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Terence Tao

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So the project is almost complete.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So these 22 million, all but two have been settled.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Wow.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Well, actually, and of those two, we have a pen and paper proof.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

of the two, and we're formalizing it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

In fact, this morning I was working on finishing it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So we're almost done on this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

It's incredible.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Yeah, fantastic.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

How many people were able to get it?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

About 50, which in mathematics is considered a huge number.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

It's a huge number.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

That's crazy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So we're going to have a paper with 50 authors and a big appendix of who contributed what.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

The beauty of these lean projects is that automatically you get all this data.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So like everything's uploaded to this GitHub and GitHub tracks who contributed what.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So you could generate statistics at any later point in time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

You could say, oh, this person contributed this many lines of code or whatever.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

I mean, these are very crude metrics.