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rfgplk • yesterday at 12:34 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

This is pretty standard. Important to note that these "errors" (* not really errors) themselves were caught by an LLM, further proving their usefulness.

* The reason you shouldn't consider the withdrawals to be caused by errors is because this is pretty standard in math and development. "Errors" like this are a core aspect of science and it happens _all the time_. And from my research LLMs have a far lower error rate than even the best human scientists.


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mahogany • yesterday at 1:23 PM

It's so funny to see people on Hacker News talk about academic communities that they clearly are not part of. To be clear to anyone reading, no, retracting papers is _not_ standard in math. In math, people submit papers after they have checked with colleagues, they give seminars, they submit it for peer review, etc. It is not shotgunning papers and retracting incorrect ones on the regular. Retracting papers is rare and embarrassing.

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mtlmtlmtlmtl • yesterday at 12:55 PM

Would you care to share your research? What was your methodology? Did you write it up? Is it published?

Or is it the kind of research you'd prefer to keep shrouded in mystery?

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