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Mathematicians have a complicated relationship with artificial intelligence right now. Researchers who've spent careers championing rigorous proof are quietly turning to AI tools to accelerate their work, even as they worry those same tools could hollow out the deep thinking that makes mathematics worth doing in the first place. It's a tension without an easy resolution.
That tension gets more interesting when you consider what AI still can't do. A video circulating this week highlights the final problem from the International Mathematical Olympiad that AI models have so far failed to crack, a reminder that for all the benchmark victories, certain kinds of creative reasoning remain stubbornly out of reach for these systems.
On a lighter note, a small app called Tasks dot txt is making waves among productivity enthusiasts on macOS. The premise is almost aggressively simple — your to-do list lives in a plain text document, nothing more. No dashboards, no integrations, no wellness scores. In an era where software keeps piling on features nobody asked for, sometimes the most radical thing a tool can do is just get out of your way.
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