OpenAI FFT paper called 'exploit of math traditions'; Goldberg pushes back
yoavgo · x · 2026-10-12
After a post argued OpenAI's faster Fourier transform is 'less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions,' Yoav Goldberg responded that the criticism is really aimed at the TCS field, not OpenAI's specific result—previous sub-n³ matrix multiplication results were never practical either.
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