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Hobbyists attempt all 675 open Erdős problems at once

development2026-01-27

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Hobbyists are using GPT-5.2 to attempt every one of the 675 open Erdős problems, treating mathematical discovery as a GPU workload, while Nvidia opened Earth-2, a suite of accelerated AI climate models.

Reported metric: 675 problems

Reporting date: 2026-01-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Hobbyists attempt all 675 open Erdős problems at once
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Reporting date: 2026-01-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-27-hobbyists-attempt-all-675-erdos
Claim: Hobbyists are using GPT-5.2 to attempt every one of the 675 open Erdős problems, treating mathematical discovery as a GPU workload, while Nvidia opened Earth-2, a suite of accelerated AI climate models.
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- Welcome to January 27, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-27-2026
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