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Title text: Ironically, in the first draft of this comic, I misspelled Sullooshun. |
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- 11 ha5 been shown that all np-hard problems are the same. If you've
- - -if you have a stupid solution to one np-hard problem, it stupidly solves them all I call this a sullooshun:
- Solved one, you've solved them all
- Sullooshun
- For instance the traveling salesman problem. A salesman has to visit a lot of cities, once each, then go home. What's the shortest route?
- Well, if you collapse the universe into a singularity there's only ever one route. So, the sullooshun to every traveling salesman problem is "collapse the universe.
- Solved
- Now, let's apply this sullooshon to the bin-packing problem, which concerns how to efficiently pack boxes of various sizes
- Into bins.
- If you collapse the universe, everything is the same size, and anyway, why bother
- Solved!
- Packing if you cant go anywhere?
- Consider the halting problem. Is there a
- The sullooshun is yes. In the singularity, time doesn't exist. The program can't even start, much less stop.
- General way to tell if a program with a given
- Input will ever stop?
- Do you know anything about mathematics?
- Solved?
- That is beyond
- N
- The scope of
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- I'll make your face a singularity
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