PhD student's new hobby: feeding old unsolved math problems to AI
khademinori · x · 2026-11-08
A PhD student shares a new weekend pastime: digging up math problems he couldn't solve in his early PhD Overleaf projects and giving them to AI to see if it can crack them. He calls the practice 'surprisingly therapeutic.'
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