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dale_glass • yesterday at 11:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Where's that from?

Now math isn't my wheelhouse, but every LLM I've seen provides far more than just the final answer and is quite willing to answer questions.


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Ygg2 • today at 12:19 AM

It's from this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/afLSVRFzsFc

Imagine you are Euler and magical Djinn's exist (that possess all mathematical knowledge written up to that point exist and function identical to LLMs). You ask it to tell you answer to the bridge riddle and it says that's not possible and even gives some plausibly sounding examples even. Then it throws a 11 pages of gibberish proofs at you, which are all true but very convoluted.

And what if you start digging into it? Won't other people say - "Hey Euler go back to ploughing the fields? We can have Djinn's answer all the math questions but this field isn't going to plough itself."

Today's, the Djinni-Euler's equivalent of someone looking at LLM's Navier Stokes equation proof.

Perhaps they would discover new Liquid Set theory that would turn Liquid dynamics from a field fraught with problems into a beautiful mathematically simple meadow.

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