Sarcastic math: OpenAI's 88h Navier-Stokes run equals a year's pay for 600 postdocs
arampell · x · 2026-09-12
Quoting Lucien Heurtier's calculation that OpenAI's 88-hour Navier–Stokes effort could have funded 600 postdocs for a year, this post builds a satirical analogy to CAT bulldozers displacing professional hole diggers: advancing construction tech is great, but not at the cost of defunding the human experts. A memorable framing of the growing compute-vs-science-funding debate.
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