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Isn't tossing a bunch of computational resources at a problem a new way of viewing it that makes it trivial?
by daveFNbuck 9y ago
Isn't tossing a bunch of computational resources at a problem a new way of viewing it that makes it trivial?
- snakeboy 9y agoBut it gives no framework for approaching other problems under any kind of new unified theory.
- daveFNbuck 9y agoInstead it gives a framework that will solve fairly arbitrary problems as you work on developing a unified theory. Techniques can be much more broadly useful than theories. When I was working on my PhD, I probably saved days or weeks of effort by writing a program to brute force an approximate solution to an equation I couldn't work out. After seeing that the solution wasn't what I wanted, I was able to spend the time I would otherwise have spent on figuring out the equation on something more useful.