By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026Now, the clause "as far as I can tell" is doing a *lot* of work in that sentence. I am reasonably math literate, up to first-year calculus and a lifetime spent around my father (a mathematician). 3/ 1240
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026However, I have never heard of "the Jacobian conjecture," and while I know what all the words in the first paragraph of the relevant Wikipedia entry mean, I can't parse any of the sentences they form: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobia... 4/en.wikipedia.orgJacobian conjecture - Wikipedia 2300
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026In other words, I lack the discernment to evaluate the output of the chatbot that Tao exchanged theories with. Show me an equally opaque transcript of a "conversation" between a chatbot and a crank with AI psychosis whose math made no sense whatsoever. 5/ 1411
Keith Avery @slabgorb.com · 28/07/2026Me reading the wikipedia - Ok, sure.. then I read this part "the Jacobian conjecture for n variables states that if a polynomial function from an n-dimensional space to itself has a Jacobian determinant that is a non-zero constant, then the function has a polynomial inverse; the two-variable..." 000
