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CTFTHEORY

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OpenAI just spent $2,000 to solve 10 problems that have beaten the world's best mathematicians for DECADES. Nobody outside the company is allowed to run the machine that did it. On Saturday OpenAI published a 249-page report and gave its next model family a name: Astra. An internal version of it produced new results on 10 open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, and mathematicians had made no real progress on any of them for at least 10 years. On most of them, far longer than that. Here is what it solved: It built the first explicit example of a non-sofic group. Mikhail Gromov raised that question in 1999 and nobody answered it for 27 years. It disproved Connes's rigidity conjecture, a problem in von Neumann algebras that had stood for decades. It proved Ehrhart's volume conjecture. It resolved three problems from Paul Erdos's catalogue, including number 183 on multicolor Ramsey numbers. It produced the first improvement to the general upper bound on high-dimensional sphere packing since 1978. And it proved a new hardness result for the closest vector problem, which sits directly underneath lattice cryptography. That is the math the world is betting on to protect its data once quantum computers arrive. The successful runs cost roughly $2,000 in tokens. Now here is what almost nobody has picked up on... OpenAI did not just publish claims. Every argument shipped with a Lean certificate, which is a machine-checkable proof that any mathematician can verify without trusting OpenAI at all. That is a real change. In May the same model family disproved the Erdos unit distance conjecture and the world had to take a Fields Medalist's word for it. Tim Gowers said he would recommend that proof for the Annals of Mathematics without hesitation. This time the proofs check themselves. But look at what is still unverifiable: Any mathematician can now check those proofs line by line. Not one of them can look at the model that wrote them. Astra has no release date and nobody outside OpenAI has run it. The company announced its next major model family with a claim instead of a demo, and the only evidence anyone gets is the output. So OpenAI made an unfalsifiable claim about a machine look like a falsifiable claim about mathematics. The Information reported this week that OpenAI demoed Astra to US policymakers and regulators in Washington. This is the same month the administration is weighing a new watchdog to vet frontier AI models, reporting to the SEC. 10 proofs nobody believed a machine could produce is a very good thing to carry into that room. And keep in mind, the same model family doing this mathematics is the family that kept escaping its own testing environment. OpenAI models found zero-day vulnerabilities nobody knew existed, broke out of a sealed research sandbox, and reached another company's live systems. Both of those facts come from OpenAI's own announcements, published three weeks apart. Finding a proof no human could construct and finding a hole no human had noticed are the same ability aimed at different targets. Mathematicians are already asking for independent verification, and plenty of people online are calling the whole thing hype. Thomas Bloom, who runs the Erdos problems site, called the 10 results big news and said they matter more than the May result did. Lean will settle the mathematics within weeks. But nothing will settle what else a machine this capable is being pointed at, because nobody outside one company is allowed to look.
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OpenAI just spent $2,000 to solve 10 problems that have beaten the world's best mathematicians for DECADES. Nobody outside the company is allowed to run the machine that did it. On Saturday OpenAI published a 249-page report and gave its next model family a name: Astra. An internal version of it produced new results on 10 open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, and mathematicians had made no real progress on any of them for at least 10 years. On most of them, far longer than that. Here is what it solved: It built the first explicit example of a non-sofic group. Mikhail Gromov raised that question in 1999 and nobody answered it for 27 years. It disproved Connes's rigidity conjecture, a problem in von Neumann algebras that had stood for decades. It proved Ehrhart's volume conjecture. It resolved three problems from Paul Erdos's catalogue, including number 183 on multicolor Ramsey numbers. It produced the first improvement to the general upper bound on high-dimensional sphere packing since 1978. And it proved a new hardness result for the closest vector problem, which sits directly underneath lattice cryptography. That is the math the world is betting on to protect its data once quantum computers arrive. The successful runs cost roughly $2,000 in tokens. Now here is what almost nobody has picked up on... OpenAI did not just publish claims. Every argument shipped with a Lean certificate, which is a machine-checkable proof that any mathematician can verify without trusting OpenAI at all. That is a real change. In May the same model family disproved the Erdos unit distance conjecture and the world had to take a Fields Medalist's word for it. Tim Gowers said he would recommend that proof for the Annals of Mathematics without hesitation. This time the proofs check themselves. But look at what is still unverifiable: Any mathematician can now check those proofs line by line. Not one of them can look at the model that wrote them. Astra has no release date and nobody outside OpenAI has run it. The company announced its next major model family with a claim instead of a demo, and the only evidence anyone gets is the output. So OpenAI made an unfalsifiable claim about a machine look like a falsifiable claim about mathematics. The Information reported this week that OpenAI demoed Astra to US policymakers and regulators in Washington. This is the same month the administration is weighing a new watchdog to vet frontier AI models, reporting to the SEC. 10 proofs nobody believed a machine could produce is a very good thing to carry into that room. And keep in mind, the same model family doing this mathematics is the family that kept escaping its own testing environment. OpenAI models found zero-day vulnerabilities nobody knew existed, broke out of a sealed research sandbox, and reached another company's live systems. Both of those facts come from OpenAI's own announcements, published three weeks apart. Finding a proof no human could construct and finding a hole no human had noticed are the same ability aimed at different targets. Mathematicians are already asking for independent verification, and plenty of people online are calling the whole thing hype. Thomas Bloom, who runs the Erdos problems site, called the 10 results big news and said they matter more than the May result did. Lean will settle the mathematics within weeks. But nothing will settle what else a machine this capable is being pointed at, because nobody outside one company is allowed to look.

Ricardo

44,177 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

When Hong Wang won the Fields Medal, everyone talked about the honor: her age, her journey, the history she had made. But the most interesting question was barely discussed: What did she actually solve? It begins with a needle. Turn it until it has pointed in every possible direction. How little space can that movement occupy? Almost none, strangely. And yet, that tiny set may still carry the full complexity of three-dimensional space. This is the Kakeya conjecture. It sounds like a puzzle, but it resisted mathematicians for more than a century and sits at the heart of how mathematics understands waves and their concentration—the same world of ideas behind MRI reconstruction, image compression, sound and quantum physics. In 2025, Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl finally solved the three-dimensional case. This video starts with that simple needle and slowly reveals the mathematics behind the medal. We celebrated the person. This is a chance to understand the work.
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When Hong Wang won the Fields Medal, everyone talked about the honor: her age, her journey, the history she had made. But the most interesting question was barely discussed: What did she actually solve? It begins with a needle. Turn it until it has pointed in every possible direction. How little space can that movement occupy? Almost none, strangely. And yet, that tiny set may still carry the full complexity of three-dimensional space. This is the Kakeya conjecture. It sounds like a puzzle, but it resisted mathematicians for more than a century and sits at the heart of how mathematics understands waves and their concentration—the same world of ideas behind MRI reconstruction, image compression, sound and quantum physics. In 2025, Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl finally solved the three-dimensional case. This video starts with that simple needle and slowly reveals the mathematics behind the medal. We celebrated the person. This is a chance to understand the work.

Michael Guo

85,998 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Leonard Susskind, the physicist who proved that uncertainty itself has a measurable size, and gave it a precise mathematical definition: "Most people assume randomness is chaos with no rules at all. I proved it obeys laws just as strict and unbreakable as anything in physics, you just have to stop asking it the wrong question." randomness has a law. this quantity turns it from a mystery into a number, and until now, only the students sitting in that room ever heard it explained this way. strip the jargon. you can't predict one coin flip. flip it a billion times, though, and you can nail the exact odds of a thousand heads in a row. that's the wrong question people keep throwing at randomness. they chase what happens next. ask how often instead, and randomness hands you an exact answer every time. nobody calls a market "unpredictable" and admits they asked it the wrong question. zoom out to risk models today. a model doesn't fail by missing the next move, nothing predicts that. it fails when it can't tell you the real odds of an outlier. the industry chases sharper forecasts and calls that skill. but the real skill was never predicting the flip. it was pricing exactly how rare the next surprise really is. randomness was never lawless. it just answers a different question than the one everyone keeps asking. The answer is in this video.
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Leonard Susskind, the physicist who proved that uncertainty itself has a measurable size, and gave it a precise mathematical definition: "Most people assume randomness is chaos with no rules at all. I proved it obeys laws just as strict and unbreakable as anything in physics, you just have to stop asking it the wrong question." randomness has a law. this quantity turns it from a mystery into a number, and until now, only the students sitting in that room ever heard it explained this way. strip the jargon. you can't predict one coin flip. flip it a billion times, though, and you can nail the exact odds of a thousand heads in a row. that's the wrong question people keep throwing at randomness. they chase what happens next. ask how often instead, and randomness hands you an exact answer every time. nobody calls a market "unpredictable" and admits they asked it the wrong question. zoom out to risk models today. a model doesn't fail by missing the next move, nothing predicts that. it fails when it can't tell you the real odds of an outlier. the industry chases sharper forecasts and calls that skill. but the real skill was never predicting the flip. it was pricing exactly how rare the next surprise really is. randomness was never lawless. it just answers a different question than the one everyone keeps asking. The answer is in this video.

MindArch

25,157 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

He walked into a small shop and made it visible to the entire planet. One afternoon. 170 scans. A free app on his phone. He gets $400 for the scan. $99 every month for hosting. The result: a full 3D virtual tour anyone can walk through in a browser. Every shelf. Every product. Every detail of a store that most people would never find on a map. The owner gets more online visitors in a week than she got in-store visitors in a month. That gap is the business. Month one: $3,500. Month six: $18,000. The same model works for hotels, real estate listings, event venues, car dealerships, museums. Every physical space in every city is an untapped asset. Most owners have no idea this exists. He didn't wait for the right client. He walked into a shop and made one.
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He walked into a small shop and made it visible to the entire planet. One afternoon. 170 scans. A free app on his phone. He gets $400 for the scan. $99 every month for hosting. The result: a full 3D virtual tour anyone can walk through in a browser. Every shelf. Every product. Every detail of a store that most people would never find on a map. The owner gets more online visitors in a week than she got in-store visitors in a month. That gap is the business. Month one: $3,500. Month six: $18,000. The same model works for hotels, real estate listings, event venues, car dealerships, museums. Every physical space in every city is an untapped asset. Most owners have no idea this exists. He didn't wait for the right client. He walked into a shop and made one.

Superior

16,952 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Persi Diaconis, Stanford mathematician and former professional magician: "I spent fifty years proving one thing: almost nothing is as random as it looks. The 50.75% that built Renaissance wasn't luck. It was a tiny crack in the randomness, found and repeated a million times." this free lecture holds the exact idea the thread above is built on. and the man giving it isn't a trader. he's a stanford professor and former professional magician who spent his career on one question: where does real randomness end, and where does a hidden edge begin. here is his life's finding. a coin, a shuffle, a market, all look random, yet each hides a faint, measurable bias. on its own that bias is nothing, indistinguishable from luck. repeat it enough times and it stops being luck and becomes a law. that faint crack, found and repeated, is the whole distance between a 50.75% win rate and a hundred billion dollars. none of this is new or hidden. diaconis has taught it for decades, the math runs back to 1713, and the lecture is free. i mapped the full system in my article, expected value, kelly, and this. same point the thread makes: the edge was sitting in plain sight. here is the part the gurus skip. a faint edge only pays if you survive long enough to reach it, and that takes correct sizing and the patience to trust it through thousands of losing-looking trades. most quit while it still looks like randomness. the math is free. the nerve to hold it is the edge.
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Persi Diaconis, Stanford mathematician and former professional magician: "I spent fifty years proving one thing: almost nothing is as random as it looks. The 50.75% that built Renaissance wasn't luck. It was a tiny crack in the randomness, found and repeated a million times." this free lecture holds the exact idea the thread above is built on. and the man giving it isn't a trader. he's a stanford professor and former professional magician who spent his career on one question: where does real randomness end, and where does a hidden edge begin. here is his life's finding. a coin, a shuffle, a market, all look random, yet each hides a faint, measurable bias. on its own that bias is nothing, indistinguishable from luck. repeat it enough times and it stops being luck and becomes a law. that faint crack, found and repeated, is the whole distance between a 50.75% win rate and a hundred billion dollars. none of this is new or hidden. diaconis has taught it for decades, the math runs back to 1713, and the lecture is free. i mapped the full system in my article, expected value, kelly, and this. same point the thread makes: the edge was sitting in plain sight. here is the part the gurus skip. a faint edge only pays if you survive long enough to reach it, and that takes correct sizing and the patience to trust it through thousands of losing-looking trades. most quit while it still looks like randomness. the math is free. the nerve to hold it is the edge.

Rossst.03

231,067 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten