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by boron1006 26 days ago
Lots of bad smells in this repo.
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the__alchemist 26 days ago
Do you have some examples to look at? I am curious.
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boron1006 26 days ago
Well the √t stuff looks like nonsense or way overblown, existing tools already do similar things, there’s pretty much a single commit with no follow up commits etc etc.
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aeve890 26 days ago
O(√t) looks weird but it's real. the "naive trial division" primality test for example.
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boron1006 26 days ago
It doesn’t apply to what this repo is doing. Also the 70 odd single author preprints seems to suggest the author is in some deep AI psychosis: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Logan-Nye-2
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aeve890 26 days ago
Oh wow you weren't joking.
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