Applied mathematicians' new job: digesting AI's 'alien-mind' output
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-11
A widely shared quip argues that applied mathematicians have always painfully digested the esoteric 'alien-mind' output of pure mathematicians to make it useful — and that, with LLMs, this is now their job again. The analogy frames AI output as similarly abstruse, requiring specialists to translate it into practical applications.
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