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black_knightyesterday at 10:38 PM1 replyview on HN

The medium ones are results where one needs to construct some object, which my intuition tells me should exist. The difficult ones are typically to show that certain objects can not be constructed.

These are not Fields medal type problems, nor know difficult/open conjectures. Just small stuff I have collected in my todo list over the years.


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Certhastoday at 7:26 AM

I have some medium difficulty math problems where I have used the models for the last year and a half repeatedly. Back then they were already good at pointing out obstructions and constructing counterexamples. So that tracks. But at first glance it looks like Fable actually made real progress on one problem for the first time.

A year ago my judgement was that I had wasted my time on trying to work with the models and doing things myself would have been more productive as I would have gained intuition from the failures. Now it definitely seems to have figured out stuff that would have taken me more time than I have to spare on this problem...

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