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Re:Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Dec... by techwizrd on Friday March 07, 2025 @07:24AM (#43289594)
Is this quote real? I'm familiar with George Pólya's, "If you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve first a simpler related problem" but I cannot find any source for the Lenstra quote.
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Re:Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Dec... by gessha on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:25AM (#43289950)
I also found it connected to Polya [1]

https://www.pleacher.com/mp/mquotes/mobquote.html

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Re:Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Dec... by isaacfrond on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:03PM (#43293153)
I’ve heard him say it myself in a lecture on the AKS primality test. So, ehh, the source is oral tradition I guess.
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Re:Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Dec... by v1t on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:14PM (#43294745)
yeah https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/16qgwcv/if_you_cant...
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