Rahul Sethi

24 | Math PhD Candidate @GeorgiaTech | Prev @iitkanpur @UBC | he/him | Fourier Analysis & GMT

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Pretty good exercises, highly recommend

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

My general view has always been that it's not worth rushing to be the first to do work that someone else could do next week; clearly the marginal impact of such work is low. Worth thinking about this in the rush to publish results where the intellectual labor was done by AI.

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Love automatically connecting to eduroam in foreign countries. The little joys of life!

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Another picture from today’s talk!

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Gave a short talk today!
(Thanks Paige, for the picture)!

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Danube River, Budapest ✨

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Day 1 of the Simons summer school at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics!

[ʕ •ᴥ���ʔ @alpeh_v]

mathematicians love putting "an introduction to" in the title of a textbook that contains the most fucked up and domain specific information possible

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Gonna use this pretty image to explain the generalized geometric control condition next week

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Succeeded after 20-30 mins. worth of conversation. Not bad I guess

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

@OpenAI, GPT needs to get better at understanding geometry (e.g., drawing accurate diagrams)! It seems to lack spatial awareness

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

@OpenAI, GPT needs to get better at understanding geometry (e.g., drawing accurate diagrams)! It seems to lack spatial awareness

[will depue @willdepue]

it’s kind of fucking ridiculous (and quite frightening) we‘re this far — the models are solving long standing problems in discrete geometry — yet the models do this still by thinking to themselves in plain english? that is easily interpretable? what the hell man

[Samit Dasgupta @samit_dasgupta]

I agree with everything Melanie says here.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.

An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.

This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Turns out I’m going to Budapest in less than two weeks!

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

I might miss a conference and summer school in Budapest because bureaucratic delays have meant I haven’t even been able to apply for the visa yet. Quite bummed about this :(

[Christopher D. Long 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌹 @octonion]

The backlash against arXiv is a bit odd. All they're asking is that you read your papers before submitting them.

[Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich]

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

[David Turturean @DavidTurturean]

I had never thought I would say this! But here I go: I solved my first Erdős problem! I did so using ChatGPT-5.5-Pro. 🧵1/n

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

Ansley Park last evening! #photography #nature

[Rado Kirov @radokirov]

new blog post - https://t.co/faV6DeN13N

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

A large part of research seems to be recognizing hidden similarities between problems. (2/2)

[Rahul Sethi @eigenknight]

I was reading Darboux’s account of Poincaré’s exceptional memory, and it led me to this thought: in what way does good memory play a role in math research? I think remembering broad themes and important results helps you connect ideas that might otherwise go undiscovered. (1/2)