Wow, that is sooooo discouraging. Assuming I am reading this right, not only has the open question been positively surpassed, but it has done so at least twice. While I have only inched forward still staying way below the threshold.
One comforting positive assumption is that since there are no real shortcuts to the solutions, the tiebreaker must be the computing power of the hardwares used rather than the that of people who use them. Or at least that's what I tell myself to keep from feeling like a total idiot.
