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by tptacek 11 days ago
The introduction to this piece was easy to follow, but as soon as he got into recapitulating it with algebra he lost me (because I'm bad at math). But he includes the GPT5 prompts for his conversation, which are easier to follow:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...

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I like how he goes one-on-one with it like Gandalf fighting Yoda on fifteen planes at once for 80% of the transcript, and then we read "OK, I've activated Pro."
Also note the timestamp: he started working on this thread a few hours after the tweet.
> Clearly one can get from Theorem 3 to Theorem 2 by composing with the isomorphism {X \cong {\bf C}^3} and using the previously mentioned fact that local injectivity implies non-zero constant Jacobian.

I mean, clearly, right?

You and me both, pal.

> I'm bad at math ... he includes the GPT5 prompts for his conversation, which are easier to follow

You were kidding, right?