Brilliant article from Quanta Magazine about a successful bottom-up collaborative effort organised online to solve a long standing mathematical challenge. I think this sort of thing will be an increasingly important part of research in the future.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702/
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