Math research is now compute-bottlenecked — build problem scaling ladders, says researcher
sangmichaelxie · x · 2026-09-14
sangmichaelxie empathizes that math research is now bottlenecked by compute rather than researcher brainpower, echoing AI's shift once experiments outgrew a single GPU. He suggests math build problem scaling ladders, validate approaches at small scale first, or create harder evals.
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