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Lucas Henrique

Jan 25 04:03

@MartinSleziak yes! thank you. I was actually writing my master’s dissertation that week, and having this great reference inaccessible was unfortunate

Lucas Henrique

Jan 12 17:30

hi chat. does anyone know what's happening with the stacks project? it's been down for 2 days already

Andrews

Oct 2, 2024 23:50

Hello everyone. Has anyone tried using OpenAI's latest AI model, o1-preview, to solve advanced math problems?
I tested it on several difficult questions, and its performance amazed me. However, the answers were beyond my understanding, so I couldn't verify them.

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Martin Sleziak

Dec 9, 2024 12:07

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A: News of potential interest to the MO community

Ronnie Brown, a long-time MathOverflow user, passed away on the 6th December 2024.

Martin Sleziak

Dec 9, 2024 12:07

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David Roberts

Nov 27, 2024 07:40

Personally (not sure this is with my mod hat on or not) I think that people should feel free to edit CW posts to include info from comments by others. I've done that for ages with links and non CW posts.

The Empty String Photographer

Oct 12, 2024 19:49

Why did the mathematician die? Because they were working with septic polynomials!

Martin Sleziak

Oct 10, 2024 12:16

Tangentially, somebody who is familiar with the timings could update this answer at some point: History of MathOverflow. (But it is certainly not urgent.)

Martin Sleziak

Oct 10, 2024 12:11

Todd chose to quietly end his tenure after a long time of service, and Tim's expired for technical reasons and he hasn't chosen to renew it. The board is aware and has discussed the fact we are now two moderators fewer. More news later. — David Roberts ♦ 4 mins ago

TRiG

Oct 6, 2024 23:25

@Andrews ChatGPT is spicy autocomplete. It may at times be correct, and at other times incorrect, and on both occasions it'll look similarly plausible, and on no occasion is it the right tool for solving maths problems. Computers can solve some maths problems some of the time, but an LLM is just not the right tool for the job.

YCor

Jul 30, 2024 17:09

@MartinSleziak Yes, thanks! I actually posted to the first MetaMO thread an answer with a link to the second thread, but it has automatically been converted to a comment...

YCor

Jul 25, 2024 07:49

I changed by browser; I had "opted-in" the feature of displaying reputation of users (see meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/5209 when it was modified), but I don't find how to do it again now and would like to display user reps. There was a trick to do so, which I can't find again. Anyone knows?

Christian Chapman

Jun 30, 2024 23:26

Does anyone know what happened to Gerhard Paseman? I haven't seen a recent comment of his in a while.

LSpice

Jun 25, 2024 17:59

Is something wrong with the site? I attempted an edit and, no matter what I put in the edit summary, got the error message "Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment." When I tried to ask a Meta question, posting the question took me to a 404 page.

Jaakko Seppälä

Apr 23, 2024 13:31

What are some open problems in commutative algebra that might help to prove that the elementary theory of finite commutative rings with unit is decidable?

Dattier

Feb 4, 2024 15:03

Calculate $\gcd(x^{2^{2024}}+x^{2024}+1,x^{2^{2023}}+x^{2023}+1)$

David Roberts

Dec 7, 2023 07:47

@TheAmplitwist I would leave it there, for reasons of both fun, and historical curiosity.

The Amplitwist

Nov 25, 2023 09:11

Out of curiosity, I searched for the first question asked on MathOverflow, and this one turned up:

user8469759

Nov 17, 2023 06:16

Hi all. I am not too familiar with the math research literature. I wonder if there's any journal or conference where new riemmanian manifolds and their retraction calculations are published. I often seen manifolds like Compact Stiefel and QR factorization as retraction, but I wonder if there's a research area whose focus is to find new manifolds and calculating their retractions.

The Amplitwist

Nov 28, 2022 21:55

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LSpice

Sep 23, 2023 15:07

The Approach0 thing seems like the sort of thing that requires a critical mass of user attention, at the same time, even to have a chance of being heard—well, or maybe I'm being too pessimistic, and that's just for the broader SE community where things have to be done by SE leaders. Anyway, I, at least, usually just give up on searching if the desired post isn't right at the top of my results, since results past the first few often seem at best tenuously connected to the query.

LSpice

Sep 23, 2023 14:30

It looks to me like indexing by Approach0 is something that has to be done by the creator—there is no automated way for a separate site like MO to have itself indexed, other than for the creator to decide to do so. Is that correct? And the post you linked is from ~6 years ago … so I guess that the results of the survey were not sufficiently enticing for the creator.

C.F.G

Aug 7, 2023 02:32

It claims that "In this note, using Solé and Planat criterion, we prove that the Riemann hypothesis is true."

C.F.G

Aug 7, 2023 02:31

Does anyone knows what is this paper? cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/…

Sidharth Ghoshal

Jul 21, 2023 23:47

Is the general idea of "completing cayley diagrams" to create continuous versions of groups the same thing as Lie theory?

b_jonas

Jul 7, 2023 16:38

@MartinSleziak nice. I saw about 40 spam questions and wasn't trying to count answers

b_jonas

Jul 6, 2023 21:15

wow, that's 10 similar spam posts on Super User posted by the same user within 10 minutes. how did that not trigger the new user question limit?

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

Jun 25, 2013 04:53

To get MathJax (LaTeX) working in this chatroom, follow these instructions.

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The Amplitwist

Jun 20, 2023 06:09

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A: Hiding reputation

This has now been implemented on the main site (and not here on Meta): see the announcement at Viewing reputation and badges is now opt-in and compatible with the new front page for further details. It works as follows. Anywhere on the main site, click on the "Achievements" icon in the top bar, a...

YCor

Jun 19, 2023 11:24

@MartinSleziak thanks, I found it (in the cup menu, it took me a while to realize it).

Martin Sleziak

Jun 19, 2023 10:05

@YCor To me, the possibility to show/hide rep is still diplayed.

YCor

Jun 19, 2023 07:08

The reputation of users used to be displayed, until, a few years ago, it was removed. But there was some option to display it again. This option has just disappeared (for me): the rep appears a fraction of second, and disappears. How can I it arranged to be displayed again?

The Amplitwist

Jun 13, 2023 07:26

@Adam since you're still on staff, I guess I should ping you to ask if we are going to get a data dump now, regardless of the rest of the network. People are unhappy particularly because MO is slightly special in this regard. — David Roberts ♦ yesterday

b_jonas

Jun 8, 2023 10:20

@MartinSleziak I may have been unclear. Making a new forum that can replace MathOverflow is hard and likely not solved. There's an easier problem that you want to solve in advance, long before the current site gets unusable for any reason. This is organizing a way to tell all users where the new forum is, once someone has made one. A new forum won't work well as a community unless enough users know to look there.

Martin Sleziak

Jun 8, 2023 10:14

@b_jonas I guess you probably mean something different when you say it's "solved already" - but if you know some software which would be suitable to host the content of MO, perhaps you could post an answer on meta: Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?

Martin Sleziak

Jun 6, 2023 04:37

So there is a degree of irony to see complaints coming from the MO mods about SE.

The Amplitwist

Apr 26, 2023 20:09

The shortlink points to a YouTube playlist: MathSciNet 2023 Interface Update

The Amplitwist

Apr 26, 2023 20:07

> The new MathSciNet interface is set to launch on June 18. Catch up on the changes in just 10 minutes with this video series: ow.ly/IPhn50NQkFS

The Amplitwist

Apr 20, 2023 01:12

> The AMS is developing a new user interface for MathSciNet. A beta version is available at mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/beta. Please give it a try. If you have any comments, we would be glad to hear from you via [email protected].

Martin Sleziak

Mar 30, 2023 09:37

I see it exactly the other way round. But that probably depends of what exactly one means under "imperfectly asked questions".

David Roberts

Mar 29, 2023 11:09

Either way is fine. If you don't want to go to the effort I can edit these links in later, crediting you for collecting them

b_jonas

Mar 23, 2023 00:43

I'm told that the new pre-print result arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798 mathoverflow.net/q/182440/5340 on aperiodic tilings of the plane got propagated to popular media, with journalists writing I presume very inaccurate accounts of it newscientist.com/article/… .

Catija

Mar 1, 2023 14:09

Apparently, for some reason, some of the old data here was being stored differently and when something about the DB changed, the data became inaccessible. They're going to see if they can reprocess the data to make it consistent with the rest of the stuff.

Catija

Mar 1, 2023 14:08

@MartinSleziak They know what's happening and are working out how to fix it.

Martin Sleziak

Mar 1, 2023 12:18

> As for the cut-off date, the last question affected by the bug that I found is mathoverflow.net/questions/134595/… from June 24, 2013, which is the day before the integration of MathOverflow into the Stack Exchange network. Thus, it seems likely that the bug only affects questions from before the migration.

The Amplitwist

Feb 8, 2023 19:55

Looks like the DOI links that used to be inserted in the form http://dx.doi.org/ are now inserted as https://doi.org/. That seems to be the only change: in particular, the zbMATH review links are still of the form https://zbmath.org/?q=an:NNNN.NNNNN instead of https://zbmath.org/NNNN.NNNNN. (The hyphens in the page ranges are also just hyphens, instead of en dashes, but this wasn't brought up in the Meta post anyway, I'm just mentioning it because I notice it often.)

The Amplitwist

Feb 8, 2023 19:51

I got in touch with zbMath, and it looks like this is fixed now. I do not see this as a candidate for mass link replacement, so if any links need fixing, they will need to be handled by those sites' communities. Shoutout to Asaf of MO for helping to get this done. — SpencerG ♦ 3 hours ago

LSpice

Jan 19, 2023 14:40

@MartinSleziak Thanks! I am rather used to desktop browsers at narrow width being treated as second-class citizens. If you visit the article page on a journal published by Wiley, and the browser window isn't the width that it expects, the download link for the article simply silently disappears—which is extremely confusing. By comparison this really does seem like a minor bug.

Martin Sleziak

Jan 19, 2023 08:55

I know that the post on Mathematics Meta is marked status-review - but I tried asking on Meta Stack Exchange, anyway: Are there plans to switch to the current version of MathJax?

The Amplitwist

Jan 19, 2023 06:50

I don't expect that SE will upgrade to MathJax v4.0 anytime soon...