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"This may be a graduate class, but it's still called Algebra, so we're doing the quadratic formula on the first day!" --me, apparently
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Noah Snyder
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@dilanesper Or the meaning of this game is that Spain doesn’t give up goals, and also Cabo Verde is pretty good?
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please remember 4 years from now, group play is meaningless
RedditCFB@RedditCFB
Holding Spain scoreless is not for everyone.
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@littmath @SummersJohns69 Does “not great” here mean worse than humans? I’m not sure I’m a great judge of when I’m making progress.
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@SummersJohns69 I’ve experimented with this of course. IMO it just exchanges this for another problem—namely that you burn a lot of tokens on dead ends, since the model isn’t a great judge of when it’s actually making progress.
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Overall I think 5.6 Sol Pro/Ultra etc. seems to be a substantial step up from 5.5 for math. That said, common interaction pattern is: I ask a question. It thinks for ~100+ minutes and returns a largely inscrutable response. I ask it to explain. It thinks for 20 minutes and says:
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@littmath I find LaTeX file output is much more useful than the chat responses.
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@dsavitt My guess is mostly coincidence?
Finals needs 80k seats, so had to be NY or Dallas. I expect Dallas got semis as consolation for not getting finals. Less clear on Atlanta, but the billionaire who funds US soccer is an Atlanta guy, so I wouldn’t be shocked if that played a role.
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Coincidence or deliberate that the two semis are in the US cities with the two busiest airports?
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Looks like GPT5.6 proved the ring theory Lemma that GPT5.5 and I couldn't prove. (Though I didn't work *that* hard on it.)
Its first draft skipped over some rather substantial details, but it was able to flesh them out, and I think I've checked it now. I'm pretty impressed.
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@NFLosophy That doesn’t mean the US is “just that bad.” See above about single games. We had a terrible game against Belgium. Conversely we had a great game against Paraguay, who knocked out Germany. Meanwhile Belgium had several stinkers.
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@NFLosophy Anything can happen in one game, Belgium is better than Cabo Verde. That said, Spain is very good, and Belgium is pretty mediocre, so Spain will be heavy favorites.
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Question for the (fut)ball knowers out there. Is Belgium very good and have a chance vs. Spain today, or is the US just that embarrassingly bad?
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@bob_morocco @PaulTenorio I just want MLS to spend 50% of revenue on player salaries. The amount matters more than the specific rules.
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@PaulTenorio How do you propose to thread the needle for MLS on simultaneously spending more on foreign players and increasing the production of American talent?
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This would be a DP deal in MLS. Everywhere else it’s just another day in the transfer market. The kinds of deals and players who MLS teams can’t even look at to bolster squads because of its own rules. Not world beaters, but a good chunk of players in top 5 leagues.
Tom Bogert@tombogert
🇺🇸 Sources: Stade Rennais has completed a deal to sign American wingback Bryan Reynolds from Westerlo. Fee around $5m. Reynolds, 25, joined Westerlo in 2022. Made 146 apps for the Belgian club. Off to Ligue 1 now
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@HedgeDirty I certainly knew people whose answer I would have trusted over my own. But of course those people also wouldn’t have helped me cheat if I’d asked!
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I never once cheated on a test. Probably 50% ethics, 25% deterrence
but the last 25% of why was ego: There was no usually one whose answer I would have trusted over my own, and when there was I would have been ashamed to have sought it
Paul Graham@paulg
A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.
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@lunasceiling @arnesa_kustura The exception that proves the rule, since they’re (excellent!) women’s team does all the same stuff people complain about with men!
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Hey…so…question and don’t get mad at me. But how come in Women’s Football, they don’t fall over all dramatically? How come when they get hit they don’t roll and roll and keep rolling? How come they don’t fail around constantly when they get slightly pushed?
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@WestProter @BrendanNyhan Also I'm not sure what the exact rules were for the two exams, but take-home exams typically are longer and may be open book. But yeah, at least 2 I'd bet didn't cheat. (A little more skeptical of 3 due to the perfect score.) Maybe 8 too?
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@BrendanNyhan Lowkey 2 and 3 had somewhat realistic score differences. A lot of times midterms are harder than finals
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Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse)
PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31
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@svincenzi @Living4aLiving_ What if our best Barry Sanders played soccer?
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@Living4aLiving_ Messi is an exceptional athlete. Gymnasts, who are rarely taller than 170 cm, are exceptional athletes. Considering an "athlete" to be somebody big, fast, and strong in a weight-room sense is clearly nonsense.
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Europeans love arguing that you don’t have to be an “athlete” (big/fast/strong) to play soccer and use Messi as the example but never bring up Ronaldo (pt/br), Haaland, Zidane, Henry, Zlatan, Kane, Mbappe or Ronaldinho who were all 6’+
Messi is the exception to the rule
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@nehmdoge Makes the squad, doesn't start. Tillman is just clearly better.
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If the USMNT was serious Yunus Musah not only makes the squad but starts
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@Noahbout_it @NHBuhlahkay And in some case it was worse than just “not take seriously.” The (English) Football Association banned women from playing on their fields from 1921-1971!
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@NHBuhlahkay taking the women’s game seriously, we’re watching them apply similar youth player development philosophies as they do in the men and it’s why the European countries specifically have made such leaps in quality so quickly. The reason the men aren’t good isn’t because we
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Someone explain something to me like I’m 5
And if this has happened already, forgive me
Has the women’s team/leadership just sat the men down and said, “So you want to win World Cups? Here’s what you do.”
Jack Mac@JackMac
Good on Carli Lloyd for calling out Pulisic and the entire team. Not good enough.
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@JMechling_36 Just need a losers bracket. All those teams would be super fun to play, and then we’d still have two games a day.
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The issue with the USMNT losing in the R16 every World Cup is that we never play other teams that lose in the R16. I’m watching Switzerland vs Colombia and these are two certified R16 losers. Netherlands and Belgium? Those are Quarterfinals losers. We just need a luckier draw.
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@NoahJSnyder @luca_cozzolino i disagree. the theory & notation of calculus advanced by Leibniz (not Newton's) was used by mathematicians of the 18th century, and Cauchy in his 800+ papers created the main body of analysis which was formalized and perfected by Weierstrass.
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i've read many times the opinion that the 3 greatest mathematicians of all time were Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, but i remain highly unconvinced this isn't just a case of ancient hero worship. why no mathematicians from the last 2 centuries?
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@mouse_math @luca_cozzolino I think you’re mixing up influence on education with influence on math.
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@luca_cozzolino if "influence" is the important factor, one could argue Euclid was greater than Archimedes, Leibniz was greater than Newton, and Cauchy was greater than Gauss.
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