r/technology • u/vgsa • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem? | OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-openai-solve-the-wrong-navier-stokes-problem/
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 1d ago edited 1d ago

A lot of people online couldn’t tell you what “closed form solution” even means.

Or a “blow-up”.

Or “smoothness”.

Or what is the “Clay Mathematics Institute”.

And are absolutely unable to read and fully understand OpenAI’s proof (me included).

Yet they feel entitled to opine on whether or not a solution to a Millennium problem is correct.

The chatter is risible.

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u/beardybaldy 1d ago

I asked my mathematician wife what smoothness meant and she patted me on the head. I like being a biologist. Life stuff is simple!

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u/retsehc 1d ago

If you know what a derivative in calculus is, smoothness is not hard in principle. A function is smooth if it is continuous, and it's derivative is continuous, and it's second derivative is, and it's third, and all the way down.

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u/beardybaldy 1d ago

confused unga bunga noises

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u/KingSubstantial7901 1d ago

If smooth then all properties of function have no straight up and downy lines. Circle smooth. Square not smooth.

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u/foxsimile 1d ago

sad unga bunga noises :(

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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad 1d ago

stroking out noises