Yoav Goldberg defends OpenAI's FFT result: critique TCS culture, not the paper
yoavgo · x · 2026-10-12
Amid debate over OpenAI's faster Fourier transform result, researcher Yoav Goldberg pushed back on critics: OpenAI published TCS results consistent with prior theory work, and calling it a 'malicious exploit of mathematical traditions' misplaces the blame. He argues the critique applies to the TCS field's packaging traditions—not to OpenAI specifically—since previous sub-n³ matrix multiplication results were equally impractical. His interlocutor asked why it can't be both.
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