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einpoklumtoday at 2:46 PM1 replyview on HN

The actual quote:

> Our full-featured agent autonomously solved 9 Erdős problems out of 353 attempted, including two questions that had been open for 56 years

Note _had_ been open, not _have_ been open. Can you clarify?


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jsnelltoday at 3:02 PM

The original was an actual quote?

But "had" still doesn't mean what you are implying: once the model solved the problems and the solutions were verified, the problems weren't open any more, so a later description using the past tense is totally consistent.