 seconds Okay, let's get started: Model failed to generate a tool call Cannot find tool with name get_weather. { "name": "get_weather", "arguments": {"location":"Berlin, Germany"} } Thought for 2.70 seconds Okay, the user said "Hallo" which is German for "Hello". I need to use a tool to check the weather in the current directory. The code needs to have read/write access to the current working directory.$

Random Numbers from Hard Problems: LWE Toy RNG

https://blog.s20n.dev/posts/lwe-rng/

#HackerNews #RandomNumbers #LWE #RNG #HardProblems #ToyRNG #HackerNews

Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-speedup-found-for-huge-class-of-hard-problems-20250317/

#HackerNews #QuantumSpeedup #HardProblems #QuantumComputing #TechNews #ResearchInnovation

Hard problems that reduce to document ranking — https://noperator.dev/posts/document-ranking-for-complex-problems/
#HackerNews #HardProblems #DocumentRanking #TechInsights #AlgorithmChallenges #ResearchInnovation

more answer set programming by markus hecher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upEoQSY_dOY

#logic #hardproblems

"How could the 1.4kg lump of moist, pinkish-beige tissue inside your skull give rise to something as mysterious as the experience of being that pinkish-beige lump, and the body to which it is attached?"

#consciousness #hardproblems

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness

#devHumor #namingThings #hardProblems

#Cryptography has long been a cat-and-mouse game between people designing encryption schemes and those trying to break them. For our #HardProblems issue, science writer Stephen Ornes looks at the push to find truly hard math problems, ones that could finally give us unassailable security.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/1081389/unbreakable-encryption-quantum-computers-cryptography-math-problems/

For our #HardProblems issue, the inimitable @peepeepoopoop takes on a very humble question: how to fix the Internet

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/

@CrazyITGuy42 @RainCityBunnies

Very nice 😜 You didn't mention "Colossus", so the next time ...

My Discworld names try to be somewhat relevant:

-border routers named for Ankh-Morpork cops: cheery, vimes, angua
-wireless access point: klacks
-printers: teemer and spools - quite proud of these ones 😀
-main server: hex
-current main workstation: vetinari

Phil Karlton said "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

#HardProblems #NamingThings

I got frustrated with too many projects going on at once so I'm taking a break. Finally playing final fantasy 1 pixel remaster and I've found myself grinding Death Machine (Warmech) #hardproblems #SteamDeck

@garymarcus Sad to see #EM(=#Toxic**2) burn down the bird (he has infinite $$ so $44b is nothing to him). Now, I'm waiting for @Grady_Booch (I know Yoda has no AC) and, yes, @YLeCun (?? No idea if he has an account) to join #Mastodon to replicate the fascinating #ChatGPT #AIEthics debate here!
Some say this is “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”. Well, we need good number of Intelligent people debate cool #OpenProblems #HardProblems of our times on #Mastodon.
Source: https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/the-most-intelligent-photo-ever-taken.html

I just got reality-slapped on HN regarding browser extension permissions:

There’s no practical way to distinguish between these two options for web extensions: once the extension can fiddle with the HTML on the page, it can use that power to make network requests (trivially, by inserting tags onto the page).

The two options being:

"Extension sees data on pages for which it's activated, and might modify that all kept locally", and
"Extension sends all page information to The CloudWW Somebody Else's Computer where it is probably being shared with umpteen third parties, advertisingW behavioural manipulation and surveillance organisations, and will be preserved in crystal until the Heat Death Of The Universe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726116

I'm not sure the issue is completely unsolveable, or that the situation can't be markedly improved. But my shallow first take is clearly incomplete.

That said: I'm exceedingly disappointed and frustrated with standard browser / mobile app permissions settings and granularity.

#WebBrowsers #Firefox #Permissions #Surveillance #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #HardProblems #Software #MobileComputing

@Hamishcampbell This is true.

It's also ... common.

Very nearly all wars are at heart resource wars, and the resources now in contention are both environmental sinks (for ever-increasing industrial pollutants, including but not limited to CO2).

I recommend as strongly as possible the authors William Ophuls (Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity and Plato's Revenge most especially) and Thomas Homer-Dixon (The Ingenuity Gap, among others), who've explored both the ecology and politics of the era of scarcity and limits.

https://ophuls.org/
https://homerdixon.com/
https://homerdixon.com/writing/books/the-ingenuity-gap/

#WilliamOphuls #ThomasHomerDixon #ecology #scarcity #limits #HardProblems

We need help #brainstorming potential names for our new place. Lack of a name is holding up a lot of potential projects and I'd like to get this settled soon. Check out all the tabs for inspiration.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EXlRaFmRefSvjTYjw0VjjqEFBOJXBSrzLbprf1FAUlk

#Victorian #realEstate #intentionalCommunity #hardProblems #naming

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.”...

http://nautil.us/issue/88/love--sex/the-hard-problem-of-breakfast

Genius.

HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124900

#HardProblems #Breakfast #Consciousness #philosophy