This guy once came to a science village ML summer camp uninvited and claimed to have solved P=NP. I was there, it was wild.
The article and the method used were both disproven and the class of algorithm is thought to not be capable of solving the NP=P conjecture. Some background, this guy is a "Endüstri Mühendisi" which roughly translates to Operations Research person/engineer. He does not have a formal education in mathematics or computer science, he does not know any complexity theory and has come up with a bunch of notation by himself which based on the translations of some harvard people comes down to simple inversion of truth value in an expression. He basically re-invented very basic propositional logic.
R4: The jist of his algorithm is to given a boolean expression like x1vx2vx4 assign truth value to a variable, simplified and decide if that value should be flipped without backtracking. Mind you even with backtracking this approach needs major fixes before it can solve the problem of X3SAT.
I want to know more about what happened when he showed up after he started cranking away.
He repeatedly asked for the head of the village (who is a well respected physics professor and physics academic here), creeped people out. Gave a presentation on why he "proved" NP=P that was more gibberish and slides full of made up notation given as definitions (a lot of them). He claimed to not know complexity theory, he claimed to not know any math, he was surprised math undergrads were present at the camp, he claimed solving NP=P meant mathematicians would be jobless after learning me and my cohorts were mathematicians as a form of showboating. He allegedly creeped a lot of physics, stats, compsci and comp engineering people out as well. Also interrupted a class to rant and rave. He motivated his findings with "just like how chinese symbols can hide meaning in form propositions can hide meaning in form as well, that is what I am exploiting.", he was deeply unaware of basic math along the lines of complexity theory and model theory. Oh and he claims to have worked on this problem for 17 years. Bragged about solving it. Said he has a preprint.
The confidence of people with zero math background is amusing sometimes
He has an engineering/Applied OR background that he confuses with a math background. Its common place here.
Even the abstract is full of gibberish notation lol.
The things he claimed during the presentation were funnier. Like he made a stupid analogy to how he was inspired by the chinese languages and in the same breath debased mathematicians
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Its a machine learning themed summer camp for uni students here done somewhere secluded.
What is that abstract? lmao
Really awful paper to try to read.
Yeah the presentation he gave was way way worse
Was it Eric Weinstein?
Was who Eric Weinstein?