johnnudd

By that logic modern cryptography is hardly novel because encryption is just mixing things up which is how every salad works.

Perhaps but I have no incentive to write all the details here.

It came up with a way to efficiently evaluate the reliability of certain types of complex system using generating functions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating_function) to split the computation, which was far to large to solve with existing methods, into many embarrassingly parallel smaller problems and then reduce it back to a final result. The solution involved several distinct new ideas for it to work, really mind-blowing it was able to come up with it. The other cool thing was that, in the process and unprompted, it implemented code to validate and benchmark against existing approaches and known results just from the pdfs of the published papers (none of which gave reference implementations). In my research it would often take weeks just to replicate a single result from a paper.

I have a PhD and Opus 5.5 came up with a novel solution to solve a problem in my area of research that I, and other experts in the field, had been unable to. This was from very general prompting it to find improvements over published methods.

On the setup process: "You only click for about 5 minutes; the rest is downloading." On the energy consumption: "A small generator or power station runs it easily"

Five minutes of clicking and a (small) power station is a small price to pay when survival could be at stake.

The British and German governments pay for the healthcare of their pensioners living in Spain via intergovernmental reimbursement agreements so the healthcare expense to Spain is in fact zero. They also provide a significant economic net benefit to Spain by injecting billions in "imported wealth" through real estate taxes, year-round consumption, and foreign-funded pensions.