The right comparison is previous El Nino?

No, it's not the most important part. It can be argued that most important part is asking the right questions

Assume someone solves P=NP

Do you think Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin deserve more credit than whoever solved it?

That's a bit too simplistic -- if there is a small group that really pushes things forward in a big way, then maybe not, but if this result builds upon decades of prior work, then Cook and Levin might be equally or even slightly more famous than the solver group after the dust settles.

But it is a moot point anyway. Cook and Levin are very well known already in TCS, and credit is not directly enumerable like money, so "more than a lot of credit" doesn't make too much sense.

For this problem in particular, asking the right kind of question was really important for the field and led to a lot of discoveries even before it will be answered.

If the problem resolves to P=NP, that result would probably be more celebratee than being able to formulate the problem, but being able to formulate the problem and get people interested in it is probably worth more than the average primal dual trick to prove a polylog integrality gap for some integer linear program.

Depends on the solution. If the solution is that P≠NP, the concept of NP-completeness remains the bigger contribution, unless the proof techniques are particularly interesting and lead to other major results. The same applies if P=NP but the proof does not ultimately lead to a practical algorithm. If we get a practical algorithm, the answer is more valuable than the question.

Do questions like goldbach conjecture, fermats last theorem, etc deserve more credit than whoever answers them?

Fermat's last theorem probably doesn't. While attempts to solve it have led to many mathematical discoveries, the theorem itself feels little more than a piece of trivia. I'm less familiar with the implications of the Goldbach conjecture.

In contrast, class NP and NP-completeness quickly became central concepts in theoretical computer science.

I agree with both OP and you

I disagree with everyone, self included, but especially with Cretans.

Cretani eunt domo!

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One reason is financial. At its peak the Mughal empire was the largest economy in the world. Estimated to be about 25% of global GDP. That's close to the position US occupies in the modern world.

Yes but both the Maurya and Gupta empires have been estimated to have reached over 30% in their time.

Estimates for the Maurya and Gupta periods are significantly more speculative than Mughal estimates. We have reasonably good tax and mint records for the Mughals, whereas Maurya/Gupta figures rely heavily on back-calculating from population density. Is this what kids in India are being taught these days?

Mughal empire was collection of many wealthy provinces, which were wealthy even before Mughals. After assuming power most Mughal ruler did nothing but wasted wealth on countless vanity projects, unlike Europeans where rulers still funded exploration and innovation.

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Exactly abuse of citations is a much more prevalent and sinister issue and has been for a long time. Fake citations are of course bad but only tip of the iceberg.

Then punish all of it.

That is the actual trick. To master one trick so well that you can spot anywhere its hiding. Unfortunately, this takes a long time, which is why most mathematicians can only do it for a couple of tricks in their lifetime

With what happened when Google bought them, I doubt if Apple can handle thenlm. Hyundai feels like a much better fit. Japanese companies have had a longer history with robotics and less insistence on short term profitability.

Hyundai is Korean

I've reported am explicitly Temu ad a million times and it still keeps appearing. I don't understand why they even have the report feature if they're not going to do anything about it. Feel so helpless.

Does Temu count as a scam, though?

Koo was never thriving.

Yep.

That's the feeling I always got.

It was just a place for RWingers of India. Even that could be an interesting place. But it wasn’t.

I tried reading Koo once or twice, and I wasn’t interested in anything.

I don't have any preemptive beef against Commies or Indian RW or whoever, but that platform had more saffron color than the BJP party office. Saffron border, bland white background, and saffron checkmarks for verified accounts. Total UI design hell.

No wonder it failed.

This is what I was thinking. If it's mostly fine scale mechanical agitation one is after then there are many ways to do it. An ultrasonic cleaning machine being the closest in spirit to their approach.

Assuming a delivery worker works 5 hours a day for 5 days a week, that's roughly 35,916 usd. As a PhD student that hits hard.

As a former PhD student who made $28k (which was on the higher end, most made $20k) I’d always known there were better paying jobs out there.

But I also lived in a LCOL city where my rent was $500 (room in an house with 5 roommates) and I lived super well.

It's not just any job though. Food delivery is amongst the lowest skilled jobs, while research is amongst the highest. Also, good for you that you lived super well But not everyone is comfortable living with 5 roommates.

That's "active work" though. So you're also going to be spending a lot of extra time sitting in your car waiting for delivery offers to come in. Outside of lunch and dinner hours, you'll probably be spending an equal amount of time idle as you are "active" according to DD.

But that 25 active hours per week requires about 50 hours of working. You're just not paid for the 25 hours where you are waiting for an offer to come in. There's only about 3 hours per day when you can consistently get an offer within minutes of finishing one.

And don't forget DoorDash doesn't pay for gas or other required maintenance from the extra use on your car.