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- by topsrek
- who knew the primary utility of pure math would be to juice pre-ipo valuations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯by tusimi
- ??? this is unreadable lol. i feel like i understand the math behind it but the writing is so unintelligible that i dont even care about the results.
- What is this AI-generated gobbledygook actually trying to say? That there are infinitely many pairs of primes p,q with q=p+186?
The first equation under "The result" seems to be saying they found an infinite sequence of primes whose density is forever greater than 1/186, which doesn't match my understanding of how prime density works.
by quuxplusone - blegh, both the code comments and readme reek of verbose claude puke.
> The registered Lean build passed without errors or warnings.
thanks. i like it when my proofs do not error.
Edit: just saw this was published under openai, yikes.
by ramon156 - Related ongoing thread:
GPT-6 Astra - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554643
(see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555621 from there)
by dang - Context - according to Wikipedia [0], just a few days ago someone posted a proof of a bound of 240 [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31126
by ks2048