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Davide Piffer
Personal blog · davidepiffer.com/pscienceai
Davide Piffer writes PifferPilfer, a personal blog at davidepiffer.com about science and ai. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Posts on large language models and AI training data, such as what happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade. The one comment questions whether AGI claims hold given limited training data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explore Davide Piffer’s PCA Atlas, genetic distance explorer, polygenic score maps, book and Substack writing.
Most-linked posts?
- AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-14
What Hacker News says?
Is that really the biggest problem? Or is the bigger problem that, in this case, they will remain stuck at the fifth grade level forever? And does not that also explain why the promises of AGI are chimeric, and why the collapse has already started, given that there is essentially no data left that has not already been siphoned up? Yes, we have all seen the math theorems being proven... just higher processing power a…
Comment linking /p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians
on “What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?”Submitted AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them as a story · 90 points
HN discussionSubmitted Genetic Evolution of the Human Race and Consequences for Industrial Revolution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them as a story · 1 points
HN discussion