The abelian sandpile of research mathematics
Written without AI Everyone is still struggling to understand what exactly happened on October 6 when OpenAI dropped its 372-theorem “mathocalypse”. Is AI "the end of math as we know it"? Is mathemati
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The feedback loop of mathematics research
In the wake of OpenAI's announcement of their solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the many other announcements of AI-discovered research breakthrough we've been seeing on a weekly — sometimes d
On (provably) writing without AI
Disclosure: this blog is written without AI. Every single word you read in any of the posts here came from my brain (including the word "disclosure" at the beginning of this sentence: an ironic choice
Some recent AI-produced mathematical advances and their significance
Related post: A historic day for mathematics The last several weeks have seen a dizzying array of announcements of noteworthy (and in some cases very significant) mathematical advances discovered auto
Can Claude Code get a job as a 3D animator?
Related post: Can Claude Code get a job as an ML engineer? I’ve been interested in 3D animation, and particularly in Blender, for a number of years. Earlier this year, as Claude Code has exponentially
AI and Asimov's The Feeling of Power
I used to read a lot of science-fiction growing up, including voraciously reading anything I could lay my hands on that was written by Isaac Asimov. It's been fun to see how over the last few years As
A historic day for mathematics
May 20, 2026 will be remembered as an important milestone in the history of mathematics. It marks the first time when a breakthrough on an important, well-known mathematics research problem was made b
Can Claude Code get a job as an ML engineer?
Claude Code is so good at coding that it’s easy to forget how much it knows about so many other useful areas of knowledge. I was reminded of this recently when I was coding up a suite of pedagogical M
The Future of Mathematics Symposium
I attended Day 1 of the Future of Mathematics Symposium at Stanford last Friday May 1. I was unable to attend in person on the second day but watched the Day 2 lectures on YouTube. It was a fun, star-