OpenAI's math drop sparks take: future of science looks like GitHub, not journals
generativist · x · 2026-10-10
Reacting to OpenAI's math model release, developer xlr8harder argues that the future of many sciences will look more like GitHub than journals and preprint servers — with research living as continuously iterated, openly collaborative repos rather than one-off papers.
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