#matherrors — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grandrapidsnews/116873300072733799

Sooo... #BDO - the world's 5th largest #accounting firm - has just hired a local guy as their new US #CEO , who says his focus will be on audit #quality _and_ #AI adoption. (which reminds me of a slightly reworked addage of: "Do you want it fast with AI, or correct without it?)

I wonder if he's read the insiders report from #OpenAI on the universally expected and unrepairable #MathErrors that #LLM training has cemented into AI?

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

Report PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷‍♂️📚
https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated

Beware of Fast-Math

https://simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath/

#HackerNews #Beware #of #Fast-Math #FastMath #MathErrors #ComputationalAccuracy #SoftwareDevelopment