Math meltdown is revenge of the 'applied people', as LLM skeptics eat crow
mjdramstead · x · 2026-09-13
Oliver Beige weighs in on the ongoing "math meltdown" debate around LLMs: those who spent five years dismissing LLMs as stochastic parrots are now realizing that the "unwashed applied people" can pull off a breakthrough over a weekend instead of waiting 30 years for academia.
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