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robphy replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.I agree... but I would hope that an LLM wouldn't need such conditions on what are presumably very easy and very basic questions in... -
robphy reacted to Ibix's post in the thread B What reference frame is used for the velocity v in the Lorentz transformation? with
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Of course. But you aren't doing anything except repeating "this doesn't make sense to me personally". You need to do some maths to... -
robphy reacted to PeroK's post in the thread B What reference frame is used for the velocity v in the Lorentz transformation? with Like.
There are different levels of "doubt". Suppose you started learning pure mathematics and immediately didn't understand mathematical...
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robphy reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined with Like.
Official standard: WCAG (Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines) published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), widely recognized...
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robphy reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined with Like.
Right, but what you, or I, or any individual user prefers is irrelevant. Un-underlined links are hostile design; they are great for...
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robphy replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.I read a comment somewhere (in response to this newsitem about ChatGPT doing math) that suggested the operation to "subtract 5.9-5.11"...
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robphy reacted to martinbn's post in the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics with Like.
The first one says -0.21. Do you really want to learn homological algebra from them?
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robphy replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.Ask your favorite LLMs, the following... subtract 5.9-5.11
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robphy reacted to sysprog1's post in the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages with
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The rosettacode.org site has many sample programming tasks/problems and it shows solutions implemented for each of them in dozens of... -
https://www.aapt.org/Conferences/ lists the next set of conferences 2026 Winter Meeting - January 17 - 19, Las Vegas, Nevada 2026...
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robphy replied to the thread Most Hard-Driving Music?.Here are some videos by Marcin (an example of Hard-Driving Music on an Acoustic Guitar): When NBA Hires Just One Guitarist for a...
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robphy reacted to renormalize's post in the thread I How do non-diagonal indices of a metric allow for local flatness? with Informative.
Are you familiar with "light-cone coordinates" in Minkowski spacetime? (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-cone_coordinates.)
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robphy replied to the thread Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined.At the recent AAPT meeting, one of the updates to Glowscript/WebVPython is an improvement to better support accessibility. possibly...
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robphy reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined with Like.
This came up in my job today (UXP). Never thought to raise it here on PF till now. Hyperlinks really should be underlined at all...
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robphy reacted to Frabjous's post in the thread Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined with
Haha.
I press ‘Testing:’ and nothing happens :-p