alt Hacker NewsCan anyone provide a link that "Some are going as far as to suggest that the entire foundations of computer engineering and machine learning should be re-built as a result of this", or anything similarly grandiose?
I am a professional mathematician, though nowhere near this kind of thing. The result seems amusing enough, but it doesn't really strike me as something that would be surprising. I confess that this thread is the first I've heard of it...
It's a fun, but unsurprising undergrad-level result. It got picked up and overhyped on HN [1] and /r/math [2] earlier this week.
Some of my favorites:
DoctorOetker: "I'm still reading this, but if this checks out, this is one of the most significant discoveries in years."
cryptonektor: "Given this amazing work, an efficient EML operator HW implementation could revolutionize a bunch of things."
zephen: "This is about continuous math, not ones and zeroes. Assuming peer review proves it out, this is outstanding."
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746610
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1sk63n5/all_elementar...