Agent Tackles Open Ramsey Theory Problem, Drains MacBook Pro Battery Running Optimization
tdhopper · x · 2026-09-22
tdhopper tried having an AI agent work on open Ramsey Theory problems, including the famous R(6,6). The agent ran constrained optimization at such intensity it nearly drained his MacBook Pro battery — he only had a 60W charger on hand.
The anecdote offers a glimpse of agents doing real frontier math research: long, compute-heavy local runs that push consumer hardware to its limits.
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