Critique of OpenAI math repo: "exact complex arithmetic" assumes arbitrary precision
jpt401 · x · 2026-10-13
A rebuttal to the OpenAI math repo argues that its claim of "exact complex arithmetic" assumes storing and multiplying complex numbers at arbitrary precision — an unsound model of computation. The author finds this "model-of-computation hacking" critique far more compelling than the essay's sociological points about theory divorced from practice, comparing it to p-hacking in computational complexity theory.
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