Re: JSH: Brainstorming over, for now

[Juuso Hukkanen]
[...]
>> No Nora, argumentation is war and JSH's today's announcement was an
>> unconditional surrender.

[Nora Baron]
> I wish it were so. I doubt that Harris agrees.

Yup. When the last round of this ended, James was very clear about the
outcome:

... I've just had a massive collapse in terms of getting surrogate
factoring working, with a recent result that indicates you kind of
need to know the factors of M ahead of time to guarantee a
factorization ...

That's from his "Big collapse on surrogate factoring" msg of March 10, with
id:

1110455935.591505.97960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I couldn't figure out what he was saying this time. It sounded mostly like
he convinced himself that the SFT "is a major result" (although he's been
insisting on that for weeks anyway), and that he only regrets worrying too
much about the possible consequences of his triumph.

I refrained from posting any test results until yesterday, hoping James
would yet make a minimal effort to verify his strange beliefs here. Such a
wonderful way for this round to end: declaring victory for a method that
works even worse than the earlier ones. Maybe it's all just part of an NSA
disinformation campaign <0.9 wink>.

.... [unflattering but spot on observations elided] ...


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