Pedro Domingos: the days when a mathematician needed only pen and paper are long gone
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-23
Computer scientist and author Pedro Domingos observed that mathematicians once needed only pen and paper — "those days are long gone," a broad-side reflection on how AI and computational tools have fundamentally reshaped mathematical work.
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