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The Man Who Said No to a Million Dollars. In 1904, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré posed a deceptively simple question about the shape of three-dimensional space. It became known as the Poincaré Conjecture, and it went unanswered for nearly a century. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute named it one of seven Millennium Prize Problems and pledged $1 million for a correct solution. One man solved it. Grigori Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician, solved the conjecture using a powerful technique called the Ricci flow, a way of gradually smoothing the geometry of a shape until its true nature is revealed. He worked in near-total isolation for seven years, then quietly posted his proof online in 2002. No journal. No fanfare. And then he walked away from everything that came with solving it. In August 2006, Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honour, for the insights into Ricci flow that powered his proof. He declined it. He didn't attend the ceremony, becoming the only person ever to refuse the prize. His reason was blunt: "I'm not interested in money or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo." Then came the bigger one. On March 18, 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute awarded him the $1 million Millennium Prize for proving the Poincaré Conjecture. On July 1, 2010, he rejected it. Perelman then withdrew from public life entirely. When a journalist tracked him down in St. Petersburg in 2012 and asked what he was working on, he replied: "I have left mathematics. And what I'm doing now, I won't tell you." He solved one of the hardest problems in human history and refused every reward the world tried to give him.

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In 1904, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré posed a deceptively simple question about the shape of three-dimensional space. It became known as the Poincaré Conjecture, and it went unanswered for nearly a century.

In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute named it one of seven Millennium Prize Problems and pledged $1 million for a correct solution.

One man solved it.

Grigori Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician, solved the conjecture using a powerful technique called the Ricci flow, a way of gradually smoothing the geometry of a shape until its true nature is revealed.

He worked in near-total isolation for seven years, then quietly posted his proof online in 2002. No journal. No fanfare.

And then he walked away from everything that came with solving it.

In August 2006, Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honour, for the insights into Ricci flow that powered his proof. He declined it.

He didn't attend the ceremony, becoming the only person ever to refuse the prize.

His reason was blunt: "I'm not interested in money or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo."

Then came the bigger one.
On March 18, 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute awarded him the $1 million Millennium Prize for proving the Poincaré Conjecture.

On July 1, 2010, he rejected it.

Perelman then withdrew from public life entirely. When a journalist tracked him down in St. Petersburg in 2012 and asked what he was working on, he replied: "I have left mathematics. And what I'm doing now, I won't tell you."

He solved one of the hardest problems in human history and refused every reward the world tried to give him.

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@bubbleboi @bookwormengr not crazy, rational.

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@PatrickToulme @sameer_singh17 Micron and other memory makers will adapt to whatever memory is in demand.

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@sameer_singh17 @PatrickToulme The context window will keep increasing. Useful AI needs to remember a lot of information. Yes most cases absolutely need cloud based LLM because it is more cost efficient to share the hardware with other users.

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