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Yes.

To be transparent: I don't understand this stuff all that well and it's entirely possible I'm missing something, but everything here is weird AF.

- Who is the author? Why he has no affiliation?

- What is the main result of the paper? How does it improve on the state of the art? Even for stuff that's way beyond my pay grade, I can usually tell from the abstract. I'm completely baffled here.

- Why do they introduce graphical notation without corresponding formal definitions?

- Why is it written in this weird style where theorems are left implicit? Usually, there's at least a sketch of proof.

- Why does it not address that the thing they're claiming to do isn't elementary recursive as per https://doi.org/10.1006/inco.2001.2869?

Again, it's entirely possible that it's a skill issue on my part and I'd love to be corrected, but I'm completely baffled and I still have absolutely no idea of what I'm looking at. Am I the stupid one and it's obvious to everyone else?

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