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Quanta did have an article about this discovery: https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/ https://www

• rolandog 2y ago
  Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511
• mNovak 2y ago
  Right, the Wired article is just a 1:1 reprint of the Quanta article. Both lack a substantive description of the algorithms in question