In other words it is almost irrational to deny it is you (if it is really you) if you are outted after a major investigation by the paper of record, so it is rational to take Back’s denial as honest.

His security is already screwed anyone who is incentivised to harm him for billions will already do it for tens of millions (or if they think there is more than 50% chance Back is a multi billionaire), so he might as well take the credit for it and live with the consequenes if it is really him.

This is different from the situation you are talking about, where a problem genuinely appears difficult, attracts sustained attention, and is cited repeatedly as many people attempt partial results or variations. Then eventually someone discovers a surprisingly simple solution to the original problem which basically make all the previous paper look ridiculous in hindsight.

In those cases, the problem only looks “easy” in hindsight, and the solution is rightly celebrated because there is clear evidence that many competent mathematicians tried and failed before.

Are there any evidence that this problem was ever attempted by a serious mathematician?

I am surprised this issue is not gaining traction with the KDE crowd, as I imagine a substantial part of the userbase are emacs users and used to emacs keybindings.

For some strange reason this seems to be very hard thing to set up on KDE or am I missing something?

Each of these came very close for a major market depression (except 911).

The fact that none did only instilled in lots of people's brain to take an incremental bit more insurance in the form of gold (if you were to replay Covid or GFC today, what odds do you put that it won't lead to a great depression?)

Also you can argue that the gradual rise is tracking almost exactly the gradual geopolitical paradigm shift from unipolarity to multipolrity.

So I would be far more concerned on the impact of gold price going high on other currencies that are not backed by as much gold before worrying about the US.

The Owl and the Fireflies

One twilight, deep in the woods where logic rarely reached, an Owl began building a nest from strands of moonlight and whispers of wind.

"Why measure twigs," she mused, "when I can feel which ones belong?"

She called it vibe nesting, and declared it the future.

Soon, Fireflies gathered, drawn to her radiant nonsense. They, too, began to build — nests of smoke and echoes, stitched with instinct and pulse. "Structure is a cage," they chirped. "Flow is freedom."

But when the storm came, as storms do, their nests dissolved like riddles in the rain.

Only the Ants, who had stacked leaves with reason and braced walls with pattern, slept dry that night. They watched the Owl flutter in soaked confusion, a nestless prophet in a world that demanded substance.

Moral: A good feeling may guide your flight, but only structure will hold your sky.

You might argue that LLMs have simply exposed some systematic defects instead of improving anything, but the impact is there. Dozens of lecturing workflows that were pretty standard 2 years ago are no longer viable. This includes the entirety of online and remote education which ironically dozens of universities started investing in after Covid, right around when chatgpt launched. To put this impact in context, we are talking about the tertiary and secondary sector globally.

If it grew 10x between 2001 and 2009 (starting from a very small base), then between 2009 and 2023 it grew by only 0.3x (see graph below).

So rate of growth went from 10x to 0.3x in around a decade, this is a hugely significant deceleration. It actually implies muslim community as portion of population is heading lower.

https://new.islamchannel.tv/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/63860...