Seems sensible to me. I'm not sure I have any more insight than anyone else 
about whether it is a good idea, but I'm certainly in favor of encouraging new 
contributions as best we can.

On June 6, 2022 3:00:56 PM PDT, Jon P <[email protected]> wrote:
>Yeah so this is the sort of thing I would imagine, for perhaps the rust 
>subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/ (after asking the mods if it's 
>ok.) Not sure if it's a good idea, it's an example.
>
>-----------
>
>Hello Rustacians! 
>
>metamath [link] is a project for creating computer checkable maths proofs. 
>The means taking old fashioned pen and paper mathematical proofs and 
>encoding them in such a way that they can be verified by machine, as some 
>classic examples we have Pythagoras' theorem [link] and the irrationality 
>of the square root of 2 [ink]. There are over 40,000 proofs in the database 
>so far and growing, hopefully one day it can cover all of known mathematics.
>
>There have also been some interesting projects to use AI to generate maths 
>proofs, such as Open AIs gpt-f [link] and this AI assisted mathematics may 
>well be the future.
>
>Anyway what does this have to do with you? Our community is working on a 
>new verifier and proof assistant called metamath-knife [link] and it's 
>written in Rust. And there's a lot of Rust based stuff which we could 
>really do some help with working on, for instance [not exactly sure what 
>should go here?] creating a good web UI for it, implementing a VSCode 
>extension and ...
>
>The verifier is open source and we're an all volunteer community, so no 
>money is involved. And so yeah if you're either interested in learning 
>about the mathematical aspects or would be interested in poking around with 
>the code and helping with some of the programming stuff come and say hi at 
>our google group [link] or check out the github repo [link]. We have people 
>who are very strong on the mathematical side so if you are only familiar 
>with Rust that's still useful to us.
>
>Computer readable / formally verified mathematics is extremely powerful and 
>is a very young a promising field which has a lot to explore for anyone 
>curious about the future of mathematics.
>
>Thanks :)
>
>On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 2:52:53 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On June 2, 2022 4:13:35 AM PDT, Jon P <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >If that's helpful I don't mind doing the legwork of 
>> >writing the posts and finding appropriate places to put them (you have to 
>> >be sensitive to subreddit posting rules etc).
>>
>> Well I love the idea and it sounds like you have some ideas for how to 
>> make it sound appealing (which is perhaps not as self evident as a game but 
>> which seems potentially doable for a group which is some flavor of 
>> technical).
>>
>
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