teton_ferb

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   by teton_ferb 7y ago

   The author fundamentally misunderstands what RISC is, what CISC is, what SIMD is and what VLIW is apart from misunderstanding every major computer architecture concept RISC was invented as an alternative approach in an era when processors h
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   by teton_ferb 9y ago

   Also wanted to say: People have been taking a go at this for many years now. Grapevine says that several large CS departments in many countries have groups of graduate students devoted to solving sub-problems of the entire proof because it
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   by teton_ferb 9y ago

   Here is a largely correct ELI5: P != NP asks the question "Are problems that are easy to verify (NP) also Easy to solve ? (P)". Note that the reverse is obviously true : problems that are easy to solve are also easy to veri
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   by teton_ferb 9y ago

   Steve jobs would have fired an Apple employee for staring at him for too long in the elevator and the press would have written fawning articles about how decisive Steve is, how secretive Apple is, and how much Apple employees fear Steve. Ta