'Multiplication foom' meme: tracking big-int multiplication progress with fake urgency
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-08
Julian Schiavo shares a community gag: someone hit 2^(-34), and by his "careful data analysis" we are now 18 minutes behind schedule on reaching linear-time multiplication. rickasaurus quips that "all evidence points to multiplication foom"—AI doomer rhetoric playfully applied to algorithmic complexity.
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