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• An entrance test for an AI-built search program caught a rule that would have thrown away the very solid it was looking for. Then a reviewer's pointer showed the "new" solid had been printed, unnamed, in a 2016 survey.
  WritingBefore my AI pipeline could hunt for new shapes, it had to rebuild a known one· Oct 4, 2026
• A network puzzle: pick as few points as possible so that every point is picked or linked to a picked one. A search I ran with Claude found a smaller set than any published.
  WritingA new best-known dominating set for the twelfth Fibonacci cube, and a month-long solver run that returned no answer· Sep 26, 2026
• When you hand someone results made with AI agents, they need to know what they can check from what you gave them and what they have to take on trust. An editor of a public math database asked me exactly that about a count I had added. The honest answer was "at least this many", not "exactly this many".
  WritingI called my evidence "certificates." An OEIS editor asked what they proved.· Sep 26, 2026