https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0907.1379/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987287urn:hackerpapers:mention:0907.1379:43987287Wed, 14 May 2025 17:45:53 GMT<p>This is great. But how incremental are these advancements? I picked one at random (B.2 -- the second autocorrelation inequality). Then, I looked up the paper that produced the previous state of the art (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.1379). It turns out that the authors had themselves found the upper bound by performing a numerical search using &quot;Mathematica 6&quot; (p.4). Not only did the authors consider this as a secondary contribution (p.2), but they also argued that finding something better was very doable, but not worth the pain: &quot;We remark that all this could be done rigorously, but one needs to…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0907.1379/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.CA