Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ

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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ

Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ

@ElfaroukHarb

CS PhD Student at UIUC. I focus on algorithm design. Incoming Quant Researcher @twosigma. Previously SWE @Google and Quant Trader @citsecurities

Champaign, IL ๊ฐ€์ž…์ผ Eylรผl 2017
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@aireteryx @peterepetepeter @fkasummer Also, Jensen came off incredibly defensive and kept regurgitating PR talking points. I get it from a stakeholder-responsibility angle, but it wasnโ€™t a great look. The question was fair, and the uranium analogy, while imperfect, was at least gesturing at a real second-order effect
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@aireteryx @peterepetepeter @fkasummer AFAIK Chinese labsโ€™ creativity has been squeezing more of Nvidia chips, not replacing it. CUDA took 2 decades, the path isnโ€™t purely horsepower, but horsepower is what trains the AI that shortens every other step. Chicken and egg, and Jensen is proposing they hand the egg.
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@aireteryx @peterepetepeter @fkasummer Every H100 shipped to China trains models that accelerate their AI research, including research aimed at building the chip that replaces it. NVDA isnโ€™t creating dependence, itโ€™s financing their exit. The delay is the whole point, and why the uranium bit wasnโ€™t complete dog water
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Aire@aireteryxยท
@peterepetepeter @fkasummer China wonโ€™t hustle to outcompete if they can just buy Nvidia chips but if not they have the will and capacity to do so. Any foreign dependence on a domestic product is good for us in aggregate. The uranium analogy is dog water
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@JFPuget The โ€œvisionโ€ was that the CCP will be asked nicely not to militarize american frontier chips, got it. Dwarkesh canโ€™t compete, reading blogs sets a low ceiling. Nobody said your employer dictates your thoughts, itโ€™s just a hell of a coincidence which half you found profound ๐Ÿ˜…
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JFPuget ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
What is interesting is that you can't even parse one sentence till its end. One states his vision, the other one repeats what was written by someone else. Is that clearer? And if you think my employer dictates what I think then I feel for you. The planet you think you live in must be quite unpleasant.
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@JFPuget Genuinely cannot understand how a sane person watches Jensenโ€™s china answer and decides *Dwarkesh* was the one regurgitating talking pointsโ€ฆ
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ ๋ฆฌํŠธ์œ—ํ•จ
Chubbyโ™จ๏ธ
Chubbyโ™จ๏ธ@kimmonismusยท
Yeah Claude. I know that feel. Wow.
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ
Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@AmeliaBarty Fucking hilarious that you think the cure for cancer wonโ€™t come with a terms of service agreement and a credit check. Whoโ€™s paying for it, the people without โ€œutilityโ€?
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Amelia Bartholomew
Amelia Bartholomew@AmeliaBartyยท
Honestly, what an incredibly tone-deaf thing to say Only someone with no experience of chronic disease, coupled with the hubris of the Silicon Valley tech elite, could have the audacity to hit send on this drivel This guy is a โ€œMember of Technical Staffโ€ at OpenAI btw. Had to do a double take because I couldnโ€™t believe what I was reading
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Maaz
Maaz@mmaaz_98ยท
@ElfaroukHarb This either cuts down on the dimension, or introduces additional affine constraints by possibly tying coeffs together, eg the template ax^2 + bx^2. For what itโ€™s worth, it didnโ€™t have any issues with Motzkin and other polys, but maybe I didnโ€™t push it hard enough.
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Maaz@mmaaz_98ยท
I am finally releasing my new Python+Lean package, sostactic, for proving polynomial inequalities using sum-of-squares (SOS) certificates. It is significantly more powerful than current Lean tactics like nlinarith and positivity, and in practice much faster than an SMT solver.
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@mmaaz_98 ... the solver could run for 10k+ iterations without really converging. So Iโ€™m wondering how do you choose the iteration cap in your pipeline, and how do you decide that the numerical solution is "good enough" to pass to the exactification step?
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@mmaaz_98 Very nice writeup. One thing Iโ€™m curious about is the numerical side of the SDP solve itself. When I wrote an SOS checker using MOSEK through CVXPY and SDPs, numerical instability was an issue for me on some examples, especially Motzkin-type polynomials / ratio-of-SOS situations
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@sheriyuo Academia loves identifying problems in the abstract, but the minute it has to attach them to actual people, everyone hides behind process. Put names on reviews, name and shame bad-faith actors, maybe even yearly shitty reviewer awards... but alas, that would require a backbone.
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Xiuyu Li
Xiuyu Li@sheriyuoยท
Got hit with a 2 score reviewer at ICML who clearly did not read the paper carefully. We wrote a 5000 word rebuttal and got back a single line saying thanks for the reply, however. There really should be some kind of reviewer reputation or credit system. Too many people seem to treat reviewing like a place to take out their frustration after their own papers get rejected.
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
I never get tired of out-of-touch academicians sneering at industries that are at least trying to build tools for scientists to actually use, rather than constructing gated gardens of inaccessibility and calling it rigor. Self-reflection is truly a research frontier
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
Here at topconference.org, we accelerate science by ensuring only work blessed by the proper venue brands is allowed to count. Unlike the vulgar world, where truth is judged by being right, academia knows correctness requires 24 months, page limits, and one rejection first
Daniel Litt@littmath

Here at [famous scientistโ€™s name].ai, weโ€™re developing tools to accelerate science. Unlike academia, which has stifled the production of high quality scientific work by demanding it be correct, here at [fsn].ai, we know that you can just do (wrong) things.

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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
@notadampaul @allgarbled @ludwigABAP This is what happens when you confuse verification with proof. Nobody doing serious math thinks a proof is just a certificate that a statement is true. The proof is where all the ideas live
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notadampaul@notadampaulยท
I do think that proof for its own sake is not nearly as valuable as people make it out to be, and that "knowing a thing is true" is rarely what actually advances mathematics. Or at least, while necessary, it is not sufficient I am not so bearish on autoformalization as ludwig but I do think some cultural pushback is beginning to come due
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ludwig@ludwigABAPยท
I hate this shit so much I donโ€™t know how many more times I can rant about proofs and their values etc and the autoformalization craze ๐Ÿ™
Sky Yang (Yue Er๏ผ‰@aftenheath

I proved an erdos problem at 17! Papers of many Great Mathematicians gave me key inspiration! Especially Professor Balog and Professor Wooleyโ€™s! And I would once again like to sincerely thank everyone for all the help you have given me! erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/3โ€ฆ

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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
"can the AI do math alone?", it's what effective users are doing to make the collaboration work. A gold standard benchmark should study that, not rule it out. Requiring full transcripts would address any integrity concerns and preserve workflows that actually produce results.
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Elfarouk Harb ๐ŸŒฑ@ElfaroukHarbยท
I think prohibiting expert-model interaction is misguided. Nearly every meaningful result so far has come from close human-AI collaboration, not autonomy. With current models, open or closed, pure autonomy feels set up to fall short. The most interesting question isn't ...
Tony Feng@tonylfeng

The second round of #FirstProof is announced: 1stproof.org. Glad to see the organizers planning a rigorous process. Most AI benchmarks today still rely on the "honor system". Thatโ€™s billions of valuation dollars hinging on integrity, even while there are many performance-boosting tricks that are undetectable in results (adding hints to prompts, human intervention, best-of-N, etc). For this reason, one should interpret one-off performances by proprietary models (e.g., on math contests) with a grain of saltโ€“especially when they are carried out after solutions are already posted online. FirstProof will be the only evaluation based on the natural distribution of research mathematics that guarantees autonomy and transparency of results. It should be considered the gold standard benchmark in the AI4Math space.

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Zvi Mowshowitz
Zvi Mowshowitz@TheZviยท
My son is asked to find surface area of a cube for his homework. There is exactly one wrong side length for such a problem, and they picked it.
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