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True, these are all fair points! I didn't intend to diminish the impact or complexity of linear programming solvers. Well-written solvers are some of the most u
by ubj 3y ago
True, these are all fair points! I didn't intend to diminish the impact or complexity of linear programming solvers. Well-written solvers are some of the most useful and powerful computational tools that exist today.
- eru 3y agoDefinitely. Advances in numerics in general, matrix multiplication in particular, and solving of systems of (continuous) linear equation and continuous linear programming are to computing what advances in basic material science are to engineering. Modern concrete and steel (and plastics etc) allow you to build so much more advanced, but also simpler, than the kinds of wacky shenanigans people had to pull off in eg the 19th century just to get high pressure steam engines to work (if they could do that at all).