The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

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OpenAI claims to disprove the Exponential Time Hypothesis with a new algorithm showing subexponential performance for the ...