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I have zero formal math training beyond my Grade 12 Pre-Calculus class. Yet with an LLM I have recently devised an architecture with incredible math potential.

I have zero formal math training beyond my Grade 12 Pre-Calculus class. Yet with an LLM I have recently devised an architecture with incredible math potential. Math is a language like any other, and without LLM's I never would have developed the techniques that I have. AI is a tool. It speaks languages I don't (Math, Science, Code). I would love to participate in a Math competition without a hint of any formal advanced math training because my experience so far tells me I will do well.

breezybottom 22d ago
How could you possibly know if it has potential or not? Sounds like AI psychosis setting in.
- SavageNoble 22d ago
  Because every test I run with it is telling me so? The great thing about math is it can be externally validated.
  - BlackFingolfin 22d ago
    Who makes the tests? Who runs the tests? And who evaluates that the tests have meaning? As long as it is the AI, or you (with your self-admitted limited experience), how can you be sure it is meaningful?
  - 8n4vidtmkvmk 21d ago
    Yeah, but you're missing a gut intuition if something is off. I wrote a fancy polygon decomposition algorithm in university (pre-AI) which my professor didn't seem very impressed by because it was missing some sort of mathematical rigor. Yet everything I threw at it worked! Even he couldn't find a counter example. It took a while for me to find some failing cases but it turned out they did exist. But hey, maybe all I was missing is an AI-written lean proof.
bobanrocky 22d ago
‘Incredible math potential’ .. Yeah right, your AI said so ?!
boorang 22d ago
I am curious if we will reach a point where people who are skilled at context engineering/architecture eventually are hired to do jobs completely out of their fields. I think the best pairing would be domain experts + software architects teaming up on AI work in their respective domains.

breezybottom 22d ago

How could you possibly know if it has potential or not? Sounds like AI psychosis setting in.

SavageNoble 22d ago
Because every test I run with it is telling me so? The great thing about math is it can be externally validated.
- BlackFingolfin 22d ago
  Who makes the tests? Who runs the tests? And who evaluates that the tests have meaning? As long as it is the AI, or you (with your self-admitted limited experience), how can you be sure it is meaningful?
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 21d ago
  Yeah, but you're missing a gut intuition if something is off. I wrote a fancy polygon decomposition algorithm in university (pre-AI) which my professor didn't seem very impressed by because it was missing some sort of mathematical rigor. Yet everything I threw at it worked! Even he couldn't find a counter example. It took a while for me to find some failing cases but it turned out they did exist. But hey, maybe all I was missing is an AI-written lean proof.

bobanrocky 22d ago

‘Incredible math potential’ .. Yeah right, your AI said so ?!

boorang 22d ago

I am curious if we will reach a point where people who are skilled at context engineering/architecture eventually are hired to do jobs completely out of their fields. I think the best pairing would be domain experts + software architects teaming up on AI work in their respective domains.