I think once you understand how to apply analytic continuation to the problem its relation to primes is much more apparent; even without a full understanding of the history.
Stop speciously muddying the waters by either intentionally or accidentally making spurious arguments for these unethical sociopaths.
I’ve seen this argument made on this website a lot, and it always conveniently omits the vertical integration of these insurers wherein they are the providers too.
The DOJ is literally, actively, suing to block a merger between united healthcare and a provider.
Investigating primes is nearly as old as mathematics itself and its reasonable to assume other ideas where discovered in the hopes of applying them to various problems incorporating prime numbers.
From a practical, applied, perspective, “understanding” primes, that is making their “hidden” structure a known “truth”, would either confirm or deny the Riemann hypothesis wherein many other conjectures that assume the hypothesis to be true would also be “truely” known.
Or from TFA:
> …In the 19th century, research on these kinds of statements led to the development of much of modern number theory. In the 20th century, it helped inspire one of the most ambitious mathematical efforts to date, the Langlands program. And in the 21st, work on these sorts of primes has continued to yield new techniques and insights.
> …Their[the article’s sunbjects’] proof, which was posted online (opens a new tab) in October, doesn’t just sharpen mathematicians’ understanding of the primes. It also makes use of a set of tools from a very different area of mathematics, suggesting that those tools are far more powerful than mathematicians imagined, and potentially ripe for applications elsewhere.
“Loses”, to my eye, implied a continuous ability to remove mass, and led me to wonder if one could achieve negative masses with the experiment’s technique.
But I’ll save you the click: in one direction it’s massless (traveling at the speed of light), and in the other direction it has mass.
They are embarrassing, and often offensive: are you lazy? Terrible at your job? Hate your family? Use our AI assistant to replace your humanity!
If they had a real product with a real use case then they would be selling that instead of this weird stuff.
I know this bubble will retort: but muh productivity!
But please keep in mind that programmers are a minority of a minority and these companies are uninterested in merely giving you specifically a better coding assistant than web search and forums.