Hendrik De Bie

@debiehendrik.bsky.social

Mathematician. Professor at UGent.

AI companies scanning and shredding old and rare books is bad, but you should be aware that shredding new, old, and used books is an established practice of selling and marketing books. In fact, hundreds of millions of books are shredded every year discretly, and legally, in Europe alone. #booksky

But I certainly agree that it is tremendously sad that, just as we were making gains against commercial publishing companies who were effectively privatizing publicly funded scientific research, we've lost all that ground again to commercial AI companies doing the same thing on larger scale.

A really good mathematician told me Anthropic is paying people like him $250/hour to improve Fable by throwing hard math problems at it. They also get a separate account where they can use Fable for their own purposes. They can do it for 5 months maximum.

Voor de oudste moet ik tegenwoordig elke avond 'het fluitketeltje' van Annie M.G. Schmidt lezen, en dat staat vol dingen waar ze absoluut geen context over heeft (kolenfornuis, lapjes, zjuu, ...), dus ik ben wat in verbazing dat ze dat zo leuk lijkt te vinden. www.dbnl.org/tekst/schm00...

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This is the weakness of AI. We, as editors, see hundreds of submissions per year. We see the patterns; the probabilistic repetitions; the common structure. The unoriginality becomes visible a mile off, but remains invisible to someone who is using the tool, simply because of the volume we see.

Ontwaken met het nieuws dat collega Denis Constales (veel te vroeg) overleden is. We schreven samen verschillende artikels, en hebben 2 doctorandi samen begeleid. Hij was een zeer belezen man, en was de kampioen van de Laplace transformatie (en een genererende functie hier en daar).

In de hele discussie over airco vraag ik mij af of dat nu al zo gebruikelijk is dat mensen dat hebben. Ik hoor geregeld wel eens van iemand die zo'n draagbaar ding gekocht heeft, maar echt een inbouwinstallatie ken ik toch niet veel mensen.

A nice article on the arXiv: just because LLM-generated Lean proofs compile without "sorry" (essentially a gap that needs filling), it doesn't mean they're correct. It's too easy to get the definitions wrong. I think we all knew this, but it's great to see. #Lean #MathSky

Sorries Are Not the Hard Part: An Expert-Review Case Study of a Semi-Autonomous Formalization

Large language models can often close proof gaps in interactive theorem provers, but a verified theorem is not the same thing as a reusable library contribution. We study this distinction through a…

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