80% of the past 3 years' math progress happened in a single day
aaron_lou · x · 2026-10-07
Avi Krishna went viral claiming that 80% of the past 3 years' progress in mathematics happened in a single day, invoking the famous line "there are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen." The comment is being read as a landmark observation about AI accelerating mathematical research.
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