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erutoday at 7:46 AM1 replyview on HN

Applications don't care whether the math was proven and understood by humans or computers. Your algorithm will get faster no matter where the insight came from.


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freehorsetoday at 9:24 AM

Applications do not care about 99.999% of theoretical math production anyway. And especially most of the big results in theoretical math nowadays are really inconsequential in applications.

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