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Terry Tao is the Erdos of this era - he was competing in the International Mathematics Olympiad when his peers were in middle school [1] and is now sort of the person to go to when your work has stalled [2]. It's ridiculous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood [2] "If you're stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao" - Charles Fefferman

If you're using the materialistic hacker app like I am then the flow is

- submit - send - close window

So if send takes forever you press the button again, which doesn't disable itself.

Good to know. I just visit the website but I'll check out that app

I can recommend the paper by David Donoho from 2014: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~donoho/Reports/2004/Compressed...