Why “navier-stokes” is being discussed
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The real secret: the models have stopped improving, and they're even hitting brick walls on the harnesses. They need to go public in order to dump the companies, which are at 1s…
by pessimizer · Sep 12, 2026
FYI, math is a language. Which is actually an important part of the Navier-Stokes conversation. Solving hard problems expands the vocabulary. The problems are hard, illustrating…
by godelski · Sep 12, 2026
> Second, for us non-mathematicians, the value of math isn't in understanding exactly why a result is true, it’s in how those results can be applied to actually improve our live…
by kaffekaka · Sep 12, 2026
The issue is that now that Navier-Stokes is "solved", the amount of resources put into researching it will be reduced, meaning that the insights and knowledge that would have co…
by kaffekaka · Sep 12, 2026
Recent and related. Others? OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650326 - Sept 2026 (179 comment…
by dang · Sep 12, 2026
I just wonder whether a lot of smart people who never needed to go beyond the "solve for X" algorithmic math of a typical calculus sequence are actually reading the declaration…
by valegrete · Sep 12, 2026
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The Navier–Stokes equations describe the motion of viscous fluids. This system of partial differential equations was named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, who developed them over a few decades of progressive work, from 1822 (Navier) to 1842–1850 (Stokes). Siméon Denis Poisson independently achieved the same results. Read more on Wikipedia