From biologists, math could learn to live with AI
This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Despite writing papers in pure mathematics, much of my time in the past decade was spent talking (mostly listening, to be accurate) to biologists, computer scientists, and physicists. Theoretical physics and computer science are grounded in mathematics and thus share much of our language and, to some extent, our culture. The barriers between biology and mathematics are an order of magnitude higher.
- ▪This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Despite writing papers in pure mathematics, much of my time in the past decade was spent talking (mostly listening, to be accurate) to biologists,
- ▪Theoretical physics and computer science are grounded in mathematics and thus share much of our language and, to some extent, our culture.
- ▪The barriers between biology and mathematics are an order of magnitude higher.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 6,210 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | What's new |
| Canonical URL | https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/open-problems-open-mathematics/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:04:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T00:15:09.424Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T00:15:09.424Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | RPs2C4s7v-MZ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
[This is a guest post by Antonio Auffinger. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Despite writing papers in pure mathematics, much of my time in the past decade was spent talking (mostly listening, to be accurate) to biologists, computer scientists, and physicists. Theoretical physics and computer science are grounded in mathematics and thus share much of our language and, to some extent, our culture. The barriers between biology and mathematics are an order of magnitude higher. I am convinced that biologists are part of a different species. The language, incentives, culture, training, and everything else you might think of appear to be completely disconnected from the way we do mathematics.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at What's new.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from What's new
