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This reference list for Navier Stokes blowup is outrageous.
No Chen-Hou, no Alpoge-Buckmaster, no Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa, no Elgindi.
They are not properly attributing any previous work to the problem
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According to my memory from last night and the wayback machine, OpenAI updated the Navier-Stokes pdf at Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:09:35 GMT. The original version was one page shorter and did not contain any citations to Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa:
web.archive.org/web/20260000…
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Levent is distasteful. he is a passive-arrogant giga-autist with the social sense of a rat turd in a bowl of raisins. And yet math is full of such types. Hold your nose and set aside his style for a moment.
His idea, approach and effort 1yr instantiated the direct line to NS
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Right road but wrong direction… it just means that Peking Math Department is really just a utilitarian business school LARPing as a real Math department… while MIT and Polytechnique are the real deal…
Wang Hong was the near bottom of her class at Peking University.
She won the Fields Medal.
What does that tell us?
It tells us that winning Fields isn't THAT much about cutting-edge raw talent- it's more about a nurturing ecosystem that optimises for it.
France does that.
That's why they win considerably more Fields medals per capita than USA and infinitely more than China.
They pick decent talent from all over the world, give them tons of mentoring and no administrative responsibilities.
You are just there, focusing on research with comparatively little pressure.
It's the ideal environment to crack novel theoretical problems.
China doesn't see much value in that. Pushing forward theoretical math is a nice to have, but they have bigger problems: A.I. architecture, operations research or 6th generation fighter jets.
Is China's education system flawed?
No, their AI researchers completely stomp.
Elon himself said if China had anywhere near the same amount of compute they would completely mog Anthropic and OpenAI while spending a fraction of the capex.
Winning Fields medals and Nobel prizes are high orestige but low ROI.
Reaching Fable-level AI on Nintendo toaster compute is high ROI.
And that's what all the cracked Chinese mathematicians are focusing on.
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S22 is the chosen one and is humanities last best hope.
We MUST protect S22 at all costs…
#IAMS22
A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.
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The Asian striver herd is shifting from engineering to medicine…
The consensus has shifted. Will end badly for doctors…
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Reta in the hands of whites and Latinas is the biggest competitive threat every mid Asian girl in SF has.
Competitive advantage goes to zero overnight.
Expect a boom in mid Asian girls boob jobs and bbl to cling to SF market share.
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