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> I think it is very definitely worth the struggle to try and do first-class work because the truth is, the value is in the struggle more than it is in the resu
by 6ren 15y ago
> I think it is very definitely worth the struggle to try and do first-class work because the truth is, the value is in the struggle more than it is in the result. The struggle to make something of yourself seems to be worthwhile in itself.
What are the important problems in computer science today?
NP=P; "real" AI; speech recognition, natural language processing, image recognition; multi-core processing; ... ?
What are the important problems in webapps; the cloud; mobile?
OR impedance mismatch; ... ?
Some guide are things are improving rapidly (an indicator of demand for improvement) and painful annoyances.
EDIT Sorry, I just meant them as separate questions. I've clarified by using separate lines and adding some guesses.
- p4bl0 15y agoI think what he means here is that even if one prove that P=NP, the result itself will have little to no consequences on our daily lives. That is, except if the proof is a constructive reduction from an NP-complete problem to a P problem, but that's highly unlikely. However, the proof itself would be very interesting, because it is likely to involve new technics that would surely be appliable somewhere else and help science in general solve other problems. Also having such a proof would certainly mean that the original question has been reformulated, for instance in something which correspond better to real life than the current, theoretical P vs NP separation. And that's of course also worthy in itself because it means we understand this problem, and surely some other more or less related problems, way better.