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Comment Re:What about the open source contributions to dat (Score 3, Interesting) 25

It depends on how the contributions were licensed. A lot of projects require either copyright grants to the project steward (for example, the FSF) or explicit permission for the steward to distribute the code under some other license. Occasionally there are good reasons to relicense code, like the transitions across GPL versions, but this is the obvious risk of giving those permissions.

Comment That settles it... (Score 0, Offtopic) 128

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.

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