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[โ€“] Kolrami@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In a non-Euclidean space you can have values of pi that aren't even constant. The first that came to mind was the surface of a sphere. This is actually an interesting problem.

[โ€“] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, bad choice of words, the point is that the model is going to generate loads of garbage imitating scientific text, as if real humans making errors (or sometimes intentionally putting out dubious works, fabricating experimental data etc) were not enough.