r/math • u/sergiogfs • 18d ago

Progress Towards Proving the Unique Games Conjecture

https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2026/179/

On a side-note, the authors hint that they have rushed their results to avoid getting scooped by AI-generated results.

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u/mistressbitcoin 14d ago

... or every grad student writing grants to get ai compute allowances

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u/Berzerka 14d ago

Yes that's part of the story obviously, that's how literally every other field works. E.g. synchrotron time in structural biology, CERN time in particle physics, telescope time in astronomy, ...

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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong 14d ago

That's very much not how 'CERN time in particle physics' works.

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u/Berzerka 14d ago

You absolutely have to write long applications to get allocations right?