Academia on the Line

Academia on the Line is a podcast where two mathematicians talk with academics about mathematics, STEM, and higher education. Episode Summary: Two weeks ago, on Labor Day, NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster posted three preprints and a statement detailing some troubling interactions with OpenAI and a need to rush to get his results out with collaborator Levent Alpöge (who works for Anthropic). The next day, OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium prize problem. The...

Academia on the Line is a podcast where two mathematicians talk with academics about mathematics, STEM, and higher education. Episode Summary: OpenAI's recent disproof of Erdős' unit distance conjecture surprised much of the mathematics community and prompted many researchers to reconsider the capabilities of modern reasoning models. In our inaugural episode, Melanie Matchett Wood and Daniel Litt join us to discuss the mathematics behind the result, the nine-author companion paper writt...