mathsjery
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- Sep 26, 2015
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You just say that you can’t solve the problem. If somebody asks me to find an element in an unordered list with less than O(n)O(n) complexity, I’ll just tell them “sorry, this problem cannot be solved - maybe we can change the problem so that the list is kept ordered?”
Or sometimes the problem isn’t proven impossible - for example somebody could tell me to make a program that allows the computer to write code based on a natural language description.
But the problem is practically impossible - so I’ll tell them that this will require a huge interdiscplinary research team for potentially hundreds of years, and they should make sure they have x billion dollars to burn. And again, suggest changing the problem.
TL;DR: Change the problem
😊😊😎
Or sometimes the problem isn’t proven impossible - for example somebody could tell me to make a program that allows the computer to write code based on a natural language description.
But the problem is practically impossible - so I’ll tell them that this will require a huge interdiscplinary research team for potentially hundreds of years, and they should make sure they have x billion dollars to burn. And again, suggest changing the problem.
TL;DR: Change the problem
😊😊😎