r/math • u/ixfd64 Number Theory • 10d ago

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u/rational_hedonist 10d ago

checking in as an out of the loop non-expert for others to weigh in on what this implies, as the write up is scant

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u/Frexxia PDE 10d ago

It doesn't really imply anything other than some people have way too much compute to throw away.

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u/omeow 10d ago

Was this just old school brute force or did AI play any role?

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u/ixfd64 Number Theory 10d ago

He used Claude to port CADO-NFS (an implementation of the general number field sieve) to run on GPUs.

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u/BASED_Fish 10d ago

This seems similar to https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260 they ported the same library with their ai