Korbonits

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Alex Korbonits. I write about machine learning, software, and books.

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Blog 3 months ago
Who Writes the Question
OpenAI shipped ten open problems with Lean certificates. I built all 550,000 lines and checked what they rest on. Everything passed - and the only thing left to trust is 1,700 lines of definitions written by the same system that wrote the proofs.
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Blog 4 months ago
Trust Nothing, Verify Everything: reproducing the Jacobian counterexample from my couch
The Jacobian conjecture fell yesterday, during the World Cup final, via a tweet. Wikipedia still says it
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Blog 4 months ago
I Killed a Container and It Came Back
I can design batch, real-time, and streaming inference - the data plane. But I
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Blog 5 months ago
Easier to Convince Than to Prove
Two posts ago I quoted a warning: an AI will find it easier to convince you it has a proof than to write one. A middling new paper finally put a number on that gap - 0.99 against 0.55.
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Blog 6 months ago
Who Verifies the Verifier
An AI built the machine I said mathematics needed - a compiler that verifies proofs for cents instead of expert weekends. The catch is what it still can
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Blog 6 months ago
Same-Day Model Integration: ESMC + ESMFold2 in Sheaf v0.11
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub released a new protein language model and structure predictor this morning. Sheaf v0.11 shipped with both, same day. The story is less about hustle and more about what a typed serving contract buys you when a new model lands.
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Blog 6 months ago
The Verification Problem
An AI disproved one of Erdős
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Blog 6 months ago
What If the Feature Store Had Git Built In?
A weekend spike asked whether Dolt's AS OF reads could replace the ROW_NUMBER dedupe at the heart of every feature store's point-in-time join. Four weeks later, the RFC is quiet and the plugin's get_historical_features works end-to-end against a live Dolt
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Blog 7 months ago
A Room of One's Own, in a Bleak House
A personal arc through writing classes I never finished, the temptation of the word processor, social media as voyeurism, and the late realization that
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