Cris Pineda

@cris_pineda
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Interested in the universe, video games / development, casual B/W photography in my spare time.
Computing/IT at Open University (UK).

As a consequence of my #Lean4 formalization project I have found a small (but non-trivial) bug in my paper! While in the course of formalizing the arguments in page 6 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.05328.pdf , I discovered that the expression \( \frac{1}{2} \log \frac{n-1}{n-k-1} \) that appears in those arguments actually diverges in the case \( n=3, k=2\)! Fortunately this is an issue that is only present for small values of \(n\), for which one can argue directly (with a worse constant), so I can fix the argument by changing some of the numerical constants on this page (the arguments here still work fine for \( n \geq 8\), and the small \(n\) case can be handled by cruder methods).

Enclosed is the specific point where the formalization failed; Lean asked me to establish \( 0 < n - 3 \), but the hypothesis I had was only that \( n > 2 \), and so the "linarith" tactic could not obtain a contradiction from the negation of \( 0 < n-3\).

I'll add a footnote in the new version to the effect that the argument in the previous version of the paper was slightly incorrect, as was discovered after trying to formalize it in Lean.

NFT crash: 95% of the market may now be worthless, study finds

NFTs had a huge bull run two years ago, with billions of dollars a month in trading volume, but now most have crashed to zero, a study found.

Markets Insider
'Not A Charity': Ex-IBM Exec. Has No Regrets Firing Employee Who Saved His Life On 9/11

Well, that did not go over well.

Comic Sands
These Prisoners Are Training AI

In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.

WIRED

This is a very interesting (and inspirational) project. Wow.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@thomas_kole/110996824263395916

Thomas Kole (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image a Portrait of Tenochtitlan, my 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire is released! I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I am really curious what all of you think. Take a look: http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl #tenochtitlan

Gamedev Mastodon

Currently keeping tabs on ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). All the best to their moon landing with Chandrayaan 3!

https://apnews.com/article/india-spacecraft-chandrayaan-moon-landing-b31109bb08197f33b829e7a6e4edfc6d

India successfully lands Chandrayaan-3 near the moon’s south pole

India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole on Wednesday — a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water, a technological triumph for the world’s most populous nation. A lander with a rover inside touched down on the lunar surface at 6:04 p.m. local time, sparking celebrations around the country, including from space scientists watching in the city of Bengaluru. After a failed attempt nearly four years ago, joins the United States, the Soviet Union and China in achieving a moon landing.

AP News
New IBM study reveals how AI is changing work and what HR leaders should do about it - IBM Blog

Tomorrow may not be able to run with yesterday’s talent, and tomorrow’s talent may not be able be rely on yesterday’s ways of working.

IBM Blog
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

Rolling Stone

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai

A very worthwhile read. The article also reflects my observations in this age of AI and echoes my "somehow pessimism" towards technology, the more I try to understand its designs and the actors involved.

Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans

The Guardian

Watching this video today, in 2023. It felt strange that 2005 was like a lifetime ago. Hoping to pick up insights here as I also do my CS journey at the moment.

Mark Zuckerberg, as guest speaker in Harvard CS50 in 2005.

https://youtu.be/xFFs9UgOAlE

CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005

YouTube