“Tristan Buckmaster Numberphile Interview Transcript” by anaguma

Tristian Buckmaster recently gave an interview with Brady Haran of Numberphile discussing what happened in the Navier-Stokes drama and some context about his research. I'm posting the transcript below for people who prefer reading to watching it. It was lightly edited for clarity with Sonnet 5.5.

My own view remains that it's pretty bad form for OA and other labs to race to scoop the results of researchers, and this sets a bad precedent for the future. I think they mislead Buckmaster about their swarm setup and the scale of their effort, and they could have done a better job citing previous work. However, it seems unlikely, but not implausible, that the OA access to the codex session was a major contributor to their proof.

Brady: Have you got any more questions, or are you just like, "Go on, do it"? [laughter]

Tristan: Yeah, just do it.

Brady: You're laughing and smiling, which brings me to my first question: how are you feeling at the moment?

Tristan: Better than a few weeks ago. It still hasn't calmed down, but certainly better. I have a two-month-old baby, and the week that everything happened, I probably averaged two hours' sleep [...]

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First published:
September 30th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DgnQRGeGD27unRcGv/tristan-buckmaster-numberphile-interview-transcript

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