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Comment Re:Problems so useless nobody cared? (Score 1) 125

by Dan East (#66369856) Attached to: OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock

I don't think the OP's point was that the solutions are not ever useful, but the "nobody cared for a long time" part. If no one cares about a problem, then no one is spending their time trying to solve it. Whether or not it may be useful in some way is not the point, but if no humans are trying to solve it, then humans are not going to solve it.

So now we have AI that will simply focus on whatever it is told to focus on, looking at problems esoteric enough that no one wanted to waste time on them, and finishing some of them.

Comment Re:mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 1) 125

by Dan East (#66369852) Attached to: OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock

doesn't seem to be in in the literature

I ran a version of Proposition 13 in that paper through Claude just to clean up the draft of that bit before I sent it to her

The literature on this problem is small, and I'm very familiar with it.

You're missing the point here entirely, and ironically you are actually providing counter-evidence.

It appears that ChatGPT, etc, are taking information provided to them by people like you in the form of conversing with the agent and providing files, and using that information to generate output for others. This was shown where a mathematical solution ChatGPT came up with was pretty much exactly like an unpublished solution that had been discussed with ChatGPT by a couple researchers

Do you really think you are the only person in the world discussing that particular thing with the AI agent? You say you're very familiar with the literature in that field. Has your brain literally been built upon every word of that information that has ever been published, like an LLM? Of course not. So it doesn't matter how familiar you think you are with the literature, an LLM's "database" of that literature is beyond anything you could achieve.

Your example does not prove the LLM didn't connect existing dots, or produce that solution from existing information, either published or unpublished that was provided to it in chat sessions like yours.
Science

First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick 58

Posted by BeauHD from the ticks-and-tocks dept.
Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on oscillations inside thorium nuclei, marking a major milestone for a field that could eventually produce highly portable, ultra-precise timekeepers. The clocks are already precise enough to lose only about a second over millions of years. The New York Times reports: The first nuclear clocks are not going to immediately supplant the worldwide network of atomic clocks, whose steady ticking we rely on for GPS and the definition of a second. Nor have they captured the record for most precise timepiece; the best atomic clocks are about 10,000 times more reliable and would take more than 100 billion years to lose one second.

But nuclear clocks hold a bevy of potential advantages over existing atomic clocks. One day, they could be more reliable than the leading atomic versions, and nuclear clocks could be made more portable. They even hold the ability to search for certain kinds of dark matter -- the invisible stuff whose clumps make up 83 percent of the matter in the universe. If a particle of dark matter passed through the thorium nuclei, it could register as a wobble in the nuclear clock's otherwise steady ticktock. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

Comment Re:Summary ... (Score 1) 279

It always helps to ask questions like Why did time get coordinated in the first place?

Yes, exactly. DST came about because there were issues to be solved. Apart from sleep there is also recreation and having an additional hour to socialize with people which also mean there are a bunch of businesses that operate primarily in this time. We can also talk about traffic issue and the sun being in a different position when they are driving.

I think what we're looking at is the short sighted stupidity of emotional retarded people who's version of thinking is yelling at people to support an idea they are too cognitively lazy to consider for themselves.

Comment Re: The obsession with DNS is stupid (Score 1) 51

(is there such a thing as a 'legal' rave?)

In the late 90's a Christian group near my town setup a drug-free and alcohol-free (and I guess Satan-free) "rave". I didn't go, but reports were that it was pretty lame and "too many middle schoolers". Without drugs and people wearing whatever (or sometimes topless), it was just kids dancing with outdated trends like pacifiers and Cat in the Hat hats.

Comment Re:mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 1) 125

There's quite a lot of nuance here, I guess, which isn't unexpected. It's quite a useful anecdote. At the very least, we can't just wave it away like it's not useful. It may generate sub-standard paintings or completely miss the point of art, but if it makes your proofs better, it seems insane to not have it help.
Piracy

Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France (torrentfreak.com) 51

Posted by BeauHD from the DNS-stays-open dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting [French pay-TV provider] Canal+'s request for penalties of 50,000 euros per site, per day. Interestingly, the court's conclusion relies on statistics provided by Canal+ itself. [...] As a result, Cloudflare will not be penalized under these orders, even though its public DNS resolver is not blocking the sites in question. That is in line with the company's long-standing claim that it doesn't interfere with its DNS.

In its recent transparency reports, Cloudflare repeatedly stated that it hasn't blocked any content through 1.1.1.1, despite orders from French and Italian courts. "To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver," the company's latest report reads. [...] Blocking through the CDN is another matter. According to the same report, Cloudflare geoblocked 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025, all under a single court order. In the first half of the year, it geoblocked 662 domains under seven orders. Cloudflare recently explained its position to the European Commission, in a submission (PDF) to its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, stressing that global public DNS resolvers should not be used to block or restrict access.

Instead, it highlights its real-time pirate stream blocking program, which allows vetted rightsholders to flag pirate streams that run through its network. These streams are disrupted "within seconds," Cloudflare says, without any DNS or IP address blocking. "For live content, where speed is crucial, Cloudflare has built real-time mitigation mechanisms that allow vetted rightsholder partners to flag infringing streams. When those streams are running through our network, we act on them in seconds," Cloudflare informed the Commission. For now, Cloudflare can continue to block pirate sites through its CDN only, while its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remains untouched. Canal+ can still appeal the rulings, so it may not be the last we hear of it.

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