According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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    2 hours ago

    Yeah, fuck those assholes that pursue science for the benefit of humanity! I do not see why anyone should be allowed to be creative if I do not see the benefit for me in particular.

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      We need to decide democratically what science is, with everyone getting a fair vote, so wasteful science like this can finally be stopped.

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        38 minutes ago

        Like voting on which science is right lol?

        That’s how we end up with solar roadways…