> Chefs do learn the chemistry, at least enough to know why their techniques work
Cooks are idiots (most are either illegal immigrants with no formal education, or substance-abusing degenerates who failed at everything else) who repeat what they're told. They think ridiculous things, like that searing a stake "seals in the juices", or that adding oil to pasta water "prevents sticking", that alcohol completely "cooks off", that salt "makes water boil faster", etc. They are the auto mechanics of food. A few may be formally educated but the vast majority are not. They're just doing what they were shown to do.
> A better analogy is just shoving the entire contents of the fridge into a pot, plastic containers and all, and assuming it'll be fine.
That would never result in a good meal. On the other hand, vibe coding is curently churning out not just working software, but working businesses. You're sleeping on the real effect this is having. And it's getting better every 6 months.
Back to the topic: most programmers actually suck at programming. Their code is full of bugs, and occasionally the code paths run into those bugs and make them noticeable, but they are always there. AI does the same thing, just faster, and it's getting better at it. If you still write code by hand in a few years you will be considered a dinosaur.
Cooks also repeatedly cook the exact same recipe designed by someone else over and over again. In our industry cooks are closest to the CPU executing machine code.
With the exception that cooks are actually less reliable (sometimes your steak comes out medium rare, sometimes well done). The human world is chaotic and unreliable, yet we wrangle it into a workable form. I think pretty soon we'll see that paralleled in the AI world, in the same ways we categorize and value human labor and businesses.
> Cooks are idiots (most are either illegal immigrants with no formal education, or substance-abusing degenerates who failed at everything else) who repeat what they're told
Jesus Christ, dude. Just because someone works with their hands doesn't mean they're stupid. Good lord. Working in a professional kitchen is an incredibly demanding and difficult job. Don't be elitist to people who work way harder than you.
Especially since some of the dumbest and most intellectually coddled failsons I know went to, like, Yale lol. Or Harvard. A lot of YC startups are like Failson Continuation School. Plenty of people are smart, but a lot of them are just rich.
> On the other hand, vibe coding is curently churning out not just working software, but working businesses
Funny story, I'm evaluating SaaS ETL products and I found one that looked great. So I spent a couple hours testing out some tinkertoy examples with the idea to ask for budget if it worked.
I kept running into small stupid documentation problems and some incredibly stupid behavior in really basic shit (like, screwing up .env files) that no developer would do and then I realized it was all AI generated.
Did it work? Kinda! Mostly! Did it immediately make me put it in the "absolutely not" pile? Sure did.
If the code I can see is that sloppy and poorly reviewed, how bad is the code I can't see? I'm for sure not giving them our sensitive data.
If you think human code is bad, you should just work with better humans. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>Jesus Christ, dude. Just because someone works with their hands doesn't mean they're stupid. Good lord. Working in a professional kitchen is an incredibly demanding and difficult job. Don't be elitist to people who work way harder than you.
You're making a personal comment. It's orthoganol to the point. You said cooks learn the chemistry, he says they don't and they are too stupid too.
As bad as that statement is, it's true. Culinary arts as an occupation has statistically lower IQ than many other occupations. Additionally they don't actually learn the chemistry. You sidetracked off on a tirade talking about someones "elitest" character... but if you stick to the point, what you said was completely and utterly wrong.
>Funny story, I'm evaluating SaaS ETL products and I found one that looked great. So I spent a couple hours testing out some tinkertoy examples with the idea to ask for budget if it worked.
So you have a funny story, and then there are other smarter competent people saying the EXACT opposite of you. Does that ever make you pause and think? We've all seen evidence of AI fucking up. AI being stupid is a story so obvious that even the proponents of AI know AI can fuck up big time. But have you ever wondered what would make Ryan Dahl say something like that? Does what I'm saying even compute or are you just so stubbornly sure that your "funny story" invalidates everything?
If anything the silver bullet people are mostly managers and C levels... some of which don't even use the tools themselves.
Of the devs that rejected it at first, the ones with the same sentiment I'm seeing online in threads like these, we forced one to give it a try. He now treats totters between using it well and treating it as a silver bullet. I still hear him incredulous about the things claude does at meetings, "I had to do <thing> and I thought I'd let claude get a crack at it... did it in one shot"
Not a problem. We should pay for them to get proper identification. This is likely an infinitesimally small percentage of the population qualified to vote. As the other commenter said, you need identification for most important things in life. Yet, again, if someone does not have ID and they want to vote, it should be easy and free. If they can't drive, we pay for an Uber. If they don't understand the process, we pay for a coach. Etc. This is the kind of process that reduces to zero over time. If you process 100K people on year one, there might only be a couple of thousand people the following year...and down to zero it goes.
Voting is much more fundamental to a democracy than Uber lmao, therefore it's worth it to make the effort to make sure as many people as possible can participate.
We have essentially ~no voter fraud in the US, so the only reason to change it is because you want to prevent other people from voting for selfish reasons.
And that's completely fine, because each mail-in ballot is associated with one voter, and the system is designed to make fraud very obvious and difficult to scale.
If thousands of people were told "you already voted" when they showed up, then that would be very very obvious.
They also really do look at signatures and contact voters to cure ballots if they're unsure.
Mail-in ballots tend to be counted (and received) after in person ballots, so you don't need to worry about in-person conflict. If we go the other direction (mail-in ballot rejected because the person had already voted), it was indeed in the tens of thousands. In 2024 about 584k ballots were rejected. [1] 11% of those, more than 64k, were because the person had already voted.
Not to mention that you can catch double voting across state lines. It's not common that people do this but it does happen and people are really looking for it.
Hell, the fact that so many people have been looking for massive voter fraud for about a decade now and haven't is pretty telling. People aren't good at keeping secrets and if it's being done at scale it would be uncovered or leaked. Accidents and stupid people happen, but that works both ways
This is 100%, completely absolutely untrue. Stop repeating this propaganda. The system is actually really well designed and safe, I was a poll observer.
You cannot "fabricate" votes, because all mail-in ballots are associated with a voter. Or rather, you put your ballot in an envelope and the envelope is associated with you. When your ballot is received, you are marked as voted and other ballots are invalid. The envelope is stored as proof of who voted and the ballot is kept separately to be tallied.
Ballot counting is done in public (you can go watch!) and there are a lot of safeguards and crosschecks. It's intended to make any fraud very obvious and incredibly difficult to scale.
Claims of voter fraud have shifted to mass voter registration occuring for people that are not eligible to vote, then ballots being sent out without being requested. How is this concern addressed?
Yeah, and those claims are made up to scare people who don't know how it works.
The government knows who is a citizen and who isn't lol, they literally have the records.
Voter rolls are very closely scrutinized. Dead people are, in fact, taken off the rolls. There is essentially ~no voter fraud and ~no instance of non-citizens voting in this country. Yes, it's audited and studied. Yes, they keep the data and you can audit it.
You're literally complaining about it being easier for people to participate in democracy, and you should stop.
Everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.
There's an update from Tao after emailing Tenenbaum (the paper author) about this:
> He speculated that "the formulation [of the problem] has been altered in some way"....
[snip]
> More broadly, I think what has happened is that Rogers' nice result (which, incidentally, can also be proven using the method of compressions) simply has not had the dissemination it deserves. (I for one was unaware of it until KoishiChan unearthed it.) The result appears only in the Halberstam-Roth book, without any separate published reference, and is only cited a handful of times in the literature. (Amusingly, the main purpose of Rogers' theorem in that book is to simplify the proof of another theorem of Erdos.) Filaseta, Ford, Konyagin, Pomerance, and Yu - all highly regarded experts in the field - were unaware of this result when writing their celebrated 2007 solution to #2, and only included a mention of Rogers' theorem after being alerted to it by Tenenbaum. So it is perhaps not inconceivable that even Erdos did not recall Rogers' theorem when preparing his long paper of open questions with Graham in 1980.
(emphasis mine)
I think the value of LLM guided literature searches is pretty clear!
This whole thread is pretty funny. Either it can demo some pretty clever, but still limited, features resulting in math skills OR it's literally the best search engine ever invented. My guess is the former, it's pretty whatever at web search and I'd expect to see something similar to the easily retrievable, more visible proof method from Rogers' (as opposed to some alleged proof hidden in some dataset).
Either it can demo some pretty clever, but still limited, features resulting in math skills OR it's literally the best search engine ever invented.
Both are precisely true. It is a better search engine than anything else -- which, while true, is something you won't realize unless you've used the non-free 'pro research' features from Google and/or OpenAI. And it can perform limited but increasingly-capable reasoning about what it finds before presenting the results to the user.
Note that no online Web search or tool usage at all was involved in the recent IMO results. I think a lot of people missed that little detail.
We need a name for the much more trivial version of the Turing test that replaces "human" with "weird dude with rambling ideas he clearly thinks are very deep"
I'm pretty sure it's like "can it run DOOM" and someone could make an LLM that passes this that runs on an pregnancy test
1. Chefs do learn the chemistry, at least enough to know why their techniques work.
2. Food scientist is a real job
3. The supply chain absolutely does have scientists involved in day to day operations lol.
A better analogy is just shoving the entire contents of the fridge into a pot, plastic containers and all, and assuming it'll be fine.
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