Po-Shen Loh on Terence Tao's Blog: Why We Still Need Human Mathematicians
CMU mathematician Po-Shen Loh published a guest post on Terence Tao's blog titled 'Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?', following OpenAI's claim on a Navier-Stokes variant. Loh hand-wrote the essay himself in vim, with only web formatting aided by Claude.
2026-09-20 ~ 2026-09-20 · 4 related posts
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- Po-Shen Loh on Terence Tao's blog: why AI-era math still needs human mathematicians — stevenstrogatz · 2026-09-20
- Po-Shen Loh on Terence Tao's blog: why we still need human mathematicians in the AI era — stevenstrogatz · 2026-09-20
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