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by panopoly 188 days ago
This is a baffling post.

From the original twit:

> I had a dream where P=NP.

Did this poster, in their dream, solve P=NP or they just heard it had already been solved?

Then after waking up from this dream they asked some slop slinger if P=NP?!?

From the follow up article:

> I guess by now you have a better understanding of why I thought I was crazy when I woke up thinking P=NP.

What do the details matter? Last week I had a dream that my childhood rat was the president of space. That's what dreams do.

> fun story: I still remember those “random oracles” that we used to proof cryptographic primitives in college

So someone who previously used 'random oracles' to prove 'cryptographic primitives' had to ask a slop slinger if P=NP?!?