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Here are the cope points 1. Navier Stokes was plagiarism 2. All benchmarks were misleading wrong and incorrect 3. All other mathematical advances were again hype 4. HF incident…
by simianwords · Sep 12, 2026
It's reasonable to believe not, because OpenAI has money and is using it to get what they want. Example: OpenAI is declining the 1 million USD from the navier stokes millennium…
by Retro_Dev · Sep 12, 2026
Huh? The resolution of Navier Stokes won't have much of an effect, yes. There's lots of problems like that. Eg if we prove P != NP, that won't have much of an immediate effect e…
by eru · Sep 12, 2026
to be honest it is difficult to discuss with someone who doesn't even try to understand the basics of basic science (and how it compares with _applied_ sicence), yet talks with…
by robotpepi · Sep 12, 2026
Applications don't care about Navier Stokes, yes. But they care about eg proving crytographics secure, or proving that your algorithm doesn't blow up under adversarial input.
by eru · Sep 12, 2026
> After all, it took more than writing a "prove the navier Stokes Clay problem" prompt. Yes, but it took far less than using your meat brain to prove the Navier-Stokes Clay prob…
by holowoodman · Sep 12, 2026
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Claude-Louis Navier was a French civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia