'STOC, FOCS, SODA in One Shot': Scholar Sizes Up OpenAI's Batch of Mathematical Results
giannis_daras · x · 2026-10-07
Reacting to OpenAI's release of new mathematical results from an internal frontier model, professor Amin Karbasi quipped: 'STOC, FOCS, SODA in one shot' — implying the batch of results meets the bar of all three top theory conferences at once, a one-line measure of their weight and the shockwaves in academia.
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