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Right they take longer but they actually solve the problem correctly. And if you don't solve it correctly you are not really solving it at all. The title could
by galaxyLogic 3y ago
Right they take longer but they actually solve the problem correctly. And if you don't solve it correctly you are not really solving it at all.
The title could have been "Intelligent people take time to make sure their answer is more likely to be correct than not"
- commandlinefan 3y ago> if you don't solve it correctly you are not really solving it at all. Try telling that to the time-tracking gestapo. As Dilbert says: "our boss can't judge the quality of our work, but he knows when it's late".
- dredmorbius 3y agoJon Bentley notes in Programming Pearls that performance is secondary to correctness. I thought he'd included an anecdote about a consultant tasked with solving an optimisation problem at an industrial concern who unveils his solution. A complaint is raised: yes, the method finds the correct solution, but it is slower than the old method (which didn't achieve the correct solution). The consultant, perhaps something of a novice when it came to client relationships communications, responded that if he didn't have to find the correct answer to the problem, he could make his system much faster. I don't find that in either PP or More Programming Pearls, however. Unfaithful memory.