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kept by eddie nov 28, 25

The space of cognitive tasks is high-dimensional, so low-dimensional narratives comparing AI and human intelligence are significant oversimplifications.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
A 23-year-old with no math background used ChatGPT Pro to solve a 60-year-old Erdős problem, producing a novel method that experts believe may have broader applications.
also on Terence Tao, #ai-research, #ai
The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived
Since mid-2025, AI models have begun proving new mathematical results at an accelerating pace, with mathematicians reporting discoveries that would have taken weeks now achieved in days.
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[2508.15260] Deep Think with Confidence
Deep Think with Confidence (DeepConf) uses model confidence signals to filter low-quality reasoning traces, achieving up to 99.9% accuracy on AIME 2025 with 84.7% fewer tokens.
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What (I think) makes Gemini 3 Flash so good and fast
Gemini 3 Flash likely uses a massive 1.2 trillion-parameter ultra-sparse MoE architecture, activating only 5–30 billion parameters per inference to deliver high intelligence at low cost, though it suffers from token bloat and a 91% hallucination rate on refusals.
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