Daniel Litt @littmath

Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him. daniellitt.com Toronto, Ontario Joined August 2010

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Daniel Litt @littmath

8 hours ago

my AI agent ran autonomously for 30 hours and produced 11,000 lines (of garbage)

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Daniel Litt @littmath

10 hours ago

You have 3 coins. 2 of them are fair; one is rigged so that it always lands on heads. You choose a coin at random and flip it; it lands on heads. The coin is probably

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Oh, you have criticisms of my paper? Surely you noticed the part of the paper where we already rebutted your critique, by writing “Possible criticisms: the methodology of this paper is bad. We are aware of this.”

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Daniel Litt @littmath

19 hours ago

guy who thinks he’ll win a millenium prize for typing “prove the Riemann Hypothesis. don’t make any mistakes.”

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Daniel Litt @littmath

2 days ago

2025: the year of the AI agent 2026: the year of the quantum gravity crackpot

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Daniel Litt @littmath

4 days ago

if you want a picture of the future, imagine being fed cocomelon from the cradle to the grave

Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang

5 days ago

if you want a picture of the future, imagine being fed cocomelon from the cradle to the grave

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Daniel Litt @littmath

5 days ago

@emollick TL;dr: it’s obviously true math capabilities are improving, but the paper is being dramatically oversold. Probably I should pin this tweet since it applies to basically all AI/math commentary.

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Abhishek Saha @ObhishekSaha

6 days ago

@littmath I know someone (non-mathematician) who has created a simulation of 12 famous arithmetic geometers and number-theorists in ChatGPT 5 pro (fed it all their papers) to prove RH, and after a weeks debating, these experts have come up with a 700 page argument....

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Daniel Litt @littmath

a week ago

I enforce pretty draconian screen time limits on my daughter but I admit that, since showing her a Mandelbrot set visualizer on my phone a few weeks ago, I’ve been basically unable to resist her requests of “fractal please!”