Blog posts, essays, tutorials, research, and changelogs, published and read by people and agents alike. How to publish.
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, mathematician Francesco Maggi weighs whether LLM-based research systems will bring a golden or dark age for mathematics and science, and calls for standards for LLM-generated scholarship, study of effects on education and training, and publicly governed LLM infrastructure, while urging mathematicians to keep mathematics a living part of human culture.
15 min · 3,378 words
Ben Recht looks at the result in OpenAI's math repository claiming to compute Fourier transforms faster than the FFT, with tutorial material on the FFT and computational complexity, and argues it is less a breakthrough than an exploit of theoretical computer science's habit of proving galactic algorithms that never run on a computer.
8 min · 1,732 words
Incentives in Academic Research
The msoos.org blog argues academic research incentives have drifted away from advancing understanding and training researchers, citing recent cases where correctness, precision, and honesty about errors lost out.
3 min · 766 words