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I don't get apps. Apart from Audible, I don't have any installed and don't use any. I've never enjoyed using smartphones to do anything.

People say this in a very large number of other contexts. Mathematica has been able to do many integrals for decades and yet we still make students learn all the tricks to integrate by hand. This pattern is very common.

Yes. But to be fair to your specific point, symbolic solving of integrals used to be a huge skill in the engineering education. Nowadays, it is not a focus anymore, because numerical solutions are either sufficiently accurate or, more importantly, the only feasible approach anyway.

There is much more to life than engineering.

Sorry, I should have quoted properly in my reply. My first sentence ("Yes.") was in general agreement with you, the second sentence was specifically about

> Mathematica has been able to do many integrals for decades and yet we still make students learn all the tricks to integrate by hand

But maybe, integrating by hand is still as big as ever in other parts of academia. Or were you thinking about high school? I'm fairly sure, that symbolic solving of integrals is treated as less important in education these days, than it was before digital computers, but I could be wrong. Mathematica's symbolic solve sure is very useful, but numeric solutions are what really makes the art of finding integrals much less relevant.


I studied physics and mathematics and finding analytic solutions to problems is still useful and enlightening.

Is that what "academia" wants? Last I checked "academia" is not a dude I can call and ask for an opinion or definition of what it was interested in.

I will make an explicit, plausible, counterpoint: academia wants to produce understanding. This is, more or less, by definition, not possible with an AI directly (obviously AIs can be useful in the process).

Take GR as an example. The vast majority of the dynamical character of the theory is inaccessible to human beings. We study it because we wanted to understand it, and only secondarily because we had a concrete "result" we were trying to "achieve."

A person who cares only about results and not about understanding is barely a person, in my opinion.


A month is nothing. Embrace limitations. Make something with just two colors. See shapes, not things.

I can't understand why any person at any point in time would ever think that computers make sense in a classroom unless the class is specifically about using computers.

Cause there's money to be made.

Honestly, I'd rather see the internet wither and die than live with ads. True hate and contempt for them.

I don't think so.

Fine tuning works on an input/output basis. You are rewarded for producing a plausible output _now_.

RL rewards you later for producing the right output now. So you have to learn to generate a lot of activity but you are only rewarded if you end up at the right place.

In SFT you are rewarded for generating tokens plausible to the proof, one token at a time. In RL you are expected to generate an entire proof and then you are rewarded or punished only when the proof is done.


Sounds lame and boring to me.

More technology is probably the solution to this!

Yes, I believe the OP is responding to the books suggestion that returning to religion is part of the solution.

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