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Vibe Math Lab.

Vibe Math Lab

How to check a number an AI gives you before you rely on it.

If you use AI to reach a figure at work, you still have to decide whether to trust it. Vibe Math Lab is a set of short lessons on how to check it, for engineers, analysts and product people; no math background needed. Each lesson describes a check Tyler Orden, an independent researcher, used in his own published research, and what it found.

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Start here

Read these four first, in this order.

  1. Five ways to check an AI answer, from weakest to strongest
  2. Ask an AI to confirm each fact by name, and tell it where to check
  3. Write down the numbers you must match before you compute anything
  4. A second program run to check the first gave the same wrong answer

Or follow a team of AI agents, step by step, as they test whether 25.8 million Los Angeles parking tickets contain a finding worth publishing.

Who writes this

  • 43 entries in the OEIS, the reference database of number sequences that mathematicians use, carry Tyler's credit: he is the author of 19 of them and added new values, corrections or comments to the rest. Anyone can look up each entry.
  • Two of his papers were accepted at workshops of NeurIPS, a major AI conference, and he is presenting both as posters in Atlanta in December. Both are free to read: Rediscover Before You Discover and How Far a Wrong Claim Travels Before It Is Caught.
  • Vibe Math Lab teaches the checking habits; the research itself is on his research site, Cyborg Mathematics, with the full record: each result, how it was checked, and the evidence.