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Virginia Vassilevska Williams wrote some thoughts about the 3-SUM breakthrough Josh Alman and her wrote an exposition of, how it happened, what it means, and some context about 'what could have been' in a world with more time and fewer models. Read it here: people.csail.mit.edu/virgi/though...

people.csail.mit.eduhttps://people.csail.mit.edu/virgi/thoughts.txtA week has passed since Josh and I posted our write-up on the arXiv, and I decided to write a few things. Much was said about our write-up. Some were excited, others enraged. Most everyone was scar...

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These two passages were super interesting, and getting at what I think is these models' superpower -- tenacity to try everything. (Alongside all the right open questions regarding credit)