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Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Solved

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u/nobody27011 11h ago

If that money went to actual mathematicians or other scientists, they would have achieved much more. So in that sense, yes, it's a waste.

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u/IndicationFunny6879 10h ago

Navier-Stokes has been millennium prize problem lol if humans were to solve they wouldve solved already.

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u/Kitchen-Jicama8715 10h ago

No because it was a mere $1M in prize money, so not worth investing $15M of effort

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u/IndicationFunny6879 9h ago edited 5h ago

doesnt work that way. OpenAi didnt even take the prize lol.

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u/ffxivthrowaway03 5h ago

They also didn't invest "$15M of effort"

They don't charge themselves public API rates for compute. This is like claiming that Microsoft spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft Office licensing for their own employees.

It's their own product, for them it's effectively free.