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@henryyuen.bsky.social I have heard you commented on the recent announcement by OpenAI on X, about one of the 10 problems very, very close to your own research. Would you be OK discussing it here as well?

Clément Canonne

@ccanonne.github.io

1 Aug

(same thing for @huckbennett.bsky.social and @noahsd.bsky.social , regarding the CVP one... If you have the time and energy of course!)

Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

@noahsd.bsky.social

1 Aug

It's crazy. They didn't "only" prove hardness of CVP with a polynomial approximation factor. They also made the first improvement in decades on sphere packing AND on the optimal minimum distance of codes. (And they solved open problems in a bunch of other fields that I know less about.)

Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

@noahsd.bsky.social

1 Aug

It's difficult for me to separate the message from the messenger here. There's the fact that it was produced by AI. And, there's the fact (that @henryyuen.bsky.social also mentioned) that it's written pretty poorly. I think it will take some time to figure out what actually happened here :-/.

Clément Canonne

@ccanonne.github.io

That's fair. I think understanding what the "magic ingredients" are (deciphering the paper) is going to take a little time. (The fact that both of you mention the poor writing and exposition is quite interesting and sad (and upsetting), tbh.)

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