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"We have a network which can not only solve (previously) unsolved problems, but solve them 100 million times faster than they can't be solved..."
That's a, possibly deliberate, misunderstanding of what was said. The article makes it clear that the problem was a chaotic orbital mechanics three-body problem. These problems can be worked out as a formula, they are compute intensive to solve. So the Edinburgh researchers computed (very slowly) the solutions of a large dataset. Having done that they then trained a neural net using the these known solutions. Then they tested the neural net against a similar set of problems for which the solutions were not known. These "previously unsolved problems" were solved at speeds up to 100 million times faster than the standard approach. The language is clumsy but the meaning is clear if you read the paragraph that explains the approach.
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