Interesting, but there is a newer-dated version on his actual website https://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~dmst/teaching/WS2019/SVP9.pdf https://www.math.uni-fran

Interesting, but there is a newer-dated version on his actual website https://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~dmst/teaching/WS2019/SVP9.pdf https://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~dmst/teaching/WS2019/SVP9... and the performance numbers are not as good. Also the abstract there doesn't have the quote from the title. My best guess is that someone tampered with it, added the joke, and uploaded it to ePrint? Some discussion on Twitter https://twitter.com/ManishEarth/status/1366898044470403072 https://twitter.com/ManishEarth/status/1366898044470403072