Mathematician Steven Strogatz uses ChatGPT to unpack what a Navier-Stokes singular solution means physically
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-09-09
Mathematician Steven Strogatz posted a thread explaining that he chatted with ChatGPT on his walk to work to understand what a claimed singular solution to the Navier-Stokes equations would mean physically. He walks through a body of water started from a smooth state—no discontinuities or pathological features—and what the equations predict next, offering a popular-science take on the recent claim of a singular Navier-Stokes solution.
More from Research
- Eric Topol and Derya Unutmaz clash over extrapolating GPT-4 study findings to frontier models — DeryaTR_ · 2026-10-27
- Reasoning models can barely control their chain of thought, paper finds — tomekkorbak · 2026-10-27
- New paper: LLM data schedules and learning rate schedules should be co-designed — jasondeanlee · 2026-10-27
- What makes research get adopted: important problems, proper evals, and usability — srchvrs · 2026-10-27
- First-week PhD student lands ARR Area Chair role, exposing peer-review quirks — anmarasovic · 2026-10-27
- EMNLP keynote: industry does read academic NLP papers, it just rarely credits them — srchvrs · 2026-10-27