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ripped_britchestoday at 3:37 AM3 repliesview on HN

At this point we should make a GitHub repo with a huge list of unsolved “dry lab” problems and spin up a harness to try and solve them all every new release.


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abdullahkhalidstoday at 4:02 AM

There is in fact just such a repo maintained by Terence Tao and other mathematicians [1] who are actively using LLMs to try to find solutions to them.

[1] https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems

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CSMastermindtoday at 4:56 AM

That's literally what the Erdős problems are. This post is about one of them being solved.

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johntopiatoday at 3:51 AM

that's actually a brilliant idea