The Day I Stopped Chasing the Prize

The Day I Stopped Chasing the Prize Part 1 of the Room at the Bottom series I was staring at a 10-page LaTeX proof of the Beal Conjecture. 95% rigor. 10,550 adversarial tests. Zero counterexamples. A valuation debt framework that worked. And a $1,000,000 prize waiting. All I had to do was claim the last … Read more

Kernel-Enforced Adversarial Exploration of Hard Conjectures: Three Case Studies

Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Negative Results The Problem with Mathematical AI Every few months, we see headlines: “AI Solves Millennium Problem!” or “Machine Learning Cracks 200-Year-Old Conjecture!” Then, quietly, the retraction. Or worse—silence. The pattern is always the same: AI generates a “proof” Humans can’t verify it Gaps appear 4. … Read more