Math-trained ML engineer trains AI to crack open problems, sees real progress
shuchaobi · x · 2026-10-03
The author, a math major who pivoted from Olympiad problems to open research questions and then into applied ML, now focuses on training AI models to solve open problems rather than tackling them alone. Collaborating with grad-school friends who are now math professors, the team has made meaningful progress on an open problem in arithmetic physics. He argues math is like a vastly expanded game of Go — structured and self-verifying — making it uniquely suited for AI, and industry progress on this trajectory has been phenomenal.
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