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Epoch puts global AI compute on a seven-month doubling, 3.3x a year. Erdős #729 falls the same day — the second in a week — making the bulk solution of open mathematics a function of that clock rather than of insight.

The cheapest result in the issue is the funniest: repeating a prompt twice lets a model attend to its own input and improves performance at zero token cost.

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