A crowdsourced repository for optimization constants?

·Terry Tao··

Thomas Bloom’s Erdös problem site has become a real hotbed of activity in recent months, particularly as some of the easiest of the outstanding open problems have turned out to be amenable to various AI-assisted approaches; there is now a lively community in which human contributions, AI contributions, and hybrid contributions are presented, discussed, and in some cases approved as updates to the site. One of the lessons I draw from this is that once a well curated database of precise mathematic...

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