I only recently started playing around with it. Wrt math, I found it good for surfacing high level properties of algebraic structures, but falling way short of going much deeper with the conversation.

Am curious, can you share the question you posed?

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Yep,

prove that x^4 + y^4 + z^2 >= sqrt(8)*x*y*z

Disappointed in myself for not seeing solution yet :/ Gonna give it a bit more thinkin’…

It's simple but not easy :) I didn't find it, but to be fair I didn't really try, just looked up the answer after 5 minutes 😄

tis the season, Bless the mess

Oh, wasn’t aware of the AM-GM inequality, not that I would have solved it had I known. Looks like it’s frequently used in Olympiad questions as it’s the first item listed in a study guide google found for olympiads. Met a guy who’d excelled in those, was very smart, but nothing extraordinary when it came to more general/abstract math (I’m prob jealous, still)

If you want a hint, try finding a way to apply AM-GM twice.

I read the solution already, but that’s a solid hint. Kinda glad to have learned of the AM-GM ineq, feels like something I could have used once or twice in the past

Yeah. Another one that's very useful is the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, gets used a ton in e.g. mathematical physics

Ha, had to look it up to make sure I remembered that one.

Btw, your write up on CTs is great. Been making some reading stops along the way of going through 02bp’s paper (and related things).

have U tried others/*