| I don't normally complain about this, but that result has been at least four times on the front page in the last two weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208141 Finding mathematical patterns and relations by fitting expressive functions has actually been a common technique in experimental mathematics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_mathematics) for a while. In the last few years, neural networks in particular have been used a lot in areas of math related to string theory, where one tries to find structures on certain topological spaces that preserve or generate symmetries of the resulting physics. Here's a review that might be interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06317 Unfortunately, none of these mathematicians have the marketing prowess of a multi-billion dollar company... |
Anyway, I received an email from HN yesterday saying they wanted to put it on the “second-chance pool” and I could do so by clicking a link to repost it. I never received an email from HN before and I was curious what would happen, so I clicked to repost, and of course it then shot to the top of the front page.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642