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Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI by Levitz on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:17AM (#49183287)
It's just really hard to affirm that something has "no practical use whatsoever". Maybe it doesn't have use "now", maybe it doesn't have "direct" use but can be used for another finding that is useful, Math has a long story of finding out stuff that turns useful later on.
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Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI by stymaar on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:37AM (#49183647)
True. Though ~99% is still useless in the end.
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Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI by boothby on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:14PM (#49184873)
We are not at the end, how could you possibly be confident in this claim?
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Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI by wongarsu on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:23PM (#49186832)
As they say: 80% of marketing is useless, you just don't know in advance which 80%. Same with math
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