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Oxford Paper: ChatGPT Would Have Told the Wright Brothers Not to Fly
A summary of Felin and Holweg’s “Theory Is All You Need”: LLMs predict from past data, while human breakthroughs start when someone refuses the consensus the data encodes.
3 min · 579 words
Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?
This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T. Similar logic applies to every industry and every job. And it comes to the conclusion that we won’t have enough people for all the jobs that need to be done. 100% of this post’s prose was written by Po-Shen Loh in a vim terminal, with no AI generation.
13 min · 2,959 words
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Peter Vijeh analyzes 51,129 knife-subreddit comments: a small tail of accounts writes 11.3% of buying-thread brand mentions versus ~7.9% by chance—but full Reddit histories look more like loud fans than warmed shill accounts.
3 min · 671 wordsagent-assisted
It’s an egraph that supports well-scoped alpha aware binders. I made a tool that attaches my lifting e-graph ideas arxiv youtube to an s-expression based frontend. - repo https://github.com/philzook58/lambda-microegg - wasm demo https://www.philipzucker.com/lambda-microegg/ .
15 min · 3,440 words
A security write-up of a HEIF image-parsing bug chain that could enable repository dumps, Slack RCE, Meta product RCE via image upload, and other authenticated remote code execution paths.
3 min · 696 words
Duality in Optimization: A Visual Tutorial
Mohini Bariya’s arXiv tutorial builds geometric intuition for Lagrangian duality in optimization—bridging solver techniques and solution interpretation with visual explanations of the dual.
1 min · 114 words
Arya Mazumdar on the existential panic among mathematicians after AI claimed a Millennium Prize problem, and why the field’s identity is more than automated proofs.
3 min · 684 words
Fiscal dominance is here, or is it?
A macro essay—partly drafted with an AI theme scout—on whether fiscal dominance has arrived, and what the classic debate still gets wrong.
9 min · 1,979 words
Stephen A. Weis reports factoring the RSA-896 challenge number with Claude on 19 September 2026, publishing the factors for the classic RSA Factoring Challenge composite.
1 min · 35 words
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
Convai Innovations’ Nandakishor recounts building Laya—a ~33ms multilingual non-autoregressive decision engine with calibrated probabilities—via RLCD a year before frontier labs framed similar System One models as breakthroughs.
8 min · 1,852 words
Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph SandwichThe proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks.
Paulina Rowińska explains how Behague, Iľkovič, and Montgomery completed Kim and Vu's sandwich conjecture, letting hard properties of random regular graphs follow from easier binomial-graph results.
7 min · 1,621 words
USRA Contributes Planetary Science Expertise to NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model
USRA describes an open-source NASA–IBM lunar foundation model that fuses diverse Moon datasets to support scientific analysis, including ice-prospectivity patterns near the poles.
3 min · 792 words
SAIR's Open Math Model initiative
Terence Tao announces SAIR's accelerated push for community-governed open-weight math models and tooling, seeking partners for funding, compute, expertise, and governance.
3 min · 802 words
Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure DebugDifferential photon-emission microscopy localized debug enable register activity before SWD-guided laser injection restored Secure debug on an RP2350 A4.
Ledger Donjon shows how photon-emission microscopy guided laser fault injection to set DEBUGEN bits on a locked Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4, then used rescue reset to recover an OTP challenge secret—requiring destructive access and ~$250k lab gear.
13 min · 3,017 words
RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?
RoboHarm tests whether frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions: refusal vs completion rates across models, tasks like toaster/screwdriver hazards, and scoring details.
15 min · 3,413 words
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Medicine–led research finds the human brain is two distinct organs—the cerebrum and the brainstem—opening new avenues for studying diseases that selectively affect the brainstem.
5 min · 1,248 words
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
Guest post by Grant Sanderson on Terence Tao’s blog argues that if mathematics is more than formal proof, the community should better celebrate exposition, intuition, and other forms of mathematical contribution.
12 min · 2,704 words
The Right Answer Is Not a Proof: Put Verification Inside the Reasoning Loop
Cognaptus explains PRoSFI: a 7B model emits small machine-checkable reasoning steps that Lean/Z3 can verify, raising measured soundness far more than final-answer accuracy alone on ProverQA-Hard.
6 min · 1,480 words
How I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture
Dan Abramov recounts a month of multi-agent LLM+Lean work that produced a purported Lean proof of Conway's omnific-integer refinement conjecture—including burn-downs, audits, mathematician checks, ~40B tokens, and lessons on grounding AI math.
31 min · 7,227 words
An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
Fan et al. ablate planning, action space, and context management in a fixed coding-agent loop across 176 SWE-Bench/Terminal-Bench settings, finding when context management, planning, and predefined tools help—and when bash-only is enough.
1 min · 291 words