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It's like if someone proved P=NP and the magazine title was: "Mathematicians Measure Difficulty Levels, Find They're Equal."
by xamuel 9y ago
It's like if someone proved P=NP and the magazine title was: "Mathematicians Measure Difficulty Levels, Find They're Equal."
- l3k 9y agoMaybe I misread, but I feel like solving P=NP would be closer to solving the continuum hypothesis whereas the article describes solving a related problem which could have disproved the hypothesis should it have been found that the two sets were not equal.
- burkaman 9y agoThat's not a good headline, but it's not clickbait. If P vs. NP were a fairly obscure problem with little immediate impact outside of academia, that would be a fine layperson headline. What would you have titled this Quanta article?
- SilasX 9y agoClickbait refers to vague titles that also overhype the story. Your example, if anything, underhypes it.