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Lin Yang @lyang36 · 12h I used GPT to solve a problem that I had wanted to solve ten years ago but couldn't: arxiv.org/abs/2608.22247. Throughout the process, I felt that my only role was to teach the AI how to write things in a way that I could understand. Its initial language was extremely condensed—so compressed that I could barely follow it—but somehow the AI agents themselves seemed to understand it perfectly well. I increasingly feel that every theoretical field that relies on a large amount of public knowledge plus logical reasoning is going to undergo a profound transformation. What will the role of humans be then? Will we only need to ask the right questions? Universities will also change profoundly. What should universities teach students in the future? [link card] arxiv.org Near-Optimal Bounds for Sketching the Schatten--1 Norm
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Tweet by Lin Yang (verified) reporting that GPT helped solve a ten-year-old open problem, with a link card to an arXiv paper on sketching the Schatten-1 norm; reflects on the human role and the future of universities.
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