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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wikipedia already has a full write up. It looks like Fable simply found an example of a function that had a constant Jacobian determinant (the determinant of the matrix of partial derivatives), but the function was not injective (3 different values of x, y, and z give the function the same value). Basically, the function is not "smooth", so it can't be inverted.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Thanks for adding that link. I had already read it before posting. Unfortunately it doesn't include any meaningful details of how that function was found (presumably because the anthropic guy didn't provide any yet).

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