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Comment That settles it... (Score 0, Offtopic) 127

This unreleased OpenAI model is absolutely unqualified to be a professor at Cambridge, even if it did create this proof when it was just weeks old (depending on how one counts). Let's just hope that it doesn't commit suicide, and that those who reported its apparent misconduct aren't punished for doing so.

Comment Re:"the most likely scenario is that it doesn't wo (Score 4, Informative) 75

the longest, most complex complex calculation ever done successfully is apparently factoring 29 with a specialized algorithm for 29.

Shor's algorithm has been used to factor 21, not 29. 29 is prime, and people don't usually talk about factoring primes because the factors are trivial. But otherwise, yes.

Comment Re:And it gets worse! (Score 2) 231

Government intervention in international currency markets is "capitalism"? Since when, and by what definition? Wikipedia says "Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and its use for the purpose of obtaining profit", which on the surface neither implies nor aligns with the Chinese government controlling the CNY-USD exchange rate.

Comment Re:What I'm reading (Score 1) 50

People don't pay capital depreciation. It's a bookkeeping technique to reflect that durable capital assets don't last forever. People pay for the assets up front. Capital depreciation decreases the book (=accounting fiction) value of the asset and spreads the tax deduction for the purchase expense over the same time.

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