In 1934, David Hilbert, by then a grand old man of German mathematics, was dining with Bernhard Rust, the Nazi minister of education. Rust asked, “How is mathematics at Göttingen, now that it is free from the Jewish influence?” Hilbert replied, “There is no mathematics in Göttingen anymore.”
Thanks! Most of the current work is not yet out as press or blogs - we generally do that post code release/ publications/ arXiv submissions. Will share them as they are made public.
The impact extends beyond mathematics. We have seen some pretty positive outcomes for LLMs as an assistant for scientists - with a lot of custom agent dev though - and not off-the-shelf models.
This is already being used by a few hundred scientists in a lab. We are aiming to extend to thousands next year with a focus on CS, climate & bio.
I have found OpenAI to be the most superior in complex prompts especially where written messages like “Get better, Mom” are expected in the images. The distant second would be ideogram.
I am using these tools to send custom personal messages to close friends and family.
I have only interacted briefly with Sam but I found him to be one of the smartest YC folks. But I will let a Paul Graham essay speak [1]:
Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"
What I learned from meeting Sama is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups. It applies way less than most people think: startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.
I think you misunderstood that he helped me overstay my student visa etc.
I was in a Ph.D. program at a top CS school and there are ways to transition your visa when building a startup. It was that I was not sure if the transition or the startup would work out - that startup did not - but years later another one did.
I would probably not have taken the plunge out of academia and not achieved much else had it not been for him. And I am deeply grateful for that.
I know Sam even less, but when I first moved to Valley a decade ago he went out of the way to help. I wanted try out a crazy startup idea on a student visa with limited connections in the Valley - he loved what I was doing and went above and beyond to help me out.
It forever tuned me in to the ethos of Silicon Valley. And I have tried paying back where I can.
I use it with Browse with Bing and it works quite well for keeping up with research on a diverse set of topics - CS, AI, economics, neuroscience etc. The citations help you verify quickly.
And this is besides the other stuff that search ones can’t do directly but it does quite well. It has definitely cut web searches for me.
> We will be filtering our browsers with LLMs to remove junk and override Google, Twitter and FB ... Nobody got time to read garbage and ads.
Exactly, there is a paradox that is getting more extreme by the day - that social media (and the broader web) is a wellspring of knowledge, yet also a vortex of addiction, filter bubbles & lost productivity. I want one without the other.
This pushed me to start building open source at OpenLocus, contributions & feedback are welcome - details in other comment.
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